Pin Up Girl 2!

Two pin-up girls in short succession! What gives might you ask? Well, nothing really, just felt like drawing another I guess. Also, I have some glorious new pixel portraiture ripe for the uploading, I just haven't gotten around to it quite yet.  Good news too, my new job is coming along quite nicely, it's a lot of fun to say the least!

Pin-up girl and a heads up!

Urgh, so busy, let's see, I'm starting a new job (hired on as a studio assistant for a very successful british photo-realist oil painter), I'm finishing up a huge freelance contract, probably starting a new one next week, and doing some more pro-bono work for WMNF's Grand National Championships!

*Whew* Amidst all of this, I haven't had nearly enough time to do any drawing for myself, so this pin up girl was a way of remedying that. She's an older sketchbook drawing I always liked, so I figured I'd just take a couple of hours and see where it got me.  Dunno how to feel about the graphic elements, but I think they work mostly.  I'll see about doing more sketchbook stuff later on, though it might be awhile!

Isometric Buildings

Just a few of the assets from the freelance job I'm working on at the moment!

New sprite sheet? Yes! (But will it go anywhere?)

Oh wow, apologies, it has been altogether too long since an update!  But I have an excuse! A real one!

Basically, I finally ended up landing a new gig.  It's freelance, working on a browser/mobile game, I don't honestly know how much I can talk about it, but its going well thus far and it pays fairly.  Thats really all I could hope for.

Because of this, I haven't had much time to do anything else, not work on the Airship Game project, or any other art.  But, during a bit of a lull in the work schedule, I did put together this little sheet for a game concept that came to me a couple days ago.  Will I ever turn it into a reality? Possibly, but I'm not too worried about it, I have a lot on my plate at this point, so stretching myself further would be a silly idea.  Still, it's a good way to do fun work!

I also promise I'll do another design talk soon, I have an idea for one, just haven't had the time to do it!

Sort of NSFW...

Normally I try to keep it pretty PG around here, and though this image is mostly harmless and funny, I don't want anyone being offended for something on the front page of my most-updated site.  So if you want to see it, you'll have to click the link below.  Again! It's nothing terrible, definitely just PG-13, but still, probably NSFW.

NSFW: ****ing Magnets; how DO they work?

Self Portrait in vectors!

I was recently able to get my hands on Adobe Illustrator again, thanks to the help of a friend!  This is the first real piece I've done in it.  I had to keep it fairly simple (my poor laptop was chugging away as is with its measly 1 gig of ram!), but that situation will be remedied in the next week when I get some more installed on my laptop.  Then I can hopefully begin work on some bigger projects!

Also, the site went over a HUGE redesign recently.  I really never liked the old design much, and the banner image didn't fit either, but now I've got a new banner and a new design for this place, and it's all much better!

Holidazed!

My first ever commercial game has been released! Holidazed is a one button platformer in the style of Canabalt or Robot Unicorn Attack, and features online leaderboards and openfient achievements! Check it out! Download link at the bottom of this post!

Download Holidazed now!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holidazed/id406351735?mt=8

All of thesis!

God of War

God of Technology

God of Politics

God of Fuel

God of Beauty

God of Media and Culture

So, in no particular order, here is all six of the pieces that I chose to do for my Senior Thesis. I graduated about 4 days ago, and am now an honorary alumni of Ringling College of Art and Design! This also means that I am, of course, now employable, so if you see anything you like, please feel free to contact me at any time with work! Freelance, editorial, childrens books, anything!

Goddess of Beauty

It has been all together too long since I updated this thing, but thesis has prevented me doing anything more than, well, thesis. I'm going to upload a few things in quick succession though!

This is the finished Goddess of Beauty. Easily the toughest, most time consuming piece I've ever done in Adobe Illustrator. But I am genuinely happy with the end result, so it ended well!

Wine Label!

My newest assignment for Advanced Computer Illustration. We created wine labels, so I began my assignment by perusing a local grocery store and finding a wine with an interesting name. Gnarly Head definitely stood out, and I do like the final image even if it is a bit different that what I normally do. I don't often do portraits in my work, but I think I like it in the end.

I See You.

My first piece of my Senior year! I don't really know how I feel about it yet, it'll take some time to figure out if I like it or not. It's certainly one of my most ambitious pieces with the reflections and extreme foreshortening. It was a lot of work getting the drawing right.

Adobe Illustrator CS4

My own Personal Hell

Piece inspired by my personal hell, involving Grecian mythological beasts dressed as sports figures, chasing me down a football field. I had alot of fun with the characters in this one! Done in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

A Child's warped reality

A piece based on the idea that a child's viewpoint of the world can be much different than an adults.

Headshot!

A piece about video game censorship, done in Illustrator CS4. I like how it turned out, especially the rainbows.

2D versus 3D

My first major piece in Illustrator, this piece depicts a battle between three dimensional video game characters and two dimensional ones. It has some issues with composition, but was a great learning experience.