another Character concept dump

This is a concept head design for a series i am thinking about called Heros of the Old testament- its sort of quirky but I like it- again still need to work on my digital painting- very rough- but the image is useful if i want to take into a 3d program- hmmm

character concepts

here is where I need assistance- presentation- I think my process of selection for FX mulrooney 3d is cool- but I need to be able to show it more dynamically- if anyone has any suggestions- I am game- but my next step is to model the character from the ortho views

just playing around with photoshop

this is a try at using Photoshop alone as a character design medium- the process on doing this face was to rough sketch it on one layer- clean up on second layer- erase the initial sketch layer and flat shade colors underneath the cleaned up line sketch- i then merge layers together and start erasing the lines by painting joining flat colors over it ( 100% opacity/100%flow)- I know that lines are really made up of changes in clors or hue or gaps where shadow sinks in- so forming them with color looks natural-- soft transitions are made wiith the healing brush aperpendicular to color lines and smudge parlallel to them- well here it is anyway- forget what i just said....

boy hip-style

trying to explore a vector style for a new comic I want to do- Ill just post this hip dude to help inspire me to continue in this vein- still trying to determine if Illustrator(tm) or Flash(tm) will be the program of choice- this is a Flash(tm) made character with a Photoshop(tm) background- I am getting really inspired by Arthur De Pins of France ( animator and cartoonist) for this "no-line" look- i will keep exploring- you can see more of Arthur's work at www.arthurdepins.com

last cookie cutter girl post- colored image

here is my attempt at doing a colored image of cookie cutter girl character- still looks stiff to me but its a start- I colored this in illustrator and I like the feel- one day i will do a comic with this kind of feel- well hope the judges for the cookie cutter girl contest like it if only a little bit- cheers

cookie cutter girl again

here is another sketch page to hopefuly find a facial look and style to fit the "americal manga " criteria feel- i still have cartooning in mind but need to think manga- buts its still cool

cookie cutter girl

Patrick Hatfield keyed me onto a manga contest for a comic for a singing artist name cookie cutter girl- so here a brif look at my character sketches to prepare a quick colored pinup- I particularly like the face labeled 1 the best but the body gesture for image 3 best- so I will start the design with 3 in mind...

faces-faces-faces

Arvell Jones- a Marvel and DC legend told me to draw faces all the time for practice- I just can't seem to shake doing it- aw well

just some environmentals

I know I keep focusing on storyboards, comics and characters but just some environmental sketches here- since scenery is also a character- all were done either in photo shop or painter 9

another storyboard sample

here is the first scene in Mystify episode one- again don't know if this scene will be filmed but i decided to put shade on this version in photoshop- my goal is to do it all in photoshop- i will get there...

the last story board sample today

here is the final page for this particular scene- have to credit Mike Vanderpool a local director and actor on his direction for the scene set up- he had a shot list written up which made this work a lot easier- if I ever get the chance to work for a director ( for pay), a shot list will be appreciated

another story board sample

here is page two of the same scene

okay story board sample

here is part of a storyboard sequence i did for some local screen writers for a potential pitch- since I did not get paid i will post- if there is a beef- i will take it down- here goes

3d blocking test

Here is a 3d blocking test I did working with the guys from
Detroit project- all the assets were given to me and I manipulated them in Blender to get the screen renders and arranged them in
Photoshop- don't know if this has potential job opportunity with the skill,
but is was cool to figure out

another colored Fx page- cool

this is the first spread from FX mulrooney book 1
I am crazy about the writing Craig Linne did on
this- i have got to finish this series even just for
him- and i definitely cannot forget Darnell Sealie and Patrick Hatfield for the backgrounds and ink,
respectively- Sean Grey colored this too for
presentation - just Cool

colored page- fx-mulrooney

here is a colored sample page from FX mulrooney book 1- this may never see the light of day since the book is in black and white- but it was really cool- colors were by Sean Grey

FX mulrooney-

this is my character FX looking "mean
this is my character that I will be pushing- I created him in
1996 and completed the 1st comic with the help of
Craig Linne- writer
Darnell Sealie- background artist
Patrick Hatfield- inker and art director
and me as penciler and creator- i will have to finish his
story in books 2-4 coming soon- I would like to push this
character into a video game one day

hardware times

following are a couple of pics off my hard drive that were attempts of drawing an inspirational african based comic character called Hardware- created by Denys Cowan and Dwayne McDuffie for Milestone Comics- this and Icon were my favorite characters from this brand- even though not as popular as the two characters mentioned above- Static Shock became the most popular in the cartoon experience for WB- all i can say for those guys that formerly made up Milestone- they did good by my standards and ended up producing and writing for many of the Warner Bros-DC cartoons from the last 10 years- so just a little pictorial tribute from me

hardware pics

this is another try at a cartoony
hardware character

hardware pics

this is a my try at Hardware from milestone comics fame

okay i am going to make this my mini portfolio blog page- since I am not a cartoonist from birth I will try to separate posts for three areas- comic pages, story boards, and character design- please comment if my junk is getting too trippy or I should focus more on one or the other

test image 3

this is the last sample pic for this short continuity

test image 2

this is the second page of a continuity sample

test picture for Michael Davis

this is just a sample to show continuity that was requested-