End of the Quarter Hurdle Cleared

Welp, the end of the quarter is finally here. It's been a rough but over wise fun ride. Now that graduation is almost upon me (this fall actually), there's still a lot for me to do such as the great challenge of job hunting. That and keeping myself active in comics as often as possible.

Overall, I'm pleased the progress I've made and people I've had a pleasure to meet. I'll post my completed Senior Project comic, but here's my redesigned Sasha and Riley from my project "Aerial Aces" to tie you over.

Taking Flight - A Mini Comic

One of my two major projects I've been working on for the past ten weeks, both are 8 page comics. Needless to say it was a challenge for me and taking I managed to pull through.

These pages are part of a minicomic project for Getting Published and Self Publishing, staring my long time character Rayne (renamed "Rain" in the comic) and her friends, also long time characters of mine. It's been fun drawing them again since I decided to change their species. I'm also enjoyed making this project and plan on doing more minis in the near future.

Here's the front cover of my minicomic as well as its eight pages.

Senior Project - Character Designs

You may have recognized these two already, but if you haven't, they are Sasha and Riley from my project called "Aerial Aces." They will be featured in my eight page comic for Senior Project. And as of this post, their costume designs and a bit of Sasha's character design has been changed. I will post their new outfits sometime after this quarter, but until then enjoy.

Advanced Inking - Reject Designs

Before I settled on the script I would be working on for the final project, my first idea involved two characters that basically existed since my Character Design class. The plot mostly consisted of the two trying to best each other in an extreme stunt, and then later was switched to the cheetah pilot (on the left) teaching the Tasmanian Tiger pilot (on the right) a lesson. Ultimately, I decided to forgo that idea for a better one, but not before doing some character designs in the process.

The cheetah pilot named Sasha and Riley, the Tasmanian Tiger pilot. I may continue redesigning them in the near future as I hope to do a series of stories about Riley's misadventures as a pilot.

Advanced Inking - Final Project Designs

Thought I would share some character designs for the short story final project for Advanced Inking as a preview.

 

The main character of my story named Lyda, who is a struggling writer trying to write a good story (sometime I'm sure anyone can relate to). Interestingly, I had a completely different vision of her character for another story I've been trying to work on. But for now, she's been modernized for the purposes of the project.

And the Dragon, the main antagonist, found within Lyda's dream. My initial design of him was very generic and so a scrapped it and came up with a design motif of torn paper, broken pencil leads & nibs, and scribbles in order to emphasis the dragon as a representation of "creative block."

Mini-Sketch Dump

Just thought I would show off some sketches from my now filled sketchbook which I had been drawing in since the beginning of 2009. Of course, for now, I'll try to post some recent sketches from there whenever I can.

First up, Aidan and Rory, my second gay couple other than Ian and Evan (my first and oldest pair). Still working out the designs for them, but I'm most happiest with Rory's design so far.

Next, the concepts for a new character who is a gypsy wizard. Don't ask me what his name is. I don't know yet. And I plan to make him one of the secondary character in another story of mine, which is untitled for the moment.

And Kurr, one of the characters from my story called The Guardians. It's just me redesigning him again since it's been awhile since I last drew him.

My little alter-ego/mascot, Rayne. While she'll still be a wolf/panther hybrid (for now), I wanted to update her form, so I thought why not a furry dragon?

Roxie, who is the main character from my four part story entitled A Spy Dog's Tale. She was originally a Begian Tervuren, but after much thought, I decided to make her an Australian Shepherd. While her breed may change, she still has the same personality.

And finally, some goofy doodles inspired by the comic I did for Visual Storytelling I (which I will post the pages soon by the way). Not going to speak of the context for the time being, but let's just say Vritra (my resident villain) is congratulating the demon character for eating someone.

Concept Illustration - Small Dump

Another quarter gone for my time at SCAD, though wasn't really my best overall. But that's the subject for another time. Thought I share some artwork from conceptual illustration that I'm personally pleased with.

First up, my original characters for Job Two in which we had to come up with a story and the characters, vehicles, and environments for it. I chose to do two female bandits in which the core story was a competition gone wrong. For the concept, I went for a more sci-fi-ish twist for them and this was the result.

First is the land bandit who is more hotheaded of the two and is the main instigator of the competition.

The second one, I'm most happy with, is the aquatic bandit who is the more calm and cool of the two, but can't resist a little challenge every now and then.

Next is an environment from job one and definitely, the only one I'm somewhat happy with. It's based on the amazon river area where in my view amphibious beings lived similar to the tribes of South America. Granted it, I did needed to push that angle more, but that I'll do when I get the chance.

2D Animation - Small Dump

Thought I now show off a few pieces of animation I've done for 2D Animation. First one is the second project for the quarter, which is essentially animating two bouncing balls, one rubber and the other a ball of our choice.

The second is where we have to animate a character sidestepping over something. I chose my long time character Kanaye. Not my best animation so far, but it was one of my favorites.

Concepts - Ian and Evan

Been a long while, hasn't it? Yeah, I promise to upload new art and writings when I can. Hopefully, it won't be too long since I'm nearing the end of finals and will have available free time during break.

Anyway, my new set of concept sketches featuring the duo of Ian and Evan, both in canine form and human form. For those who might not know, they are in fact my only (for now) gay couple. Evan is the dark haired human and in canine form, he is essentially a border collie/wolf mutt. Ian on the other hand is a full blood wolf and in human form, I made him long hair to match his canine form. As humans, they are both challenging and fun to draw since I've drawn them only as canines. Additionally, I plan to do a small series of short stories about them since I already have a backstory for both and how they met. I won't give too much away and will be reveal in their new character sheets.

Second maquette - Aquatic Creature

Yeah, just simply called "Aquatic Creature" for now. Still trying to come up with a name for it. At this time, I'm doing concept sketches on this creature which I'll post more soon. In the meanwhile, here's the maquette I made of it. Is the second one I've ever made and in my opinion, much improved from the previous one. Don't worry, pictures of the first will be posted soon as well. But anyway, here's the maquette in all it's glory.

Character Design - Original Characters

It's been a while since I last updated this blog. Had quite a few things going on in my life, including deciding to take a break from SCAD until the fall. Rest assure, I will be back and I won't be inactive during my break.

Anyway, some work from my classes, starting with Character Design. For the final, we had to come up with two original characters, make model sheets for them, and have an original story and script to translate that into our storyboard, and make a maquette of one of our characters. I'll post my craptastic maquette soon, but until then, here's some model sheets.

First up, Riley, my Tasmanian Tiger female pilot. I know she doesn't look much like the Thylacine, but as I draw more of her in the future, you'll really tell. Ironically, she was an actual one when I first thought her up years ago. I just hadn't used her until now. I'll get into more of her character when I upload some concept sketches of her later on, but to quickly summarize her personality, she's very bubbly, outgoing, and adventurous.

My second character, Commander Dunstan, the German Shepherd air commander in charge of Riley's little group (who we'll see later on). He's more sterner, gruffer, and protective when it comes to the young squad. Unlike Riley, he was a very recent addition to my little cast of characters I did for the assignment. Of course, like Riley, I plan on using him again in the future.

Character Design - Ninja and Samurai

Part of a project for Character Design and Storyboarding for Animation in which we had to design characters according to our chosen franchise. What's more, we had to draw in the franchise's style. For my franchise, I chose Avatar the Last Airbender, and I designed characters for my choice character type, the ninja and the samurai respectfully. I had fun on this assignment as I did the storyboards as part two for our project.

2009 - Tablet Sketches

Originally posted in February 2009, even though all the sketches were done in January. Anyway, I was testing my newer, smaller tablet at the time for my laptop and wanted to doodle on it on a regular basis. Unfortunately, due to the mass amounts of school I had, I had to put everything aside for my assignments. As for the sketches themselves: my fursona Rayne with new hair style I considered, two concepts of my human character Brian, Kyna (the Vaarg Goddess in my The Guardians story, and finally a speedpaint and sketch I wanted to do as an illustration in the future.

2007 - The Guardians Character Concepts

Another set of concepts originally posted in November 2007. Mostly characters that will be appearing in my novel The Guardians.

First up--Lonkarr, second-in-command of the Vogrove Mountain tribe (the brown Vaarg on the left), and his mate Melia (the magenta on the bottom right) and his son Tyee (in the middle). As a quick note, these colors are subjected to change, particularly Melia's.

Second batch: Nelli (the oragnish pink Vaarg), the cousin of Raiden and Ejnar (see my DA page to know who they are); Tzadok, (blue and green Vaarg), the father of Raiden; and Adeola (violet-blue Vaarg), the mother of Derwynn.

Third batch: in color form, Nakei (the yellow-orange Vaarg), Nelli's mother, and her older sister Aneko (yellow-ish green Vaarg), Raiden's mother; and in sketch form, Melia concept, a couple of Tzadok sketches, and Nakei's other concept.

Lastly in the four batch: Bahiti, a young Vaarg in one of the Vaarg tribes. I can't tell you much about this character yet, but here's a hint--one of my characters is related to her.

2007 - Concept Art Collection part 1

Originally posted on October 2007, these are my concept art sketches of the four characters that will be appearing in my novel The Guardians. Featured here are: Bronius the Dragon God, Nomusa the Lion Goddess, Ripten the Griffin God, and finally some practice perspective doodles of one of the main characters in the story, Vexa.