Go out and buy Imagine FX Issue 51, out in the UK now, available in the U.S soon. Imagine FX is a pretty sweet art mag stuffed full of art-nerd goodness. This issue focuses on Character Design. It has tutorials and features artists like Dave Dorman, Antonio Caparo, and a 6 page article about yours truly. I'm stoked just to be asked to be in such a cool magazine. Check it out- POW!!!!!
Just found this sketch of "Jimmy the Clown" (previous post) from my days back at SJSU.
Here's a portrait I painted of my buddy Ian "Jimmy" Ameling done in oil back when we were in art school together. Ah those were the days, back when clowns could smoke cigarettes and not be constantly harassed by the man. Found this image when I was looking in some old folders, just thought I'd share.
This guy is nothin' but trouble, a real walking HR violation. I guess that's why he's known around the office as Captain Grab-Ass. And come on man..... no pants? Really? You're one hell of a workhorse, and that's why we keep you around, but sheesh. Put on some pants and keep your friggin' hands to yourself Cap.
I like you, but this guy doesn't. He's a bit of a jerk. His unsavory personality stems from his severe insecurities he developed as foster child constantly being moved from abusive "family" to abusive "family". Knowing that might help you understand him a little better, but it won't lesson the emotional kick to the crotch you'll feel when you find out he drop kicked your sweet doe eyed puppy off an overpass and onto the freeway.
World renowned lady's man Dennis Cornetta suggested Derek and Creepy McCreeperson (now Chupacabra) throw down in a comment on a previous post. So here it is! Who will when this clash of the titans? The man with the ultimate beat stick? Or he who sucks goats?
I have mostly been working on character design at work and with my freelance. Been itching to do a monster of some sort, so here's this fella'. Inspired by one of my fancy pants mentors, the all powerful Carlos Huante.
All the other Aztecs are all like- "Let's just chill and drink this tasty-ass coco drink. This sh@t's hella good." But not Derek, he's all like-"F this Sh#t. I'm sacrificing some peasants. I mean damn, have you seen this sweet ass beat stick I've been wielding around that past few days? I mean have any of you noticed? This thing is bad-ass and not one have you has said sh*t. It'd be nice to hear a-"hey Derek, sweet beat stick! Where'd you get it? ", but whatever. You nerds drink your coco crap. when you're not lookin'- WHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sacrifice!!!!! You're welcome Lizard-Snake-God-Guy. No problem, anytime. Oh this? It's just my beat stick. You do? Thanks! I think it's pretty bad-ass too.
Final design for Big Sister.
Ceiling Crawler.
Final Concept for player's hand.
Early Big Sister Sketches.
Got an itch to do a Daredevil sketch tonight. First few strokes I laid down felt very Spider-Man to me so it turned into this. I put the good ol' Amazing Spider-Man logo because why frggin' not.
My sketchbook pages are more or less in a constant state of change. I just keep working on top of them until I'm satisfied with the image. I did this work directly on the pages from the last post. I used Sharpie Poster Paint, a Presto Correction Pen, Sharpies (black, red, orange, silver) , a white Gelly Roll pen, Higgins india ink, a Derwent Studio pencil, Crayola Crayons, Liquitex Matte Medium, a ball point pen, scotch tap, artist tape, and some other crap. This latest post is a done for now.........................
Here's some beat boards I did for a "Magic: The Gathering" television commercial.
Always dug McFarlane's Venom. So here's a little rendition. I'll try to un-slacker myself and post more shit. POW!!!!
It's been a LOOOOOOOONG-ass time since my last post. I've been pretty busy with freelance as well as changing companies for my full time work. After 3 years working at Iceblink Studios / Image Movers Digital I've moved on. I made some life long friends and learned a great deal during my stint there. I recently accepted a position at 2K Marin as Senior Character Designer on Bioshock 2!!! This image is a little doodle I did in painter to celebrate my new job.
I'll be donating this piece entitled- "Hellboy n' Shit".
When I found out about the auction I didn't have a clue as to what my piece would look like. So I just whipped out a piece of matte board and started slappin' down some acrylic paint, India ink, acrylic gloss medium and torn newspaper pieces . I then took a photo of of the acrylic/ink chaos, cut the photo in to pieces and glued it back on to the matte board. Next I took a blurry photo of Venetian mask my wife and I have in our art studio and glued that to the matte board. At this point I still had no idea where the fuck I was going with this. I then drew a face on the blurry mask photo, threw in some stars, started slappin' some paint around, added a cig, and what not, then scanned it. After futzing around in Photoshop for a while, this guy kept saying to me "dude, I'm Hellboy, hey, it's me, Hellboy", so I finally agreed with this red feller, "yeah, he is Hellboy." So I Hellboyed him up a bit, printed it out on a big ass piece of paper, and that's where I'm at now. Next up, I'm going to mount it to a piece of Masonite and finish it off with some acrylic paint and various media. I'll post that when it's done.
Beowulf: Final Portrait
Geats
Key Frames
Wulfgar: portrait, Hrothgar: final portrait
Wiglaf Portraits, young and old.
Wiglaf, Unferth: final portraits
Unferth portraits, young and old.
Unferth: costutume design, portrait
Ursula, Grendel's Mom, Yrsa: final portraits
Grendel's Mom: foot design, character design, portrait
Grendel's Mom (mermaid form): character design
Grendel's Mom: portraits
Grendel's Mom: keyframe
Wealthow/Grendel's Mom: transformation
Jester: character / costume designs
Jester: paint treatments
Grendel / Hrothgar's decapitated head
Beowulf's Son 
Dragon transformation a and b
Dragon c
Hondshew tattoo studies
Breka: final design
It's been sometime since my last post (swamped with freelance). But I have been able to squeeze in a some time in my sketchbook during lunch, my commute, etc......
So here's what sketchbook post 43 turned into. This is part of a side project some co-workers and I are working on after regular work hours. I'll only be posting a very, very, small handful of images from this project on my blog. The large bulk of the work will be available for viewing at a later date. I'm super stoked about this little endeavor and will be hard at work on it for the next year.
This lil' diddy here is a personal piece inspired by Ashley Wood, Austin Briggs, and my pals Dermot Power and Bill Mather. Look out!!!!!!! Falling Scissors, be careful.
Here's some concept art I did for Planet Moon Studios last year. Unfortunately the publisher canceled the project, but here's a lil' peak at what the game might have looked like.
I recently flew to Seattle with my wife and two sons to visit family. For my youngest son, this trip was his first flight in an airplane. For my oldest son, the flight was an opportunity to go off in his sketchbook, drawing tons of images of Sponge Bob and Star Wars. I was inspired by his drawings and decided to take my stab at some Star Wars pages myself. Unfortunately my Black Sharpie Poster Paint Pen experienced a change in pressure and spilled out all over my sketchbook and food tray. I spent the remainder of the flight wiping up ink. I had to wait till after the flight to work on my Star Wars pages. I like my son's better, but I still had a lot of fun playing in my sketchbook.
He's such a handsome devil in green and in grey, ready for his school picture. Done from sketch book page from "Sketchbook Post 23".
Check this guy out, and much, much more at the Image Depot- http://theimagedepot.blogspot.com/
I would be greatly saddend if she became a stripper, or a zombie.Hey you guys (all three of you that frequent my blog, including my wife) should check out "The Image Depot" http://theimagedepot.blogspot.com/ , the unoffical art blog for Image Movers Digital. I've posted this piece on said blog. You can another zombie piece I did at The Fish Barrel http://thefishbarrel.blogspot.com/ . They asked that some of us at Image Movers post some zombies on their blog, and so in order to kill two birds with one stone we've made our first blog subject zombies as well.
Here's a lil' diddy I cooked up from one of the sketches from Sketchbook Post 16.
Here's some concept art I did for Planet Moon Studios. It's for the Sega game Afterburner: Black Falcon on the PSP, in stores now.
Posted this guy a while ago, but I recently printed it out and painted on it traditionally. So here yah go.
This lil' piece is made up of the previous 3 sketchbook posts, mixed and tossed in Photoshop. Bla, bla, bla, bla.......
I typically post my sketchbook pages as scanned. This time out I threw some mustard action in to the mix with good ol' Photoshop.
Here are some character designs I did for Stormfront Studios action adventure game "Eragon", based on the film adapted from the fantasy book of the same name. The game is out in stores now. Go buy it!!!!!!!!! Or save your money, either one's a pretty good idea.
Been a while since the last post. I've been on vacation, and had nutty-ass deadlines with my freelance. Anyway, here's a Photoshop / Painter painting of DC Comic's Deadman, created by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantin in 1967. I was blown away by Kelly Jones' drawings of the character in the early '90s. A few years later I finally discovered Berni Wrightson, and the Kelly Jones work seemed a little less special. Anyway.....Hopefuly I'll be posting more regularly.
Here's a few photos I took....................um so, yeah, there you go. A few photos..........for you, the person looking at this blog. Uh..................you're very nice, I like your eyes. So congratulations on your pretty eyes. You should be very proud.
Since it's been so retard hot latey, I thought it'd be nice to post a snowy christmas piece. I did this illustration a while ago for Planet Moon Studio's PSP game "Infected". The top image is the final version that I like. The one the client liked (not posted) and used for marketing had a big red santa nose, his mouth was more closed and had big boots, as well as having less stylized porportions. I've also included the origianl sketch done with india ink, white out, an maybe some acrylic paint, but I don't even friggin' remember.
If you need to take care of some dirty work, but don't want to get your hands dirty- then you need "TRIPLE THREAT!!!!!" Mercs that show no mercy!!!!................................I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I was just trying to spice things up a bit, throw in a little pizzaz. I blew it, I really blew it. I though some sorta A-team spoof thing would be a huge hit, but I was wrong, oh so wrong. This post has turned in to a huge disaster. Just click on the image to get a closer look at the pretty monkey.
Ummmmmm.............................. I'm going to have to go to church with wife this weekend. I'm going to be in trouble for this one.
Ummm......... I'm tired and here's a new post- A free flow whatever the hell, with 2 close up details. Bon Apetite(sp?)!!!!!
This sonofabitch is a game programer at a small video game developer. He's a wiz with code n' shit, but is socially retarded and doesn't realize it, or doesn't appear to realize it. He's an insecure guy in his everyday life, but when's he's at work he's the alpha geek. Steve is very good at what he does and loves being a condescending dickhead to those who work with him. He reads D&D books and "Hard Sci/Fi". He publicly dismisses the Harry Potter books, as "mildly interesting for kids" but internaly dreams of going to Hogwarts someday. I hope that someday Steve will touch a woman's breast. As anoying and creepy as Steve can be he's really just a sad guy who needs boobs in the face.
Here's a self portait. Man I'm fat. As of this posting, I'm going on a diet, and bustin' out with some exercise. "Take a good look in the mirror" they say. Try taking a good lookin in the mirror and paint your mug, you'll discover things like- "holy shit, I'm a real fatty" or "my headphones are silly big".
These fellas are up to something. The problem is I don't know their names and I don't know what they're up to. Help me name these m-f-ers and come up with some sort of info about them. I'll try to find some time to do an illustration, comic strip or something involving these characters I'll post later. SHAZAM!!!!!!!
This little flella' lives in Ian Ameling's small intestines. His name is Colonel McGee. He's a loyal friend, a great athelete, and would do anything for his wife and kids. The ladies love him and the men want to be him. God bless the Colonel..................... he's also a legendary cocksman.
Sometime in January of this year, on a clear day after a long night of rain, a co-worker of mine came across a cow that had washed up on shore by my work. I blasted off some shots of this bloated bovine for kicks. This event was the insparation for the illustration "The Harvest" that I posted previously on this blog. Mmmmmmmm........ hamburger.
Lil' nudity and a robotman guy in a big ol' space suit lightin' up a cigarette. Eh, whaddaya goina' do?
