Illustration Friday:Fluid- Alien Incubation

So for this Illustration Friday, the word given was fluid.  I came up with a couple sketches and I personally loved this one.  A Giger like alien with fluid filled sacs holding infantile Xenomorphs. 

I started the basic shape here, and I wanted to make it a huge amorphous, biomechanical nightmare.  

Here I did most of the shading and started to colour the sacs.  I went with a lime green to show that the fluid 

              is definitely not human.

Here is the final product.  I added some hanging egg sacs from the ceiling and some mechanical stalagmites from the floors for depth.  Over all, I'm very proud of this one

Illustration Friday: Prepared- Gordon Freeman

Ever wonder where video game characters keep all of there items and weapons? 

So here I started with a quick pencil sketch, but inked it with art pens just to add a bit more depth to Mr. Freeman here.  I wanted to make it look ridiculous, with Gordon shooting an expression of "Do you REALLY want to mess with me?"

After the ink, I basically coloured in his trademark orange and grey with pencil crayons.

Simple, yet effective.

Now here I decided to make the drawing a vector image in CorelDraw, just to see what happens.  I actually liked the way it turned out here.

Illustration Friday: Popularity- Jerry the Arachnid

I have been working on the design for this character before the Illustration Friday assignment, as I am currently designing the characters for a friends game that is in development.  

This is Jerry, he is a paranoid schizophrenic spider whose best friend is a floating piece of land named Terrain.

Here is the finished piece, just using pencil crayons, showing Jerry and Terrain together. Popularity among friends 

The artists' Night Life

When it's 3 in the morning, and you don't want to sleep, and you already have your graphite pencil at hand, why not do a self portrait?  I had fun making this mainly because I love making funky looking things, and I myself look rather "funky", and it actually turned out very well! Definitely captured how tired I was at the time!

Illustration Friday: Suspense- Grasp of Pestilence

So this Illustration Friday, we were given the word "Suspense". Here is another pairing of characters in my story, this time the symbolic horseman is Pestilence; a gross, grimy, disturbing figure dawning a porcelain baby mask. Due to his characterization I wanted to make him just repulsive and dirty looking.

Takeya / WAR

So here we have a step-by-step of a portrait of two of my characters,  Takeya and his personal demon, WAR.  Originally I was planning to do a portrait of Takeya; a grizzled samurai who rather than lead a life of malice and disparity through a life-time of war, he keeps a positive outlook, even through times of conflict.

After the initial sketch, I saw that there was room on the right side of the page and I thought it would be appropriate to incorporate Takeya's counterpart; the embodiment of War.  Unlike the other spiritual antagonists (Death, Pestilence, and Famine; all of whom show no remorse) War lives by the code of 'Bushido', or the code of honour, so by that morality, I decided to represent him (or his human form at least) in samurai armor, masked with the kabuto hemet.

In the center of the page I sketched the kanji symbol for "WAR", in case anyone was wondering ;)

After shading and detail work, I shaded in a background for contrast and style.  I added eraser streaks to imitate the slice of a sword as well.

Overall, I'm very proud of this piece, it was actually very fun to work on. More character art on the way, as well as some level ideas :D

My Online Portfolio

Hey guys!  Just thought I'd leave my portfolio on here;  http://lucasnemeth.carbonmade.com/