Another awesome week at Drwnblog!
Friday, July 8, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
FILTHY GIANTS
Our week's topic at Drwnblog - "Crevasse of the Jötunn". Go check out one of our better weeks of work - with an ADDITIONAL TWO AWESOME GUEST ARTISTS!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Military Robot
Another INCREDIBLE week at Drwnblog! Check out everyone else's wicked stuff HERE
ALSO! I had an awesome weekend at the Calgary Comic Expo - I got to meet a bunch of cool people, enjoy the company with the entire Acts of Violence Crew as well as Vic Malhotra, who recently collaborated with my friend Ed Brisson on a Murderbook story. I even got to see William Shatner hanging out with the mayor of calgary, Naheed Nenshi. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it such a great weekend!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Cosmonautical Ideas
The brainstorming page for an old cosmonaut short I drew in 2008 (Which you can read below in the little flickr window...) The worst thing is that some of the ideas on this page probably would have been more interesting then the story that actually came to fruition. It's a little cliche and melodramatic, but for an early effort...
Friday, June 10, 2011
Fastest Tentacle in the West
My entry for this week's drwnblog challenge: GUNSLINGER.
In doing this one, I guess I just figured the doing some boring old human in western clothing was NOT ENOUGH. So here - the fastest tentacle in the west prepares to bring hot death on some desert bandits ( out on some godforsaken planet further up the galactic arm).
Check out the rest of this week's entries today (or preferably tomorrow - the other guys are slow) at our site:
http://drwnblog.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
If an astronaut collapses in the forest...
Does anyone hear a sound?
This is just a cool page I found while going through the endless piles of paper I've left around my parent's house. The first and only page of a project that remains unexplored, but the visual themes will be showing up in some large and small projects slated for release in the fall (ish).
Friday, June 3, 2011
Gentlemen of Fortune
This week's topic on the Sketchblog? Gentlemen of Fortune!
The what the rest of the team did HERE:
http://drwnblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/man-of-fortune.html
The what the rest of the team did HERE:
http://drwnblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/man-of-fortune.html
Friday, May 27, 2011
An ACAD Sketchblog!
A little something that a group of my art-school pals have put together - a weekly sketchblog! Take a look over at http://drwnblog.blogspot.com/ !!!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Big Henry Takes Offence
To start, this is sadly the last school-related post for the next few months. But it is also with joy that I post - I was recently given a shout-out on the blog of one of my all-time comics heroes, Warren Ellis, for one of my other final projects. (If you've never read Transmetropolitan - or even Freak Angels, the awesome project he's serializing on his site, I'd highly recommend it...)
For our final project in our figure illustration class, we were given six weeks to design a 16x32 inch horizontal illustration that highlighted the figure. For myself, I'd just seen the movie Winter's Bone (again, go out and watch it - it's the best movie I've seen in two years at least), so I wanted to do something that touched on that gritty, rural american aesthetic.
After much drawing and compositional planning, this was one of my comps from about early/mid-project.
After finally nailing down the specifics of the composition and all that, I did a few media tests (like this one here). Once I was satisfied with those, I dived right in...
...starting...
...and finishing the linework...
...and the tones in inkwash...
...finally finishing the image off with some nice light watercolor washes for color and a bit of acrylic for the highlights. Ideally I'll be able to scan this on someone's giant oversize scanner and play with it a bit more in photoshop, but for now, this cruddy little photos is this piece's only digital presence.
And I'm okay with that.
ALSO!
In the hubbub of finishing the school year, I forgot to hype a short comic I drew earlier in April! Written by Michael May and drawn by myself, it's for "Panels For Primates" over at Act-I-Vate, an awesome charity being run to help out a Primate Rescue Center.
Read our comic RIGHT HERE.
For our final project in our figure illustration class, we were given six weeks to design a 16x32 inch horizontal illustration that highlighted the figure. For myself, I'd just seen the movie Winter's Bone (again, go out and watch it - it's the best movie I've seen in two years at least), so I wanted to do something that touched on that gritty, rural american aesthetic.
After much drawing and compositional planning, this was one of my comps from about early/mid-project.
After finally nailing down the specifics of the composition and all that, I did a few media tests (like this one here). Once I was satisfied with those, I dived right in...
...starting...
...and finishing the linework...
...and the tones in inkwash...
...finally finishing the image off with some nice light watercolor washes for color and a bit of acrylic for the highlights. Ideally I'll be able to scan this on someone's giant oversize scanner and play with it a bit more in photoshop, but for now, this cruddy little photos is this piece's only digital presence.
And I'm okay with that.
ALSO!
In the hubbub of finishing the school year, I forgot to hype a short comic I drew earlier in April! Written by Michael May and drawn by myself, it's for "Panels For Primates" over at Act-I-Vate, an awesome charity being run to help out a Primate Rescue Center.
Read our comic RIGHT HERE.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
"Reading is AN ADVENTURE!"
This is a bit of process for one of my latest illustration projects.
The idea behind it was a metaphorical illustration for a corporate client. In this case, I took on a kid's book company and used as my basic metaphor "reading is an adventure".
This was my first set of comps - basically, the little boy being taken literally on an adventure.
However, this final, like the comps before it, was not particularly metaphorical at all. Instead of implying that reading was an adventure, it simply shows a little boy going on a bunch of adventures with an Indiana Jones type character.
So, after the crit that exposed the rough edges to this concept, I added a couple of elements that would drastically change the concept to imply the power of the kid's imagination, which is really the point of the illustration. The descent of adventurer and boy into the depths of a sinister amazon temple became an imaginary journey down the kitchen stairs... creeping past undead amazon warrior(esses?)s became sneaking past a brother's room, down the hall. This way, I could both showcase the idea of adventure while emphasizing the safety of keeping these safely internal (inside the house and inside the head).
Basically, this was my attempt to salvage a project's concept without having to re-draw the whole thing.
The idea behind it was a metaphorical illustration for a corporate client. In this case, I took on a kid's book company and used as my basic metaphor "reading is an adventure".
This was my first set of comps - basically, the little boy being taken literally on an adventure.
However, this final, like the comps before it, was not particularly metaphorical at all. Instead of implying that reading was an adventure, it simply shows a little boy going on a bunch of adventures with an Indiana Jones type character.
So, after the crit that exposed the rough edges to this concept, I added a couple of elements that would drastically change the concept to imply the power of the kid's imagination, which is really the point of the illustration. The descent of adventurer and boy into the depths of a sinister amazon temple became an imaginary journey down the kitchen stairs... creeping past undead amazon warrior(esses?)s became sneaking past a brother's room, down the hall. This way, I could both showcase the idea of adventure while emphasizing the safety of keeping these safely internal (inside the house and inside the head).
Basically, this was my attempt to salvage a project's concept without having to re-draw the whole thing.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
End of Term Work!
It feels SO GOOD to be finishing up the year - but with that satisfying closure comes a bit of sadness. It's been a good year.
Here's one of my final projects. The idea was to take two or more distinct genres, meld them together, and develop a variety of narrative landscape pieces from there. With that in mind, I thought up the research settlement of Delta - a human frontier town on a far-off low gravity world. Of course, there's not only humans living on this planet - there are strange, radially symmetrical native species and a whole host of interstellar refugees in the region, as well.
Here's a view of the town from the air.
Morning at a very multi-cultural covered market.
The natives pursuing their next meal.
Kal-Tuhn gangsters (some of the less savoury members of the refugee species) flee from a water robbery.
Two motorists along the Delta-Karakhun Highway get into an altercation.
More soon! (Bikers, robots, and more!)
Here's one of my final projects. The idea was to take two or more distinct genres, meld them together, and develop a variety of narrative landscape pieces from there. With that in mind, I thought up the research settlement of Delta - a human frontier town on a far-off low gravity world. Of course, there's not only humans living on this planet - there are strange, radially symmetrical native species and a whole host of interstellar refugees in the region, as well.
Here's a view of the town from the air.
Morning at a very multi-cultural covered market.
The natives pursuing their next meal.
Kal-Tuhn gangsters (some of the less savoury members of the refugee species) flee from a water robbery.
Two motorists along the Delta-Karakhun Highway get into an altercation.
More soon! (Bikers, robots, and more!)
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