Original Star Wars Character part 1

This is a concept / design process image of an original Star Wars character I came up with. She is a non-canon character and is the daughter of Kit Fisto and Aayla Secura. If you are as avid a Star Wars fan as I am, you'll realize that many of the alien characters are humanoid, and given that fact there wasn't much for me to do design-wise on her from the neck down. However, when researching Kit and Aayla, I noticed that they each had one thing in common, albeit different - they each have head tendrils. Aayla has two long tendrils, while Kit has many (I call them dreads lol). Also, Kit has some awesome looking eyes, and with that being said, I fused their tendril styles together and put in the large eyes. Her costume is loosely based on Aayla's, being skin tight on top, but I decided to keep it loose on the bottom. More information on the character itself will be put in on the next post when she becomes more finalized. As for now, Vaya con Dios.

3D Museum part 1

Here is a screenshot of my museum that I am building in Maya. The top-left screen shows my homage to my program - Game Development and Design - with the dome being shaped like the D-pad on most standard remote controllers. Most of the content in the museum itself are pillars, benches, and pedestals; I am keeping it very simple and basic for the moment until I texture it in Unity and add some particle effects, triggers, and sound effects to make it interactive for the audience. I will be adding more screenshots as I continue to show my progress. Please tell me what you think. Vaya con Dios.

New posts coming soon...

Hello everyone, this post is intended as an apology for my failure to make any new posts lately. I've been doing quite a bit of work, lately, and therefore have been unable to draw, scan, or post regularly as I used to. Please, be assured, however, that before this month is over I will have at least one new post for you to look at, and it will be a good one. Until then, unfortunately, Vaya con Dios.

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.