Quick sketches: Characters and Concepts

 

 'hollow victory'

I tried to capture a great sense of loss in this picture, so the heroine in this as obviously survived by the skin of her teeth, armor/space suit has been broken upper arm has become detached revealing a bullet hole in her arm, the armour on her side had buckled due to a gunshot or as the result of an explosion along with the scrapes and singes on the rest of her. The face was difficult I really wanted to capture the emotion in her eyes. She is walking away from the exploding structure, not rescued beeing the aircraft, so she is escaping, as if she was sent to destroy it. The tear rolling down her cheek to show that she is aloun shoes that she was with someone or a group of which she is the soul survivor, and perhaps her lover died or sacrificed themselves for her or the mission.

POWER ARMOR :

SpaceWar2

drew this yesterday 6,7,14  going with a design for a suit for as I need to work on robotics, then it turned into a epic battle. One man vs an army of aliens before reinforcements arrive. a friend saw this and said it looks like a "Meca Gengis Khan". kind of Gears of War and Warhammer 40k.

Some kind of badass tank suite capable of deflecting fire and preform medical tasks like surgery, defibrillator, adrenalin shots ect, enhance fighting capability solders life expectancy. The helmet can function as a heads up display and shields the face when it is down, but this character has it up, ether because it is damaged of because he prefers to look them in the eye as he pummels their armor off with giant robotic fists.

Damm you Mr Scrubbles 

To all cat owners,
you know what I'm talking about. your working on something then suddenly it becomes you're cat's favorite place to sit. so I had high hopes for this one, Cyber-Punk witch in Matrix sort of cat suit.(no irony intended.) then a few muddy pours later and I wasn't really in the mood to finish it.
Damm you Mr Scrubbles

Yellow Brick Road

I think that every one has found something creepy about the 'Wizard Of Oz' I just wanted to beat Tim Burton to it. also an in joke for Toto fans.

the screams at night, the stranger, the lost girl with no home Collette the Banshee

From Black Tear Pale Face. the full moon makes a certain serum react differently patients that died in the previous mouth come back to life.  

designs for touched ghosts 

wounded dark angle. originally a design for album art work for 'Dystopia' but the band broke up before the record was released.

Old Commission

very old, like 10 years old,  for the same band dystopia Stimulus was just 'Dammed Angel' was trying to imagine a Rodan sculpture and go this. Just found this and thought I'd share it 

CHARACTERS AND EXSAMPLES

Unnamed Heroine 

kind of unfinished as I haven't drawn her right hand and the weapon need coloring, but that will be finished and uploaded soon, thinking along the lines of Manga, final fantasy, with my own comic realist style. Over-sized elaborate weapon,  J-pop fashion, bright colors, over the top hair, all must be taken in to consideration when doing a character similar to this. small details play a subtle part in making a character come to life, lacey frill clashed with hard armor and punky leather buckles suggests gentle feminine with a strong determination, and the ability to handle her self. The tiara shows that she has more importance that a warrior. The blade is unique to her as if she is the only one that can use it as in a prophecy could be attributed to her, and even the number of blades could bear some relevance.
Few tips there for yha.

Robots paradise

Went mental with a Biro one day. TRY IT! Just scribble across a page, long and not too close together. 

One thing we humans are good at is association, ever look at a cloud and see a familiar shape. scribble across the page make your own cloud, because in that moment of spontaneity you naturaly make the next line fit with another, untill you step back and look at it and then you start to see a picture. After that start drawing the detail of the picture you see

I drew this alien landscape with some kind of city in the distance, and in the foreground a robot monster on a cliff face.

This tip is handy if you have been starring at a blank page for a few minutes with no idea , Blank page = Black Mind Just something down, also gets you out of the mind set as in 'That line has to be right' Free up! Imagine this method as if you are tuning in to a radio signal the scribbles is the white noise(static) and the dealt becomes the music 

HUMAN REBELLION 

Colorful Si-Fi Heroin kicking some Robot ass

TEEMO

For any lovers of the League of Legends would recognize this champion. Teemo: a little fury bastard who shoots poison darts at you and puts down invisible mushrooms that hurt like hell.

COMBAT GIRL

So yeah... though chicks rule. hears a Jill Valentine, Tank girl inspired character geting used to the habit of drawing same face different excretions on the same pace.

 HI THERE  and welcome to my humble blog
I have spent most of my adult life studying, working low paid job and hard triads, but all my life I have been drawing. thinking up worlds and stories stretching my imagination and communicating that through my skill in art.

At school I was always known as the best artist in my class, and the most talented in sixth form. Later my drawing skills brought me in high demand for film projects, as a storyboard and concept artist in my degree in Film, Radio and Television at 'Christ Church University'.
As it is with most people at my age I found it so hard to figure out what I wanted in life, but I have recently come to the realization that the answer has always been staring me in the face. I want to be a concept artist.