How D.J. got his groove back..

Artistically speaking that is, lol. Anyway, I've been kind of slacking this break. I tend to do that during my holiday breaks. I've been indulging in partying, dance practices, and getting some well deserved gaming in. And not really drawing as much as I should be. But I'm back this time guys! I'm about to dump a whole buncha stuff on you. Most of these things can be found on Deviant art but I felt it was definitely overdue for a blogspot art dump. Enjoy!

This is the latest, I JUST finished this a few hours ago. The leader of the first team my four min characters will face in Aerial Rave!

This is a pin up teaser for a dual comic my buddy James and I are working on together.

And this is a side project I'm still developing. A magical school girl series with a focus on cooking. I think it'll make for some good times. 

Stay tuned for more and some process work too! 

HOLLA!

Aerial Rave: Back to Rave

So after all he crazyness that is my life, SCAD started back 3 weeks ago and life has been redonkulous so I haven't had a whole lot of time to do anything artistic. Until a few days ago! I've decided to Revamp my portfolio by starting off with a new cover illustration. I hope you guys enjoy it!

I've also created some fun desktop wallpapers as promotional items for the kiddies to download if they're interested in my work! This is pretty much my final logo design. If you guys wanna download the full version, just hit up my deviant art page!

The white one

The black one. I like this one better!

There is a lot more work on the way! Stay tuned guys! <3

Drink n' Draw sketches

So tonight was the first night I had ever attended the Drink n' Draw session at Molly McPhearsons here in good 'ol Savanner. LOL. It was pretty fun. Since this was my first time going, I didn't wanna get hammered and attempt to draw so I just drank a couple of coke's and doodled. So I ended up finalizing Setsuna and Chibi-Usa's designs for my Sailor Moon Doujin Project I'm slowly working on and I also doodled this drawing of all my characters...err not all of them but some of them, together. I'm thinking I might use this idea for a new Artbook/Sketchbook of my work or I might use this as the enter page for my website I'm going to build. So With that being said, here's my sketchezz. Enjoy!

Commission Missions

If you guys have seen my deviant art account, I've been hella busy and totally forgot about these commissions I had to do. Although, I did this one way back at the beginning of the summer, I really liked it. This was my take on someone else's character. She had a neat design, probably something I wouldn't have designed myself since I have a different aesthetic. I guess a more trendy, high fashion and street fashion style when it comes to my character designs. But I do like this person's color balance, it's very nice indeed. This character is a fighter of some kind and her name is Chojiko Shishi. Interesting name as well. But at anyrate, here's my drawing of her. I did this one straight digital, all cintiq! Mine is on top, her's is below. I'll say this though, at the end of the day, i know for a fact that i'll always draw with paper and pencil and just use photoshop merely as a means of coloring digitally and designing layouts and whatnot. 

It was totally a fun little side thing to do. I'll keep you guys posted with more stuff like this as I finish it.

Ritsuko Umeda Final Design Sheet

Here's the finished version of my model sheet for EnterVoid. I'll be posting my submission packet type deal thing to them on Friday at the latest I think. Enjoy!

MOAR EnterVoid WIPS

Workin on inking the profile and back view of her outfit!

Her lose pose and as well as some other expressions too!

8/12/08 7:54pm

Workin' on photoshoppin' more Ritsuko stuff. This is the like 3rd stage once I've got these drawings in photoshop. 

What I've done is created a layer that was just that blue color you see. I created a silhouette of Ritsuko. I went to my lineart layer and magic wand tooled all the negative space on that layer, then clicking on the layer I had with the blue, while i still have the selection of the lineart negative space, I delete the negative space on the blue layer leaving the silhouette of Ritsuko, then by selecting the "lock transparent pixels" function, I can go in and lay down her flat colors!

So you'll wind up with something like this.

Of course I'm not done flatting it yet but hopefully you follow me! proven to work pretty well for me. Maybe you guys can try it too. One of these days, I'll create a tutorial of how i prepare my drawings for color. Holla!

Stay tuned!

EnterVoid Progress Report

This is the template for my fighter's model sheet. I've gotta re-draw the back side of her because the one I drew before looked really weird. So yeah, here's a progress report on her, hope u guys like her!

More to come!