Ever dig through folders on random CDs you've got burned, laying around? I do it from time to time looking for files for whatever reason. Usually, I find something I completely forgot about...like this picture.There are two Kid Chameleons...the first is a character from an old series of British comic strips in the 1970s. Then there's this kid..the coolest kid in your neighborhood! He has the power to step inside an arcade, kick your ass in the arcade SegaSonic the Hedgehog game, and any other game Sega made, and look badass doing it. How? With masks!
I decided to do the most common mask that people seem to remember from the game for this fictional comic book cover. Would I ever draw a Kid Chameleon comic book? No. I wouldn't draw ANY comic book, as I just don't have that kind of time or patience, but I will waste an entire weekend trying to play through the over 90 levels the game has to offer...ah, good times.
Labels: Cartoon, comic book, Kid Chameleon, Sega Genesis
A few days ago I promised my boy Michael Wiggin an alien pic, because I was posting art like crazy and couldn't figure out what else to draw...and he suggested aliens. Since I didn't have any at the time, other than some old sketches, seems like my collection was missing aliens altogether. So this, will be the first alien image in my gallery EVER, and I owe it all to Michael!Labels: Aliens, Animated, Cartoon, comic book, Sci-Fi
Another image based on some of Sarah's stock. I changed up quite a bit as I only needed the pose for the reference.Labels: Animated, Anime, comic book, fantasy, Glow
Long time fellow Deviant Sarah over in Belgium has always been kind enough to let me use her stock for my portfolio and for practicing my worst enemy...anatomy. Anyway, this is an old sketch that I just never got around to posting. I scanned it and I think the bulb in my scanner is going out or something is jacked up with my settings. Either way, the image came out looking like an old drawing so I left it as is.
Yeah, so it's pretty damned rare that I post or do anything traditionally, so when I do, you'd better appreciate it cause there's no telling when I'll do it again. I probably only do one or two every two years, cause digitally colored pieces and everything I can do with them is cooler to me...well, in my own honest opinion. Anyway, Afro Samurai was calling for me to draw. So I took a piece of red cardstock, a black fine point sharpie, and a white charcoal pencil and this image was born. Apparently the wife liked it enough to frame and hang on the wall. Now if only I could get her to draw something and frame it.Labels: Afro Samurai, Anime, Cartoon, Gonzo, Manga, Samuel L. Jackson
This is not the Heart you know, this is the Heart Aino (ok, so shoot me). Anyway, this is the last picture I'm moving over for now. I may actually post an entirely new piece of artwork on my next entry. Anyway, I drew good ol' Heart Aino after the night me and my friends went to the Planet Zero Anime Center on Westheimer here in Houston and played this awesome, beautifully hand drawn animated all girl fighter called Arcana Heart, and I was POSITIVE it would be released over here...and sure enough it was...on the PS2. I owned it. I played it. I couldn't beat it. The end boss is RIDONKULOUSLY hard, but the game is still pretty to look at. Then again, almost all anime and anime related stuff is pretty to me.Labels: Anime, Arcana Heart, Cartoon, comic book, girl, Heart Aino, Japanese, Manga
Another old Metroid picture I drew. Yeah, this one took quite a while as well. I like to take my time when coloring Metroid fan art, or else my buddy Ryan would break my legs in several places. Metroid is one of those things that needs to be handled with care and worshipped. It's perfect in every way, even if the game is hard as balls to beat..well, for me anyway, and that was probably a bad comparison too...yuck.Labels: Animated, Anime, Metroid, Mother Brain, Nintendo, Samus, Samus Aran, Zebes
When Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii was announced, and they had Samus, in her Zero suit...Samus fanart from all over the place started popping up. I even got my own little gallery on this Metroid fansite. Anyway, I wanted to do something I hadn't done in a LONG time...completely digitally watercolor one of my sketches in Painter 5. Yeah, I know, I need to upgrade, but like I always say...if it ain't broken, don't fix it. This picture took me hours upon hours upon hours to finish because I was being a total perfectionist about my colors. This picture has generated almost 5,000 pageviews in my DeviantArt gallery...that's probably one of my most viewed pieces of artwork. I think I somewhat deserved it, lol.Labels: Alien, Metroid, Nintendo, Samus, Samus Aran, Sci-Fi, Zero Suit Samus
Again, I love doing Crysis art. This one did ACTUALLY take me a few hours one morning to do. I think it was last year, I'm not even sure at this point I draw so much crap. Anyway, I've said it once before...anything mechanical and science fictional, especially if it resembles The Guyver, Kamen Rider or any Japanese Sentai, I'm all for it!Labels: Alien, Crysis, Crytek, EA Games, Mech, Sci-Fi, Techno
So, I've decided I'm going to start moving select images over from my DA account over to my blog for easier access than having to dig through my Deviant gallery for them. My Crysis fanart is some of my favorite, mainly because it looks like I put a lot of time an effort into them, when in reality, they didn't take as long as you'd think. I'll still never get to actually play this game because I don't own God's computer, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it.Labels: Alien, Crysis, Crytek, EA Games, Mech, Sci-Fi, Techno
Here was my final entry in this year's past Project Green. Again, I decided to cel shade Jade, or "Yade", lol, and partly ink the background, adding effects later. The far background is painted. It's actually the VERY first background I did for my VERY first Jade picture years and years ago for my friend Andrew's birthday present. A few months after posting it I was invited to be part of the BGE Club on DeviantArt, and have been an active member ever since. This was another attempt to dress her up in something other than her usual outfit, but keeping the same color scheme, and incorporating things from the game, such as the "SYSTEM 4" text on her sleeve.Labels: Animated, Anime, Beyond Good and Evil, comic book, Jade, Ubi Soft
Another entry of Jade to this year's past Project Green. I love this character so much, that if someone gave me enough money, I'd hire a team of fantastic animators over at TMS, the writers from Batman The Animated Series and produce 6 continuous seasons of a Beyond Good and Evil animated series, made for primetime viewing. Sadly, that will probably never happen, so this is the next best thing...a gallery full of Jade fan art. This one, I did something a little different than usual. Instead of painting my background on a seperate layer, I actually inked it with the rest of the image and applied some effects to it to seperated Jade from it. I like it, actually.Labels: Animated, Anime, Beyond Good and Evil, comic book, Jade, Ubi Soft
This was an entry to Project Green 2009. No, that's not some ecologically sound organization...instead it's homage to one of the hands down, bad-assest games ever produced on a home console since the Castlevania series. Yes, I'm talking about Ubi Soft's Beyond Good and Evil. Highly praised by everyone who's played it, there's no wonder why a sequel is finally on the way. Sales for the first game weren't so great when it was realeased, partly because it was released side by side with a few more popular titles, but over the years, people have come to realize what a horrible mistake they made by not buying it on release day. Every year, I try to do a least 2 or 3 images in honor of Jade, the game's main character. This time I tried imagining it as an animated series by making what looks like it could be an animation cel.Labels: Animated, Anime, Beyond Good and Evil, Jade, Ubi Soft
Yes, sadly, I was one of those kids with a Sega 32X attachment that mades my Genesis look like a black box with a black plastic mushroom cloud on it, but at the same time, there were a few gems on the system. Tempo, developed by RED, was one of them. To this day, the animation in this game is very smooth, almost Disney-esque and better than the hand drawn sprites of today. The soundtrack is very much like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but hey, that's not necessarily a bad thing.Labels: Animated, Cartoon, Grasshopper, Sega 32X, Tempo
A few years ago I did this really quick and rough sketch of fan favorite Decepticon, the evil Soundwave, for my friend Vince. I then threw some watercolors, digital, on top of it and people seemed to love it. Then again, it is Soundwave, and what's not to love about him. Anyway, figured since the new movie comes out next week, and good ol' Soundwave is in it after much anticipation, why not upload it to this site. It's already on my DeviantArt page, but you can never have too much Soundwave.Labels: Decepticons, Soundwave, Trans-Formers, Transformers
So recently I'd been coloring pinups for my friend Robbie Allen. I've known Robbie for some years now and every now and then I hit him up on AIM or on DeviantArt. Well, after coloring about 5 of his Capcom fan-art pieces, he asked if I'd like to be his official colorist for his comic strips. Being the most awesome interstellar creature in the galaxy that I am, of course I agreed. This is the top panel of the strip, which is a parody of two things. I won't show any more of it cause you'll no doubt be able to see the whole thing over at Robbie's site, Artificial Orange.
I'm also working on logo designs for Robbie's studio as well, so I'm gonna be quite busy...quite busy indeed. And Ghostbusters on PS3 doesn't help my situation either, lol!
Labels: Animated, Anime, Bowser Koopa, King Koopa, Nintendo
