Speedpaint | 1918 Gasmask

A speedpaint I did of a Great War era gasmask. I actually like the way the helmet turned out, but I feel like I kinda failed on the values of the actual mask, especially around the eye area. Oh well. I'm enjoying this practice, it's nice having a 1 hour constraint to force me to make decisions faster.

Speedpaint | Cyberpunk Samurai

I did another speedpaint challenge with my friend, and this time the theme was Samurai. I decided to have my samurai hail from a cyberpunk setting and wear a giant frog mask. I also gave him a short, stocky blade instead of the typical katana. I started with a quick sketch and then painted for an hour. Fun stuff for practice.

Pixel Art | Midnight Harvest

I made a little pixel art piece for a secret Santa event on a pixel art forum I frequent. My secret Santa had a list of things he enjoyed; UFOS stood out to me, and seemed like fun subject matter. He also preferred low color counts, so I tried not to use too many colors. This was fun to make and I hope they enjoy it. Lemme know if you like it as well!

Speedpaint | Wasteland Bearmount

This is another speedpaint challenge I did with a friend. Our theme was bears. I liked my idea but I did not make enough progress in enough time. Practice, practice, practice.

Second Dialogue Animation Attempt

This is my second attempt at dialogue animation. This time around, we got to use our own reference. I shot my reference after about 3 hours of sleep the night before. Needless to say, I looked pretty out of it. But, I think I managed to do a better job on this dialogue than my previous attempt, so I'm pretty happy with that. There's still something off about the eyes and the mouth shapes could have been tighter. I'm learning though, it's pretty friggin' fun!

Stumped | First Environment Painting

Phew. Calling this done. I know I can and will do much better, but finally getting this 'done' feels nice. This is a concept art painting of my environment for my short film, "Stumped". Spent way too much time on this, and I'm still not really happy it the results, but I learned a lot and hopefully will be able to paint even better environments in due time. I suggest clicking on the image for a full view!

Speedpaint | Fighting The Spidermare

I challenged a friend to a 1 hour speedpaint in photoshop. This is what I came up with. Not really proud of it, but these contests are fun practice and I can always go back and make it better if I want, which I might do, because this could turn out. A kid explores a dark fantasy world in a nightmare and comes face to face with a spidermare.

Superhero Sketch

A sketch of a superhero I did during class, instead of taking final review notes. I think I got it. Kinda like how his shape language came out. Messing with shapes and shading.

Machinapolis Storyboard Panels

Here are some storyboard panels from my latest storyboarding project, Machinapolis. I had to create a two minute short film idea for my Storyboarding I class. My story was about a man escaping from a robot city with a mysterious briefcase that he believes will save the world. Thus I'm posting some choice (ie, the best) sketches I did for this project. I thought these ones turned out fairly decently with a good amount of readability.

Speedpaint | Wasteland Orc

This is a one hour speedpaint I did. I guess you can see which parts I spent all of my time on. Still it was good to set a time limit and just work away, and I'm actually surprised with how it turned out. I didn't count drawing the sketch into my painting time, but I did spend an hour on this just to see what I could do, to play with colors, and to of course practice! I might try to finish this out later on, or I might just try some other stuff. Good fun. Next time I'm going to try to cover more ground at a base level before diving into any kind of details though. Makes for a 'unfinished' image look.

Masked Survivor

Late night challenge to draw some badass dude from a friend. I drew a wasteland survivor guy with a Native American inspired mask. I really need to work on my hands and overall linework. But I kinda like how I actually produced something partially from my imagination with the use of reference.

Stumped | Tree Styles

Here are some tree designs I drew for environment & prop design in Stumped. I actually really like how the birch trees turned out, I feel like the spruce tree needs a little more fleshing out. I'm trying to find a cohesive style to tie everything together.

Dialogue Animation First Attempt

This is my first attempt at dialogue animation. A little rough and my professor pointed out some things that would really loosen this up. But I will apply that to my next dialogue exercise. For now, I think this turned out okay. Most emphatically.

Thanksgiving Break Doodles

Here are some doodles I drew during Thanksgiving. I've never used my large sketchbook before (what a shame), but I decided that it was high time to start filling the pages up. So I drew a bunch of random characters between family time and football. (Turns out I'm a basketball junkie.)