Something Different

Hey all. Sorry I bounced for an entire month again. I've been trying to get a few things back on track. Haven't really been drawing too much unfortunately. I've only been working on 2 things; but in my defense, I've been working diligently on them.

I've gone back a little in terms of style. When I first started to get into art, I was big on abstract and surrealism. Then in college I got more into character design mainly because of my writing. But now I'm just drawing more of what comes naturally to me. So now I think I'm going to be doing a lot more of that.


This random assortment of ideas is a bit of a monster collage. The point of origin was a dog head in the center just above what looks like... well, it looks like a lot of things. (And it is.) There's demon snakes, octopus monsters, Avalerion, Black Horn, Hellcrow, smoke eyes, Planet beings, steps, abyss eyes, lights that illuminate more than darkness, smoke, wind, tusks, Hexahedrons, former zombies, and whatever else you think is in there. I had a lot of fun with this. Have fun looking through this. And let me know if you find something in there I didn't mention.

Navy Tattoos

A few weeks back my brother asked me to design him a tattoo. He's just joined the navy about a year or so ago and he's getting ready to be put on a ship and sent to Guam. (Doesn't sound like too bad of a deal actually.)
He's been getting into the whole sailor persona as of late (Which I think is pretty cool.) and one thing that sailors have is to have a fighting rooster or pig tattooed on either foot to keep them from drowning. (The lore behind this is that neither of these animals can swim and having these animals on their feet would keep their feet from sinking into the depths and get them to land faster.)

I think that's kind of cool.



He told me to go easy on the detail. So I tried my best to not get carried away.

Janet And Her Giant Squid Monster

I've had a character in the works (or rather, a pair) for some time now, and after a recent conversation with a friend of mine, I've decided to make it a story for them.

The story would be (as the name implies) about the adventures of a girl and her large squid monster companion.

The original concept for the squid looked a little like this.

A few tweaks here and there. but I kind of like this one a bit more. Next post I'll do a full character study on him.

Silhouette

I have here a sketch Idid some time back as a warm up piece but I thought it came out decent enough to come back to.

Doesn't that look like fun?
So lately, I've been messing around with it. Not really sure what I want to do with her. But for now, all I have is a slightly cleaner version.

I have a few things I'm trying out. But they need to be refined a bit. I'll try to get them up sometime this week.

Lost track of time for the last 2 or 3 weeks. (I do that.) Brother was in town for a week before he goes to Guam. Studying some guitar and just being out. But I've picked up a bit of inspiration along the way and have a few new things I want to try out. So now I've got a list of things I need to do before I forget about them and lose them. But for now, I have a few creatures to share.

I got the idea for this random little guy from one of my dogs. The day I got the idea, his head to body ratio seemed particularly disproportionate. So I made him into a little shark dog. I also like this one because it's a little different from my usual creepy beast drawings.
The idea for this one came from my brothers cat, who for the first 2 months he was here, seemed to have a constant static charge. Makes it a little difficult to get people who don't like cats already to like you if you shock them every time you brush into them.
He came from the time when I was trying to come up with a set of creatures that were really unworldly and vile looking. (A bit more-so than usual) I was trying to make something that if you saw it in person, you wouldn't be sure what you were seeing. You'd just know it was bad, and you wanted nothing to do with the creature. Not sure if I succeeded with this one.
This one came to me in a dream. A dream in which I was a pokemon trainer. (I really don't know where that one came from.) But I had this one eye based pokemon that no one had ever even heard of. And its main attack was something called "Omeron Laser." which shot this gargantuan red beam from its eye. In the dream, it didn't look anything like I've drawn here. I had to dark it up a bit. (I also don't really remember how it looked from the neck down.)
This was a really quick sketch I did while some friends were having a jam session. (I didn't have my guitar with me.) He has 2 faces.
Now this one may be a bit tough to figure out. It's a speed based canine creature. It's a temporal creature that lives in a parallel dimension with accelerated but unstable time flow. And occasionally, these things phase into our world and do bad things. They move so fast that they're only here for a fraction of a second, and the only thing you can ever see is the after image of what they've done seconds before.

Now with that being said, I tried to draw it in motion, sense it never stops moving. So I tried to draw his head with an after image. (Swinging his head from his right to his left.)

That's all for now.

Character Study: Hellcrow

Another character I've been developing over the years is a creature called Hellcrow. The concept came to me randomly my first year in college. The original sketch was pretty awful so I won't put it up here. But I'll give you some of the others though.

This is the first sketch of his redesign. (He was too simple before) So I made him pointier to mix up his sillhouette. The tail was later nixed. I really liked this sketch. It was really simple, but to me it has a little of his personality. (Which is a bit crazed.)

Just a bit more of me playing with his shape. The laughing sketch is another one of his mannerisms.

This is a very rough turn around for reference. This is his final design.

And this is a facial study done in watercolor. I'm quite happy with this one.

Character Study: Blackhorn

I told you I wasn't dead. I've just been busy. The last 6 months involved employment, unemployment, travel, skiing, injuries, revalations and even car crashes. But I've finally stopped making excuses and took the time to update for you.

Some time ago, I posted a creature called Blackhorn. So I thought I'd show some of the changes over the years.

This was the first draft. I wanted to keep it fantasy so I didn't stray too far from reality. The base idea was reptilian gorill

Just a view from the front. I was experimenting with crosshatching at the time.

I really liked this monster, so I wanted to get get it to the point where I knew the proportions by heart. Here, I focused on head shape. I decided on a combination of the top 2. Another thing I messed around with was his eye. Being that he was a demon, I wanted to make it foreign, so his sclera.(Although, there are plenty of animals that have it, but it's still unusual) But that was also scrapped.
And this is a value study. I wanted to make him more believable. After considering his origin, I gave him human eyes, the only remaining part of his host body. I'm really proud of this drawing. So much so, that I think I'll get it tattoed.

And this is just a personification.(With some liberties)

Next time Character study: Hellcrow.