Mutiny on the Nautilus

I had time to jam out another quickie for concept art class - Mutiny on the Nautilus, Ned Land corners Nemo deep in the ship.

The Nautilus vs. Cthulhu

Not entirely satisfied with this, but in the interest of getting to other school assignments, it's going to have to stand for now.

Romulan Pale Ale

Romulan Pale Ale
Please Drink Responsibly
Romulan Brewing Company, Romulus

(Adobe Illustrator)

Nautilus vs Cthulhu Render Step 1

Nautilus Vs. Cthulhu colour study

9 thumbs my way

I didn't like any of my thumbs for my 20,000 Leagues "Wow" moment, so I redid them, but this time I used 3D.  The grey blob will be Cthulhu once it turns into a painting, couldn't find a good 3D model of the dude.

Romulan Pale Ale Coaster

For digital illustration class.

ECCC Sticker

I think I've decided that I'm not at a place where I could make a sketchbook for sale at a convention that I'd be happy with, so instead, I'm going to make a couple of different stickers, and sell them for cheap.

Would you pay $.50 for this guy?

2nd Character - Silhouettes

Beginning the design process for the 2nd character in my personal concept art class project.  Character is a mutated human.  She's the classic "human 2.0" archetype - tall, skinny, strong, fast and with a better sense of sight....she's also 14.

The Clown and the Lightbulb Pig

Think this is getting close to done...

Pop Surrealism project 3 start.

Color Roughs for Romulan Pale Ale

Coaster and Beer Label:

Pop Surrealism colour studies

Some quick colour studies to help me work out how I want my next piece to be.

Style exploration

For concept art class, had to take my character and explore 5 different styles.

They are:

Cyborg009
Southpark
Tintin
How to Train Your Dragon
Tekkon Kinkreet

Romulan Pale Ale - Brief and Thumbs

For my "beer label" assignment in digital illustration.

Beer Brand	Romulan -
Beer Type	Pale Ale -
Beer Colour	Light Blue
Target Audience	Loyal soldiers of the Empire! -
Beer Personality	Sneaky, subtle
Illustrated Goal	Create a beer label that expresses the power, of the Romulan Empire! The drinker should have no doubt in their minds that they are drinking the best (and only) pale ale to come out of Romulus.

quickie self portrait in watercolor

Why? - Final Pop Surrealism project #2

Trying to work in the style of Sam Kieth.

Pop Surrealism in progress

Porque?!?

Trying to work at being looser and more expressive, as I've said several times....this is me playing with hand-made text.  I painted the BG, and the words on seperate pieces of paper, scanned them and combined.  The text was run through a threshold adjustment in photoshop to make it pure B&W, then used as a mask for the red....the entire thing is a study/step for my pop surrealism painting.

Alien Night Speedpainting

Approx. an hour.

Quick character colour study

Something I'm working on for concept art class.

a process of character painting - step 1

I tweeted about it on Sunday, but I've been trying something different....I grabbed some 18x24" cartridge paper, a paint brush and some liquid acrylic Paine's Grey.  From that I did 20 very, VERY loose gesture paintings, trying to get my arm into the drawing as much as my wrist.  I picked a couple of favorites, took shitty photos of them with my phone, imported them into photoshop and I'm starting to clean them up a bit.

Ultimately, I hope to use this for my next pop surrealism painting, where I'm going to be looking at Sam Kieth's work and trying for more looseness and expressiveness in my work.

Darker Than You Think - tweaks

Based on feedback, adjusted the girl's hair a bit, and decided to push the airport a bit further back.

Darker Than You Think - Done?

Might do a bit of distressing to make it look old, but I think this is basically the end of the regular painting.  When I do one of these, I like to make a copy and run it through the "Threshold" adjustment in Photoshop to turn it into pure black and white.  If it's readable that way, chances are good the final illustration will also be.  I'm am reasonably happy with this one :)

Oh, the text won't stay in the final deliverable, but it just doesn't look like a pulp cover without it, so I threw it on as a spaceholder.

Pop Surrealism Clowns

Some "in process" designs for my next pop surrealism project.

Big gesture time

Trying to do something different - drawing with acrylic paint on cartridge paper and an easel.  Getting my arm involved as well as my wrist.

Darker Than You Think - update #3

Fjord Speedpainting

About an hour and 45 minutes.

Darker Than You Think - 2nd Update

Some more work and some VERY helpful advice from my friend Mike MacRae (one of the 9 Society of Illustrator winners from ECUAD!)