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Flourishes!

Got another project to work on from Alex...just some simple signage, but I wanted to do something that was gonna have some real fun flair to it...and since he's going for an 1800s-ish (the 'ish' gives me a LOT of liberty here) visual scheme, I wanted to play with some flourishes, but incorporate the steampunk vibe we're also trying to go with...ergo, the gears and cogs. I'm finally starting to get a feel for Illustrator, and that makes me happy!

Here are some mockups:




In other news, I finally got my Blackjack II working (OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!) and can not WAIT to take it for a spin. Also (finally) picked up Lost Odyssey, so I'm preparing myself for the first 4-disc XBOX 360 game yet.

Photos

So, I've been really lazy lately...and been getting a little depressed because of it. The weather's starting to cool down, summer is starting to phase out (so soon!), and I need to get on the freakin' stick.

I HAVE, however, been making some money in my laziness! The "Emerson Institute of Style, a new salon opening up on Pike and Broadway is owned by my buddy Alex Garcia. I recently did the logo and animated thingey for his business page/the business itself, with much help and coaching from my buddy Jory (love you, dorling!).

Haven't been drawing much, and I think i'm realizing that that's part of my feeling depressed...I haven't been creating anything for any of my projects, and that just needs to get underway.

OH, also (okay, I guess I haven't been THAT lazy, I just haven't been drawing much), I did a photo shoot with my good friend Hillary. We're working on my model portfolio, and her portfolio as a whole, and these are some of the favorites from our shoot. Hopefully there should be more to come soon, before she takes off back to school!

It was a bit of a frustrating shoot for me, because she wouldn't let me be all smiley...just...give her some attitude...next round will include smiley shots...it must! Lemme know what you think!

Zacharias' Blood Magic

So, I've somewhat recently jumped onboard the comic bandwagon of my friend Benjamin Williams. He and I met at Emerald City Comic Con at the LBGT comic booth, and started talking comics. It was later realized that he was a writer looking for an artist, and I was an artist looking for a project...We swapped email, had coffee, and took off from there.

The story, more or less, is about sexy vampires in a major metropolitan city...lots of sexy, lots of vampires, and fun fun magic that I get to play around with the visual style on. :D Drawing beheadings is gonna be a challenge, but a blast all the same.















This is, essentially, an art sample I showed to Ben when we got coffee, and this is, in part, honing in on the visual style we're going to try to play off of. It took me, I'm not kidding, about a month to finally put in the broken glass in the windows and get the damn thing done...but now it's into the color phase, and that's always a bunch of fun.

















You'll notice that I'm pulling the same magic motif from the Nilam picture I'm working on...I'm really feeling the magic sigils and signs thing for magic casting. Totally dig. I'm contemplating playing with it a little bit in a 3d program to see where I can take the angling and etc. Should proove to be fun.


















All my laundry's folded, I've almost got my WA state driver's license, and I'll have health insurance shortly thereafter, and things with David are great. It's a hectic, but good place in life right now.

Asher

I posted a rough sketch before of what Asher's costume design looked like. Here's the progress I've made so far...been busy the last couple days and haven't gotten to do much on it...here's what I got though:

They're Naked

Until I put clothes on them...

I chanced upon a reference pic of essentially the same process I'm working on right now. Creating character designs using silhouettes, and building from there. Right now I'm working on Asher (prince of the desert thing I keep blabbing on and on about...honestly, I'd say an eighth of my day is spent daydreaming about possible scenarios for his little fantasy desert world). Here's the little nudie base. As I've got more progress done on his character, I'll post it up here. I'm really enjoying this idea, and I think it's going to segue into more silhouette-based art...it's been very good for getting my brain going and working loose!

Also did a bigger sketch on my large pad of a D&D character from the Darkraven campaign...more details/sketches from DARKRAVEN later, I'm sure. I'll post Gabriel Vermond, shadow hunter, up here when I scan him. Meantime, enjoy the nakedness!

More Desert Stuff

Bah, I totally meant to post this stuff up way before...I'm slackin!

This stuff is older, but in a similar style...more or less supposed to be from the same 'universe,' as Nilam. Desert stuff, desert stuff, desert stuff.

Goin' to the Crystal Castles show up here in Seattle tonight. Otherwise I'd be drawin' more stuff to post up here.



EDIT: Here are some of those older Desert-related sketches as promised.

Here's the most up-to date rendering of Asher (his belt/armor are constantly changing....I'm never satisfied with just one idea....:P), as well as some idea sketches for Nilam (also, constantly in a state of wardrobe flux).