Illustration Case Study:
Behemoth

My programmer friend asked me to help him by creating some character concepts for an app he’s currently building. Here’s the first behemoth-beast-thing I came up with. This little guy was a fun challenge for me since I typically paint women. Trying to render beefy male anatomy instead of smooth, beautiful skin was really refreshing. I think I might do some more studies like this just for my own enjoyment/study. Brushing up on my anatomy skills would be a good thing.

Process under the cut!


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Illustration Case-Study
Sailor Moon Fan-art. :D

I actually sat down with the intention of doing a Holiday-themed illustration, but somehow wound up drawing Sailor Moon instead. As always, see the full-sized image and the working process under the cut!


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Illustration Case Study:
“Self Portrait”

Yesterday I was having an intense desire to paint, but also fighting the urge to lay on the couch and go to bed early. Those conflicting moods made it hard to be overly creative and I figured doing a self-portrait would be a nice, easy challenge for the evening. I used to hate doing these while in school so it’s been years since I’ve done one. This one was certainly the most painless.

I tracked the working process under the cut!

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Vampire Academy Movie Poster

Vampires are the cool thing right now. The kids from Twilight are on every magazine cover, the bookstore shelves are crammed full of romantic Vampire novels, and there are posters in shop windows advertising vampire contacts, make-up, and costumes for Halloween. I figured I might as well join in the fun.

This poster is really just the result of me wanting to do something a bit Halloweeny and recently being inspired by Drew Struzan’s iconic and AMAZING poster designs. I love big character posters like this and wanted to try one myself. I used a few model photos for reference, of course, but it was really just a fluid process of trying out a few things until I found a direction I wanted to head in.

Some process and details are under the cut!

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Illustration Case Study
“Megumi and Marmalade”

I recently uploaded a new illustration to the portfolio that I worked on over the last two weeks whenever I could find a moment. I was smart enough to track my process during painting so figured I could highlight it here!


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