Finished Characters

Objects Roughs

Line Up Refined

Line Up Rough

Robin Hood Refined Thumbnails

Little John refined thumbnails

Thumbnails for the Little John Character

Thumbnails for the Robin Hood Character

Words Painting Pictures

This is a project for my Typography Class. The basis of this project was to create an image by only using type and one dingbat. the text itself is supposed to come from a song of our choosing and should match the subject matter in some way. Not much else I can really say about it clearly so I'll let this one speak for itself.

Here's the final image that I settled on doing. The song is Indestructable by Disturbed, and the image is the flaming skull with sunglasses that serves as Team Daigurren's Logo in the Gurren Lagann anime series. I felt that the image and the song merge perfectly together, because of the way the characters in the show are portrayed. If you've seen the show, you know that all of the characters kept fighting against impossible odds to accomplish their goal. The song speaks about the mentality of a great warrior, and can easily be used to describe the characters in the show. After all, they always seem to be unbeatable in the end.

  

These here are some of the thumbnails I drew for this project. They were other images for other songs, and I ultimately settled with the one in the very center because it was the most practical with the amount of time I had been given to do this assignment. Still, I think that some of the other images would be cool to do, and if I have the time, I might just go back and do them.

Words Painting Pictures

This is a project for my Typography Class. The basis of this project was to create an image by only using type and one dingbat. the text itself is supposed to come from a song of our choosing and should match the subject matter in some way. Not much else I can really say about it clearly so I'll let this one speak for itself.

Here's the final image that I settled on doing. The song is Indestructable by Disturbed, and the image is the flaming skull with sunglasses that serves as Team Daigurren's Logo in the Gurren Lagann anime series. I felt that the image and the song merge perfectly together, because of the way the characters in the show are portrayed. If you've seen the show, you know that all of the characters kept fighting against impossible odds to accomplish their goal. The song speaks about the mentality of a great warrior, and can easily be used to describe the characters in the show. After all, they always seem to be unbeatable in the end.

  

These here are some of the thumbnails I drew for this project. They were other images for other songs, and I ultimately settled with the one in the very center because it was the most practical with the amount of time I had been given to do this assignment. Still, I think that some of the other images would be cool to do, and if I have the time, I might just go back and do them.

Manga Character Design: Faces 2

 

Another two characters I've come up with. Of course, I started drawing guys, so I wanted to try to do girls. They're based off friends of mine, (obviously not me because I'm not that pretty) and they specified some of the looks they wanted their character to have. That's why the one on the left is part cat; it was requested. It'll also fit with the type of character she will be, but that's another discussion. Same thing with the character on the right; the blue highlights were requested and it gave me a chance to try and experiment with giving a character multicolored hair. Also, the scans of the drawings tend to distort the color a bit so I appologize for that. It tends to dull saturation a little and make things appear lighter.

Ripping Robotics a New One

 This is a robot I came up with as an assignment for my Fundamentals of Design Class. The goal of the assignment was to design a humanoid character but have the proportions distorted to create a more interesting character design. This is one of four designs I came up with using rough thumbnails, and is the one I chose to finish the project with. He has a hovering thruster in place of legs and has six arms. Four of them are floating around with anti-gravity units to keep things a little more interesting. Also, the poorly drawn person is supposed to be an average 6-foot tall human, so you can get the scale there. I call him the R.Y.N.O. Post a comment if you think you know why he's called that. Again, more original work rather than fan art that I've done.

Here's the initial design of the R.Y.N.O. along with two other designs I thought up as a part of this project. The fourth one isn't post-worthy to me, so that's why I'm not showing it. More robots with human proportion distorted greatly.

The second part of the assignment differed depending on what major we had. I was Media Arts and Animation, so I had to come up with 4 action poses with the character. These are eight, quick thumbnails for some of the poses I'm going to be doing. Just a quick note; thumbnails are quick thoughts and are not refined images, therefore don't expect to see much detail. These were just used to get ideas and scope out the positions.

And now they're here, the four, finished action poses.

 This one here shows off RYNO's speed. Normally his thrusters are more orange or yellow when he's simply hovering or moving at a slower pace. When he really needs a burst of speed, he kicks in the afterburners and rivals a fighter jet in sheer speed. You also get to see the gravity teathers that he uses to control is floating arms, in case anyone was wondering how he did it. This was fairly easy to draw because it's a complete profile view and perspective doesn't mess with you as much in this case.

  

 This second one shows off some of his fighting capabilities. Whenever someone has floating arms, you know they have some sort of Rocket Punch. RYNO has four, but here I depict him throwing two rocket punches for a more interesting pose. This one was a little harder since I had to use one-point perspective, but one-point isn't too difficult, it just requires you to think a bit more. The main trick was making it seem like the two fists really did rocket away from RYNO's shoulder.

 

Showing off more of his fighting abilities, this is RYNO's Gattling Fist. He has six arms, so it makes sense that he can throw a lot of punches in rapid succession. Now, I was inspired by a fighting move that Monkey D. Luffy (The main character from an anime called One Piece, in case you didn't know) has, called the Gum-Gum Gatling Gun. I wanted to see if I could bring it to this character, so I gave it a shot. The tricky part here was drawing all those fists. Hands are hard enough as is, but when you draw ten of them in two-point perspective... It becomes a bit tedious. Still, I'm happy with the end result.

 

 Lastly, RYNO is a robot, and what's a giant robot without an overpowered arsenal of ridiculous weapons? Now the first thing you may notice is that his floating arms are gone. That's because he combines the four of them with his left arm to make that monster cannon. RYNO already has a whole array of weapons without having to do flashy, anime style, utimately nerdy power-ups. Still, having a BFG is always fun. Anywho, the main challenge with this one was the angle I decided to draw him from. This type of angle generally demands three-point perspective, and that gets tedious for simple forms, like a cube, a sphere, a cylinder or a cone. Drawing a robot in that manner is not much easier. Still, I enjoyed the challenge and thought it turned out very well for what I was going for. The only gripe that I really have is that I didn't exaggerate the charging cannon, enough.

And that is all for this project. Don't think this is the last you'll see of RYNO, though. I've got big plans for him, assuming I can accomplish them... Let's just say he's not a heartless killing machine, but rather a much more likeable person on the inside. Literally.

Manga Character Design: Faces 1

A couple characters I've come up with. I've also just learned how to correctly draw in the manga style, so I was giving it a shot. Trying to learn how to do the faces first before moving on to the full body and poses. These are my own, original characters. I based them off of different parts of my own personality, and designed them accordingly. There will be a third one alongside these two.

Flame Bauhmut Dragon: Vulcanamaroth (Outlines)

Just an idea that I had for a God-like fire dragon. I have a story that I've been inventing for the past 6 years, in which this character has a somewhat large role. No spoilers for now. In my little made up language, Bauhmut means: divine guardian.Vulcanamaroth means: great fire lord. I'm going to add color at some point, but for now I have to focus more on my actual assignments from school than my recreational sketchbook.

This is my own, original work.

"There's Treasure Everywhere" Cover

A copy of the cover page for the Calvin and Hobbes comic collection book "There's Treasure Everywhere" that I did back in 2009. One of the first drawings I attempted to use color in.

I do not own Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson does.

Rachet: Deadlocked Game Cover

Some fan art of Rachet: Deadlocked's cover that I did way back in 2009. Even though most of my earlier work was fan art copies, they still look fairly good. This was the first game cover I ever attempted to replicate by hand.

I do not own the Rachet and Clank franchise.