A Fun Exercise: Imagine Dragons- Believer (Adobe Make the Cut)

This was a video I made for the Imagine Dragons' Believer: Adobe Make the Cut contest. I didn't get to submit it because I missed the 12am cutoff by like 10 minutes. I spent less than 24hrs on this since I didn't know about the contest until a couple days before the deadline. But I decided to attempt making a video & had fun using Adobe Premiere Pro which I haven't really used before. 

All the rights to this video belong to Imagine Dragons/Interscope Records.

All the video clips & audio was provided by the Imagine Dragons Adobe Make the Cut contest.

My "Superhero" Team

Finally finished the group shot of my four characters!

Work In Progress: Working On A Team Picture

Just a rough drawing & palette test for some characters I've previously posted designs for, except for the female character in the top left side.

Some Clean-Up Work

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b)

Did some clean up work for a client:

a) This is the original image that was not designed by me, but had issues with being pixelated & could not be resized.

b) I spent some time & redrew the image from scratch at a much larger scale to avoid that awful pixelation issue.

*I do not own the rights to this image.

Nostalgia: Rayzer Cat? Dragon Angel?

 I'm pretty sure my Digimon obsession was in full swing when I drew this guy as a kid because this design is clearly inspired by Angemon. Now I'm thinking it's Angemon + Wolverine + Gargoyles? With the redrawn update of 'Rayzer Cat' I tried to move him away from Angemon's design into a less copyright infringing version.

Nostalgia: Sorceress Angel

 Continuing the nostalgia kick...I decided to try and decipher what the heck this character's costume was while also updating it a bit. The color palette was a compromise because I couldn't fully figure out what 7 year old me was thinking when he drew the original...Well aside from the Angewomon influence.

Nostalgia: Dragon Warrior

 Went through my briefcase of old drawings from when I was a kid...I stumbled across the picture above, which I'm estimating it was drawn when I was around 7 or 8 years old and decided to redraw this character. I adjusted the colors a bit since back then I only had Crayola markers.

Badass Baby Vs Apprehended Alien

Baby vs Alien?

Had the idea to go back & revisit some old characters I used in college. The alien strapped to the cactus was from my freshman year and the crashed cheeseburger in the background was his spaceship. The baby in the foreground is an evil cannibal from my sophomore year. The desert setting is based on the Alien's project.

Here are the original drawings of these characters:
The alien was a 30 second animation final drawn on paper & shot on a lunchbox.

 The baby was from an assignment animated(thrown together) in 3 days. My original final project was erased when my computer died, so I had to rush to hand in an assignment or fail the class. Look at my amazing photoshop skills!

CL: Hello Bitches

Took a shot at drawing CL of 2ne1 fame

*This was supposed to be completed a LONG time ago but I'm having technical issues with my laptop...It keeps randomly shutting off. So this spent most of December half finished.

A Queen In Progress?

Working on a design for CL of 2ne1 fame.

Daesung/D-Lite Takes Flight

More Winged Daesung?

So I liked the look of my last piece of Daesung fan art & I decided to do one more post with a more dynamic pose but using the same design.

Playing With Logo Ideas

Scribbled some quick logo ideas for myself. I might just refine the green logo & use that one in the future. The colors of these logos are completely irrelevant though, I just like to use random colors when I scribble things out.

BIGBANG's Daesung/D-Lite

Breakdown:
~Right-arm bracer is from Daesung's role in the K-drama 'What's Up'
~Left-arm is the shackle from BIGBANG's MV 'Fantastic Baby'
~The belt buckle is actually based on the necklace Daesung wears in promo photos for BIGBANG's 'MADE' CD series.
~His right side body tattoos are based on the tattoos Daesung has in BIGBANG's MV 'Monster'
~I decided to give Daesung wings as a reference to his solo song titled 'Wings' But I made the wings look a little ominous, so they meshed with his body tattoos from 'Monster'
~The background is filled with the titles to all of Daesung's solo, team-up, & BIGBANG songs.

The purple heavy palette is simply because I didn't want too many colors & I generally like to use purple...Just look at my past work.

D-Lite-Ful?

Doing some fan art...Working out an idea for Daesung/D-Lite from BIGBANG. Trying to incorporate BIGBANG's 5 line logo design from their MADE series, Dae's tattoos from the music video for Monster, & I added wings as a reference to Daesung's solo song 'Wings'

Design Breakdown:

1. The belt buckle is actually the necklace Daesung wears in the promo picture for BIGBANG's 'MADE' series release.
2. The bracer on his right arm is from Daesung's role in the K-drama What's Up
3. The shackle on his left arm is from BIGBANG's MV 'Fantastic Baby'
4. The body tattoo is a reference to BIGBANG's MV 'Monster'
5. His hair is essentially the default style he has been sporting for a while.
6. The wings are reference to his solo 'Wings' & I just designed a set for him.