Samus Colour Sketch

This is a quick painting I did over the past two days, based on the Samus character from Metroid. I had some trouble figuring out how to light the image, and I settled on a spotlight effect that is coming from off screen. I'm not sure if it makes sense, but it was fun to paint.

New Old Stuff!

Here are a bunch of new images, two of which are re-workings of older drawings for my portfolio. The three monsters and knight where done as character and colour designs, rather then as a finished painting (hence the lack of proper backgrounds). I inked them both on paper and did the rest in photoshop. The spy-girl image was painted in a couple days, using a simple two-style colour. It was fun to start and finish an image before I got sick of working on it.

Braviators Concept Painting

This painting is re-designed version of drawings I made way back in 2006. I pitched an idea for a television series based on these kids that fly around on old style airplane flight packs, but I had no luck. I worked out the planes better in this version, and tried to render the characters in a fun and colorful style. If I have some time this summer I think I will to model one or both of these kids for a short film project.

Birthday Troll

A funny new image with a different color palette for me. I tried to keep it fairly loose and not keep painting it for weeks and weeks. So now it's done and I'm on to the next one!

Shinny Bum

These are new photoshop paintings featuring a sexy sci-fi girl in a shinny sci-fi suit. I exaggerated the highlights and blew out spots on the armor and body to suggest futuristic materials. The background is a mash up of abstract brushwork and color fades. I tried out numerous color schemes for this image, unable to settle on one I really liked, these are my two favorite versions.

cavegirl and zombies

Finished these two images...finally. Both are older ideas that I have redrawn and repainted for my portfolio. I think they turned out well.

cave girl painting redux!

This is my second stab at the same painting (something I do not do very often). My first attempt was painted over a loose pen sketch and did not turn out very well. This new version has a much more refined pencil sketch as its base, an expanded composition and improved character posing. I've only begun to paint the image, starting with a quick colour fill and then some rendering to plan out the volumes and shapes. The next stage will be to paint in the light and shadows, and then to figure out what to do with the background.

old images, reworked

I am starting to put together a new portfolio and I realize I don't have many finished images to show. I also noticed some older drawings and paintings that I thought where good ideas but where not well executed. So I thought I might take a few of my favorites and re-work them to be more presentable. Hopefully I will get to painting them in the very near future.

beauty and the beast (sketch club painting)

This is digital painting I did for the sketch club at my studio. The topic was "beauty and the beast", and since we had two weeks to finish I decided to paint my pen drawing in photoshop. I tried out some intense colours, and I kept some of the black outlines around the characters to preserve the flat, graphic look of the pen drawing. The other image is from the previous week's topic "how did that get there". My drawing was a bit r-rated but most people seemed to think it was funny.

halloween at pipeline studio

This creature model is the second part of a sketch club exercise at work. I drew the sphinx girl character for the frist part (see the previous post), and I chose a character drawn by Elena Panova to model and texture. I tried to match her painting style in the look of the textures, but I also added some grit and detail to the surfaces. The second image is a poster I made for our company Halloween party. I filled in the black with inks and then cleaned the whole thing up in photoshop.

character design post

This is an older character that I fixed up a bit for a sketch club event at my studio. A group of people are posting character designs in the first week, and then next week a group of modellers will chose one each and model them in 3d. This sphinx girl is my entry, but I will also model a character from someone else's design, so there will be more posts from this topic in the weeks to come.

watercolour sketch

This is small watercolour study I did over the lunch hour this week. A group of artists from my studio drove up to the rural farmland that is just north of the Sheridan campus in Oakville. This sketch took about 30 minutes and is four by eight inches.

zombie sports

This is a new drawing from the pipeline studios sketchclub. The topic was zombie sports and I drew a kids soccer game caught in a zombie outbreak. This sketch was a pencil drawing with a quick inking job. It could use a bit of clean up in photoshop, but I am moving forward with a comic project so there is no time.

sketch club: monkey drawings

This week the topic was monkey business and did a few drawings and character designs. I made two versions of the snowboarding monkey (one clean and one that is a bit more adult). The other image is a monkey fight with various chimps, gorillas, baboons and monkeys all going to war. I posted the initial outline drawing and second version with completed inks.

sketchclub: goldilocks

This is the "goldilocks and three bears" topic for our sketch club at work. I did two drawings; one is a classic pin-up type image and the other is supposed to funny, but no one seems to get it. I posted various stages of each image to show the progress from pencil sketch to finished image.

sketchclub: monster rehab

We have the sketch club up and running at work and our topic this week was monster rehab. I'm showing some mythological creatures in a rehab clinic doing the classic trust building exercise where you fall backwards and other people catch you. I've posted the pencil skech, first ink, and the final version with thick outlines and photoshop clean up.

dolphin force colour sketches

Some new colour sketches of the Dolphin Force characters. One has a flat toon shader feel and the other is a bit more rendered.

game concepts (post2)

These drawings are various takes on the gaint castle needed for the story. At first the idea was to incorporate cathedral architectual elements into the castle design, then the story changed and the castle was carved to be from giant vines that where hard like stone. Finally, it changed again to floating islands and docks for the flying airships.

game concepts (post1)

Here are some older sketches I did at work for a video game project that my company was involved with. The characters are based on initial designs by Brian Wong, but I tweaked the look and colours. The other designs are for an airship that the kids where supposed to travel on.

character designs

Here are some character designs done for my studio. The first bunch are rough pencil sketches, and I took what I thought where the best two and inked and coloured them.