Monster Fest part 1

Been a few months since I last updated and was very busy with my personal projects, including this one. It's part of my Monster Fest 2013 sketch challenge in which I wanted to draw one of my chosen monsters for the month of Halloween. Unfortunately, I was able to draw roughly 20 (with a few I haven't inked). Now it will be finished, with my goal being the end of next month. But in the meantime, here's part one of my Monster Fest challenge.

From top to bottom: Slenderman and Slendermane, Chimera, Naga, Hellhound, Kasa-okabe, Sphinx, and Mermaid

MLP: FIM - Come Back and See Us

A long overdue gift art for a good friend of mine, Alicia Schwalm. Drew her three favorite characters (Applejack, Big Macintosh, and Discord) from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

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.

MLP: FIM - Afternoon Flight

Twilight and her friends enjoying the afternoon with her friends. (Sorry for not including Spike. I had forgotten to include him while drawing this.)

It's another piece I did as a print for Nashicon. In my opinion, out of all four illustrations I did for artist alley, this is the one I'm most proud of. And I think it shows so much, especially in composition and coloring.

MLP: FIM - Twilight Sparkle Gains Her Wings

Or my alternate title, "I--I Have Wings?"

Done in honor of the season three finale (which I happened to enjoy by the way) as well as more Manga Studio inking practice and coloring practice.

Recent Inked Drawings

Just thought I show off some of my original inked artwork. All of them have been colored, and the first two were for digital ink practice in Manga Studio, which I've gotten the hang of by now.

Journey (PS3)

Mudkip and Swampert (Pokemon)

The Great and Powerful Trixie (MLP: FIM)

On a side note, this drawing was inked by traditional means, but fixed in Photoshop.

Journeying On - Journey Fanart

Finally, some fan art from my favorite game of 2012--Journey (PS3). Admittedly, it took way longer than expected to finish, mostly due to the character's intricate scarf and my original file being corrupted. I plan on doing more artwork based on my second playthrough, but here's a small version I did for Manga Studio and coloring practice.

Pokemon - Swamp Champ

Because even a mudkip can evolve into a total badass.

Anyways, wanted to do some ink practice with Manga Studio, and since I've had this little idea for a Pokemon related art piece, I decided to go ahead and use it as my guinea pig of sorts. Could of did a little better job thinning and bulking up the lines in a few areas, but for my first ever success digital inks, it's not a bad start.

MLP:FIM - Return of the Great and Powerful Trixie

Done in honor of the new episode that just recently came out. Kind of cheated on the colors a bit because I wanted more darker values to invoke more dramatic look I was going for. And since this is more of a personal sketch challenge for me, I'd figured I just go for it. And I really like it came out.

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.

Adventure Time - Super High Five Time

Been awhile since I posted some art, mostly pertaining to sketches and finished artwork per week. And this week, I give you... Fionna and Cake, Finn and Jake's gender-flipped counterparts from Adventure Time!

Inspired by the episode "Five Short Garyables," specifically Finn and Jake pulling off the Super Ultimate High Five. I wanted to draw it, but this time with Fionna and Cake, and the end result is this.

MLP:FiM - Moonlit Metamorphosis

Another MLP: FiM piece, this time of one of my favorite characters of that series, Luna. Wanted to do some fan art of her as well as experiment with painting techniques in Photoshop (on top of doing as much artwork and comics as possible while on summer break to keep me active), and here's the end result. Overall, I am very pleased in how it turned out. I may do a companion piece featuring Princess Celestia, but that will be for another time.

Art Challenge - Princess Luna WIP

I will post my finished Senior Project pages soon. I promise. In the meantime, some artwork I've been working on for almost a couple of weeks. Basically, each week I do a personal sketch/art challenge for myself each week for the summer. My choice this week, Princess Luna from MLP:FiM. This is just a WIP image as I'm currently painting the piece. Expect it this weekendish if I get done with it on top a couple of projects I'm doing before going to SDCC.

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.

Visual Storytelling II - "Winter Hunt"

Spring Break is here and my next classes won't begin for a couple of weeks, time to post some of the work I've done. For my major assignment for Visual Storytelling II, it's an eight comic with a complete story. I'm pleased with the end result, though as usual, I can always do better. Here's the colored version of my eight pager. Hope to post more soon.

Pie in the Sky - Pinup Illustration

Start of the new year and here's an illustration I did in my off time during break. I plan to do the other five plus Spike in the near future.

Digital Coloring - "Wrenched Prank"

I know Digital coloring class seems ages ago, but since I had yet to post my final project for that class, I thought I might as well post it finally. So without further ado, here's my three page comic featuring two of my characters, Riley and Bryce, from a personal project called "Aerial Aces." Riley was originally from my Character Design and Storyboarding for Animation class. In time, I hope to have a fully realized story for her and of course her friends and boss.

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.

Digital Coloring - Nextwave

Just a little sample of my work from Fall 2010 Digital Coloring and Lettering. For one of our assignments, we were to "professionally" color two comic pages provided to us. These two pages are from Nextwave. Of course, the artwork isn't done by me, so I claim no ownership. This is a redo color I have done for extra credit and looks much improved from my original. Will I post them? Maybe for comparison's sake, but for now, here's the good version.