Weekly Challenge: draw yourself as an Oni

I picked the Tengu subset, 'cause I like their red skin, and they have big honkin' noses like mine...(picture provided for comparison)

Weekly Challenge: your favorite childhood cartoon character, drawn as a carnivorous plant...

This was a fun one.
.....watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat...    ...again?

Work Challenge; Part Three

The Challenge - Prehistoric Cyborg. 

The Result - Tyrannosauri with cyborg arms, natch.

Secondary result - WOOOOO!

More work weekly challenges...

...with an extra dash of silliness. This week was, 'The Urisk' - a celtic version of the man-goat. Not being the discriminating type, I opted for both interpretations.

Art Challenge - Work edition

We've got a new weekly challenge at work - a rotating, you-call-it design task. This week, Tsinoy the Tracker, a character from 'Hull Zero Three' (haven't read it myself). The character is described as such:


"....It's got "ivory plates", "ruby eyes", "wolflike posture", and rips the shit out of things. It can move its plates and claws by moving around its muscles, changing form and placement of said plates and blades and teeth. Technically it's "a special type of bioweapon designed to hunt and kill any native creatures that might compete with Terran life".

"Shining ivory spines ripple and fold back like bristled fur . . . Its body, below ridges of pale bristle, is corded with glistening spiral bands of muscles connected to silvery-gray bones."

And here's what I got!:

Toying with some new Japanese brush pens - and trying to figger out how to spot black while inking. Default to my space bugs and robots, of course...

quick sketches...

some pen-only doodles (toned with a dash of photoshop).

Robots live in my brain, and force me to draw them. Really.

goblinzz

more quick studies...

MOAR SPEEDPAINT

...trying to keep up with the COW challenges; one hour per creature...

Speed Paints continue!

Great Armored Bird, Flightless.

Creature of the week challenge at CA.org

Doing the Gnomon Challenge...

...and Thorin Oakenshield is the subject.

After some research I found that Thorin is bombastic, officious, very stubborn, and even a bit greedy. He is also, however, a powerful warrior who eventually overcomes his weaknesses to make the ultimate sacrifice for his kin and kind. Fun character to design too, as the Dwarves of Tolkien's lore are not well described. It gives a designer quite a bit of leeway.

Anyway, first pass here:

post number one...

...of one hundred! - speed paints, that is. Forcing my hand back into painting. So. Here is a birdman thing? And another magic cloak guy.

something?

Marvel-ous!

some fun stuff from the SuperheroSquad MMO - these're trading cards for a tie-in game. Tackling some of the classic Marvel heroes was a challenge - and fun!

Sketchdump Tres!

Sketchdump Deux!

Sketchdump!

inkNewt.

Putting together some sketches and painting 'em up. This guy just wouldn't be contained, though...

Thoat update!

New project - a realistic take on the Thoat, the goofy-cool mount for the four-armed green tribal warriors of Barsoom, naturally...

...described (by John Carter) in the books as:

And his mount! How can earthly words describe it! It towered ten feet at the shoulder; had four legs on either side; a broad flat tail, larger at the tip than at the root, and which it held straight out behind while running; a gaping mouth which split its head from its snout to its long, massive neck. Like its master, it was entirely devoid of hair, but was of a dark slate color and exceeding smooth and glossy. Its belly was white, and its legs shaded from the slate of its shoulders and hips to a vivid yellow at the feet. The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars. The highest type of man and one other animal, the only mammal existing on Mars, alone have well-formed nails, and there are absolutely no hoofed animals in existence there.

...The first few stages are combined here, silhouettes, feedback from a buddy acting as art director, combination and refinement, and some detours to explore variations...I want to get the feel of the creature from the book, a wild, dangerous, barely-controlled mount ridden into battle by tribal warriors. The green Martians don't really tame the beasts so much as beat them into submission. I want them to feel like they're fast and powerful, but still as odd and alien as anything with 8 legs should.
There is an odd design challenge with these books (the John Carter of Mars series), in that the worlds they describe come from the golden age of science fiction, an era which required almost no adherence to scientific fact, and more of a shiny gloss over fantasy stories. This makes the stories fun, funny, and charming to read - but difficult to approach in a visual format - I mean, how do you draw a 15 foot tall, four armed green man with bug eyes and tusks, and not have him look as cartoony as he sounds? So - one can just run with it, and cartoon out, or try to play it straight. I love cartoony stuff, so, to make it a little harder on myself, I decided to play it straight with this guy. The next stage is to take this profile, make an orthographic turnaround, and then place it in an environment...