December 14th, 2008
I’ve written a short story for my illustration class that I then had to roughly storyboard out. So, I designed this story, Chikan Abu Mukashibanashi (roughly translated from Japanese to The Perverted Horsefly Folktale), to be an animated short. Here’s the rough idea:
The tale starts with a young man spying on his wife in the [...]
December 11th, 2008
Growth. Something I feel I could benefit from lately. I think in the next semester I’ll try to make things more complicated and intricate. It is the last semester of school after all. One of my good friends has also dared me to paint more, and to actually attempt it on some serious projects. So [...]
December 2nd, 2008
Sometimes its good just to draw some fluff. Makes a guy feel good every once in a while. No big concept here, just some nude life drawing with some cherry blossoms. This may be a rough for more finished painting, who knows.
This was a huge drawing for me though. Must’ve been somewhere around 18 x [...]
November 28th, 2008
A school illustration project based on Hannibal that was fulfilling process wise but not necessarily in the finished product. A few of my instructors have expressed they like this piece, especially as a series of images if I were to include all of the color comps and roughs, and some of my peers have said [...]
November 24th, 2008
We’ll call this the Liberated Man. This is a short comic I did recently in a few nights to blow off steam and get back to inking. Its not meant to be overly amazing so much as just therapeutic. Ahh, artistic expression as a means of self exploration and therapy, gotta love that artist mentality [...]
November 24th, 2008
A couple spot illustrations for a fictitious cologne, Wolf For Men. This assignment was pretty fun, a nice and quick one. I’ve been really interested in drawing animals lately though, so I think I’m going to attempt to do just that a lot more soon. I’m planning out a project right now with turtles and [...]
September 28th, 2008
Testing out some new inking and digital touch up techniques on a horribly depressing story of a young girl whom was abandoned by her father at a train station in Australia. As the story goes, he murdered her mother in New Zealand, then fled with the daughter to Australia where he abandoned her at [...]
August 23rd, 2008
Other than the About page finally being updated and the Links page soon to follow… The colors for Breath have been done for a while and Thomas, the letterer, is working on them. Here is some of the color updates though. Time was running short so I had to take what Rico had [...]