Original - Creature Concepts Part 1

Did some more experimenting with digital painting and for my willing guinea pigs, two of my creature creations. On the left, a wolf-lizard like creature I named "Drarowk," and on the left, a creature that I'm temporarily naming "Aquaerpent." Out of both subjects, the Aquaerpent is perhaps my best effort. Still trying to work out on how to digitally paint fur, but at least it's a start.

As for the creatures themselves, I will make reference sheets of them in the near future, but for now, here's their current designs.

3D Character Set-up and Animation Project 2

Another set of concept sketches from 3D Character Animation and Set-Up for project two. This time we had to design our own One-Eyed creature and choose a personality trait, and animating our character acting it out. I choose "grumpy/angry" for mine, and the final design is based on an eggplant. I call him "Dr. Eggplant" because it's so appropriate.

3D Character Set-Up and Animation Project 1

It's been a couple of weeks and I thought I'd show off some work from 3D Character Set-Up and Animation. First up is some concept sketches and one final character sketch of my first project. The objective was to design and animation a retro style robot acting out one principal trait. The trait I end up choosing was "fearful." Will post the full animation soon.

Monster Sketch Dump

Sorry it's been a while since I last posted some art. As finals draw near and my last SCAD quarter is coming to a close, I've been concentrating all my freetime and energy towards getting my Animation minor finished. But don't worry, after finals are over, I'll be posting my artwork and animations for all to see. But until then, here's some monsters because I've been on a monster drawing kick as of late.

Creature concepts plus my version of the Slenderman.

A extremely wellfed zombie cat-goat thing.

And harpies!

Character Doodle - Wyatt

Another doodle based drawing, and this time is a longtime character of mine, a ferret named Wyatt. He is the main character of a series of children's graphic novel series I've been working on for over a ten years. Most of his story is still in development and have been constantly tweaking it on and off (he's even survived through several name changes), but I really like his character design so far. There will be more concept art from this project in the near future as I've been working on designs for the rest of the characters in the series. Until then, enjoy this first look at our mischievous troublemaker.

Senior Project Environment Designs

What I've been up to for the past three weeks or so. Some environment designs for my eight page comic for Senior Project which was part of Phase one along with the script and thumbnails. However a few of these designs I've decided to redo, mostly the airplanes which I will post later when I get through polishing them.

MLP:FiM Original Character Concept

Here's the colored version of my MLP: FiM character concept. Still unnamed as of now, but reassured, she will have one. So far, I like her color scheme, but I'm still not completely sold on her mane and cutie mark. Like I said, changes will come.

Principles of Screen Design - Self Portrait Key Frames

Thought I show these off for the sake of it. These panel illustrations were part of an assignment for Principles of Screen Design. Essentially, the assignment was to create 6 to 10 keyframes for our final animation project, which is our self portrait piece reflecting ourselves. The blue leaf is meant as a representation of myself and the other leaves are of the things I love and enjoy. Needless to say, the actual animation was unfinished due to the time consuming nature of my eight comic for Vis 2. Will I upload it at some point? Maybe since I have plans to redo it in my own time and program. But until then, hope you enjoy concept frames.

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.

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.

Concept Illustration - Vehicles

Once again, but a long while since I last posted here. I promise to upload more art in the future, even if it's not all that impressive. Anyway, first up, my second project for Concept Illustration, which in all honesty, despite it being a difficult class, I rather enjoyed it.

Here's vehicle concepts. The objective was to design one that was mechanical and the other a biomechnical or a beast of burden. I went for a submarine and in relation to the sub, a jellyfish biotech. While I might get around to reworking them in the future, but for now, here's what I've got thus far, including some sketch studies for a design for each other. I have to say for the biotech, I did like the mola mola as well.

Marker Art - Aggressive Courtship

Another marker piece, but this time featuring my other creature creation, Drarowks. In this piece, the female Drarowk (gray one) is angrily roaring at the male Drarowk (brown one). Just for brief information, the Drarowks are solitary animals, only interacting with each other when competing for territory or during mating season. And even in mating season, both sexes act very aggressive towards each other and takes a while for the pair to calm down. And that's all I'll give until I can put together a species sheet.

This is just a concept in terms of color. Some of which will be modified in the final reference sheet.

Marker Art - Aqua Serpent

More like marker practice since I haven't created any marker art in awhile. Anyway, another one of my creature creations. Still no official name for it for now, so I'm temporarily calling it the "Aqua Serpent." Done during a quick break from studying for my final exam and had the urge to do a little artwork for myself for a change. It's not perfect, but not half bad.

And for those who are curious about this creature, I will reveal some information with time, but I can say that it's mostly an aquatic species, is a herbivore, and society is predominately matriarchal. Anyway, back to studying.

Concepts - Drarowk

One more set of sketches before getting back to studying and working on my final projects. For the first time ever, I give you another creature creation that is not a Vaarg. It's called a Drarowk, which is mostly a hybrid of a werewolf and lizard/dragon. No, they don't or will change human after the full moon. These creatures are reptilian and canine like in nature. Most of them is covered in short fur, but the underbelly and underside of their tails have soft scales. They also have a dark mane along their necks and strikes running down their backs and tails. I will get into them more as I continue to develop them.

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.

Official website concepts

In addition to the maquette, my plushie, and my story, this is just one of many projects I hope to complete by summer's end (or at least by the end of this year). Been working on designing my very own website, which I've been planning on and off for the past five years. Plus I've been looking for a good quality affordable web space and domain, and I think I've found one that suits my needs and budget.

Anyway, enough rambling. Here's some concept thumbnails to tie you over as well as my notes.

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 - Vritra Sketches

Another set of sketches back in 2007. This time it's of my principle antagonist from my WIP novel The Guardians, and one of my favorite characters to work with in exploration of his general character and design overall.

In the top sketches are concepts when I was redesigning him (and still am to this day as I am with my Vaarg creatures). The middle sketches were of a mini-storyboard idea I had for months in which I hope to animate someday. The last set was just me having fun with a lazy Vritra. After all, he's the biggest bad guy and nothing is going to mess with him. In my old blog I mentioned that I liked one of the sketches so much, I redrew it on a larger scale, which you can find on my deviantart page.