Aviary pg 1

The thing I've been working on all this time....

This is just a preview, but its the first 'finished' page, although i'm still fussing with fonts. When I finish the the first 24 pgs, I'll launch it formally on its proper internet home. Launch date still TBD, but sometime around MoCCA fest.

Rinzler

 

Fanart time! Rinzler from Tron Legacy. Saw this movie a couple weeks ago with my buddies Niki and Amelia. Lots of fun and pretty lights. 

OCTOBER IS FOR ZOMBIES!

OCTOBER IS ZOMBIE SEASON!
I am running a month long event over on Tumblr. Calling all artists, please contribute your undead art! Lets build the biggest Horde ever! ALL ZOMBIES WELCOME!

http://octoberisforzombies.tumblr.com/

Terry; 'the raven'

Bronx Zoo Sketches

Trying to make the most of my Labor Day 'stay-cation' week, so I went to the zoo! Went by myself since everyone else is at work i assume, and since its a weekday it wasn't too crowded! Rather peaceful. Lovely day for sketching! I tried using my ipad for some color. Worked out pretty well! Got a bit of attention, a little embarrassing. I still feel like some kinda 'Ms fancy pants' sketching on an ipad instead of paper like a normal human being. All sketchbook Pro.

Some ipad sketches

sketching on my Ipad a lot lately. This is done with 
 ASketch.






















And in honor of Deathly Hallows here is some Severus Snape. Also done in ASketch

some more progress

A line up of some of the important characters in Aviary so i can remember their scale to each other.

in order left to right: Gavin, Jae, Klyden, Mo, Cynder, Simon, Big Scary Banshee, Smaller less scary Banshee

I'm not 100% happy with Simon, and I think the actual comic will be in a slightly looser style, but it's still in planning. There's a handful of other important characters I'd like to add to this line up eventually as well.

And this is Terry and James, two other characters from Aviary. They are pretty in a sort of J-rocker way. I feel a little guilty designing characters this pretty. o_O

Did this on my ipad using the sketchbook pro app. One of my first finished ipad drawings. Played with brushes a lot, result is a little tacky, what with all the half-tone but meh, all fun.

Kusangai

Watched Ghost in the Shell today while i was working. One of my all time favorite films, pure classic cyber punk anime, very smart, touches on a lot of themes i find myself thinking about a lot. So I felt inspired to paint this in my down time. I enjoy the movie a lot more than the TV series or the manga, and i like her look in the movie best too. She's a strange mix of very strong, sort of androgynous, yet still definitively female. And she's really spooky looking with those cold blue eyes.

The World's Forgotten Boy

Character design sheet for Gavin. (Gav's hair has absolutely no rhyme or reason.)

Urban decay character: Mo

Mo, one of my original characters from my hopefully one day comic. Mo is not as creepy as he/she looks. (Mo isn't exactly human, and doesn't really have a gender, but to make things easy Mo's referred to as a 'he'.) He's nervous, shy, and only bites on occasion. He's really just misunderstood. ;)

Morning Tea

 

Urban Decay character. The cafe owner; Klyden Laskaris.

More RDR

 

*sigh* I really do mean to keep my blog fanart light,.. I have DA for fanart, but...I really liked the way this one came out, so i couldn't resist.  More Red Dead Redemption. Srs bsns cowboy video game fanart. I am such a geek.

pile of drawings

 

More Urban Decay...

 More figure drawings...

Some Harry Potter fanart...

compass

"And now I know the only compass that I need is the one that leads back to you."

Some Red Dead Redemption fanart. Gosh, that was a good game.

Jae Lynn Winters

 

The other main character in Urban Decay, Gavin's older sister Jae. She has silver hair for the same reason he has giant irises and and no color in his skin. It's a mutation. blah blah blah nerdy sci-fi   :)

Sketching at The American Museum of Natural History

Gavin Winters

Original character, Gavin Winters, in the snow...appropriately.

New Characters

Kicking around a story. Working title is Urban Decay, but the more I brainstorm and flesh out plot ideas the less that title works. This is associated with the landscape of the same name a few posts down. 

These guys don't have names yet for the most part. I won't get into rambley story details yet, but all of them aren't quite human. There is a new species of hominid emerging and they're all somewhat mutated, except for the sorry looking Gollum-esque character who is not human at all. 
 

At the moment I'm considering working in a 'graphic light novel' format. Like a picture book sort of. This ain't for kiddies though. The story I'm envisioning so far are would get a pretty solid R rating I think. I don't know. Still early, and only time will tell if I abandon this like almost every other personal project of mine, but so far I'm pretty consumed and inspired in a way I haven't been in a long time. I'm not getting any younger. It's about time I tried to create a publish something of my own.

Pear!

For Floating Pear's new studio!