Layout Update and side project intro!

Ok so here's and update that was suppose to come a while ago but didn't make it because I've been working on a couple of things on the side. Lately things have been kinda busy, kind of exciting, and kinda shitty. but then again when is life ever not really full of that stuff.

Anyway, here is part 1 of the side project I'm working on. I'm making this big piece for this game Persona 4. I liked it alot, and it's become one of my favorite rpgs in recent memory other then Mass Effect. anyway I thought I'd do one character Chie and here she is.


Layer for structure n such. Probably should have posed more. I really need to pose more often.


part 2 with clothes and just to get a general idea of where everything is


and clean up! Oh boy I can't draw hands. and probably some of my anatomy needs some work but I was kinda happy with it and I wanted to keep moving with other pieces.

Number 2 is Yosuke and I started actually posing out this guy. I probably should have done more but I was also thinking of making this into a full piece with all 8 characters. So there were certain poses I wanted everyone to have and hopefully they'd compile together ok.

Posing page


My first pose was this one I went with, and I got a good way into it when I wasn't too happy with it over all anymore when I was close to done. The character himself is pretty energetic and outgoing so I didn't think this pose really showed that enough.

The second pose I ended up liking way more, now I just need to put some weapons in his hands and actually finish doing proper clean up and maybe fix some proportions.. after posting this I'm starting to see things that need fixing...

anyway, thats the short update for now. Maybe I'll try and streamline my updates so I just post the rough clean, clean, then colour. or something... I'll think about it more when the time comes ha ha ha!

Let Your Back Bone Slide

Actually it's more like I let my blog duties slide really. But none the less here I am with an update with more.. STUFF!! Yeah!

Anywho... On to da drawins



So Continuing from where I left last left off I was working on Kaneda and I can safely say that it's finally done.. sort of, at least in preliminary. I started off by taking my line clean up and well adding shadow. I'm kinda happy with the result. Also that I haven't added shadows or colours to any of my pics in a while. So it was nice to have some depth in my pieces. My friends out here have been pretty supportive in providing critiques and pointers so I'm going to continue working on this piece.



OK so heres Kaneda in colour. I tried going with a washed look at first because I wanted to look like he's reacting to an explosion of some sort. Eitherway, it was fun to get back into colour since I've had a... phobia of colour ruining my stuff. But luckily with today's modern age of digital colouring I can get over that. So while this is just a first step, I feel this is something I'll try and make a standard over time and start finishing pieces up.



OK while this isn't a great piece of work... it's my blog and I do what I want. ha ha ha! Eitherway, I still really like cars. My friends and I were discussing about how car designs these days are all shifting around so I was just drawing while talking. yeah not that great but whatever!



So I had been tuning into this show called Mad Men which is all about the 1950's and the age when the US really came into money during it's post WWII period. So I'd been listening to the soundtrack to that and some music in Bioshock (same period roughly) and decided to do a piece using the edged marker. Kind of fun and an experiment and looks sorta neat.

Well thats about it for this time. I'll try and keep things scheduled like last time and post the big thing I've been working on next time!

Stay tuned!

all 3 of you...

Good year indeed...

Well second month in and I'm a bit off from where I wanted to be in terms of progress with things but oh well. Life's been going very well so far, but February is kind of off to a rough start. Either way, here's a quick update of things I've been working on.


The last time we hit up the mall for drawing I remembered that I hadn't done backgrounds in a while. (Maybe for a good reason) I started just drawing the malls food court, sans people. I didn't really do any perspective lines so I imagine I'm off all over the place in terms of vanishing point, either way it was nice to try tackling some high detail scenery. uhh minus all the real detail that the mall had.



Back to the old pieces I had been working on, Jarrett suggested that I try revamping my old Kaneda pic that I had done a while back. So heres the original.



I sort of like the other drawings I didn't really make a layer for structure, I thought the pose was ok so I just went ahead and started with a fresh layer over top and started hacking away at it. Like the previous pictures I had to go back and reference for more details on the characters clothing, gun and battery pack for laser gun, which wasn't a belt clip but a shoulder belt slung battery.



And heres the final product with everything I could think of putting in for detail. another piece ready to colour when I have the time, once I finish up my other semi big piece I'm working involving about 8 characters or so. Fun... Either way. Just gotta keep working at it, get back on the train, and hope that my life outside of art will return to normal towards the end of the month. Hopefully...

Oldies but Goodies

And so we begin once again! Another year passes and for once I didn't make a New Years post. Oh well, It'd probably be kinda emo anyway!

So to start off, I think I have a really good feeling about this year. I don't know how to describe it... but I just feel really good about this year. And I'm determined to learn a lot and build a lot as an artist. So with that begin said, I've started going over old work I've had and I'm bringing it back to life to fix it then colour it. Now, if you don't know me personally, that alone is pretty hard for me to accomplish since I get demotivated part way through so I end up never really finishing... anything.

But this year... NO MORE!

Anyway, I'll stop talking and introduce the first piece I've been working on.


OK so I posted this last year and it was something I had done from a little while back. It's Gwendolyn from Odin Sphere. And as you can see here... disaster.. Proportions are all over the place and I clearly ran out of room on my paper.


Enter the next phase and I brought the picture into sketchbook and started resizing and cutting, moving and reorienting things around. This helped me get alot of issues cleared up and I decided to go with more realistic proportions as oppose to my really shitty ones and the ones used by the original artist and the game sprites.


Lastly, the final line cleaned up version. Now getting here was... kinda rough. First things first, I had to crack out some freaking references for this character. Discovering details I didn't know existed from looking at some of the art references for the character. I had to look at images of the figures and resin kits that existed to find that I was missing a leather skirt under what I thought was a skirt to begin with. Then to find out how much detail is on the wings on the boot section, and then the boots... well if you look at the previous one was in terms of details then you'll see what I had to add. For my first real digital clean up, I was pretty happy. Or do I have a reason to be happy? -_-;


The Second picture I thought I'd do is Aigis from Persona 3. I liked the original of this piece but after going over it I discovered that it had some issues when referencing more official art from the game. Also another annoying thing about this character.. well and the previous one, is just... retarded amounts of detail. anyway, this one is just a reference for resizing and moving stuff around.


Second one is just a semi overlay of the final. I only ended up using one layer on this but I really should have used some more. Oh well. In this one it's basically how I realigned things that should have been a certain way before and also accenting certain details like giving her defined legs as oppose to... stumps...


Final product, one really annoying thing to finish but I'm happy with the results and that it's done. the details that I remember taking the longest where probably the hips, arm and gun segments with ammo caches, shoulders. Anything that suppose to be see through grate kinda things.

Next week I'll post other pieces I've been working on redoing, and some new stuff that I started working on last minute!

It's a great start to the year, and it feels good to draw again after taking a long hiatus from it. Just gonna keep on givin 'er!

So... the years pretty much over eh?

Well, it's been since freakin APRIL since I updated my blog. Lots of things have happened and it's been a busy summer. And here we are in December. I guess one way of looking at it is that this blog reflected exactly how this year went, fast.

Anyway, heres a quick update on things for the whole under 3 people that visit this site!

OK so here's a piece I did because well I like Earthbound and I've been playing Mother 3 (North America knows it to be Earthbound 2 in the series) anyway, awesome game. I thought it deserved fan art, so there!


So since I'm done work now, me and friends I worked with go to the mall to sketch on occasion. So here are a couple of people!


During the process of drawing at the mall, my mind tends to wander alittle so I end up drawing uhh... video game stuff... which it seems like my mind is stuck in alot these days...


More mall people, I like the guy eating with his back facing me, and the girl on her cell phone. Oh and the guy that has the siren on his head is the mall security that roll around on roller blades.

Ok so lastly mall people and uhh... Chun Li.. she was at burger king..

Anyway, I swear I'm back on the train and I'm hoping I'll be updating, infact I'm going to go back and clean up some old pictures and post the progress as I go so hopefully updates... soon... yes...

payce

New Stuff! (Part 2 of 2)

Ok so all this stuff in this post is stuff within the past 2 weeks or so, so now we're within the really recent stuff, along with the post I made on friday of last week. Anyway this one I was goofing aroudn with more kung-fuish poses and then MUPPET BATTORU. Did you ever have one of those raggity dolls you whipped around when you were a toddler? What if they had a KUNG FU FIGHT!? Maybe it'd look like this?

I really slowed down on drawing in general so now I'm finding I need to just do more posing to make sure I don't get things too stiff. Oh man, if my design teacher Tom saw this he'd be crying... heck, he probably is still crying "How is Chris working in animation?! He's still got so much too learn!!"
Once again more posting, oh man this girl on the left the torso is too huge and I don't even know what happened to her hips and mid section. The picture on the right I was trying to get the heavier hips going and push the pose from a different angle. Then I thought, what if I made it look like Chun Li from SF Alpha.. and then she was Chun Li from SF Alpha...
Heres more Early works with posing, gotta get my posing down and try and make them stronger. Also posing out some of the character from the show I'm working on. Except for the girl in the magician outfit. She's a shrunken version of Trucy Wright from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney for Nintendo DS. (Awesome game, totally recommend it for good story and hilarious characters)
Posing posing and more posing. Just trying to get stronger posing again and shake the rust off. My personal favorite is the guy in the top left pulling a one cheek sneak.
OK so these guys here are from an idea I had with my boss Glen about making a character whose a washed up mexican wrestler who works at a 7 eleven. I really tried to do a more Ren and Stimpy style of face design and really push expressions more.
This is a quick panel of a short idea I came up with for my friend Ragnar's characters he came up with. They're all looking a a smashed bread bun instead of what you might think to be is.... doo doo... Either way I thought it was funny

Posing posing and more posing once again, really trying to get back into things. You can probably tell that some of the poses I have are repeated again. Just because I really want to push characters further, and thats what all my teachers used to say so that idea has always stuck with me.

Anyway thats the end of the big update! 4 posts in one night or... one morning.. gah it's 3am.. and I gotta be up at 7:45... well... I'm boned... but for everyone else looking, ENJOY!

leave a comment, suggestions whatever I'd love to hear from whoever comes to this blog! (probably not many... ahh.. my people....)

New Stuff! (Part 1 of 2)

OK so time for some current stuff! Here some quick posing I was doing for the show I'm workin on now, just goofing around with the characters abit. (The quick sketches on the middle to top right are done by Glen Kennedy, our studios animation director, stand up guy with loads of experience in the field (remember He-man? thats what I mean by experience) and is an awesome guy to work for) Wanna find out more about this show, check out the company website here!

This is a character Aigis from a game called Persona 3. I liked her design alot since she contrasted so much to the rest of the class that was mainly in a school uniform.

Some quick sketches of posing another character from the show I'm working on, and the bottom right is.. uhh Andrew W K's guide to partying hard. My friend Shaun and I got into his music for about a week until we started throwing our backs out from partying too hard... hence 'fig 3.' remember boys and girls, party hard, but party with good posture

Kaneda from Akira, I realized I had never done any artwork from Akira. Maybe because I was too afraid of it being way off model and well.. this is no exception hahaha!

These are 2 more sketches of characters from Persona 3. The one on the top right is Aigis again. And the bottom left is the main character. It was suppose to be a larger picture and his head isn't suppose to just be exploding there was suppose to be something else. But to explain it would take me a while and I dont feel like doing it, so... just google Persona 3 to find out if you want too!

Older Art (Part 2 of 2)

This girls got a plane on her head. I don't know what inspired it, maybe I thought it'd be cool to do someone with a plane for head gear!

Ok first off.. yeah I know she's a bit mis-proportioned hahaha! She's a character from a game called Odin Sphere on PS2. It sucks when you put a lot of detail into a picture only to realize that your proportions are off

This manga-esqe panel is from something I drew up for my friend John of both his car (the NSX) and my car in a Wangan Midnight style highway race.

This one is from work during Grossology, I think this was from the second time I got a scene to do in the show so I had to tackle doing more lip syncing and posing out my scenes ahead of time. I don't do that much anymore, and looking at this I figure maybe I should start doing it again, it was a lot of fun.

Ninja girl with super forced perspective! I always liked doing forced perspective stuff, but I'm pretty sure it's wrong in alot of places

This guy is a character from a game called 'Cave Story' done by an indie game developer. I played alittle bit of it but I never finished it. It was pretty good though, total 8-bit throw back to good platformers.


When I was at Mercury there was a posting around about making an idea for a short we could do. It kind of got me thinking about a fun show involving teenage kids so I sort of drew this random girl with a mean tilt on to her head. Oh and a quick sketch of katamari sort of looking character. Maybe he has an Arkanoid ship for a head or something.

Anyway thats all for my older stuff. I didn't have a whole lot of time to draw at the old studio.. or maybe that was the excuse I made for myself hahaha!

Older Art (Part 1 of 2)

a tribute to Calvin and Hobbes featuring 2 character from a show I worked on.

Tried doing some more north american styled work

The old Mercury office got pretty hot in the summer, I had to buy a fan but sometimes it wasn't enough.. hence... and no I'm not looking at porn

This character is a detective from Grossology, I really liked his character design because his gruff look really contrasted the rest of the cast, so I thought I'd stick him in a "Sin City" styled picture
Some of the guys at work got these funkie toys so I tried doing alittle version thingy of them, and I think I was playing Advance Wars at the time so I drew a funny looking tank.


Well as promised from my previous posted I made last week, I said I'd be updating more frequently!

So! Here beings my update of actual artwork to my site once again! This post and the next one are posts from stuff I did in early 2007 to November 2007. and yeah.. theres only 2 posts worth of pictures, hows that for drawing alot... ughh.. Either way, what better way to make up for lost time then to dump pictures all over the site!

So all the stuff in this post and the next post are older stuff. The post previous to this is alot more recent. After these 2 older art posts I'll have about 2 posts of stuff I've done at the new studio I'm working at.

In the meantime enjoy!