is now officially part of Mutant Mondays!! ...they grow up so fast. *sniff*
"He once bested a great wizard with a single 'yo mamma' joke. Sorcerers
and Enchantresses of the dark arts fell to their knees with his sharp
comebacks and stinging whit. Only equal to the power of his mouth was
his might and skill with a blade - until one fateful day he was cursed
by a very powerful and pissed-off pixie. Now he wanders the realms
mouthier and mightier than ever, known only as.. MIGHTY MOUTH!!"
go check out the rest of the mutants over there. for they are RAD.
been a little silent as of late on the inter-verse.. a freelance job doing character designs fell from HEAVEN right into my lap. which is cool, because i needed money/a source of income/looking for jobs can really suck sometimes. next couple of months should be interesting... (more interesting than your usual kind of interesting.. that's not cryptic at all, right? haha..)
for a little exercise at work a while back that i touched up just a little bit today. goal was to do a mash-up of random "cold" themed pictures we had, in whatever way you were inspired to. tried out some good brushes at the same time (the oil brushes were especially good.)
also, here's a french dude i doodled in a meeting. gotta love the french. they kind of make THE BEST comic books i've ever seen..
also... kind of obsessed with this song by imagine dragons... you might think i was unhealthy if i revealed how many times i've listened to this song in the past few days.....
heh heh..
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.
done for another exercise at work! decided to go a little bit more realistic than what i usually do. just a little bit...
there was this huge picture (below) of cool 40s/50s fashion-type stuff i was supposed to use as "inspiration" and somehow i ended up here.
can you guess which one was the main inspiration??? it's like a 1950s version of "where's waldo" but waldo looks a lot prettier. and he's a girl. heh.
samuroni. get it??? not like macaroni, but like... ONI. roughly meaning "demon." may have to take a stab at doing some of the more traditional oni type doods out there, with like.. the teeth and stuff. yeah.
which makes me wonder. . . what if i did a macaroni samurai? orrrr oni macaroni samurai? or......macaroni oni? may have to consult the sketchbook. we'll see.
gunna drop a bunch of sketches in the near future.. and maybe some sneak peaks at the comic i'm working on. maybe.
computer died (again...) two and a half weeks and almost $300 later, we're back in business!!
speaking of business, i've been happily doodling at work/school/wherever else i can when i'm stuck in a room with someone else talking, with my weapon of choice (the bic pen.)
speaking of bic pens, did you know that most english speaking countries (including australia) call bics biros?? it's true. turns out some french dude (bich) bought the patent from some hungarian dude (biro - who i believe was moved from his native country to escape religious persecution with his brother) when he saw the pen in argentina, and later started selling them in america.
speaking of... america? it's already 12 days since INKTOBER started.... all over the world actually.
gotta play catch up, and bust out some INK and some TOBER. you'll see... TOMORROW.
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.
first off, here's some bonus art for the Forever Famicom bonus content. Forever Famicom DLC is basically 22 tracks - 3 songs that didn't make it onto the original album, and loads of solid instrumentals. so good... since the original cover art takes place at night, i figured i'd flip it to the day time and eventually even unplugged everything.. or at least that's the concept behind it.
now, for some reason i don't think i've ever put stuff up here from my "real" job (making pretty pictures to go with course content made by BYU Independent Study) but i finally had a good excuse to draw a sword finally, and had to share!! heh..
and here's a super huge version, if you wanna get in and look at stuff a little closer for some reason..
now.. for a little context to set you up for the next thing - i got this task at work for a student development course, which said exactly the following: "I want to try for something that encompasses an Ivy League type prep school in the digital age (near future/online technology fused with traditional East-coast prep school images with a touch of Harry Potter gothic thrown in. I know that's a lot - but I'd like to try for something with that look and feel."
ummmmmmmm.... what? yeah.. so anyways, here's the course cover - or as we say in the biz, the "splash." aaaaand some "banners" you'd see going from lesson to lesson..alright. now that you're all caught up, here's where this next picture comes in - one day i came to work with my glasses on, started working on the "harry potter" course... and this girl, i mean.. she who should not be named decided to draw a lightning bolt scar-thing on my forehead.. pictures were taken.. i even pretended to cast a spell at someone with my stylist... ANYWAYS. for some presentation our little art production department did for the rest of the BYU independent study production people, one of the pictures we used as a slide was from that, plus a little photoshop magic on my part...
and while i'm posting stuff about work, just for fun here's some stuff i did for an Aerobics course that i'm sorta proud of.. especially the one with the Nintendo Wii... heh heh..
and that's about it... i mentioned last post about being in a weird mood, and having 3 songs on repeat literally for about 5 days straight wherever i was able to plug headphones into something..
per request here are the 3 songs: (couldn't find a good place to get a direct hyperlink.... so if you REALLY want to hear them, you can click here, find them, and download them..) kind of green - act III, track 14 smooth sun of magma - bonus tracks, track 3 i love this radio - bonus tracks, track 2
i ESPECIALLY had to keep listening to "i love this radio."
all the tracks are from this EPIC ff4 remix album the good people over at OCR did. no personal work to post yet... haven't had the time to play that much lately.. life goes on, and so will i.. OH!! that reminds me. i've had a song stuck in my head for more than a few days.. really sad yet makes you appreciate life in a positive light kind of thing. love it.
