Friday, April 21, 2006

Chatting About The Weather

Here's another sketch I did for sketch-it. It was one of those pictures that you don't want to finish drawing because you're enjoying it way too much! I drew it with a Sharpie and then did a quick coloring job in PS. Enjoy and thanks for looking!!

Monday, April 17, 2006

Listening to the World


Just a quick sketch I did in Illustrator for sketch-it. Not much but I had fun doing it. Enjoy!!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

It's Fang-tastic !!



I just found out one of my heroes and inspirations, the talented John Fang, has his own website. Here's some sample pictures from his site. Head on over there and see the rest for yourself. He is simply amazing! I was introduced to his work through my brother who worked with him on the Cartoon Network show Ben 10. It was love at first site and now I study John's SB's to help better my own skills. You can probably even see his influence in a lot of my character concept pictures. Why are you still here? Head over there now!! http://johnfang.host.sk/

More Sharpie Sketches


Here's some sketches I did. Most of them are studies from some Teen Titan Storyboards by Scooter Tidwell. I also have s random sketch of a space monkey, a gesture drawing, and some sketches of a couple people I saw while waiting in an office the other day. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

Friday, March 31, 2006

Buso

Not much is known about the buso. It lives in the trees inside or around graveyards. There have been accounts of the buso being jovial and playing around the graveyard with others from its kind. They love to feed on freshly buried corpses and little children who play in the graveyard at night. They will not eat the bones. There is rumor of a ritual, that if done, one can see the buso in its true form. No one has ever done the ritual and seen the buso without dying of horror or losing their marbles completely. Kinda like seeing me when I first wake up in the morning. The only one I know immune to the effect is my wife.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Kumakatok


A legend exists of three robed figures that travel the Philippines. They visit homes and knock on the doors in the dead of the night. One of the occupants of the house they visited, usually the eldest or the most ill, would die soon thereafter. All that is known about them is that of the three, two are older men and one is a younger female. Legend has it that no one has ever dared talked to these mysterious figures. No one knows whether or not they are people, or demons, or perhaps the Philippines' very own angels of death. All that is known is that nothing ever tried can repel them from coming to your home (i.e. painting crosses on your door, hanging up trinkets used to repel aswangs, etc.) and that they also will go to churches, hospitals, and even government buildings to visit their intended recipient. And from what I gathered, you don't have to even answer the door. As long as they arrive at the house and knock on the door their job is done.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Sharpie Sketches

The other day at work my boss gave me a huge stack of paper he wanted thrown away. I quickly hid the pile in my desk and whenever I get a chance I do some quick sketchies with my Sharpie. I've drawn hundreds of pics over the last few days and here's some of the ones I thought came out fun. Enjoy!!

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Jestony Cleaned Up



Here's Jestony cleaned up in Illustrator and colored in PS. I'm liking it! Now, to nail the other characters...

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

More Character Roughs




Here are some more rough sketches and colors of the characters I'm developing. Jestony (the boy) is coming out great! Now I just need to get Angel and Jolina where I want them to be on a consistant basis....

Monday, March 06, 2006

Cartoon Character Concepts




I have several cartoon ideas floating around and over the weekend I decided to try my hand at drawing a few rough concepts of some of the characters. These were heavily influenced by Ben Caldwell and John Fang. Two extremely talented artists. I liked how these roughs turned out so I colored them. I still need to change a few things here and there but I enjoyed these a lot and will probably do a few more this week. I also missed drawing my segben so I'll have to post two aswangs this Friday. Enjoy!!