Hot Blades through Moon Cheese II

this was for a warm-up/exercise thing i started while i was at Avalanche… a year and a half ago??? finally got around to dropping some colors on it..

the exercise was to take an old character design, and re-do it in “Baz” Barry Reynold's style. can’t find a good link to the stuff i was basing it off of back then.

some jet grind radio influence in there somewhere..  :]

JOY RIDE

"hey it's that vespa woman..."
another vespa pic.  cuz vespas are cool.
i started this one up about a year ago - never got around to finishing for lots of reasons until just now.

originally the plan was for her to be a witch??  with like, candy and stuff coming out the back (hey, it was getting close to halloween)???  typing it out makes the idea sound incredibly lame to me now...  but i swear the image in my head looked cool. haha.

got 'the making of' on me tumblr.
not trying to be all "look how cool i am" or anything.  honestly, i just like seeing other people's process, so i figure i'd better start sharing some of my own.  cool?  cool.
coolcoolcool.

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.

updaytzzz

hey doodz.  got some sketchery and doodle-ation goin' on i figured i'd post.  these guys can be found under the sketches section on my new and improved PORTFOLIO BLOG!!! (link also in top right corner.  neat huh?)  if you've got anything to say about the portfolio blog, i 'd love to hear it - kinda thought it was cool myself that you can look at EVERYTHING without clicking on a single tab or link or whatever.  but yeah, sending out applications for jorbs and all that - it's time to move on!!!

on the music side, been making some playlists i can just cycle through at work...  got about 20 Atmosphere songs i've had on repeat for a few weeks straight now.  figured i'd share some.  you can't really top sincerity, in drawing or music (or anything else) and these songs are packed with it.  don't know many other rappers who do it quite like Slug (he just might be my favorite) even some of the more dark stuff he does can still strike a chord because of how SINCERE this dood can get.  match that with Ant's sick production abilities (coincidentally probably my favorite producer too)  and you get some REALLY good music.  these are some of the more positive one's (to me) that hit hard.
Yesterday
Little Man
My Notes
Get Fly  (LOVE the outro.......)

and this NEXT ONE is just too good.  while going to school, i ran into quite a few people not from Utah who were always quick to drop judgement on the state and generalize the entire inhabitants - so this one i kinda feel is like a nice burn on people like that..  heh.
Say Shh


also real quick - check out ANTLER BOY AND OTHER STORIES on kickstarter!!  my drawing sensei from about a year and a half ago is KILLING it over there.  like comics/cool stories/rad stuff in general????????????????  i do.  totally getting the book.

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.

Troll Mantis

so.  here's a 30 - 45 minute exercise from work.
norwegian troll + some kind of animal, but still in that norwegian-esque style.  i picked praying mantis.. kinda fun! first couple attempts were awful though..  heh.

so...  two posts almost back to back!??  I'M ON FIRE!!! 


ps - speaking of things half something/half MANTIS...  you should check out MAN MANTIS.  unless you don't like cool music.  then don't.  no pressure.  i love saying this guy's name, by the way...  i mean come on.  MAN MANTIS!! heh.


while on the subject of music...  apparently there's this POLISH version of nujabes, CHANGING. PEOPLE'S. LIVES.  one song at a time.  KONDOR...  love this guy's stuff.
kay, i'm done.
...for now.

EX-R-SIZE-EZ

did this for the the avalanche blog.. the theme is "cyborg." so i did a "sai-borg." get it?? GET IT!? yeah, i thought you did.


also did this for the avalanche blog.. the theme was "the legend of zelda." been meaning to do a windwaker self-portrait for a couple of years now.. felt good to finally have an excuse to check that off the list.

next up, some 45 min. exercises... got others sitting on my computer that i got a little carried away with. those might show up later. they might not. i'm not too good at keeping blog promises that aren't related to BATTLECATTLE.

did this as a warm-up.. somehow a conversation i was having was about lightning unicorns. wish i could remember why.. heh.


i was given the words "crossbow" and "vespa." this is what i came up with.


had to do a gesture (as finished as i wanted) showing as much force as possible. based off the photo below from that pixel lovely site.


ALSO - i recently watched a short (15 min) film about eagles turning people into horses. simply one of the best horror-action-romantic-comedy-eagle-horse films to date. seriously. it's pretty good.

Hot Blades through Moon Cheese

so, this was actually drawn on the same page as this picture in my sketch book. this was definitely influenced by one of my favorite games of all time - Jet Grind Radio - but also by the recent obsession i've had with actually skateboarding, and looking for any excuse to do it.

Ghost Stories??? Just add fire.

so, i sketched up this ugly mug i lovingly call "fat face." after some ink and proper color treatment, i was playing around with channels in photoshop, and was kinda shocked how sad and stone cold the dude looked without his fire.

for some reason, it's really fun for me to draw exceptionally fat and grotesque things.. always has been.

slightly related side-note: now that all swelling is down on my left hand (from a drive-by paintball shooting saturday), it looks all yellow and sickly.. pictures will come.

MAJIN MARIO, the RED KAMEHAMEHA

so - exactly a year later, i'm re-doing the colors on THIS. i figure if Mario's gonna be flingin' around some hardcore fire power, he might as well be sporting the traditional red/white ensemble.

nintendo + dragon ball z = YES