Game Concept Art

Heres is some concept art for the monster themed ATV safety game Gerritt and I are working on. The 1st image is Gerritt's the rest are mine. Mine are still a bit rough due to time constraints and wanting to do as many concepts as possible. The task was to create a Vampire, a monster hunting ATV rider (no weapons allowed), and a giant B-movie ant. Here's what we came up with.

Artist Trading Cards

After a month or two of working on them, I completed my series of 5 artist trading cards. I based each of mine of the name of a different devil or demon and tried to come up with an original, non-cliché representation of each of them (except Lilith, she was my first card and not very well done compared to the rest of them). For those that are interested, I'll give a brief explanation of why I chose each specific image.

For Satan, I originally wanted to stay away from goats, hooves, tails, and most of the traditional images associated with him. Originally, Satan was an angel who was cast out of heaven, so I designed him with that in mind. He is a corrupted version of the Cherub described in the first chapter of Ezekiel, "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."(Ezekiel 1:10) So, only 3 faces are shown here, but they are a goat, a crow, and a dog. The rest of the image (wings, hands, etc.) is straight out of the description. The book at the bottom doesn't have any significance, sorry. I needed something to put there, and the book seemed visually pleasing.

Mephisto is the shortened name of Mephistopholes, which wouldn't fit on the small width of the card. He is usually desrcibed as being human in appearance, but that would be very boring to draw. He usually plays the part of the trickster, convincing people to sign away their souls in his red book. I went with a cuttlefish for this image because of their high intelligence and ability to blend in perfectly in any surrounding, two traits also associated with Mephisto. The aquatic theme of his border is only to match his design.

Lucifer's name conjures up images of fire and the phrase "Lucifer's Hammer," which is the name of a science fiction book I read as a kid about a comet colliding with the earth. I like the idea of Lucifer being Hell's blacksmith, so I gave him a hammer, and an anvil.

Beelzebub is also known as "Lord of the Flies," so he's a collection of fly parts. Sorry, nothing too complicated with this one.

Lilith was the first card that I did, and the one that I took the fewest risks with. In Christian mythology, she is supposed to be the first woman that God created, alongside Adam. However, she viewed herself as an equal and would not submit to his will, so God sent her across the sea and created Eve from one of Adam's ribs. I took a very literal view of her, drawing a seductive, forward woman with horns to signify her new alignment. I might redo this card, as the border is very bland, and the typography is pretty bad as well.

If you line up the cards next to each other, the vines all interconnect from card to card. Fun!

Assembly Line (NSFW)

For anyone who hasn't heard yet, these Artist Trading Cards are really cool. James and BREEZE have been getting the whole group into these things, and there's going to be some more updates with these cards soon! Artist Trading Card Links: ATC: Artist Trading Cards Art in Your Pockets: ATCs I finished my first set and thought 'd show it off. And because I have too much time on my hands, I even incorporated a magic/chess game mechanic. CORE RULES K-King. Once the king is dead, the player looses the game. A player can only have one king and queen in play at any time. Q-Queen. A player can only have one king and queen in play at any time. t-Titan. Sole purpose is to deal or take as much damage as possible. p-Peon. These guys make up the majority of your army. X/Y-This fraction represents the card's power and health. Players decide how many units to have at the start of the game. Every time a p is captured, you can use them to buy/activate different cards. That's it! I'm going to add some more card types later on, like a J card that adds rules to the game (ex. Sudden Death: Whoever captures the next p wins the game. ) Finally, here's some more things I've been working on.

Work work work (NSFW as usual)

Finally replaced my scanner cable. Still playing around with watercolors and inks, and although the stuff I'm showing off here are more on the artsy side of things, there will be some comics I will post once I finish them.

Auld Lang Syne

Alright, so I'm insane and have decided to try and make a 14" by 22" movie poster based on the idea of, "What if Auld Lang Syne was the title of the most awesome action movie ever made and it starred Father Time and Baby Time and had a T-rex and a robot and an atom bomb?" This is a half-size mock-up for that movie poster to get the composition and lighting right. Yes, the baby is dual-wielding Colt .45's. The final project will be inked and huge. I have left space at the bottom (not shown in this picture) to write in fake production credits, so if you want in just tell me. I can totally make you a producer or director or something. Also, if anyone reading this has a good tagline for this movie I would love to hear it. The best I've come up with so far is "A new year's resolution...TO KILL!" and that's not very good.

Art Trade

I drew this as something for an art trade with this guy in Chicago. He draws crazy comics and publishes them in a zine, and we agreed to trade so this is what I sent him. Hopefully I will get a copy of his Zine in the mail soon.

Basically, i started drawing this really adolescent and juvenile picture with all these womend in it, but the negative space was really bothering me. So I thought to myself, "What could I possibly add to make this more juvenile and chauvinistic?" The answer, of course, is panties and bras.

Two of these women were drawn from references, and one is straight out of my head. See if you can guess which one.

Busy Beaver (NSFW)

Hey, I've been talking with Jess Reinhardt (local artists here in Las Cruces) and it's really inspiring to see how much time this guy spends on his work. It never occured to me, but he gave me advice on taking the sketches from my sketchbook and moving them into finalized drawings. Your sketchbook should be like blueprints for your projects. I told Jess about our meetings, and he seems really interested in showing up. It'll be good to get him to talk about motivation, time management, etc. He has some really cool stuff to show off too, but I don't think he has any online... Anyway, here's some new stuff: