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!!)
instagram - @thegreyninja
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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

eskimo-bot

Mariachi-Dachi, and BATTLECATTLE

figured i'd post something and breathe some fresh life into the blog.


all content, ideas, and secret projects slightly revealed are © ME. (previous sentence typed mostly so i can sleep tonight. easy to get paranoid over stuff like that for me.. heh..)
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so. i took this ridiculously sweet comic book appreciation class taught by Jared Greenleaf. i swear he was like Morpheus, chucking red pills all over the place.. GOOD stuff. can't get enough of it now..

here's a style test for a potential 10pg short story comic (for my BFA project) of a Mariachi Band stuck in Ancient Japan.
i already have 6 pages roughed out, and almost ready to ink/color... just need to do some more research and development stuff..

for the moment, i'm calling it "Mariachi-Dachi."





next up is what i promised to show last post.. the more i think/talk about this, the more excited i get (even toying with the idea of doing this first instead of Mariachi-Dachi.)

SO. what do you get when you throw extraterrestrial encounters, forged WEAPONS, and irritable livestock together with a dash of He-man, and a LARGE helping of REVENGE?? there's only one possible answer, and that answer is BATTLECATTLE.


to be epically and VENGEFULLY continued...

*edit - i googled "battlecattle" the other night, and found out that a card game already exists with the same name (though it has a space between "battle" and "cattle") and the vision and content is COMPLETELY different. on this site
they even use the text "moo-ve" written and hyphenated like i did in my background.. i honestly thought i had been copied, and freaked out for a second. haha... obviously they have a WEBSITE, and didn't create all the content they have over night. that would just be ridiculous. just figured i'd document this, so nobody thinks i'm ripping THEM off. i honestly had never heard of the card game before.

BATTLECATTLE came from an inability i had trying to design this cow, shown in this post
to get the juices flowing and expel my frustration, i just started sketching hardcore cow stuff - and battlecattle was born. also, Stephanie saw/named the sketch the same day i drew it, and i thought the name was just too awesome to pass up.


also, here's a good 20pg sketch dump from my 60pg sketch book i did while taking Ryan Woodward's most excellent gesture drawing class. things got kind of tricky with a couple weeks left of class, since i was offered (and TOOK) an internship opportunity with Disney Interactive/Avalanche studios as a concept artist (started June 1st). Too many awesome guys over there... LOTS to learn, and having FUN!

so yeah. here's some of my favorites that i'm thinking about painting up or something..























so there you go. more stuff on the way.
also, you guys prefer daily updates? or rather prefer me doing nothing for MONTHS and then sporadically dump pictures into the blog? or some kind of balance in between? it's easy for me to get frustrated with doods i'm stalking online when they don't update stuff, so i thought i'd check in with a you guys and get some feedback. (leaning towards a daily or weekly thing myself..)

up next, that other stuff i said i was gonna post but didn't - plus some stuff i didn't say i wouldn't post, but will.

kay bye.

more stuff

done for another random drawing contest.. kind of thought the judging was a little ridiculous, not just because i didn't make the semi-finals, but other cool kids didn't either. whatever - still had lots of fun doing this!


a doodle. i've never considered myself very strong at "sketching" for lots of personal reasons... but DOODLING is insanely fun, and somehow "works" for me. doodling vs. sketching.... is there really a difference? maybe doodling is like super slow-motion sketching.. i dunno.


so... LOTS of stuff piling up that i wanna play with in photoshop.. don't know when i'll get around to it, so this is just a mini sketch dump of some of that stuff.


finally got some of my figure drawing class stuff on the computer. all of these are self-portraits except the last one.


other noteworthy stuff... kind of:
-went to a pretzel making party. apparently some people are really into pretzel making? i'm really into eating freshly baked goods such as pretzels, so that was a relief.
-cant stop listening to an AWESOME Michael Jackson remix by Beatnick & K-Salaam
-had 3 songs on repeat CONSTANTLY, even at work... i guess i was in a weird mood or something and it just seemed to help. finally snapped out of it after about day 5.
-aaaaaaaaaand... yeah.
the end.

sketch dump

did somebody say update? . . . no? . . . .interesting.
so, i've got a quick update. last couple weeks and more have been some of the busiest weeks of my life for some strange reason - and to show you some evidence to discredit this undeniable truth... sketches!! some to be "digitally remastered," some to be left almost forgotten in the abyss of the wake known as personal experience.

shooting the curl, or gleaming the cube as some might say...

making faces. when i've got nothing better in mind to draw, i'll do these huge face collage things... it's fun. i like to make up stories for how they'd interact with eachother, or why they're feeling what they're feeling, in relation to the other faces or people.

sketching some kids at school - it was one of those "older kids hang with way younger kids on a field trip" type thing.

G'liath.
was really feeling this one.. this little guy will probably go into my huge archive of original characters who i've made up a small story around etc., and should draw more of, but odds are i never will. shame on me.

a guest appearance in a random, quick cityscape sketch thing.



Bram Stroker's Dracula was on tv, and then this happened somehow..
honestly don't understand how many "actors" ended up in the same poorly written movie.. and super weirded out at Keanu's enlgish accent - or lack there of... WOW. it's like he thought he'd sound more english accent-y if he just randomly captain kirk-style paused through half of his sentences.... hahahaha... that movie was awful.



made some random scribbles that turned into a girl, that turned into a gorrilaz-esque girl, that turned into a v-day related thing... i had this idea of making a black hole in space, in the shape of a heart as a tribute to v-day, but don't know when i'll have the time for that - for now, this'll do i guess.

lots more where that came from.. still need to get them on the computer and mess with them. i have this vision where paper will be able to run some cool photoshop-esque software.. but you do everything with a real pencil or something equally and/or more awesome.


also, unsketchbook related,

colored this dude's lines of his character he made up.
As a christmas act of goodwill, i had this random contest on deviantart the morning of christmas where the first two people to respond with a link to their linework, i'd throw some colors at it.

long story short, i was giving a band another option for an album cover in the spirit of music, and indian folklore perhaps, to try and help some friends feel better or something. done in an hour? can't remember. super last minute, super don't care, even though they decided not to go with this. it has this eerie... strange charm to me, enough that i thought i'd share it.


THROWBACK TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kay, so i was digging through old old sketchbooks from way back. found 'the red one.' the red one is the best sketchbook i've ever had - senior year of highschool, '04, i would take this EVERYWHERE, and draw in it ALL THE TIME. soooo satisfying. you can see the spot where all the red has vanished due to the prolonged magical grip one would employ as it was carried to various locations of drawing.

i'll be posting a few drawings from it every so often, till i've got all my favorites on the computer.. really wanna do some paint over stuff with all this, digitally. we'll see.


i remember trying to figure out how to make building and fudge perspective, so i could do what i wanted. these were the last two serious attempts i did, and it's been a while since then.... totally need to do more stuff like this. sepia tone-gradient thing was thrown on a few days ago, just to add a little something something to it all..




in this next one, you can spot the following: a person asleep in a car. a large pop can, an abstract kitchen sink, a mario building, and one of my most favorite inventions of all time - the 'no handi-capped parking allowed' parking spot.



also, Pretty Lights just came out with a new FREE ep. get it if you want to know what happy and electro/hiphop/funk awesome sound like together. all the eps on the site are free, so you should probably get those as well. here's a preview of my FAVORITE Pretty Lights song ever, in case you're like... "well Kevin, i'm ridiculously lame and have absolutely no desire to listen to something crafted with the potential to unlock all the hidden chi within msyelf, thus rendering my soul more complete... "
yeah. you would.

other things worthy of note involve getting pulled over for speeding and getting let off with a warning. skating home from BYU campus at night past the only other person outside in provo who just happened to be a cop - who also let me off with a warning, and playing Heavy Rain with a friend from 10pm until 6AM.