11/27/2013: A Glossary of Things I've been Doin'

Astro Tiger

Howdy y'all, might as well throw out some updates before turkey day. In case ya didn't know there's a new paper toy on Etsy here.

A Skull

Gotten into digital inking for whatever the reason. Most likely gotta go faster in the visual development department. Drew a few skulls, the above was the most psychedelic, so I thought to share it.

A Face

Took some sketches from last month and made a grey soulless monster like above - a teenage hoody white-walker. o_o No, no, no, no, not all of them are icemen - just this one.

COAG Thumbnail No. 218

Speaking of quick digital inking lets talk about City of Absent Giants. The story thumbs are for the most part done as of October. Quick and to the point - I got a visual story ready to go on to the concept stage. Now that I can itemize what I need as opposed to what I might need. Composition should be the direction not pretty drawings.

The main character.

Concept I did back in October - Talitha the central character in this fairytale looks a lot different from her original design from a year ago. She's shorter, got some color, and got some sweet poofy pants! 

One bad fellow who means business.

One of the many ambiguous antagonists from the short. This early concept makes him appear shorter than he is in some of my more recent charts. The floaty floor tiles are to blame. Oh well.

More to come.

10/4/2013: UFOs are following me

I didn't notice it until later.

.... but UFO's have followed me home.

In the air somewhere over New Mexico.

Now why am I taking black and white photos of these alien space craft?

One in Georgia by my apartment

Truth be told I'm older than I look. Maybe.... -_-

Somewhere I forget exactly where - they are that frequent.

Or maybe these photos are like blade runner or something...

I don't know, they are just taking up imaginary store space, so come and access a four pack or a single of your choice today.

Go To Store!

9/27/2013: Metaluna

Metaluna prototype pictured, never mind the UFO

So there is now a companion to the Cosmo Queen paper toy. It will be up sometime within the first week of October. I'm also doing a UFO four pack that should be up for sale around the same time.

9/20/2013 : Our shop "LlamaLegs" is open on Etsy

Llama Legs?!

      Officially as of today the shop is now open. We got four things at the moment, but there will be more to come. It is at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LlamaLegs  --- There's also a new tab on this blog that links to the shop as well.

9/9/2013: Exploration of Papercraft

Spelunkin'

I have been pretty active recently not that you could easily tell. I get weird about sharing private work especially when that work is connected to unfinished projects. City of Absent Giants is going through some rewrites : the core story is fine, but the visual presentation needs work -  (hence their absence).

So as we make our way below the first order of business we find paper craft lurking in the depths.

Sometime at the beginning of summer I got into paper craft - they will soon be made available through Etsy. Here is a sampling:

Graduate Dinosaur

Made for my sister's mortar board on graduation. A slight update from the original.  

Dwarven Gambler

A friend renewed my interest in Magic: The Gathering over the summer. Made a card case to reflect a red mana deck inside. You can store tokens in his face extrusion.

Evergreen Snow Girl

There is a theme here, guess what mana? Though the designs are not limited to MTG it is just what is inside them now.

The Cosmo Queen

Inspired by Stand By for Mars' rocket ship the "Space Queen." The "COSMO QUEEN" is a riveted retro rocket roaring from the space age of futures past. I'll probably do a rocket based off Destination Moon to complement it.

Update 8/20/2013

Howdy all, been meaning to update this blog for awhile. 

I've been up to a lot lately. Attended SIIGRAPH this year, saw all manner of strange and wonderful things. Went to Seattle gave my sister the below:

Graduate Dinosaur

I'm doing some paper craft designs for download off Etsy. There's more than just the dino we got: rocket ships, fantasy card cases, and more. I'll post a link when it comes time to open.

Pixel Exploration

Sometime after CTN I started doing pixel art. I also felt a need to draw more. What I did at the time sat around for some reason - so I'm sharing it now. 

Sketch Dump #1

I solemnly swear to draw and post more. Or do and post more often.  I guess that's the moral of the story.

4 / 14 / 2013 Update Big Project Little Project

Today I look back at two projects that have been done in the last two weeks.

How to make a shooting star?

City of Absent Giants met its first deadline. What this deadline entailed was how the heck am I gonna approach this project? How is it going to be visually presented? The myriad of technical problems had to be answerable. I know more now than I did two months ago.

This is true of all projects, but it is the big ones that make you really think. Even though I'm currently happy with the results I have reservations. With answers instead of assumptions it is now my task to reapply what I now know. 

Recently I completed a short 3-day project for The University of Washington's Japanese Student Association. A quick ad for their upcoming Matsuri held later this week.

The project began through my sister. I was busy with City of Absent Giants at the time, so I asked her to draw me a storyboard and characters. The flustered Journalism Major did her best, which as it turned out supplied me with more than enough information to get started.

However the finished work is heavily abridged from what she boarded out (which could have easily been 3-minutes). Mind you she had no concept of the 180 degree rule and the general theme was a Husky discovering the Matsuri. I changed the theme to "Husky Yojimbo brinin' teh partay" while the chain of characters we meet remains the same.

Husky Yojimbo brings the party.

It was an interesting experiment to play on my unsuspecting sister. My initial motive was to get a feel for girly drawings - you know cute drawings. To see what someone else would come up with besides myself. I undoubtedly changed things when it came to make the actual art -however Madame Bun-Bun is the only character I actually made up. Years of Asian cuisine ads where women with paper fans laughing for no discernible reason had finally taken their toll.

 

Cast o' characters.

The uncool thing about this project was the deadline. The cool thing is that I'm now crazy fast. The cool thing about this project was rediscovering funny animal characters. The uncool aspect was my realization that I need to draw more. The cool thing is I'll probably be drawing more animals.

Yep, the continual act of juggling skill sets continue.