The Fish Bowl

I've been missing

2012-02-18T23:44:00.000-08:00

Here's a smattering of stuff I've been working on. I haven't updated this bad boy in a year... That's sort of sad. I've been really busy with school right now, so I apologize to all two of the people that sometimes check this.

This is a character from this idea I have for a fighting game. I call her Fia, she's sort of a Bruce Lee analogue in terms of her fighting style. MisterNefarious, by the way, is me.

That's me! And the gang! Zoinks! Daphne wants me.
An environment concept I did. I hope it's self explanatory enough, but I dunno...

Check my NefWorks blog at the end of the week, it will be my new online portfolio. This will be less formal. Less professional. I will swear here.

Fuck.

Julio Work

2011-03-31T16:55:00.001-07:00

Julio and Sanchito at the bar. This assignment was used to illustrate the illusion of space. The bar and bottles form a foreground, assisted by the cut out of the bar, Julio in the middle ground and Sanchito in the background. Done in Copic water proof pen on Bristol Vellum.

Julio fighting Jose. Movement through repetition of figure. There is a fight unfolding in the background leading up to the foreground which is the present.

Movie poster imagining that Julio's story was a Mexican horror film.

Visual Response to Music

2011-03-02T12:46:00.000-08:00

An assignment for color theory. We were asked to take a song and make a visual response to it. This assignment was very open ended.

I elected to do the song Fluorescent Adolescent by the Arctic Monkeys.

The song is about a girl who has left behind a promiscuous and exciting past for a drab and bleak existence. I ran into some challenges when completing the background and wound up going for an entirely orange background, instead of my original concept.. I think it contrasts nicely with the brown and creates an analogous color scheme with the pinks and yellows.

The lightning bolts, highlights and roses in her hair, as well as the low backed dress are used to symbolize the exciting and seductive life she has left behind her as it's fading away.

Gouache watercolor and sharpie on watercolor paper. Measurements are roughly 10 by 12 or something like that.
Image is not downloadable, as this is a photo of the work. It is also for sale. Should you want to buy it, I will more finely trim the edges (They are a little crooked)

Psychadelics

2011-02-22T02:23:00.001-08:00

My psychadelic self portrait for my color theory class. Let me know what you think!

Some new work from school

2011-02-20T21:14:00.000-08:00

Assignment: Surrealism and balance. Words I chose to use as a theme were bugs, umbrellas and mutilation. Done in copic water-proof pen and copic manga markers. Demonstrating asymmetrical balance.

Same assignment displaying crystallographic balance.

Same assignment, radial balance.

Same assignment, symmetrical balance.

Optical Art excercise inspired by the work of Bridget Riley. Used to demonstrate focal point. Design was designed specifically by the way that the synapses in the brain recieve and interperet color.

Stencil regarding a socio-political issue, here the institutionalised racism directed at Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent. This is apparently going to be printed on a T shirt. The designs on the serape and sombrero are intended to evoke thoughts of Captain America or Uncle Sam.

My scanner isn't big enough for some of my pieces, so please bear with their quality or absence as applicable.

Rennek

2010-12-31T03:32:00.000-08:00

You've seen him before, now see him again! IN GLORIOUS COLOR!

Atlas' Redesign

2010-12-11T00:49:00.000-08:00

New Atlas
Old Atlas

I've redesigned Atlas. I removed the armor chunks (Shoulder pads, fore arms and shins), added some fingerless gloves and a mask that allows us to see his face. I have too many characters whose faces are COMPLETELY obscured. As much as I hate to change characters I love, this was definitely the right thing to do. I may add the shin guards back, but I'm not sure.

So Long, Wave Goodbye!

2010-12-06T03:38:00.000-08:00

David, from So Long Davey!

The Power of Moonlight

2010-12-03T01:42:00.003-08:00

Nyet Meju, brother of Tak Tak Meju. Nyet is known (and feared) as Blacksoul the Space Pirate. He is the deadliest hand to hand and weapons combatant in the universe. I would talk more, but I'm cranky.

I believe in the enemy!

2010-11-29T00:32:00.000-08:00

In case you hadn't heard, Bill Wade just does not give a shit. Not even half of one.

Whiplash

2010-11-26T19:24:00.000-08:00

No clever title. No real text or anything. Just a drawing. Text says Live Fast, Die Faster. Bye

Louder Than God's Revolver...

2010-11-26T00:35:00.001-08:00

AND TWICE AS SHINY!!!
A while back I posted a drawing of a girl digging a hole. This is the book ready version, with grayscale color. Despite the shovel not being straight, it looks good. I don't care enough to redraw it.

The ALMOST final redesign of Whiplash's costume. Yay or nay on the rings surrounding the goggles? I am going to color this tomorrow.

Bill. He looks cross. Very cross indeed. Will color this also.

As an aside that is topical, I just downloaded Gimp... It's like photoshop for broke-asses. I like it!

A few more

2010-05-12T18:09:00.001-07:00

Bill wade, in costume. I really like it, but I want to color it so that you can see the design of the costume. Here it mostly looks naked. I guess it is a superhero costume, and he's likely to look naked anyway... But still...
An image for the book I'm doing. The chick in the cauldron was supposed to be bigger, and I drew the head without redrawing the neck region, and now the neck's just too damned long. I will fix it in a final draft.
Whiplash in costume, but I was going to go for the same style as the drawing of Bill, and the head is totally the wrong size for it, and the pose isn't dynamic enough. I may not finish this one and may redo it.
Quick sketch of Bill Wade out of costume, with a bottle of whiskey and a #1 Grandma mug!!!
Quick sketch of Whiplash out of costume, Chaz Armstrong. He used to be fat, so his clothes are entirely too baggy.I'm thinking about making it obvious that he is the "fat funny guy" by maybe making his clothes not cool at all... Polo with a pocket protector or something... It just doesn't read the same when it's baggy. Any ideas on how to achieve this would be appreciated.

This is how you know I love you...

2010-04-28T23:06:00.001-07:00

A few more doodles for my whopping 2 regular visitors.A full body shot of Rennek's as-of-yet unnamed dodgeball coach. His close hand looks wonky, but I like it otherwise.

Bleedphar the soulcrusher. He is a wrestler. From space. I want him to be an assassin also, but I need to overhaul the design a bit. It can read wrestler, but it sure as hell doesn't read deadly. Work to be done!
And here are some sketches for Sever, the Silver Whirlwind. He is a cyborg samurai type character. His race had consumed all of their planets natural resources, so instead of dying out or spreading to other planets, they removed their ability to procreate and necessity for food and water by becoming almost entirely robotic.

EGADS! A POST!

2010-03-29T13:45:00.000-07:00

To the whopping 3 people who may check my Sketchblog, ready your thunderous applause! I have actually.... *dramatic pause* DRAWN STUFF!
Here we have Slayer. Before I go on, yes, I know that his arm makes him look like he is prancing instead of lunging or what-have-you. I will fix it. I was trying to practice anatomy and dynamic posing. He is a Stelken hit-man, thief, and all around bad freaking guy. That gigantic mechanical arm he has has shield panels, a rocket booster in the elbow, a mini-gun under the arm, spikes in the fingers, a blade up the wrist and the hand can detach on a chain. His mechanical eyes have neat gizmos in them, and his mask (when engaged) can help him survive in the vaccuum of space.
Orem Dia, Stelken holy man. He's sort of... The Battle-Pope in training. He has a sordid history, and is currently on a pilgramage to reclaim his previous status so that he may take his place within the Galactic Senate.

I was unsatisfied with that old drawing of Tak Tak's brother. It was flavorless, and I was trying to be Jack Kirby so hard it made me realise that I suck. So I redesigned him. He has a new color scheme, weapons, and attitude. For a short fat chicken canary bear, he's scary. The knee and belly armor pieces need something, but I may just add some scratches to them and keep it simple, as he's complicated enough already (Mostly due to the markings on his head and chest)

As always, feedback is appreciated with the exception of Slayer's arm.

I'm not dead...

2010-02-03T21:46:00.001-08:00

I swear I'm not.

I will get some stuff up here shortly. I actually just hooked my PC up today.

Keep you posted.

So I finally get around to it...

2009-09-10T00:34:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated this thing in forever. Truthfully, I haven't been drawing as much as I know I should... But here's a few doodles!

The crew of the boundless destiny. I wanted one of them on one sheet. This is the first time I've posted an image of Warhowl's dust blade. I was planning on doing the hand guard segment of it later, but I think the crew look good.

A new image of the Cheetah. I did a LOT more work on his legs. They look more industrial now, which I suppose I like better. He doesn't look quite as fast, but I want his speed to seem more about power than grace, which will compliment Whiplash well.
A giant werewolfish Quetza pouncing Warhowl. I thought about having Tak Tak hiding this dark secret, where he was once a genetecist working to improve his race... The result was a bloodthirsty giant with sort of a hard on for murdering Tak Tak.
A race of traders. Their affections are easily bought with shiny baubles. I wanted to give myself an idea for what they would look like. I like the body, but the face blows. More work will follow.

A quick pen sketch for a fighting pose for Bill Wade. Nothing special.

Same idea here. I do little basic sketches of characters to make sure I like the shape and costume before I waste time on something bigger...
So the previous two are of Osmond. He is a polar bear wandering the desert looking for a serial killer. He has canteens and gourds everywhere. I figure, he's a polar bear and deserts are hot. So he is constantly drinking and sweating. I need to make him feel more western, but I like his design a lot. Don't expect big changes. He carries a chainsaw sword.
And we end with the killer. This is Dio, a Sun Bear. He is maybe taller than he should be, but I think I'm going to go for an Akuma vibe with him, so I may leave his height as is. This is my first crack at him, no sketches before hand. All said and done, I think his tats are cool and the Shredder glove is cool.

As always, feedback is appreciated.

A few sketches before I leave town.

2009-03-24T23:47:00.001-07:00

A butler... With a script... On a pillow... Very hush hush...
A principal scolding a kid... Very hush hush as well... And heinously tall... Will have to fix
A while back I posted a drawing of a character named Rath... It was pretty pathetic, but I really had no idea what I really wanted to do with his physiology or costuming. This is much more what I'm leaning towards for the final. I freakin LOVE his shoulder pad. Not yet entirely sure what I will do with the belt, but I think this is a great starting point. Comments?
The original idea behind Warhowl was that he was going to be a cadet in the Black Hole Batallion, which was to be my idea of the Green Lantern Corps or the Nova Corps (Two of my favorite comics). I still wanted to keep the idea, but let's face it... That shit was half baked.

This guy up here is called Sunshot, and he will be a character I am going to look to develop as a cadet in whatever replaces my old half baked idea. He has discs on his gloves that absorb solar energy and shoot it through his palm. As a contingency, he will carry a laser pistol as well.
A villain for the space corps guys things... This is Despair. I have no idea what he can do, or why he is evil. I was having this killer "I think I'm gonna die" migraine, which caused me to lay down and I saw this guy in a nightmare... So I drew him. I plan to develop him further in the future, but I like the costume and he also wears this giant cloak with a huge fuzzy collar... He's like a metro-egyptian alien despot. Rad.
Boring character. Won't use. Lame. Waste of time, but it's here for the sake of blog completion.
A revamped design for my boy Hussla Haula. His gun is down there on the bottom. one end is a shotgun, and the grip in the middle rotates on bearings. When it rotates, the other end has a rifle barrel that stretches out, and a scope pops out of the top, with the shotgun still sticking behind to protect against sneak attackers. Hussla be tricky.
The brother of Tak Tak Meju, Nyet Meju. He is a space pirate. I will be modifying the costume a little bit to be more Jack Kirby, but this is my starting point. I dig it.
Another shot at Mercenary Kael. I decided to make him a little more stocky, and I'm adding a keen little Jack Kirby "Circle and line" motif. If you read old school space comics (New gods, silver surfer, eternals, etc.) you know Kirby's fixation on circles and lines. I adore it.
Don't you know who I am?

I'm the Jugganaut!...

Bitch.

The final Devil Fingers

2009-01-26T17:53:00.000-08:00

My first Pass at Lorenzo. He is a bandit that works for Devil Fingers. I am going to redesign his sandals and pants, this was mostly for the design of his coat and (as of yet unfinished) sword.
The final design for Devil Fingers. The design ethos with his is long/short. The side with his demon arm has everything long (the sleeve typically obscuring the arm) and the tasset on his side has pouches that house Derringer pistols.

A Beluga whale.

An Adelie penguin.

One Eyed Jack

2009-01-13T18:38:00.000-08:00

I traced over Grizzly Joe so that I can try and make his partner Devil Fingers look good next to him. First sketch of Fingers... I'm MOSTLY satisfied with it. He needs more... I am going to add a few things and do a final. It will look great when it's done.

Jakishimaru, Joe's sensei. I like this one a lot, and I'm painting it as I type this. Lower Right: Detail of Devil Fingers' demon hand.

A few more unfinished pieces.

2008-12-27T01:14:00.001-08:00

A girl digging a hole. I really really like this one, though I'd like to make the shovel look nicer. The final draft will have a pile of dirt behind her, and maybe a big cartoony sweat bead on her forehead.

An old lady Skiing! I think I need to work on the ski's and the pants a bit more, but it's coming along nicely I think

A newer drawing of The Abyss. His close leg looks funky, upon closer inspection... I will have to fix that. The rest of it is sick though, huh?!?!?

We're gonna do something I call a compliment sandwich...

2008-11-28T01:06:00.003-08:00

Begin and end with something nice.

It seems like a lot of people don't like my blog. I put up too many lousy sketches and nothing is colored.

Cry moar. Somebody call the waaaaaaambulance. Waaa. I like sketching damnit. Anyways, I'm trying to do my best to take myself more seriously and actually develop my sketches and half baked ideas into fully baked ideas.

A fully baked idea. I'm working to further integrate the appropriate ratio of western/eastern into my grizzly Joe thing. So here I gave him a tattered poncho and a gunslinger belt. It works way better. I like this, and I fully intend on finishing it. YES! WITH COLOR EVEN!
If any colorists out there want to stab at it for fun, please do. I'd love to see it.

I really hated those old sketches I did of Teddybomb. I spell it with a B now. I am working to design him in a way that makes him less... Shitty. So here I like the one on the lower left and far right (With the WHUMP onomotopoeia). I think they would look great in a high contrast, heavily saturated cartoon look.

An old sketch (suck it) that I found. Jason drew a face. He threw it a way. I garbage dug it and turned it into a sasquatch. Sorry for your name being on there Chris. But you guys shouldn't draw on my sketches.

Same as before. My first stabs at new TB sketches. The lower left is adorable.

Just for fun, real life Teddybomb and Grizzly Joe.

Pardon the washed out look here. It's still in light pencil stage. This is (hopefully) going to be published in a book some time soon. It's obviously unfinished, as evident by dad's missing hand, but I had never EVER done a real environment before, I think this will turn out well when I'm done.

Input is always appreciated.

Living It Up

2008-10-30T00:48:00.001-07:00

Hope you like it, dude! Took me forever getting this scanner working!

I'm From The Streets!

2008-08-19T23:06:00.000-07:00

I followed some graf art tutorials and here's what I came up with. Letter studies below.

Bringin' it to you old school...

2008-08-18T17:12:00.000-07:00

I found some old stuff that I never put up on here. Thought the page could use some color anyway...

Anybody out there have a copy of photoshop for me? I want to color stuff on a more regular basis.

Background image pilfered from someone else. Picture photoshopped over photograph of myself. Not seen: Evan behind me running a sword through me. Someday when I have a working copy of photoshop, I will finish it.

Myself, skanking. It's fun... Not like I wear jeans or anything, but I think I owned some back when I made this.

My friends band, CIO. I hope some day these dweebs get into a damned studio so I can hear them clearly, because they've got some sweet potential. This is old, but it was a lot of fun to mess around with... Real quick project, mostly for experience.

Let the damn cows moo...

2008-08-14T23:45:00.001-07:00

So I've been practicing a little at work, trying to get form and perspective down. Please pardon the majority of these, as most of them are as long as my index finger maximum.

Frankenstein in daisy dukes at the beach. I'm going to blow this up and make a big inked piece out of it. I love it. Considering it's size, I certainly hope you do too.

The Abyss. A medieval themed super-villain. He's a shadowmancer who once fought on the side of good by the grace of god yadda yadda. Until he was taken hostage and tortured by a super villain also fighting in the name of God. As a crusader. As Nietzsche would say "If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you..." A hero truly corrupted by the evil he fights, only to become even more villainous than The Judge.

In case you think I dropped the So Long Davey project, here is a sketch for the idea of the drummer. I thought the pose was dynamic and fun. Seemed to match him, at least based on the photos I've seen and what I've been told.

Good Old Captain A-Head. The Old Soldier is one of my favorite super heroes, and I felt the need to draw him in all of his flag waving splendor.

My idea for the So Long Davey logo to go in the corner of my album idea. I like graf feel, and since I haven't done graffiti before, I am proud of how it came out.

Atlas. A sketch I did in pen with no reference on hand. I am super proud of it, and I think that The Last Titan couldn't look too much radder. Edward got me thinking, so I'm playing with his color scheme just a little. I just realized that I left his logo off his chest, I'll have to remember to put it on...

Practicing perspective on a drawing of El Esqueleto. Mostly working on guns. The pose felt good, but the sketch came out all disproportioned.

Old idea for a kind of SatAm feel Johnny Rage. I dunno, it's ok. I mostly only like it because the only other times I've drawn him without his mask he looked too old.

Tak Tak Meju, chief engineer aboard the Boundless Destiny... He's kind of an OwlBear thing. The young of his species are abandoned at birth, and rarely survive. As such, he has not met one of his own kind. He built the Boundless Destiny, but he is a lousy pilot.

An idea for a Whiplash cover. Again, practicing perspective.

Idea for the SLD cover concept. The poses have changed on the drummer and guitarist. Intended alignment lower left hand corner.

Concept sketch for Xam Zere (Name tentative. Might use it for a planet instead). Captain of The Darkest Days, and trained assassin/body guard much as Motsche Tsuhai.

The final SLD character sketch. Guitarist. A few changes will be made to the final. You can also see Wolverine, Spiderman, and Barrett Dekker. Named after two of my favorite singers, Dickey Barrett and Aaron Barrett and the legendary Desmond Dekker.

My concept for a ninja themed Batman costume. The batarangs fold in half and attach to the forearms.

A bad green lantern design with a self portrait in the back.

A Green Lantern design. Sides of hair are grey and spiked, tribute to Hal Jordan.

And here is Dickey Barrett. Taken at the OC fair, at the greatest concert in the history of the Earth. The BossTones are back in plaid, and never looked or sounded better!

Moo

All My Darkest Thoughts...

2008-07-03T13:48:00.000-07:00

And darkest drawings!

I noticed that on this piece I did a LOT of high contrast with all the black and stuff... On the SLD piece it will be in the front left corner, so I think the deeper dark levels will look good. I think it helps it pop out more. I'm worried that it may have a little too much black versus the David piece.

Anyways!

Garrett Gallagher, So Long Davey bassist! I haven't met the guy, so I used my artists intuition based on the photos I'd seen... I think it turned out rad.

In another time, on another planet...

2008-07-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

So I'm super freaking excited... I finally picked up a pencil again...

See, after the Grubat Commander I kinda thought "Shit, now I've got this high expectation of myself"...

WELL I STILL FREAKING DO!

I dunno, something like a year ago I found out that my best friend from second grade is in a band, and to me that's pretty exciting. I offered to do some art of each member of So Long Davey...

PREFACE: See, this cat is kinda the reason I started drawing and writing as a kid. When we were little he would always come up with some rad new character and some art for it. He'd have a clever and witty name, backstory and powers. He made short films and stop motion animation. In like, fourth grade. I always wanted to be a part of the things he did, and I grew up trying to match up to everything he did when we were kids.

I did short films in high school, I did hand drawn animation, art, writing. Even dabbled in music (Hopefully some day I'll scream in a punk band).
And here my lazy ass is, a year later, actually drawing this stuff.

David Vaughn, best friend from second grade, lead singer of So Long Davey, and the best damned drawing I've done in some time. I hope you enjoy it. Look for the other three members of the band within the next two weeks, and hopefully a neat album cover concept I want to do with it.

This is my practice for the SLD piece. My supervillain The Gut. Close arm came out kinda funny. I always wondered why there were certain niches of villains and heroes that got the short end of the stick and became like... Comic relief.

To me, The Blob was one of those characters that could have been soooo menacing. And he was reduced to being ridiculed for his weight. I mean, the amount of body fat made him practically invincible, imagine how hard he could hit with that weight!

The Gut is intended to be a PMC experiment in Super Genetics. He possesses the ability to inflate his body fat or reduce it at will. He throws a punch, BAM! Inflates his arm and hits you like a truck. You punch him? No you don't, he has a giant gut!

Don't even mention his body slam...

His whole costume is spandexy, including the boots. The metal pieces are designed to spread apart a little bit to accommodate his cankles. I'd put more metal pieces on, but I'd rather have it simple. Keep It Simple... Silly...

The fat cats have got your tongue...

2008-06-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

Here is that inked piece of Julio that Patricio did. He never finished it, but he's a talented chap, no? The simple linework to the right was what I gave him, and he (almost) finished with the piece on the left.

I wasn't born a failure...

2008-06-18T00:14:00.000-07:00

I worked my ass off to become one...

I never retraced this, it's still in rough stages. Please pardon the scan quality. Luigi. I love everything Nintendo makes, and I felt the need to show some love. Very rarely do I do art of a character I did not create. I should do it more often.

This one I did finish. Almost. I wanted to have Mario kicking Bowser or a Koopa or something. I like it!

Here is a much more finished version of my Rot Falke piece from a previous post. I retraced it, made it cleaner. Added a little more visible detail, most noticeably to his utility belt. I hope you like it better the second time around.

Bumpin' Like Teenage Acne...

2008-06-14T21:49:00.000-07:00

So, for the first time in Allah-knows how long, I actually sat my ass down to draw. I feel really good about it. I know nobody reads this, but if somebody out there does... COMMENT ME!

So you remember when I posted that rad drawing Jared did of Warhowl? Well I neglected to mention that prior to that I never actually drew Warhowl. I gave Jared this crappy rough sketch, and he really helped to form the idea in my head of what Warhowl should look like. Maybe I did the collar a smidge too big, but I like this one. I didn't draw his Dust blade because I haven't decided on EXACTLY how it should look. I'll sketch it soon and post it.

THIS TOOK FREAKIN FOREVER! I hope you all damned appreciate my hard work here. Here we have the as-of-yet unnamed Green Grubat commander. On his planet there are both Green and Purple Grubat. The purple are more intellectual types, whereas these green ones are like... Conan with really big guns. The scale work took freakin forever! I hope you appreciate this work. Get your ass on the fan art.

I got two more comin' up this week of Mario and Luigi, as well as a more refined version of that Rot Falke pic I did some time ago (Really I just made the lines darker, but still).

Wear a shirt that says I bleed if you shoot me in the chestplate...

2008-06-13T14:56:00.000-07:00

An as-of-yet unnamed Russian super hero. I liked Foxstar, but nobody else liked it so I'm not decided yet. He is intended to be a low rent version of the Patriarch. In his cold war incarnation he carried a sickle and hammer. His modern day incarnation he ditches his jetpack and fights with these rad knife gauntlets and rifles. He's more like the Punisher but... You know, evil...

A crewmember aboard the Warhowl. Zalone Lugik is the trigger happy weapons specialist. He carries a large sword with three holes for his fingers in the cross section to make the sword double as an exceptionally long punching blade. He also carries four knives, two on his back and two on his thighs. He keeps his second set of arms hidden so that his hidden strike with his back knives is a killing stroke. He also has this interesting rubber band bow and arrow thing... I'll draw it sometime.

an old drawing I did in high school of mah BOI! Anung Un Rama, AKA Hellboy. Big ol HB is one of the most consistently entertaining characters in the comics industry, and I am VERY excited for the new film. I'm gonna count how many times he says "Aw crap".

This isn't that old. Just a sketch for something I started doing some time ago. I think I'm a more talented designer now. I wanted to redesign the Mortal Kombat universe, giving the characters more story and personality. Here we have Baraka, who is a pirate in my Outworld.

And another of my zombie-hunter version of Cujo. I think this was from high school, but I can't remember. I just put it up here so I can download it when I get back to California. It sucks, but it's fun.

Another piece I did back during our Legacy Of Kain contest. Raziel, the Soul Reaver. One of my favorite video game characters ever.

A not very good sketch of a character from my Warhowl story. This is Fleet Commander Arjo Serren. I REALLY hate this sketch, so I think I have to do a fresh piece of him... This one makes me cry. It sucks even for a sketch.

Quote

2008-06-10T16:45:00.001-07:00

Here we go with another mixed bag of old and new.

A sketch of Whiplash's face. I like this a lot, but I really have no idea why I drew little cherub wings on him.

Some assorted character sketches for that children's cartoon. In the back you can see Baron Apocolypto in the top hat, professor Sakimoto on the left, and his daughter Julie in rear, with Teddybom to the right. Those were afterthoughts. The primary focus was Ultra Heroman in the foreground. Ultra Heroman is on a sabattical in space when Giga Reptos attacks, forcing Professor Sakimoto to create our new pink hero. Heroman fights with a giant spear and his Rocker Watch Blade. The Rocker Watch is how he transforms, and has a pull string like a gas powered lawn mower. :-)

Tiburon. I like him. At one point I wanted to make Julio part of a superhero group called the sons of Mexico. Tiburon here has gills, claws on his fingertips and acid secreting pores on his palms. He wears a rubber suit to retain moisture. I liked the absurdity of having a skeleton in a wifebeater, a rubber suited sharkboy hiding behind cholo-wear, and a musty old oily cyborg in a torn up double breasted suit. It's ridiculous, and poking a little fun at Clark Kent and his stupid glasses...

I'm writing a fantasy story. this here is Sasha the bandit king. He has a chainsaw sword. That plastic segment on top of it is a) a seat, b) a grip, and c) a shoulder guard. I like him. I intended him to have this thick Cockney'ed accent and a really sour self righteous attitude. He has a major Napoleon Complex, and he'd be immense fun as a hero.

Some sketches for the Stelken fanatical group, The Fifth Sight. They scour the universe for races that they feel will spread out into the universe consuming natural resources and destroy them. Militant Commando Hippie-Monks, sort of. They have two opposable thumbs on each hand that can pop out of their sockets. All of their joints, for that matter, are able to be dislocated and relocated without pain. They make phenomenal assassins.

My original sketch for the Judge. Looks a lot like Jason's, no? He hit what I was going for.

A sketch of Julio. He looks sad. I loves Julio. I've since began drawing him with individual vertebrae and removed the skull icon on his boots.

Mercenary Kael hounds Warhowl throughout the galaxy in order to consume the Grav Matrix and all of his power with it. Kael is a purple scaly space dog thing. His race lives among asteroid belts, carry bio-luminescent gas propellant beneath their scales and eat through a process similar to photosynthesis. They can cocoon themselves and enter a hibernation state. He's fun.

From my Zombie story, Niko. Niko fights with a Japanese short sword. That's really it. I haven't written anything of him.

On the left we have Sarna, chief secretary to Administrator Amagon. Amagon is a deep space despot. He's very Stalinistic. He hires Kael to hunt Warhowl. To the right we have the Ko-Za, native to Renneks home planet.

Zombie hunter Kunta. He has those giant metal gauntlets to protect his hands from his razor wire whip.

THE CHUPA-FREAKIN-CABRA! My version of everybody's favorite goat-sucking demon. She is a short lived adversary to Julio. He destroys her to ease the pain of a small village that relies on their goat farming for income. El Diablo get's more than a little cheesed.

Line art of Julio. You should see the inking job that Pato did on this bad boy...

Remember the Lawman I told you about? HERE HE IS! He was designed to be a fantasy version of Clint Eastwood. The whole story has massive parallels to The Good the bad and the ugly. Almost a remake, honestly. The Lawman carries a revolver, and in this universe guns are this alien technology that can level cities. His eye is a prosthesis concealing a key to a great treasure which can restore water to the barren deserts of his Earth...

Bounty Hunter Hussla Haula. He's a FREAKIN KANGAROO SPIDER! WITH AN AUSTRALIAN GUY HAT! He has a gun that fires syringes filled with some gnarly narcotics, Overdosing his haul.

Giga Reptos as drawn by Jason. The first villain in Teddybom. I can't draw it, so I have him do it. Guga Reptos is covered in stone scales which are actually hermit crab monsters! He is actually a few of the mountains in the Yokohama Mountain Range.

Another of El Diablo's legbreakers. El Cucuy is modeled after both Aztec and Mayan warriors. he has a rad phatty oar sword.

Unfinished sketch of Johnny rage.

And an unfinished sketch of undead Jose Muerte... I love the design, but it's just so hokey I don't know if I'll ever go through with it...

End quote.

Breathe in...

2008-06-08T14:45:00.001-07:00

So I'm up here in Seattle and lo and behold, I discover there is a scanner available! Here is about a third of the stuff I scanned the other night. Something old and something new, stuff from high school sketches from work and all that. Hope you like some of it.

I did this sketch on a printout of an E-Mail from my supervisor at work. God bless photoshop, it was a piece of cake to eliminate all of the text (The character was drawn OVER the words of the E-Mail). The guy on the right is just a boredom doodle, as the focus here is the Red Ranger. It's Morphin' Time!

My first serious sketch of three of the main mob bosses from my fictional Mexico. Left to right we have Hector Huitzil, Javier Castillo and Ignacio Cruz (Nacho). I was mostly trying to get an idea of how they would look standing near each other.

My first sketches of before/after ideas for the mob bosses. We additionally have Sanchito Acero down at the bottom. The "before" versions are supposed to be what they look like as Julio is just becoming a member of the underworld. The "after" are after he has established his dominance as Mexico's top pistolero.

The DSA SPAT unit (Department of Superhuman Affairs, Super Powered Anti-Terrorism). We have here Chaz Armstrong (Whiplash), Bill Wade, Johnny Rage (Scissorman), and Atlas. I sketched this on the front of a report I did. The heads are a little long and Johnny's body is a little too stocky, but I like it a lot.

A lot of High School sketches on the way, so prepare for a lot of lined paper. Here we have Jake Dangerfish and Perilous Hare. You'll notice Perilous' gun and knife are unfinished, which is all well and good considering the boots look lame. THEY HAVE NO TREAD! I really liked the piece though. Dangerfish's signature weapon is the Hustler revolver, and Perilous' is the .357 Playboy.
In their story they are air pirates who have stolen the first prototype jet engine from Her Majesty's Royal Air Navy. It's a fun story.

A pen sketch of Julio. I'd like to finish it, I think the pose is pretty cool. It was one of those things where I was just trying to learn perspective.

High school again. This is Cervantes, a machine super hero created to patrol and protect Mexico D.F. from the forces of evil. He doesn't make a distinction between life and death, so every day he reports back to his long dead creator after dropping off dead criminals in jail cells.

This one is actually from my freshman year at college. I did this during my two hour break between classes. This character is a future version of the one below. He has become corrupted by the power of The Encroaching Darkness and become a demon. His gun fires capsules of holy water with the bone shavings of saints in them. I call it the Relic Gun.

you'll notice that my boy Cujo here looks a bit like Jake Dangerfish. Every story I write has myself in it as a character. Cujo here is one of me. I never finished this, but I had kind of a Shredder thing going on here. I also did not place his sword in here, which I would still like to do.

Two characters from my zombie story, Dig and Ash. Dig has a gauntlet with bladed pincers and a short sword. The short sword can be launched from the gauntlet with a spring like a crossbow. Ash carries two Kama. He's a little less intriguing.

Julio and Jose. I originally wanted Julio to smash Jose's ribs, cut off his hands and gouge out his eye before he kicked the bucket. Jose comes back from the dead and rebuilds those parts of his body with machinery. He has machine gun hands and metal ribs. I thought that came off as really contrived so I ditched it.

The Patriarch as he appears in the 1950's. The idea is that he is basically Captain America, minus the strength and reflexes and plus a jetpack. So he's not really like Captain America at all. He's essentially our most skilled soldier, and HE CAN FREAKIN' FLY! That is rad.

Atlas is my Superman style hero. Everybody loves him yadda-yadda-ya. I don't like the idea of a superhero who can take a bullet in the eye without blinking *COUGH*, so my idea of bullet proof is more like a bullet proof vest. He has accelerated healing, immense strength, flight and sonic screams. He fought in WWII as Rot Falke, and acted as a member of the superhuman Illuminati group controlling the fate of mankind. Up in the left corner you can see a concept sketch for a satam style version of him.

And here is me again playing around with Saturday Morning Cartoon style. It was fun.

Baal is a space pirate... Even cooler than that, he is a space VAMPIRE pirate. A vampirate, if you will. Instead of UV allergy, I like my vampires to instead have violently photosensitive vision, hence the double eyepatches. Plus, it just looks damned cool.
I originally designed him as a joke character, with two eyepatches, two peglegs and two hook hands. He still has two hooks, but those "I know what you did last summer" fish hooks. He's the consummate badass of the Hephaestus crew.

And lastly, a poor unnamed Old Ways. He's important to the story of Warhowl, which is why I had a difficult time naming him. He has a large gourd on his back for booze, Ko-Za antler armguard... And I did something a little different with his dreads, tying them around his shoulder area. He is the dodgeball captain, and one of the generals of the Old Ways makeshift army when they rise up against General God King Korr of the Fine Hair... Which is a mouthful...

Anways, look forward to more of my scans soon.

Breathe out.

The world's greatest writers are all drunks and fighters...

2008-06-01T22:16:00.000-07:00

I thought since my last post was art of my characters by someone other than me, I'd give you all a show of some others' work! First two are from Jared Lipscomb, click him on my peeps sidebar to check out his stuff.

First we have a character whose name I can NEVER decide on. His hero name, however, has been firmly planted as Warhowl. He is the captain of a ship and a loyal crew. An American astronaut sucked into a wormhole and unknowingly through a hidden planet where he was imbued with gravimetric super powers.

Here is Rennek of the Old Ways, as seen in my first post (Please, go back and check it out! I love the piece I did of him! I was proud!). Rennek was the first alien friend and war buddy of our main man Warhowl. Prince rennek becomes what I'd been calling "honorbound" to Warhowl for saving his people from a genocidal king, General God King Kor of the Fine Hair. I think if I can ever actually script some meat to the story, it could be a lot of fun.

So Jason sent me some more art of my characters. I LOVE collaborating. It's fun. Again, he is skilled in taking my characters and giving them a little more life, but still being what I was going for.

I will update this soon with comparisons of the sketches I gave him.

Bloody Bill Wade with his less savory alter ego, The Sadist looming in the background. All of the DSA heroes are government agents, so I designed them all with utility belts. I like my heroes having gear. Honestly, I've only created three gadgets for them, but still!

The beginning of the Judge. I like the Judge, so I hope this finishes up well. The face is definitely good. He looks upset, no?

This is my heavy hitter type villain, Rama Amon. Idea here is that he is a long forgotten Egyptian harvester of souls, erased from their history for his plans to utilize his army of souls for sort of a Coup De'Tat against the Elder Gods. I like him, and here he looks suitably detached.

This guy is tentatively known as Ominous. He is created from the reanimated flesh of a zombie. It's one of those silly comic book things that makes no sense, and why I love comics as a form of art and entertainment.

I hope you guys enjoyed the work of my fellow artists as much as I do.

Ever get so bored that you start countin' all your teeth?

2008-05-22T22:42:00.001-07:00

Twenty seven.

Anyways, I wanted to some day do a childrens cartoon that is a mix of some old and some new. Basically imagine... Godzilla+Ultraman+Powerpuff girls.

I wanted a gruff sounding, pink teddybear injected with a liquid smart metal skeleton composed of nanobots.

In designing villains I realized something... I can't draw monsters. So I had somebody else draw a monster I designed!

THESE WERE NOT DRAWN BY ME. TOTALLY DRAWN BY THE NUBSTER.

You can see Teddybom running up the Cactopuses leg.

Jason's first shot at the Cactopus. Totally the vision I had in my head, so it was really good to work with somebody who had in their hand what I had in my brain.

Cactopus grows up out in the middle of the Pacific and sucks the worlds water supply dry, which is fine by Teddybom until he can't fill his watering can to water his flowers...

Then it's time to kick some ass...

You've been hit by, you've been struck by...

2008-05-02T00:52:00.000-07:00

A poster idea I had for one of my DSA stories. I'm going to trace it back and fix a few issues I have with it. I started with Whiplash's hand and it looks AWFUL. I did this real tiny, so I like it anyways. We have Whiplash (Chaz Armstrong) from and center, with his rogues gallery behind. Left to right: The Cheetah, The Gut, Impact.

I've been using a whiteboard to create my basic shapes, photograph it then trace back. It's been working out well. Here we have Atlas flying up.

Another sketch, this time of Whiplash...

And here of Johnny Rage the Scissorman. I don't know what I was thinking with his left leg (artists right). I can't wait to trace it back and fix it.

Look for finished versions of these sketches soon. Whiplash is done, I'll try and scan it soon.

Say goodnight to dreams that won't be realized...

2008-04-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

Geoff's scanner is being a cheepka, so I've only got one new piece... Maybe I'll get more soon, but I dunno. So here we have Rot Falke dragging away the Patriarch. I like it. It makes me go Ooooh.

But you can't just get in line again...

2008-02-14T20:55:00.001-08:00

Alrighty, rock and roll here we go.

I recently got a new little sketchbook, and I was pretty excited to bust it out. The images that are kind of yellow are from the sketchbook. It's hardback so scanning from it is kind of lame.

Here we have Julio as he is typically seen. Without skin. I never drew the shirt torn up like that, but I thought it was important to see his spine and pelvis, otherwise with the baggy wifebeater he looks really rectangular.

Yes, for the love of Mike it's right side up... Everybody turns this one upside down to look at it. He's hanging. Like Spidey. Bill Wade can stretch like Mr. Fantastic and he's a smidge more on the paranoid/schizophrenic/homicidal side.
Cutesy Julio. Not too much to say, other than I like it. It's a few years old, but I was really happy with the body shape, and I think it casts a pretty neat silhouette.
This is Dave Dunn, AKA The World. Despite his size and the fact that he is made entirely out of granite and obsidian, not to mention being able to bench press a fully loaded city bus, he's a pacifist. He's intended to be a scientist type character, spending most of his time behind a computer screen. I like the duality of it.
This was quite literally my first serious attempt at perspective. I really like it. I could make it a little better by exaggerating the foreshortening, but I still really like it. I wanted to add a background of a bar with him being circled by thugs and cholos.

Mister Millenium, who has the power to roll back time by an incredible five seconds. When you can move as fast as a speeding bullet, it's honestly a lot more impressive than it sounds. I am really proud of this one. No "if"s or "but"s. I like it a lot.

Now we're just in like...

2008-02-03T11:25:00.001-08:00

Here's another lengthy post for you... I'm just pulling out all this old art I have from high school at this point...

One year in animation we decided, in honor of the new Legacy of Kain game, to have a little throwdown to see who could draw Raziel the best. I won. I'm actually proud of it except that his hair and his wings are blowing in different directions o_O

Old character I used to draw a lot. I recently redid this design, I'll post that when I get it pretty. Natan Josua, bad ass slick shit super hero type guy. I put much more character into the new design, I hope you like it when I get it.

My desktop wallpaper! My first real thing I did in photoshop, I think. I'm pretty proud of it, considering my lack of experience with the program. Julio Calavera, El Esqueleto. Pitfighter, pistolero, undead hired gun. He's super cool, I swear. He usually appears as a skeleton, I got one of those in the works that looks great.

Cartoonified version of my character Meat. That big hook he carries can be thrown at your face, the chains tighten to shut the claw segment on your face. I have affectionately dubbed it the Nosepicker.

Another one of Yosh, burning American flags. At one point in the continuity I wanted his country to go to war with America. Pardon the art, I was in high school... This is actually my first drawing ever with any sort of background. As such, I think it's ok... Maybe I should redraw it and see what five years of better experience could do?

Yosh's brother Natan Isi. Came out OK, again, I should redo it. The claws came out sick, I think...

Soral. He's a seraph. There is not much else to say. It's old and largely hideous.

I like Megaman, so this is my Maverick Firestorm Fox. He has pilot lights on his fingertips and gas vents in his palm. I thought it was kinda sick. The art really sucks though...

Logo I did for a punk band in high school. They said, "Make it look like Toxic Narcotic!" So I made it look like Toxic Narcotic. Then they said, "It's too clean!" Well GAWD! Be more desciptive and you'll get better results! Cripes...

Moving on OUT of high school and into a less depressing trip down memory lane and crappy art...

My album cover for my technofunk stuff. I thought it came out fairly well considering it was the second thing I ever did in photoshop. You can check the sounds out at http://www.myspace.com/thesugarskullsband

I wanted to put this on T Shirts, but the skull looks like CRAP! I'll try and do a better one, because otherwise I really like it. I wanted to put it on the ribs. Sicky sicky, no?

For a while I was geeking on anthropomorphic characters. This is Grizzly Joe, a sheriff who slaughtered a group of criminals in his rage. Seeking inner peace, he traveled east to study the art of bushido, returning to the west to bring justice to the world... I like him a lot. I'll try and draw him with his poncho and hat soon...

OK, I guess we returned to high school. Back in high school I had this idea for a webcomic called Frankie the Reluctant Prophet. Frankie is a socially awkward mallgoth who talks to his pet frog and his plastic garden flamingo. He also talks to God. I never went through with it, as it lacked sustainability. It would get old.

Hopefully I'll have some new stuff within the next week, which will be MUCH better than this crap... I'm just posting because I can.

Any way you want it...

2008-02-02T23:50:00.001-08:00

Aha! My first blog! Diving right in...

Rennek of the Old Ways! Defender of all that is just and rad! Dodgeball CHAMP!

Johnny Rage! Golden gloves champ, third grade teacher! Slasher and mauler of those who do not so good things!

Soldier of the Escalian combine! One of the aforementioned creatures who do not so good things!

The Foul One! HE HAS SCABS!

Paul Reno! Arch nemesis and rival to Johnny Rage! WITH POWERS AND SKILLS COMPARABLE TO THOSE OF JOHNNY RAGE!

John Doe! THAT MEANS WE DON'T KNOW HE NAME! He had a mishap, so he's angry about it!

Hector Huitzil, luchador and terorista, head of the Mexican underworld! Conan O'Brien on the left!

Mateo Velasco, AKA El Serpiente! He's rad, TRUST ME!

Behold, Keopu! Disciple of the encroaching darkness!

Django Kill, El Fantasma!

So, I'm sure you've had your reccomended daily allowance of exclamation points, so I leave you with no more.

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I lied.
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Twice.