Sunday, February 17, 2008

Superheroes!

INVINCIBLE and OMNI-MAN pinup!
BATMAN!

Character #7 - Meteor

He saw a shooting star hit the earth and when he went to go investigate the crater, he saw a burning skeleton and a bracelet that was in perfect condition. He took the bracelet home and when he put it on it grafted itself to his skin. After he had nightmares about murdering helpless people, he started to get worried. Then he started to randomly go unconscious and wake up in different countries. He then discovered that he had been possessed and when he was possessed he went by the name Meteor. He had made the connection after seeing footage from security cameras of himself killing NASA scientists. The fallen bracelet was owned by a super being in space that NASA had discovered and was attempting to eliminate. Once they finally killed it, it fell to earth but the bracelet which was the source of the being's power survived. He is named Meteor because the punch the power of the bracelet gave him is as strong, and fast and has the impact of a meteor when it is landed. He looked for help but eventually the power of the bracelet overcame him completely.

WEEK ONE COMPLETE!!!

Another Batch...

Character #6: Punchinella
Punchinella is her boxing alias. Made to sound like the latin name for clown which is "Punchinello". Her little sister was the victim of a mass murder of children by a clown at a birthday party. Upon further research Punchinella discovered that the psychotic clown is actually a huge mob boss who makes bets on female boxing and likes to have his way with the champions. Punchinella decided to train vigorously and enter the female boxing tournament to become champion and in the end when she is with the mob boss one on one, she will suffocate him with her sister's stocking. She wears the stocking around her left ankle during each match.
This was my first attempt at Punchinella. I like her pose a lot more but her outfit doesn't suit her character as much.
This is a redesign I did of Hira. I decided to spice it up by giving her a tribal helmet, tattoos and a blue spear head.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Happy Belated Valentines Day!!!

Character #4: DominoPeople thought they had caught Big Foot but they were wrong. To their dismay, Big Foot's half-brother Domino was instead the victim of the tranquilizer dart shot at the mythological beast in the northern woods that fateful afternoon. After being held captive and put on display, Domino grew tired of not having anything to do in his spare time so he stole one of the guards' keys and unlocked himself to look for his way back home. Big Foot's dumb, Domino is smart. On his venture back home he came across a house with such an enchanting musk he could not resist his hunger. He broke through the door and found himself looking upon a family having a roast beef dinner. He engulfed the dinner but that wasn't enough so he ate the parents as well. The little girl who didn't know better went to her room and made a valentine for him because coincidentally, it was Valentines Day.

Character #5: Hira
The day time lookout guard for intruders and wildlife. Hira is very energetic but is bored with her job since there is barely any way of using her combat skills during the day time. All the action comes at night when other tribes try to infiltrate to steal gold or when the giant 6 footed nocturnal Bat-Lion comes out to feed on it's prey! She spends her time sharpening her spear, hunting small insects or lizards around the vicinity or just dozes off. She hopes one day to get promoted.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

It's late...

And I better not make a habit of this!

Character #3: CopilCopil was a pirate from the ancient golden space pirate era. It was a time where pillaging and plundering of the space colonies was almost considered a norm. Eventually the era came to an end when the Galactic Police Force (GPF) found a way to stifle their cunning tactics in a way that almost completely stopped their attacks on civilization in a matter of days. During the time of the ancient golden space pirate era, clans and gangs in accordance to space pirate mythology were created. Copil's helmet is a representation of his god and his glowing blue kneepads and wrist bands represent his eternal bond and commitment to his deity.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

More and more

Character #2: ValimothValimoth is of a race called Rheizie. They are a brutish species and have been common amongst the galactic society for as long as history dictates. They are naturally stronger than humans but for the most part are less intelligent. That is not to say though that all of them are stupid, some Rheizie scientists have made major breakthroughs in science and space technology. Valimoth himself has the best of both worlds. He is smart and can pull his own weight in a battle. He is a bounty hunter often hired to do lower end jobs like taking out spies within the military. His size doesn't allow for stealthy missions like infiltration.

These are some designs I did for our group film. I was trying to go for a more graphic approach and I had a lot of fun. I think I'll try to do this kind of stuff more ofter. It's fun to switch things up.

Monday, February 11, 2008

A Challenge of Sorts...

Ok, I've done a little something for myself and anyone else who would like to join. It's a challenge to help improve my skills as a designer and as an overall artist. It's the 100 Character Challenge. The challenge is to draw one character a day for 100 days in a row. The rules are:
  • At least one drawing/painting per character. pages are allowed as long as there is one presentable drawing amongst them.
  • The character must be presentable and can be in either colour or black and white.
  • The character must be in a pose or action to help convey his/her personality.
  • Make sure it's an even split between guys and girls. You can do any creature you want but make sure for when you do draw guy or girl humanoids that you mix it up a bit.
  • The character must have a brief description telling us a bit about them.
  • The character must be made up for the contest. Although using your characters from class is acceptable just as long as you do a drawing especially made for the contest i.e. the protagonist from your fourth year film.
  • You must have 7 characters up on your blog by each Sunday or you are OUT!!! That means if you miss a day you're still good. You can just make up for it later. Doing 7 on Sunday isn't a position you'd want to be in though!
  • You may revisit old characters. For example I want to redesign character #16 for character #33. That is allowed just as long as I don't do it too often.
  • I guess this isn't a rule but try changing up the style. Drawing everything in the same style kind of defeats the purpose of the exercise.
  • NO FANART!!!
  • It started February 11th and will finish May 20th.
I think that's all the rules. I've done this before back when I was in gr.11. I did 100 drawings of the Megaman characters. 1 a day. Here's the first 48 coloured. Never got around to colouring all of them. I got bored :P


It's a bit hard to get into the swing of it but after you start doing them it gets fun. Plus you draw a lot! And by drawing you get better and who doesn't want to get better?

Allright so without further delay, I present my first submission.

Character #1: Bernard McGregerson
This is actually the protagonist for my 4th year film. His name is Bernard McGregerson and he's 6'7", weighs 300 lbs and reeks of alcohol, cigarettes and extreme body odor. He is a lumberjack and is infamous amongst the local bars for getting into brawls with innocent people doing as little as even making eye contact with this burly beast. He believes being nice is for the weak and that acts of generosity are "girly" and only deteriorate a man's soul. One night, while doing his nightly lumberjacking duties, he encountered a pack of wild beavers and tried to kill one to bring back home and eat. Amongst the commotion he was bitten and left them be. No one has seen Bernard McGregerson since.

Frank has actually made a blog to post his own and people who are part of it are linked up there as well!!! Check it out here

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Oy Yo Yoi!


Same cheese team.Whoops! How did THAT get in there :P

Monday, January 21, 2008

Salamander + Pepper


My shot at the Pepper Project
No harm in trying!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Beeeeeeee

Have a flamboyant wingless bee man. Inspired by my good pal Trevor Spencer who has been drawing people in bee costumes for some odd reason lately. What is even more peculiar though, is that I had and urge to do one myself...

The semester is almost over now and then I will be going back home to good ol' Ottawa... And there I can back to doing illustrations on a regular basis.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Thursday, November 15, 2007

We had a real RAWF of a time.


Sketches from the RAWF (Royal Agricultural Winter Fair) All digitized.
POWER UP!!!
And yes a Lama did eat a child and I decided to take full advantage of the situation and put my artistic ability to use in an attempt to capture the moment at hand.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Be ye he?

Even though it wasn't intentional,
it was brought to my attention later that this looks like a jester pledging
his allegiance to the American flag. :P

Bryan Huff Maya-ing.

Something a little more abstract.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Word up Bromeo?

Boring roman warrior cheese
Sketch for the gesture of a painting I'm thinking of doing.


Sunday, November 04, 2007

I can be your Garfriend

This is a work in progress ladies and gents... Ladies and gents...

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Who Would Have Guessed???

After doing this image I realized she kind of resembled Scarlet Johanson a bit, and it reminded me of this time I did a celebrity look alike test and apparantley I look like Scarlet Johanson!
I think the likeness is UNCANNY!!! REALLY!!!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Monday, October 08, 2007

Makin' Bacon on the Beach


This is my baby. I've been working on this one for the past few weeks, trying to get it to look like the way I wanted it to, and thanks to the help of some friends I was able to achieve it.



Hooray for Pokemon!