THY NEXT FOE IS...

This summer I am taking a summer class at MICA called Game Art, which is run by local video game company Big Huge Games. We're spending the month-long class concepting a final boss character for an imaginary game titled "Nightmares" and modeling the character's weapon. The inspiration for the character was the boogeyman, and we were told the character design should be in line with the fantasy artist Paul Bonner, who is the imaginary art director. After a few hours of Wikipedia research (heh) I came up with this:



Horrifying. The idea is that the player goes through the game, once in a while crossing paths with a merchant-type character who wears lots of thick robes and sells CREEPY THINGS. When the player gets to the final boss stage, who should be there but THE MERCHANT who throws off her robes and unfurls into this beastie! She's made out of childrens' body parts stacked on top of one another, and she can use her giant scissors to both slice up children and stab at our poor hero. Like I said, horrifying.

So then we worked on our models in 3DsMax:


And now ZBrush:



There you have it!

PS I beat Shadow of the Colossus today! Killer!

Jay Z is on SNL right now

I drew a picture for Dan Krall. And here it is. It's based on this palette from colourlovers.



And here's another that I drew for one of my really good friends, Nicole M, aka bunkun using this palette.

SUPER CARTOON POST TSUBABABABABA

Annnnnnnd here's the stuff from my sketchbook AKA not classwork~



GIRLS WITH GLASSES
I LOVE THEM



OH MY WHO ARE THESE FINE UPSTANDING CITIZENS




Can't not draw heads.



So many cute Asian girls here.



A CHALLENGER APPEARS!



Getting ready for Project Rooftop's Black Canary contest... I spilled cafe au lait on my page. :(



ALSO FUN FACT I am sending out internship emails now. Fingers are crossed. So many fingers.

SUPER JAPAN POST GO GO GO

What's this? Japan work? Who? What what?!

Please excuse the HORRIBLE PHOTO QUALITY, these were taken on my cell phone. COUNTERPOINT: Japanese cell phones are awesome.




So here are my final two color variations on the Amaterasu piece. NOTE: There is no such thing as a registration sheet.



Live model #1, the stately older Japanese woman.



Live model #2, the Japanese dancer! He had a scar on his chest, it was pretty rad.





And the final pieces for my self-portrait.

WINK.

Updating is hard when you're in JAPAN!

HELLO EVERYONE! こんにちは! Have you missed me? I haven't been posting because I haven't been doing illustrations, I've been having a GRAND TIME in JAPAN! All this semester, don't you know.

So I'll post some of the things I'm working on here, and the finals will come when I have a camera to post them with!

Here's some process photos of a print I just finished. The idea was for it to be representative of the sun goddess Amaterasu from Japanese legend. Story goes that she's all pissed that her brother, the trickster god, is messin' up her stuff and throwing dead horses at her handmaidens and stuff, so she locks herself in a cave for a while. Without the sun, everyone on earth is way bummed, so they decide to trick her by throwing a rowdy party and singing her praises to lure her out. Ammy gets curious and peeks out and sees how much everyone misses her and decides to come back out and everything is hunky dory and the flowers all bloom and stuff. Anyway:






And here's my paintings I've been working on. This first one my still life painting. It's a ring I bought from the AVAM that's clear plastic with three flowers preserved inside. I was feeling very Mad Men, as you might be able to tell.

And here's the main panel of a triptych self-portrait that I'm working on. It's me! SCANDAL IN THE SCHOOL I'M NAKED KIND OF OH MY.


Suffice to say I've been here awhile and I have a ton more work to post, but I'll get to that when I get to it. AKA when I'm not writing papers or exploring Japan or eating delicious Japan foods or, uhhhh, shopping. Okay, well, signing out for now. <3 じゃまた!

Season's Greetings

Happy Holidays! Yay! This was for Allan's class. We had to make a holiday illustration based on a quote. I chose "Christmas isn't a season, it's a feeling." Cute warm and fuzzy times! :D

Hurry Up, Mr. B!

Cover re-do for my most favorite game, Bioshock. Too bad I'm gonna be in Japan when the new one comes out. >:(

Keepin' it creepin'.