Illustration Friday "Kernel"

The topic on Illustration Friday this week is "Kernel". Maybe I always have food on the brain because I instantly thought of Colonel Sanders. So, with little imagination and creativity I present to you "Kernel Sanders", the corn king of chicken. Enjoy.

Studio Space

For some reason, artists like to look at other artist's workspaces and studios. I've never posted mine, so here you go. This is where the magic happens. I use a 7 year old Mac Mini, a WACOM Intuos 3 6x8 tablet, and a Samsung 17" monitor. I know, I know, super high tech. Only the latest and greatest here. Although, I am saving up for a new 27" iMac. So, hopefully that will be coming soon.

Illustration Friday "Jump"

This week's topic for Illustration Friday is "Jump". For this topic I've decided to show you all something I've been working on. For a promotional tool later down the rock I've been working on a PEST CONTROL video game. I've been using the free opensource game called "SuperTux". What I've done is replace the images in the game with my own images, thus creating my own game. I also replaced the sound effects. I'm not a programmer, so I couldn't change the way the game works, so just the physical appearance is different. Right now I've only had time to change all of the characters in the game and a couple other elements, like the power-up boxes, crates, and stuff like that. I haven't been able to change the landscape yet, so it's still in an ice world.

Above are the 3 "stages" of Trigger: small, big with no powers, and powered up version where he can throw gears. This is his JUMP, hence the IF topic.

I've put together some screen grabs to show you a bit of the game and monsters that I've put in. Don't worry, some of the images contain jumping, so it's totally legit. Click on the images for a larger view. Enjoy.

Title Screen. Changed the name from 'SuperTux' to 'Pest Control - Trigger's Cold Adventure'

Change snowball enemies to octopus

World Map. Change little penguin to Trigger's head

Trigger jumping. Changed power-up boxes and crates

Shooting the gears

Changed ice block and bomb enemies into little car thing and exploding slime monster

More slime monsters

Small Trigger jumping

Medium Trigger. Changed jumping metal helmet guy into jumping imp

Changed armored snowball guys into spikey creatures

Changed "goal post" into an electrical thingy

Changed coins into money bags

BRAVE Fan art

Decided to do some fan art for Disney Pixar's BRAVE. Sure, it hasn't come out yet, but from what I've seen, this character, Wee Dingwall, seems to be a lad after my own heart. We'll see if he is anything like I hope he is: A big goof. Enjoy.

Illustration Friday: "Puzzled"

Haven't done one of these for Illustration Friday in a long time. Good to get at it again. This week's topic is "Puzzled". So, here is a egg detective who is puzzled about this murder. Enjoy.

Sci-Fi Fantasy Warrior Girl

My latest post was in February?! Yikes. Sorry about that folks. I haven't had much free time lately, so I haven't posted very much here in the old blog. I've been working like crazy this past month or so. I've been working on this graphic novel (that I can't talk about yet), doing storyboards for a rap group, a logo design for a screen printing shop in Idaho, and a logo design for a beef jerky company in Australia. Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE MY JOB? Well, I do.

But, as you can see, I had some free time yesterday, so I drew an alien warrior girl. Enjoy.

Latest Commissions

Hey everyone, sorry for my lack of activity here. I've just been super bust lately. I'm currently working on a 120 page graphic novel and taking commissions at the same time. I can't show you anything from the comic, but I can show you these commissions that I just finished.

The top one is for a rap/hip hop group. I'm going to be doing some storyboarding for them next week.

The bottom one is for a local guy. Where I live there are two small towns that are close together, so they're super big rivals. One towns mascot is a buffalo and the other, an eagle. He wants to start some sort of unity between them, I he commissioned me to make this "Eagleo", a combination of the two mascots. I'm not sure what he's going to do with the image though. He said maybe some t-shirts, hats, or something like that.

That's it for now. Enjoy.