More kids

More practice drawing kids. This reminds me of myself as a young game nerd. Except when I was a kid the only handhelds we had were those crappy LCD games. Lame!

Samurai!

I found a samurai book in the bargin bin at the bookstore a few years ago, full of color pictures of people in historic samurai and geisha outfits. Score! So much good stuff in there. I borrowed this costume from the book. I'm pretty happy with how this one came out.

Drawing kids is hard!

Two posts in one day?! I've been practicing drawing little kids lately for a project my friend wants to work on. I've never spent much time drawing kids. It's crazy how easy it is to get the proportions of the face wrong, and make them look like a grown up with a giant forehead. This one's heading in the right direction though.

Portal 2

Oh how I love Portal 2. Easily one of my favorite games of all time. I don't think I'm finished with this, but I needed to put it down for a while. I'm pretty happy with the way P-Body came out, but Atlas still needs some work.

New Post?

Got a good one in Union Square today.

First post of the New Year

Two months without a post. Where does the time go? Well, here are a couple new ones anyway.

I made this one as a Christmas gift for my friend. I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out. As usual, I was going to keep it "simple", but start getting some detail in one area, then I feel like I need to add some detail to another area, and so it goes.




I've had this sketch laying around for a while and finally got around to putting some color on it during my Christmas vacation. The left side of her jacket needs a bit of work, but I was just messing around anyway.




I was messing around with the blending modes for the paint texture layer and got this. You can get some interesting results just by trying the different modes. I never would have picked this palette on my own. I liked the way it looked, so I thought I'd throw it up here.

Feeler

I just finished reading part two of The Strain trilogy. I happened to pick up the first one to read during a flight over the summer, and was surprised how good it was. Guillermo del Toro's name on the book was the main thing that made me pick it up. Anyway the book is about a vampiric viral outbreak that begins at a New York airport during an elipse. There's a group of blind vampire children called "Feelers" in the book that I'm kind of fascinated with. I was just messing around combining cute and gruesome in this quickie.