Dragon Girlie, inks (2...)

Dragon Girlie, pencils (4...)

Quickie digital sketch 3

Quickie digital sketch 2

Quickie digital sketch

Sums Academy: Professors

There is a new iPad/iPhone game called Sums Academy I've done some artwork for. It's a mathematic puzzle game, and there are professors who guide you though the lessons. Check it out!

Sums Academy on iTunes

Soranik Natu, pencils

Etrian Odyssey IV: Landsknecht, pencils

I've been working on a piece for a contest over at Destructoid. I'm a big fan of the Etrian series and was happy to enter!

Nakoruru - pencils

Here's the pencils of a piece I'm doing for a Samurai Shodown contest for Fighting-Games-Elite on deviantArt... 

Monkey Hadoken - inks

This was fun!! Gotta have my Kirby Dots :-)

Monkey Hadoken - WIP

Monkey Hadoken - pencils

Swampy Trees

Puffy Trees

Pastel tree

Drawing aligators

A process I go through often is a basic iteration from idea to interpretation. In this case it was our friend the aligator, cause Vicki goes, "Hey, draw an aligator!" And I'm like, "Sure!"

When you actually sit down to do that, strange things happen. You think and start doodling, and what happens is you start to throw down lines that might be an aligator. Unless you just happen to love them and draw them all the time, an aligator is a good example because it's not something immediately familiar. However, it is a common reptile and most people have a pretty good sense of "aligator."

The first drawing is direct from my brain, as a decently experienced artist, my idea of an alligator. Or more accurately for me, my idea of how other artists might draw an aligator. While not necessarily bad, this is common for more artists than they would care to admit.

As I expected after a quick google image search, my drawing looks absolutely nothing like a real aligator. Reference is good, practice is better. So a second drawing was drawn from photo ref and is used as a learning exercise.

Of course, you don't have to draw a "real" aligator, that's probably not the goal anyways. So taking the elements I had from the idea of an aligator, the lessons learned from drawing an accurate aligator, plus some good old fashioned imagination, my final drawing ends up as my creative interpretation of... an aligator!

Digital portrait

This was done start-to-finish in Photoshop on a Wacom. With the painted style approach...  needs work! Portraits are something I should aim to spend more time on.

Mario: Memories of Star Road

This is a piece I did for Destructoid. They had an art theme called "True Nature" and I used it to reflect on my many hours playing Super Mario World.

Destructoid, True Nature: Memories of Star Road

Speakings of games, it also happens to be a well themed post for E3 2012, starting today! :-)

Ace, pencils

Quickie photo sketch