Doodle United - Nightcrawler

Ah, Nightcrawler. One of my favorite X-Men. This is for Doodle United again. The theme this time around was "X-Men", so I picked my favorite of them. The big thing with this piece is this is officially my first time ever doing painting in Photoshop. I've always been a bit hesitant with it cause I couldn't get my mind around painting for some reason. But I'd say I've decently overcome my black. Now... to start painting and refining this skill!

Oh, and kudos to Mr. Josh Addessi for saying to bring on the rim lighting more than I originally did. It definitely helped the piece pop more. Good call, my man!

Make Way for the Royal Court

I finally finished up all of the Disney Princesses (of the official Disney Royal Court that is), so I thought I get them all posted here together. I also did a mock up of what a print might look like with them together. I think it turned out fairly, if I'm honest.

My Neighbor Ice King

Poor Doctor Princess is the latest victim of Ice King. Meanwhile, he and Gunter are just chilling in the snowy forest with their umbrellas. This is my fan piece for Adventure Time fan piece, based off the classic poster from My Neighbor Totoro. I'm rather stoked because this is the first piece I've fully finished that's fully digital. Normally, I've been drawing into my sketchbook and then scanning in, but this one is fully a combo from Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm rather proud of my first digital outing here, if I do say so myself.

Super Mario World

This was a piece for a group I'm a part of on Facebook. The theme was Super Mario World, so I decided to go with a print idea. I ended up making a poster containing all of the collectable items in the game. I ended up with a pretty simplistic style. This was done in Illustrator, with my love the pen tool. (Man, I love that thing!) I'm pretty happy with the final result, especially with my color choice. I think this one deserves being printed out for a wall at some point...

Melody Character Design

I've finally started doing some work on my story idea. And where better to start than with some character design! This is Melody, one of my main characters. This is basically some beginning work on what hairstyle I'd like to go with. I tried several different styles, and I think I've settled on around 3 to try coloring.

 I was proud of myself for thinking of a decent way to experiment with hair. I drew up her face as I liked it, then scanned it into Photoshop and made the hair a different layer. So, basically I was able to copy and paste however many templates I wanted. Yay for me actually thinking for once!

The school year has finally calmed down, the students are moved out, and summer has started. My hope is that with this decrease in activity, I can start getting more projects worked on, and have a much more regular posting schedule for on here. Since it's been so long, I wanted to get some more of what I have down up here. This time around you get both Toy Story and A Goofy Movie. I must admit, I'm pretty partial to the Bigfoot one. I think he turned out preeetty well.

Finally an Update...

Finally, I'm sitting down to get an update out after a month! It's been a crazy month of work, funerals, and other random life things.

This isn't going to be a major post. Just a few more of my spectrum pics. But this will hopefully prove that work continues on it.

This time around I thought I'd give you a look at Perry, all three of the Bre'rs, Beast, and the ever classic Goofy. I'm liking how everything is coming together.