Vritra Maquette - Finally Completed!

Took me pretty much all year to complete him and I'm so glad he's finished! Hopefully, my next maquette/sculpture won't take a year to complete. Though to be fair, that mostly consisted of my lack of motivation to finish this guy, mainly because he's filled with so many tight spaces! Never again and will plan better next time.

Anyway, enough of my mini-rant. Here's Vritra, the main baddie of my graphic novel in progress in his full glory! Despite some hardships during making him, he was a lot of fun to work on.

Materials used: Wire armature, aluminum foil, small beads (for his eyes), Sculpy Clay, FolkArt acrylic paint, model grass crumbles (for moss), and wooden base.

Vritra Maquette - Progress Report Pt. 3

Creating his teeth and shaping his snarl.

All finished!

 Going into the oven.

Finished baking.

Now primed for painting.

Yep, he's almost done. After nearly three months of working on him, I am close to completely my Vritra maquette. All that's left is to paint him.

Vritra Maquette - Progress Report pt.2

Slowly but surely it's getting there. Just a few more furs, modeling the face, and smoothing out the rest of the features, and it's good to go.  I've been sick for the past couple of weeks, which rendered me unable to work on my maquette (and two drawing projects). My ultimate goal is to have the whole thing done by the end of the month, which includes baking, priming, and painting. Will show the finished project after finishing the details later.

Vritra Maquette - Progress Report

Still working on getting him done. Only just finished his neck a few days ago, and working on the rest of the details as I go. I hope to have him finished way before Christmas.

Vritra Maquette - Getting There

He's finally completely covered with sculpey! His feet were particularly a hassle to work on because of all the tight nooks and crannies. It was such a learning experience in figuring it out how to do it. Difficult, yes, but workable. One thing I've learn throughout the ordeal--work on the feet and claws first, and then rest will follow.

Quick turnaround of Vritra. He's looking good so far. Now to make him even more threatening.

Vritra Maquette - Beginning Stage

About last week or so, my good friend Alicia and I got together at my house and had a maquette making party, and of course, happily began working on our maquettes. Pictured here is a maquette of my character Vritra from my WIP graphic novel currently entitled The Guardians Trilogy. I wanted to do something a little different from the standard boring base and made an environment piece to correspond with my character. It's been turning out surprisingly well since it's my first time doing so.

Start of his wire skeleton:

Foiling up:

Laying down the sculpy (starting with the rock and then the rest of the character):

Finally got to wiring the feet (which took about a couple of days to do):

Finished all four. Onto putting sculpy on them.

The face will be next. Just slowly working my way through the other details.

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.

WIP - Fan character MLP:FIM

Very rarely will I be creating fan characters, but this time I thought it would I do so just for fun plus experimenting with Photoshop a bit more in terms of a new style of inking and digital coloring. Here's just a quick work-in-progress image of my fan character for MLP: FiM in all her glory, so to speak. My concept with her is that she's a traveling researcher, who's main focus is on the animals of Equestria most ponies don't know too much about. I have yet to decide on a name for her, but I do have a small comic story in mind for her in the future.

About her design, yes, I know she looks vaguely Lauren Faust ponysona-ish, but this is just the first concept of her. Some things will bound to change with time. In the meantime, enjoy this little piece. Finished art should be up by the end of the week.

Monster Sibling Inks

Thought I should post this as it's been a while since my last update. It was part of my final project for Visual Storytelling I class, and as far as I'm concerned may be one of my best works. The comic itself features my characters Voku and Vexa in their humanoid (and under different names for the purposes of the assignment). Here are my original cleaned-up inks. I will be posting the colored version during Spring Break as I'm fixing it up for my portfolio.

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.

Personal Art - Into the Shadows

Cliche title is cliche. Yeah, I know. Just thought I'll share some bit of artwork I did manage to do over the summer, featuring my favorite creepy original villain, Vritra, from my three novel (or possibly graphic novel) story entitled The Guardians.