insta-what?

heads-up party people. i've finally decided to start doing the instagram thing. lots more random sketches and stuff are gonna be popping up over there, and my tumblr (because they're connected. with SCIENCE!!)
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THUG BOT

messin' around with a sketch i did in a meeting..  was just gonna add some subtle shadows to a white background or something, and ended up taking it a little further. 

more importantly, CHECK THIS OUT:


some RAAAAAD Zelda action going on.  like some nice bass?  how about mystical guitars?  hidden fairy fountains!? if you answered yes to any of these questions, you owe it to yourself to have a listen.

Symmetry

another exercise at work.  supposed to use the symmetry tool in painter, sketchbook pro, or something else - and then maybe introduce some non-symmetrical stuff to keep it interesting.  to bad photoshop doesn't have one of those...

after a lot of internet surfing, i don't even think a plugin exists for it that you could get.  so i did it all manually, flipping the image every now and then to see how it was going.  pretty fun!!  more fun if you could see the mirror image going on in real time.

thought i'd keep things even LOOSER than i've been messing around with.  good times.

SABREPULSE!!

  today's post is brought to you by the color purple.

just some doodles from work i had to experiment with.  just pushing stuff to the point were the lines are almost being overpowered by rendering/color, and then pulling back a little.  i actually really like how these are both feeling to me..

also, this post is brought to you by the psychedelic electro-crack infused 8-bit sounds of SABREPULSE!
just found this guy a couple of weeks ago, and have so far been digging what i've heard.  he's like a heavier electro version of ANAMANAGUCHI, (HUGE anamanaguchi fan by the way.)

skechezz!!

mostly doodles at work whenever i can sneak them in..  experimenting with how much occlusion shadow i can get away with in line drawings with out over-powering them.  may do something more with some of these in the future.  

fish (karate-robo-unicorn) soldier.  

*note - breathing apparatus semi functional.  fish pump water over their gills through the mouth/jaw flap thing...  i think i can by-pass the jaw area, but maybe need a second compartment for filtering back water to be re-oxygenated or something.  

would be cool to do a line-up of more guys like this..  been thinking about doing a whale one - would be pretty fun to come up with a suit for that dood to be land-ready (apparently the reason they die on land is because 1. no longer weightless from being in water, so weight crushes their organs, and 2. blubber insulation for water causes them to over-heat when on land.)

80s breakers

the idea of character line-ups on a more massive scale is really interesting to me... example: break dance crews!! may have to do some more, and from like, other countries/time eras/planets and stuff.

bird-hoodie-shaman

love messing with hoodie designs...  heh.

guitar gurl..

kinda cracks me up how small this guy's guitar is... heh heh..  it's like..  v-neck electric ukelele fun-sized.

egg-bot

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