Old Fashioned Dog

Once again I wish I had more time to spend on this but at least I'm getting something out there.  I really liked the sketch on this one.  Not sure where it came from, but sometimes the best sketches just come from nowhere.  Enjoy.

Just Another Dragon Head

Just messed around a bit with color on a sketch I did this past week.   I wish I had more time to spend on this, but I promised a friend I would post something on the blog today.  The dragon is obviously inspired by Nico Marlet's work on How to Train Your Dragon.  I love that stuff.  I tried to put a bit of my own style on it as well.  Enjoy.

Sketches

Here's some random sketches from my sketchbook.  enjoy.

Another Skeleton

A friend of mine at work has been bugging me to post something on my blog.  He's right, I need to put something up here every now and then.  I'bve been fiddling with this one for a bit now and I figure I may as well put it up for you all to see.  enjoy.

Zombie 2

Another zombie.  enjoy.

Zombie head 1

Swimmer

Didn't finish this one as well as I would have liked, but I promised Joe I would post today, so here it is.  enjoy.

Day of the Dead

Calvin and Hobbes....sort of

When I was a kid I had a favorite stuffed animal (still have him actually).  He was one of those sock monkeys and I named him mike.  I still have him up on my drawing desk and he makes me smile just being there.  Putting him and me in a calvin and hobbes-esque setting seemed like a fun excersise and something fun for me.  boy, Bill Watterson was a genius.  He gets more life out of one line of ink than I usually can in a whole drawing.  Enjoy.

Conductor

Just started drawing and this is what came out.  You never can tell.  enjoy.

Biker Chihuahua

He's a tough biker chihuahua.  And that's all there is to say.  enjoy.

Martini anyone?

So I was just drawing and playing with shapes and this is what came out.  I kind of like it.  enjoy.

Another Pirate

I had such a good time with the first pirate that I just had to do another one.  I thought the peg arm bit was especially fun.  Enjoy.

Pirate Captain

As part of the art lessons that I teach we were drawing up pirates.  This is the one that I came up with.  I was pretty happy with him.  Enjoy.

Those crazy Aliens

Here's another page of aliens.  We ended up using pieces of some of them and then one of them completely as a finished design.  Truthfully I was kind of bummed.  I was having far too much fun doing these.  I wanted to do some more.  Enjoy.

Warfbart

So the Alien DLC for Keflings required a few special keflings that would be a specific character.  I knew right from the begining that I wanted to have some fun with Alien stereotypes and rip off a bunch of Scifi movies.  One that I knew I had to do was the alien design from the alien movies.  There was no way I was going to get the creepy vibe from H.R. Giger's work, and it wouldn't fit in the game anyway.  But if we were going to have an angry yelling kefling than I could certainly borrow from Giger's design for some fun.  I still wish we could have had the double mouth thing, but it just didn't work out.  Oh well.

I've been playing with a different style lately with this stuff trying to work a bit more like Nico Marlet.  His work on Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon is still the gold standard of character design and I figured if I could work a bit more like him, use the same tools and methods, maybe then a bit of his genius would rub off on me.  It's been fun working with the markers and pencils.  I know for sure I still don't have Marlet's genius, but man is it ever fun to draw this stuff.  Enjoy.

Aliens

For the recent level we released for Wolrd for Keflings I was able to design a bunch of aliens.  talk about a fun project.  I have pages full of random designs.  These are just a few.  Obviously I copied a few designs from popular movies.  But that was part of the fun.  Who doesn't want to see a Yoda kefling?  Enjoy.

More Aliens

Here's another promotional image I did for the latest game I worked on.  This one was a blast to do.  I've always loved those cheesy b movie posters and this was my chance to do one.  I want to print it up really big and hang it in my house.

Aliens

A game I worked on is coming out with an additional scenario that you can download and it's all about aliens.  The project was so fun to work on.  They've released this image that I did for promotional purposes.  Thought I would share it here.  Enjoy.

Shape drawings

This was an excersise we did in school for a character design class.  First you would draw some random shape with nothing really in mind, just let the pencil flow.  Then you take a look at the shape, you turn it around, swuint your eyes at it, until you saw somehting in the shape, and then you draw.  It's a great excersise in creativity, in finding new shapes to play with and new approaches to subjects that might be getting a bit stagnant.  I was feeling the ned to stretch myself and so I did these.  I put up the shapes first and then the drawing I did based on that shape.  Enjoy.