Superman Rough

Something I'm playing around with at the moment.

Conan Work in Progress

Something new I'm working on. Thinking of trying to colour this in Painter.

Hulk Progression Steps

Progress shots for my Hulk piece. Was going to originally do Hulk jumping through the air which he does a lot, and I really like that idea so maybe I will do that down the track.

The second idea which I did start inking was the full body pose. This would have some background elements such as the ground all cracked and broken around his feet.

I then went with the simple torso pose shot. I went with this since I figured I could work in more details which I couldn't do before. With this I've working in some feathering details which I don't normally do.

Rogue WIP Part 2

New updated Rogue work in progress.

Rogue WIP

New work in progress. Rogue from X-Men.

Girl in Progress Updated

So here's an update to the girl I'm working on in the previous post.

 I'm still working on it of course, probably end up doing a torso shot in the final version. Also here's a clue as to what this piece is being used for.

Girl in Progress

Been awhile since I've posted here so here's a peek at something new I'm working on.

Fruit Skate Skateboard Jump

Not totally happy with this, but these are some new Fruit Skate illustrations of Alex in various poses (pushing, jumping and standing) on his skateboard.

The hardest part with these is trying to keep the character look consistent in each drawing, which I don't think I really got right. But the purpose for which these illustrations will be used for they will be okay, since you wont see them side by side like this.

Fruit Skate Home Screen

So here's the idea I had planned for the Fruit Skate piece I uploaded earlier. I knew that I was going to have text elements added on to it, which I was I left the background not as busy as I felt it would be too much.

The logo was actually made up with a vector graphic I bought from Shutterstock here which I modified in Illustrator. The buttons was created by myself with the cog in the Options button being a free vector graphic I downloaded from here.

As this was also designed with the iPad in mind, I kept the buttons fairly large for fingers to touch. I'm thinking maybe the Play Game button should be a different colour to the rest, but not sure. Also the size of this is the actual size it would appear in an iPad (1024 x 768 res), and it's the size I will be making the Flash interactive design at.

Edit: I ended up changing the Play Game button colour to make it stand out more.

Fruit Skate Characters New

So Here's the finished version of the Fruit Skate characters I posted earlier. I'm thinking of drawing a close up of their faces, so when a player selects one of the characters, I can put the full figure with a large headshot next to it. Then perhaps add a character name or something.

Anyway I'll work all that out when I start assembling this in Flash, which will be pretty soon.

Fruit Skate Characters

Another work in progress. This time with the Fruit Skate characters. I'm thinking of adding 2 more characters, maybe another guy and girl. Not sure yet, but think 4 would look better in game than 2.

Fruit Skate Revision Final

Finished version of my Fruit Skate piece which I finished today. There will be a new logo and some additional text pieces added to this, but thought I'd post up the finished colours without the text elements added.

I went back to my original colouring style with this piece which I think works really well. This is one of those pieces where everything just came together well. Like the background girl for example, that came from me just turning off the flats leaving just the shadows showing which I thought looked really awesome, so I used that in the final. Originally she was to be coloured in colours similar to the guy in front.

I'm also really happy with the green background. I think it helps pop the guy with the nice contrast to the red.

Fruit Skate Revision Progress

Here's a new work in progress picture and again, it's an updated Fruit Skate piece.

Going on from my previous post, I wasn't too happy with the overall pose, since I did want to work in another character somehow. So this is how this piece came about.

Each character here is being drawn on separate layers so I can move and scale each figure when I'm done into the final composition. At the moment, the guy is probably a bit too big for this type of shot where you have small figures with a large figure in the background.

There's a few other issues which I need to work on as well, such as working out if I should include some foreground elements to the guy so he's not just floating in the air. Overall I'm happy with the progress.

Fruit Skate Revision

Here's something I'm working on at the moment. This is part of a bigger picture for my Fruit Skate game. The final version of this will be the home screen image that you'll see when you start the game.

So I'll be finishing this up, then putting it into Flash to make up a working mock of how the game would work. The actual game graphics wouldn't be this detailed, but since this is the home screen I figured I could get more detail crazy.

I'm still deciding what to do with the background, if I should add in another character, or just do a shot of the in game environment in an interesting perspective.

Girl in Progress Final

So here it is, the finished version of the girl I've been working on for way too long!

Overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. There's a few little things I don't like, but it's at the point now where I want to move onto something new, and take the things I learned from this piece onto the next one

Girl in Progress Part 4

So here are the final inks pretty much. That said I might end up changing some things in the finished version of this piece.

So next step is to start doing the colours. The background will be painted in.

Girl in Progress Part 3

Been awhile since I've posted a progress of that girl I've been working on, so here's an updated pic.

As you can see I've made a lot of progress from the earlier versions I've been posting, and started to get close to a final drawing.

At the moment I'm still playing around with her design, mainly in the boot department. What I'm hoping for is to finish up the design and finish off the inks on the girl tomorrow, then start laying down some colours.

I also have a background in mind for this piece which is pretty ambitious for me, so not sure if I can pull that off just yet. Might end up with something a lot more simple.

Girl in Progress Part 2

A new day, a new progress.

Kinda weird, this character was supposed to be like a fantasy character, now she's a superhero. I think the problem with that is I need to work on my design ideas, I tend to fall back a lot onto my own ideas, and end up just reusing them.

This is a reason why this piece is in colour, since I threw some colours on there to help give me a direction to take the character.

Anyway I think I have to change that hairstyle and give her some guns, since chicks with guns are cool.

Girl in Progress

I'm going to try and keep this blog updated weekly, so here's a look at something I'm currently working on at the moment.

This is just a cropped down version of the full image which is a full figure drawing of a girl posing with a sword, which I might change to a gun yet, I'm still playing around with the design.

Anyway this piece kinda reminds me of the days when I was fully into Joe Madureira art. I used to buy Uncanny X-Men, then pretty much destroy them from studying the art so much. Back then I didn't really collect comics to keep, I bought them for the art.

I'm still working on this design, so not sure when I'll post up the finished piece.