Centipede

This was one of the other bad guys in the Band of Bugs game. He was supposed to be our "dragon" character. I drew up some designs that would have him scuttling around but he needed to fit into one square of the game board and so we needed a different solution. I drew him then coming up out of the ground so that only a small part of him was visible. We all liked this solution. We also wanted a really cool animation where he would tunnel underground to move anywhere but that ended up not happening. Still I thought he was kind of neat. Enjoy.

Dragon Cake

My wife and I like to watch a lot of food network- especially the challenges, and we have recently decided to step up our celebrations by going all out on a cake. So, here is a dragon that we spent 5 hours on for my in-laws going away party (they are going to Japan next week for a year and a half). Hope you like it. Enjoy!

Dragon Sketch

Just a sketch from my sketchbook. I like it. I don't know why he's blowing bubbles, but he is. I'll bet it's hard to blow bubbles if your a species that breathes fire. He must e pretty talented. enjoy.

Grunt

This was probably the first charcter that we nailed down for the game. There were alot of drawings of this particular guy. We knew we wanted a stag beetle character but we weren't sure exactly what the look of the game was going to be. Once we had this guy nailed down the rest fo the bugs came much easier. He was kind of our guide as to what the look and the feel of the game would be. I also did some of the modeling of this character in 3d. I needed some help cleaning him up in the end and I didn't do the final texturing but I did model him. It took me long enough that they haven't had me do any modeling since. We all play to our strengths and this wasn't mine. So enjoy this one cause it may be the last. Enjoy.

Praying Mantis

There were two different praying mantis characters in the game. One was just a general soldier, the other was a specific character in the game. He was a guide to the hero and needed to look like he had seen quite a bit of battle in his day. He needed to have a prosthetic limb as well as an eye patch. Lots of fun to make a cool looking character and then playing around with what a bug would use for a fake limb. Still not sure how this guy uses his prosthetic, but he does. Enjoy.

Ninja bee

One of the really cool things about the Band of Bugs project was the fact that we could put a Ninja Bee in the game (NinjaBee is the company I work for). It was really fun to take the company logo and turn it into more of a three dimensional character. This one came out in just one drawing. Most of the decisions were already made for me. How big he was how many legs to put on, what shape he was, I already had something to work with so I just tweaked that and came up with a character. Enjoy.

Bugs

Heres another character from the Band of Bugs video game. This was one that I was particularly pleased with. Things just seemed to work well with this design. Enjoy.

Zombie

This is a small piece I've been working on recently. At work I've been doing alot of work with colored pencils on paper and I've been really happy with the results, so I dicided to a do one of my own. More like this to come I think. Enjoy.

More Band of Bugs

Well since my last post I gave you the Hero of the game I figured this time around I would show you the villain. I'm not sure where some of the sketches for him are. If I remember correctly this guy was pretty easy to nail down. Just a couple of drawings and we had what we wanted with him. On this piece I did both the initial sketch and then the computer coloring that you see here. I'm pretty pleased with how the coloring turned out on these. Enjoy.

Band of Bugs

This is something I've been meaning to do for awhile now. Last year my company had a game come out called Band of Bugs on the Xbox 360 live arcade. If any of you have an xbox I would recommend trying it out. It's a fun little game. Since it's out there the artwork I did for is no longer confidential so I wanted to post up some of the art I did for the game. I designed all of the characters and a good chunk of the other objects that you see in the game. It was a lot of fun. So here's the main character in the game. Hope you all enjoy. More to come soon.

Yikes!

Sorry I was away for awhile (to all 5 of you who visit here). There were the holidays and then I moved and am now trying to get my act together again. Hopefully I'll get back on track here. Cool stuff coming up soon. Enjoy.

Cintiq!

I'm in love. At work we just got a cintiq moniter. For those of you who don't know what that is (and I think that's most of you because it's all friends and family visiting here) I'll explain. It's a moniter that is touch sensitive to a stylus pen. Basically I can draw on my moniter. It can also tilt and rotate to give it the more of a feel of actually drawing on a piece of paper. Add to it that you get all the benifits of using a computer, drawing on different layers, changing colors witht hte touch of a button etc.. and it's just awesome. I am having so much fun with this thing. Right now we only have one at work and it's a trial basis only so I'm using it while I can, but I am praying that we buy a couple for the company becuase I just love it. These are just some sketches I've done on it for fun to get used to it. Enjoy.
p.s. If anyone out there has a few spare thousand dollars and wants to get me one I won't complain.

New Painting

Here's a painting that I recently finished. It's just a small 5x7 that I painted for my kids new bathroom. It's going to have a surfing hawaiin theme going for it. Not great but I'm trying to get into the groove of painting again. Enjoy.

Dino Mummy!

This was something that was in the news the other day. Apparently they have discovered a dinosaur that was mummified. The mummy was later fossilized but that still gives us an impression of what the scales on the dino looked like and the musculature and all of that jazz. I thought it was all so cool. However, wouldn't it be even cooler to find one of these?

Gorgon!

Here's a sketch from the ol sketchbook. Had a lot of fun with this one. It's kind of a medusa thing but intead of snake heads for hair, this unfortunate lass got the tails. I guess there was a coin toss of some sort and this gorgon lost. Enjoy.

Surf Dog IN SPACE!

Just a funny little drawing in my sketchbook. I've always really loved bubble hats and rocket jetpacks. I still wish scientists would get cracking on these sorts of things. I want a car like the jetsons had and take picnic trips to the moon. Am I the only one? Enjoy.

More Gatory Goodness

Here's another Gator for ya'll. This one was heavily inspired by one of my favorite artists, Nico Marlet. And by heavily inspired I mean I took a whole lot of one of his drawings and then made it look like a gator. Still they say that imitation is the highest form of flattery right? Got some other stuff brewing right now. Hopefully I can get to posting it really soon. For now Enjoy!

Badger

This is just a small drawing from my skechbook. A bunch of artists at another studio were doing an excersise where they all created a badger character and tried to learn as much as they could about character design while doing it. I thought it looked like fun so I just drew a little badger of my own. Not much more to it than that. Enjoy.

Courting

This one just came out of nowhere. I drew the guy on the left and then the girl on the right just for fun and then I thought "Why are these two just staring at each other?" That's when I drew the guys other arm with a flower in it. Enjoy.

New Sketchbook

I've recently started a new sketchbook and I'm really excited about it. I just love toned paper. It really forces me to do some new and different things while I am sketching and I enjoy that. I also seem to really enjoy drawing lucha libre wrestlers. I think I'm ok with that. Hope you all enjoy.

Angel

Just another drawing from church. Enjoy.

Grin

Here's another drawing I did at church. I don't know where this guy came from or even what his story is, but darn it he's happy about something. Enjoy.

Been A While

Sorry it's been awhile again. Man am I bad at this whole blogging thing. It's not that I haven't been doing artwork, but work has ben busy and I've been doing some more personla projects that aren't ready to show yet. Anywho, here's another gator. I keep drawing these and I'm having a blast doing it. Hope you all enjoy.

Day of the Dead

I really ssem to love all that Day of the Dead stuff. This is a study for a painting I am working on (and by working on I mean painting for maybe an hour a week when I find the time and/or energy) I'll post the final painting when I'm done with it. for now you get this. enjoy.

I told you there would be more of these

Here's yet another gator. I gotta tell you, I absolutely love doing these things. I don't know what it is about the gators that I really just love to draw. Oh well. I'll try and get to some more clue characters as well here soon. I've also wanted to do some halloween themed stuff, but I've been doing some freelance work as well that's been limiting my time. We'll see what I can get to. Enjoy.

Gator 3

Here's another one of my gators. I realize that this one looks alot like the one from Peter Pan but honestly that gator was so cool looking how could I not draw at least one that looked like him. Enjoy.

Mr. Green

Here's another clue character. This one is a little more thrown together than the last two. However I think that Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet are the coolest characters. I'll do my best with the remaining char's. Enjoy.

Gator 2

See I promised there would be more of these. There are actually about 20 more in my sketchbook as well. I keep drawing them during our daily meetings here at work. They're really a blast. Enjoy.

Scarlet

Wow, it's been forever hasn't it? Sorry abou that. I have been meaning to finish up that whole Clue thing. this is a drawing I did back when I did the Col. Mustard drawing and just never colored it up for you all. Well here you go. I'll try and get on the rest of them too. Sorry again. I'll start posting more often. Enjoy.

The first of many gators!

One of my favorite books that I own is called "Insanely Twisted Rabbits" by Michel Gagne. I love love love love love that book. What Michel did was while he was working at Don Bluth Animation studios, he and a friend of his started drawing these twisted rabbits. They would post them up on their walls and then try and outdo each other. Much later Michel took his rabbits and put them together and published them as a book. You should really go check them out, they are wonderful you should go to gagneint.com to check out all of his great work. I love the book because it kind of breaks the mold on what a rabbit can be. I pull the book out whenever I feel I am in an artistic rut. If I feel I keep doing the same drawings and using the same shapes, this book makes me go beyond and explore new things. That being said I decided to do my own version of this book. Only instead of rabbits I am doing aligators. I love drawing aligators. If I'm bored and can't think of something to draw I can always, always draw an aligator (ask my wife, she's seen plenty of them). So I've decided to have an entire sketckbook full of nothing but aligators and have fun doing different shapes and styles. So this is the first of many many gators that I am doing and having fun with. I hope you like them. I certainly enjoy doing them. Enjoy.