Megaman Tribute Roughs

Super Fighting Robots! 

X-Machina

Oh Megaman. Here are the roughs for my 2nd and 3rd entries for the Megaman Tribute Art Contest held by the publisher Udon. 

Megaman © Capcom

Sinbad And The Wizard's Heart Assignment 1

I have a sword in my arm! Also, your spleen. 

I'm cute, sassy, and capable of exploding your heart with a single touch!

Derp?!

So it's 6am, Jennie is probably about to wake up and here I am at the end of my assignment for my Drawing for Animation II class. We were tasked on creating characters from a treatment of "Sinbad And The Wizard's Heart". At first my initial designs we're pretty close to the material, but then I watched the trailer to Deus Ex: Human Revolution for the 200th time and I said to myself, "You know what this Sinbad story need? F-ing bio-mechanical arms that have swords in them!" And lo you see with your eyes the awesomeness that I created. Beard. Check. Hairy chest. Check. F-ing Bio-mechanical arm with retractable blade. Check! Check! Check! I was also listening to the Overclock Remix of Xenogears music while watching Rob Duenas, one of my favorite artists do a livestream, so I was basically running on creativity. I decided to place this story in the far FAR FAAAR future where technological stuffs like gadgets and such are regarded as ancient relics submerged in a great flood. Sinbad the Sailor had humble beginnings but ended up becoming wealthy and influencial due to his business, and his business is going out to sea and retrieving these ancient relics. It may be a little cliche but I just couldn't help myself, I just saw the Deus EX trailer and been listening to Xenogears music, can you really blame me. I should sleep...*totters off*

Daily Sketch Challenge- Nomad

Nomad, a character  from Marvel Comics. I think usually associated with Captain America as she is like an alternate world's Bucky (Cap's sidekick). I think Liefield may have had a hand with her design which explains the utility pouches.

Photoshop, 32 mins.

Nomad © Marvel Comics.




Well I'm getting the hang of jogging daily, it's pretty nice as it gets the blood pumping all over the body and I feel more flexible when sitting down and drawing all day. In my imaging foundations class we are using Illustrator for the first half and I hated the pen tool, but I think it was just because I didn't really know how to use it. I'm still often times confused by it but I can definitely respect it's value as a tool. Other than that I'm seeing a career counselor on the 31st to see what it is that I am doing wrong regarding me securing a stable job. Speaking of which, I was contacted by a creative director from a company called 'Boostr' they made the game "Urban Rivals", maybe something good will come out of this. Other than that I'm trying to finish some HW due tomorrow and 2 art contest entries that are due by the end of the month. So good luck me!

Daily Sketch Challenge- Megaton Man

This is Megaton Man. I remember seeing ads for his comics back in the 90's in my old comic books. He super exaggerated and buff and was fun to draw.

Photoshop, 38 mins.

Megaton Man © Don Simpson

Gauron Warsong Bust ZBrush Work In Progress

Some screenshots I took of my work in progress Gauron Warsong bust created in Zbrush. Zbrush is pretty fun, it's almost like sculpting but without the messy hands! I'm teaching myself to use the program so I'm kinda grogging along, but it's been a good experience thus far. Gotta level up some kind of 3d skill before the year is done or sooner!

Megaman Tribute Teaser

Pew!

Here's a teaser pic for my Megaman Tribute piece, the piece as a whole is still a work in progress. I tied it in with my Imaging Foundations class HW in which we were to scan in a sketch and gussy it up using Adobe Illustrator, sadly it's a program I am not as proficient with compared to my Photoshop skills so there was a lot of fumbling around with the pen tool just to get a curve looking correct. As painful as it was, I can definitely see the value of the pen tool as my skill grow in Illustrator. I was also totally rocking out with the Megaman Overclock Remix Soundtrack.

This is the scanned sketch that I made. The final piece will definitely include Roll in it.

Megaman © Capcom

Daily Sketch Challenge- Lady Death

Lady Death wearing one of her more covered up outfits. I remember watching the cartoon movie that came out a couple of years ago, I didn't think it was very good, but hey it had girls with huge swords in it how could I not watch it.

Photoshop, 40 mins.

Lady Death © Eternity Comics

Daily Sketch Challenge- Katana

Katana from the DC universe. She apparently wields a Katana...hence her name. When she debuted in 1983 she was totally rockin' the Ms. Swan haircut. She's Japanese but her Gold and Red color scheme reminds me of China or Vietnam. I modified the look of her costume slightly to better suit my aesthetic tastes.

Photoshop, 40 mins.

Katana © DC Comics

Kazuya Mishima Work In Progress

Mah arm!!!

Kazuya Mishima from Namco's fighting game series Tekken and winner of my "Furious Fathers" poll in my DeviantArt. He was the protagonist of the first Tekken game. His primary costume was a lack of shirt and torn up karate pants which I think made people write him off as another mysterious wandering warrior archetype. But when one dives more into the personality and drive of Kazuya as a character, there's more to him than just being some mass produced Ryu wanna-be. Kazuya as a character underwent quite a journey since his inception as he started out as a protagonist, then into an antagonist, then into an anti-hero. His father, Heihachi threw him off a cliff when he was a child, proclaiming that a true Mishima would climb back up. Kazuya barely survives and makes a deal with the devil. Years pass and father and son finally have their fated duel resulting with Kazuya gaining the upper hand and finally taking over his father's company. The devil gene which had remained dormant since he was a child soon rears its ugly head and all shit breaks loose. At one point he conceived a son with Jun Kazama thus making him a furious father.

I really like his tuxedo outfit from Tekken 2 (I think) so I decided to go with that design. I see him as someone who is ruthlessly efficient, no hoity-toity fancy fighting moves (though he kinda has some), just moves that will fuck your shit up so I decided to pose him simply standing and letting the Devil within him do its thing.

Daily Sketch Challenge Triple Treat!

The Joker from the film "The Dark Knight" as portrayed by the late Heath Ledger. I really enjoyed his performance in the movie, the man was brilliant.

Joker © DC Comics

Photoshop, 38 mins.

Immortus from the Marvel Universe. I don't know much about this guy except he looks silly. Apparently he's Mr. Fantastic's dad or something, I dunno.

Immortus © Marvel Comics

Photoshop, 35 mins.

Hourman III from the DC Universe. Apparently a robot from the future. His color scheme kinda reminds me of Iron Man. He doesn't seem very interesting to me.

Hourman © DC Comics

Photoshop, 23 mins

Daily Sketch Challenge- The Great Machine

The Great Machine from the comic book "Ex Machina".
Yet another book I need to read. Apparently this character is the mayor of NYC. The costume is so detailed, I love it. It reminds me of when I was younger and all of the characters I designed were just saturated with little details.

Photoshop, 46 mins.

The Great Machine/ Ex Machina © DC Comics



Well look who's back, SNOW is back! It snowed today at around 8pm. Now I get to watch more people slide around on the hill in front of my house. I made a plethora of sushi and handrolls today. I made one with fried salmon skin, it was delicious and there are left-overs so Jennie'll have a nice lunch tomorrow. But I'm kinda hungry right now so I might snipe a few sushi for myself.

Daily Sketch Challenge- Flamebird

Flamebird from the DC Universe. Don't know much about this superhero, but her huge goggles kinda reminded me of those power level scouters from Dragon Ball Z.

Photoshop, 36 mins.

Flamebird © DC Comics

Daily Sketch Challenge Two'fer- Kamen Rider GM and Etrigan

An original Kamen Rider created by one of my watchers in DeviantArt. He requested I sketch out his design in my style so I did. GM stands for God Mantis, and I thought it's appropriate that he strike a Mantis Style Kung Fu stance.

Photoshop, 38 mins.

Kamen Rider GM © Heweylewis

Etrigan the Demon from the DC universe. I've never read any comic book with him in it, but I remember him well from the animated version of Justice League, he was quite angry and stocky, which made him a winner in my eyes.

Photoshop, 39 mins.

Etrigan The Demon © DC Comics

Daily Sketch Challenge- Dead Girl

Dead Girl from Marvel's X-Statix series of comic books. Apparently her mutant powers is to return to semi-life after dying. She can also go through walls like a ghost and communicate with the dead.

Photoshop, 37 mins. 

Dead Girl/ X-Statix © Marvel Comics




Sitting in class. Got here on time, professor did not. But that's okay that means more time to work on this entry. Again, didn't have time to eat before coming to class, super hungry, gotta wait 2 hours to eat. I'm going to work on my Nu-13 piece when I get home, maybe dabble a little on my Megaman Tribute piece because that is due by the end of the month.

Nu-13 Work In Progress

Rough

Line Art

Flat Colors

Finally getting around to working on my past Weekend Fighting Game Fanart poll winners. This is a rough of Nu-13 from the fighting game BlazBlue. The theme of the poll was crazy female fighting game characters. Surprisingly she beat out Vice from King of Fighters and Juri from Super Street Fighter IV who I thought were total psychos.

Daily Sketch Challenge Two'fer- Battle Beast and Casanova Quinn

Battle Beast from Image Comics' "Invincible".

Photoshop, 33 Mins.

Battle Beast/ Invincible © Image Comics

Casanova Quinn from Image Comics' "Casanova".

Photoshop, 30 mins.

Casanova Quinn/ Casanova © Image Comics

Daily Sketch Challenge- Balder The Brave

Balder The Brave, a character usually associated with Marvel Comics' iconic superhero character Thor.

Photoshop, 36 mins.

Balder The Brave © Marvel Comics





This piece took longer than it should mostly because I kept shuffling around with his pose. The end result I think is not as great as it should've been, ah well, just go with the flow and move on I suppose. 

I'm in my first on-campus class for the semester. Super hungry as I did not have time to make lunch before I left for school. Planning on making some pasta with tomato garlic sauce and broccoli when I get home.

Daily Sketch Challenge 2011!

Hannah Dundee from the comic book "Xenozoic Tales". 

Photoshop, 38 mins. 

Xenozoic Tales © Mark Schultz

The latest incarnation of Azrael from his new self-titled comic book series.

Photoshop, 37 mins.

Azrael © DC Comics





Well, well! Happy New Year to all of you! I've been desperately trying to claw myself out of vacation-mode during the past two days, it seems to be working so I'm not too worried. School started yesterday so I'm kinda excited for that. I cleaned the house today, especially the kitchen which was left messy during Jennie's absence as I had reverted back into some sort of bachelor-mode while she was off sipping wine in frisco. It was kinda interesting as I had not lived as a complete slob in such a long time (just as a partial one nowadays), and boy was the aftermath pretty awful, I pray to Poseidon that I don't revert into such a thing ever again.
It's icy here in Washington, like not bullshit ice either, this shit's serious. Since we got cable I've not watched the local news, but I'm sure when it first iced up, cars were sliding and hitting each other like a Twisted Metal meets air hockey sort of thing. Also, I'm being thoroughly entertained by the people with rear-wheel drive high powered sport cars trying to go up the iced-up hill right next to my house.

This year I plan to try to do more 3D stuff. I'd been playing around with ZBrush and it's pretty cool, I hope to create some work worth posting sometime soon. I'm also going to be brushing up on my low-poly models. I'm also planning a beginning of the year super artwork level up piece that should take a couple of weeks to finish.