Another mouth to feed

Just a sketch from the sketchbook. Enjoy.

Ace!

This is a piece I did for a side project that I'm working on. Basically he's a monster hunter of the James Bond sort (as apposed to the Van Helsing sort). It's really a fun project and I'll let you all know about it when I'm really ready to let it all out there. Until then you get this little teaser piece. Enjoy.

Pride and Prejudice

I know what some of you are probably thinking. Oh what a nice guy to draw something like this for his wife. But you would be wrong. On top of loving action movies and Godzilla and bad scifi/horror films, I am also totally in love with Jane Austen. It doesn't make much sense to me either but there's nothing really I can do about it. About 2-3 times a year I have the need to sit down and watch Pride and Prejudice. Not the recent one with Kiera Knightly (though I have no objections to it), but the 5 hour BBC one. I love it. I talk to the characters on scree. I get totally caught up in it. I realize that some of you may want to distance yourselves from me now, but it couldn't be helped. Now you know. Enjoy.

Geisha Sketch

Just a quick sketch from my sketchbook. This is just a little geisha head. I really would like to play with this a bit more and push it further than I have. We'll see if time permits. Enjoy.

Conan

Just another drawing from my sketchbook. I saw a drawing that had a shape similar to this guy and it inspired me. I really love the massive shoulders compared to the tiny arms. Hope ya'll like it. enjoy.

Done and done

This took me a bit of time but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. There might be one or two minor things that I do to tweak this still, but by and large it's done and I'm moving on to something else. I came up with this piece while I was in college. I was often suprised by how somber and depressed most people seemed to me. We were doing art for Pete's sake. What's not to be happy about. So I wanted to paint this as kind of my view of the world around me at times, and also to remind myself of how I want to face the world. Hopefully this will help me stay cheerful and happy. Most of the people I know around me now are pretty upbeat. I think most of them get it. We make video games. It's fun. Enjoy.

Buggy Weapons

All of the bugs in the Band of Bugs game needed to have weapons. They also needed to have extras because one of the things you can do is change weapons while you're playing. Normally I just prefer to do character design but in this case I enjoyed coming up with some fun little swords and spear type of stuff for the bugs to use. I think they turned out ok. enjoy.

Work in Progress

Here's that piece I've been working on. I figured I would show a work in progress so you all could see it half done (that and I wanted something to put up here.) I'm probably shooting myself in the foot up to this point. I really enjoy coloring the faces and soon I'm going to be out of faces to color and all I'll be left with is hair and clothes to color and I won't enjoy that at all. Maybe I'll switch gears now and do some hair and stuff so that I have a few more faces to look forward to. I'll post this again in a few days to show you all some more progress. Enjoy.

Alien

This is just a quick sketch from my sketchbook. Enjoy.

Maori Warrior

Just a quick sketch from my sketchbook. I really liked this one. I never did get around to finishing up the tattoos. I put them on the face, but I think he needs them on his arms and chest still. Oh well. Still lots of fun. Enjoy.

Beetles

During the course of production on Band of Bugs I drew a lot of specific bugs but I also drew a ton of random beetles. Whenever I just wanted to play with a shape or size of something I would just draw a beetle. A couple beetle like creatures ended up in the game. I'm still sad some of the shapes here were never refined and made into characters. Oh well. Enjoy.

Face in the crowd

This is the finished sketch for a piece of art that I am doing. Just something fun for me to do and a piece I've been meaning to do for along time now. I'll post this a couple more times in between now and when it's done. Kind of a work in progress thing. Hope it turns out good. enjoy.

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.