7 Days, 7 Black & White Photos Challenge

I participated in a photo challenge: 7 days, 7 black and white photos of your everyday life, no explanation, no people, & challenge a friend to join every day. 

A flyer for an English class

Frost Giant Archer Rama

Frost Giant Archer Rama: Loosely based on Lord Rama which is why this character wields a bow & arrow, has blue skin, & lotus designs on his chest to reference the lotus necklace Rama is shown wearing. The belt is also a reference to Ram's normal outfit. The rest was based on a frost giant idea which is why his skin looks like it's not quite skin & more like ice. There is also a large hole in his chest because his heart was removed for safekeeping.

Frost Giant Rama Concept

Fire Jinn Hanuman Concept

Fire Jinn Hanuman Concept: This is a character design influenced by Hanuman which includes her facial markings, tail, & the lamp is inspired by Hanuman’s hammer. Her tail is made of fire because she’s a Fire Jinn & this human form is basically a costume. The necklace she wears is also loosely based on a green jeweled necklace Hanuman wore in one of his depictions.

Agni, Jinn, Hanuman Concept

Working on a design for a Fire Jinn who has references to Hanuman which is why the lamp will look more like his scepter/hammer.

English Course Logo Commission

Option A

Option B

Option A:
Selected & Cleaned Up

Flyer

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

a)

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.