Warcraft "Fan Art"

Enjoy, I had a blast working on it.

Fantasy Armor Designs

A brief detour from Project Henshin, I wanted to do some armor designs for my portfolio. Plate mail, leather/fur, and cloth designs. >.> It's not like I played a Paladin/Rogue/Mage before...ever...in an MMO game...from that awesome company. OK I did.

How many are there? Lets kill em all!

There always seems to be a plentiful amount of cronies or goons to fight in tokusatsu sentai shows for sure. My concept would be zombie astronauts and civilians, or rather bits and pieces put together after the alien invasion. I wanted something scary and leathal to civilians but fun for the rangers to battle and not exert too much effort, they are of course just mindless zombies. They also extend their apendages like Mr. Fantastic somewhat and almost turn into a massive wave of darkness at some points of the story flooding the rangers in epic battleness. Also, i could help but make murloc sounds while working on them lol. The big boy up there is more of a tank version patroling down the streets reigning terror and processing up more bodies for assimilation. And I reworked the hangar bay shaft scene to show the goons infiltrating it.

Some environments WIP and 3d sketches

Here are some environments I've been working on using the process of blocking in objects and shapes with Google sketch-up and painting over. I'm still getting used to it. I'm open to critiques and advice when it comes to the environments or ideas on my personal project. Puttys, more enemy commanders and Series-2 rangers are coming up. I'm trying to switch back and forth between the needed environments and the characters that I enjoy working on.

Still here

Still here, still working on personal project, still job hunting, unemployment's run out i believe. I went to the Street Fighter Nucleus gallery show this last Saturday and met up with many friends and artists there. One of which i talked to about the industry and how were all in tight spots these days and to keep the faith. It's been almost 8 months since the lay off and the job posts have just started to come around but I have been sending for a long time. On some days cant help but think about the dark things but yes, keeping faith and hope in myself has become a valuable attribute lately.

More to come.

Mecha-Zord hangar bay using Sketch-up

I thought I'd try to use Sketch-up for my environments and It turned out well I think. You really cant tell but it helped get past the perspective mental roadblock I usually get when working out rooms and environments, I think I could get used to Sketch Up. Anyways, here's another piece for my Project Henshin, a decommissioned Mecha-Zord hangar bay. yeah, thats just a preview of whats to come baby.

Project Henshin has begun!

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post these pieces up from my Darker tokusatsu project. I wanted to start with something that sets the tone of what i wanted. Imran helped me out with bringing that feeling or emotion home right off the bat so I did a painting setting the mood and where the story begins. The soldiers of the future failing and dying, their leader the valiant Henshin Red-01 stands alone with his comrades dead who knows where battling other evil forces, armor broken and unarmed from his mono-fiber plasma katana. Perhaps facing his final enemy with no backup and energy running low in his Plasma Polymer Alloy power suit. This is the tone, dark and death, but there's hope. This is the end of those poor soldiers but it marks a new beginning where new heroes will appear but the world has changed blah blah blah, have i got ya?

Ok sorry, that was just me thinking outloud lol. Well, you get where I'm going and hopefully you enjoy it because I certainly enjoyed thinking and creating more content for this project. Most of those sketches are work in progress.

Just a tease

Just a tease of whats to come next week, this weekend I'm having some crazy fun coming up with some ideas for Project Henshin. Wait till you see the mech battle. I'll post the suit designs fully when I get a chance to paint them. I've got a few portfolios to get ready for some studios and that take precedence, at least i think. How have everyone been?

Small update and some environments

Hey everyone, some more samples and some updates and touch ups on previous ones. Added an alien planet environment and command room where the main characters hangout i guess. Still working on the suit and helmet designs, those will be up this week for sure after I start sending out portfolios to companies first with this new work I have. Wish me luck.

Project Henshin: Bio-EX 06

Some more samples I was working on this week. Part of my personal project for a more serious and darker tokusatsu style franchise. Very much inspired by designs from Keita Amemiya. This one is a bit video-gamey with the "weak spots", I'm playing a bit too much RE5 and Dead Space maybe lol. But yeah, it would be a boss character for the good guys to battle. Designs for the good guys are still to come, the suits designs are very important for the project and I'm going through a lot of itterations (dare i say...variations). Environments and Suit designs are on the list though so, more to come!

Also, apologies to all the comment posters in old posts, I never got any notifications that there were comments. Especially on the Garo artbooks.

"Warning: In case of Civil Defense Sirens..."

Giant robots vs Monsters...oh yes. Not only a fan of sentai but kaiju as well! The sketch designs may be used as offspring of the larger monster ala American Godzilla or Cloverfield. More on this to comeand maybe some more fun stuff! Stay tuned...

I like Super Sentai

Things have gotten pretty busy here. Freelance and contract work. Still looking for that full time gig. After my time is done at Technicolor I'll be on the hunt again. Hopefully more places will be open to looking for concept artist by then.

Some Sentai fan art in celebration to watching their new series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. I'm kinda excited and I would love to be hired to design one of their shows one day. Kind of a dream of mine.

career update

I just started my 1 month contract gig at Technicolor Interactive Wednesday. I'm excited and the project is pretty neat and am interested to see the end result. I've met some really cool people working with Scott Seeto, Yoriko, and Jeff are pretty awesome. I posted a mix of digital sketch and a traditional gouache painting from hangin out at the beach.

And I come back to you now...at the turn of the tide

My apologies to everyone. It has been a very long time but its time I fully returned to the passions that made me happy before my ex-girlfriend. Making badass art. Not quite my new years resolution but yeah something like that, anything to help me move on from my losses last year.

Some news on different fronts. I've decided to open myself up to doing commissions for people's Warcraft or DnD characters or fan art for their favorite shows. If you are interested please email me and I'll send you my commission info. I'll also be making a post soon on my deviantart as well about it so hit me up there as well.

Here is a piece i did for the CGchallenge Steampunk Myth though I missed the deadline because of many happening in RL. Also added some new figure drawing images.

Hello and Good Day

Ok here goes, well thanks for hangin' in there with me for all you guys still visiting. Going through some rough times right now, not only did my Ex break up with me but I was laid off my job at 7 Studios a few weeks after which, is a double whammy of first timers. Thank you to all the people out there that are supporting me, I love you guys even if i cant show it sometimes.

Well, I wanted to post some new work from a game I worked on at 7 studios, the game was recently released in DS version in October and Wii version in Decemeber. Its a little different but it was really really fun to work on. Some of it never even made it into the game.

In the meanwhile I send resumes out. I am thinking of accepting art commissions on my Deviantart and Sheezyart pages, I havent decided or figured out my format yet, probably do a few to test the waters. If you are members please take a look see.

-Kev

Does drawing heal the soul?