Creature Designs

These are a couple quick creature sketches. The first one is a combination of a mosquito, a dragonfly, and a scorpion-you can see my notes for quick reference. The second is a combination of a casowary and an armadillo-again, you can see my notes; I'm not too happy with the second one, but I will surely further develop both of them, perhaps even change some of the incorporations. They were done on 5.5X8.5 sketch paper in graphite while riding the train home. Let me know what you think so far, though. Vaya con Dios.

Quick Environment Sketch

A quick environment sketch I did; I didn't want to delve too deep into the details and tried to keep it very rough so as to get the design across, more or less. It is a mountainous terrain with a large archway to signify the approaching of a temple or holy place. On the very top you can see a hint of a shape-I intended it to be the actual building...this was done on tonal paper in warm grey copic markers, prismacolor pens, and a bit of white china marker. Vaya con Dios.

Boredom Illustrations

These are just some sketches I did at different intervals in time, either to practice something, pass time, or because of sheer boredom. All were done in graphite on 5.5X8.5 sketch paper. I hope you all like these little throw-outs...

This is a sketch I did with the intention of over exaggerating perspective between two figures. I had been playing around with this piece for a minute before settling on this one, and I still might go back to it after receiving a critique from my art professor.

This piece was done while I was passing time in the airport terminal. I was trying to play around and see what other styles I could put out and what would work, and so I put out this. He is a Frenchman, given the name, and I made him, in a sense, that he is sort of like a businessman, but perhaps there is more to him than what is seen...I have been told that he looks like the Shadow Man from Disney's ''The Princess and the Frog'' - I had no intention to make him appear so, but I have no complaints about it.

I was still waiting in the airport terminal when I put this on paper. Some soft jazz music was playing over the speaker system, and I figured I'd go with the mood and put something out coinciding with it. I wanted to do a different style from the previous version, and so I thought of old stylized paintings of musicians and wanted to incorporate a bit of my own style along with it.

Headless Horseman part 2

This is the final design for my Headless Horseman character; he is the final character for the Halloweenies compilation. Obviously, as with the rest of the cast, he is intentionally quite typical compared to other designs. However, I did want to change up his attitude and make him more emotional than others, hence his Jack O' Lantern having an expressive face; it serves to show two emotions - the saddened expression represents the Horseman's sadness for losing his horse, and the fire represents his anger for losing his head...yes, the Horseman lost his horse. I figured it would serve as an interesting story bit later on down the road when I do individual digital renders and then the group shot. One thing I am unclear of in my own design is how his shoes look similar to modern day sneakers; I really don't care, either-they come off as interesting to see - a long-passed figure wearing sneakers...it's funny. Either way I am happy with how it turned out, and I can honestly say that now, for me, the hard part is to come-digitizing them all and then composing them into one shot. This was done on 5.5X8.5 sketch paper in graphite. Let me know what you all think. Vaya con Dios.

Headless Horseman part 1

This is the Headless Horseman character for my Halloweenies compilation I am doing; he is the final character that will be affiliated with them. The idea behind him was that since zombies, skeletons, vampires, goblins, and witches are such typical and overly used Halloween figures a headless horseman character would not only be somewhat different but also look cool in collaboration with the rest of the characters. You can see from the sketches that I wanted him to not steer too far from the familiar idea of a headless horseman-being without a head, a sword, traditional garb, and sometimes a flaming pumpkin / jack o' lantern. These sketches were done on 5.5X8.5 sketch paper in graphite. Final piece coming tomorrow. Vaya con Dios.