Some Colors, Some Changes

This is the last bit of color exploration I did for Moonbot before leaving, it was for their 'Hide and Seek' Moonbeeps app. Working at Moonbot was quite an experience and I learned so much, but now it's time to carve a new path in my career!

Also the bottom left one is my favorite. :)

Oh, hello there!

A friend recently made it known to me that this blog still pops up on google search, which surprises me since I've been more active on my website and tumblr.

Seems I'm a bit shy when it comes to writing posts here, but I don't suppose I need to write in the first place. Maybe I'll do more ~exposes~ and process work here. Exposes sound just important enough. Have an illustration for now.

Flaske

Slime girls

Somebody's taking the 30 day monster girl challenge... well... except for the 30 day part... > w >

So yeah, monster girls

Portfolio Time Warp

OLD STUFF:

thesis concept

character portraits

mood and environment

 sketchbook exploration

irrelevant but good

NEW STUFF

now more into story exploration through a single medium

process process process

character exploration

style exploration

more style exploration

Wrapping up a comic for a little project with some friends (more info on that later.) Here's a doodle of what the next comic idea/style will be...

Harpies

Women and birds are just so fun to draw!

Comic Style Preview

Here's a little WIP for a comic I'm working on~~~
Along with a comic I've started writing a book. I'd like to practice writing more so expect this blog to have a lot more rambling to it! Well, not rambling but actually formulated ideas and opinions about creating things in general. Though I'm still reticent about my personal work it will slowly show itself through the subject matter of my written posts.

Perhaps this is the connection I'd like to make with those that follow my blog- just slapping my art up here isn't working for me; I'd much rather share our ideas. I realize this is merely half an art blog to me. I don't need more posts, I need posts of greater quality!

Is there any artistic subject matter that would be fun to write about? I'm curious about what points(or counterpoints) you'd like to see me make.

Mostly Humanoids

Bucket Head Harpies

When in doubt...

LADIES

Super Sinister Stoplight.... lady

A traffic light that has been possessed by a poltergeist... I have yet to design a campy super hero for her to fight. :l

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS

... AT THE SAME TIME. You jump into his mouth/entrance and venture all the way through traps and monsters he's eaten... until you escape with the treasure through the trap door in his butt.

I guess this is a sketch blog now...

A kitsune and my version of a cyclops. The cyclops eats souls.

Sketchy Sketch...

Oh hai! Besides discovering the wonders of paintball and socializing feral country kittens, I doodle stuff for Moonbot Sketch Tuesdays. I usually forget about this weekly event and submit a drawing like this-

But now I've decided that I will design a character for Sketch Tuesday each week. Meet Dillon-the first pancake!


So if you don't see a character here each week, then check out the moonblog and I should be there! If not then I've been a delinquent that week. Also here's a WIP-

This creature is known as a Dram, and is one that exists within dreams. They attempt to reflect the dreamer's psyche and take the form of a person the dreamer knows. Considering how fuzzy/vague our dreams can be, they usually have a form akin to this. I'll explain more about them when the painting's done.

fragments

There's bits and pieces here and there, things I've meant to post... I've looked back into this folder I have at work, titled NOT WORK D (I'm guessing the D was a typo that I liked too much to fix) and found things I've always intended to finish and post here.



For a while I was gonna make a comic about how Mimi The Birdgirl discovers an egg in her bed and is introduced to the awkward world of bird puberty. That's her dad cooking breakfast in the bottom panel, he's making omelettes. That's at least three kinds of awkward. But either way it would've been a pretty funny story about growing up, right? :P


Greetings from IDIOT FESTIVAL!


My design of a friend's character. His name's Tippin and he needs to find a home on the ground cause he can't fly. Ghost shadow is irrelevant.

This is Ruth, one of the first Lost Saints of Skellopia. Her sacrifices led to great progress in controversial but useful medical mycology.

I forget who this is. She apparently has magical designs on her armor which gives her the abilities of her fallen enemies. So the eye on her sword mimics the eye of a creature which is clairvoyant. Also she's too good for normal human feet.


:3

If you pretend it's a unicorn then it's not so creepy!

I like doodling in a little online art program that's about as high tech as ms paint... ( wait a minute, I haven't used that in a decade, it's prolly evolved since then... ) or as much as facebook's graffiti application, and so on! Either way the reason I'm posting this is because while I made this, I had an epiphany-

This is one painting in the finite amount of paintings I will create in my lifetime. This somehow made everything more precious to me, past and future drawings. It's kind of funny saying that, because I know I've drawn some things I consider sophomoric or highly flammable. Hell, most of what I've made would be figure drawing exercises, and I don't care what happens to those since they've already served their purpose. If I could imagine all the drawings of my life piled together, the bulk of it would definitely be a babble of imagery like this.

Still, I can't deny that these are all thoughts which I intentionally projected into the realm I know as reality. Maybe I am creating a mirror for my mind, something to look back into. These are all my mirrors, the reflective little footprints of my life that are free to be found by others or lost forever.

I guess this one reflects the fact that I like long hair, nudity, and giant fuzzy insects. Now that I think of it, I've been considering a pet tarantula lately...

Harpies?

:> Doing some more personal paintings in my spare time at work. Nothing much besides more feminine and monstrous elements. This may be related to a pseudo-fantasy premise involving the root of human mythologies. I'm basically cobbling together what interests me right now into a story- lovecraftian lore, symbolism in myth, environment as character, and of course horror...
I really just want to create some organic story telling exercise with this one- placing elements here and there then weaving a pattern from them, while making some interesting character studies along the way.
I want what's encountered in these stories to feel mythical, but evocative of the present as well. Myths are timeless, after all. Perhaps my characters are just experiencing the brevity of their humanity in juxtaposition to this. Either way I want this imagery to feel familiar to the point that you think you know of this, you've heard of this, and could draw conclusions from it. So this painting could be of a harpy from greek mythology or the objectification of other human beings or a personal memory. And now I'm just rambling about the elasticity of symbolism. Or how things could get lost in translation. I think there's a word for the type of symbolism which has no intended meaning by the author but made for audience to draw conclusions in a sort of free style manner.

Either way, I don't remember it and now I'm rambling. But hey, I'm posting again! :D

Wow

I've been busy!
I've also been doing lots of work for Moonbot, not lots of stuff I can post here. Sorry. :<

Here, have a naked lady and some monsters!


Sorry that I can't think of anything else to say. Gotta go carpe some diam anyways.

Seeya laters!