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?

Some sketches

Here's some doodles from the past few weeks. Been doing a lot of that lately with ink pen. I really do miss using physical tools to draw. Working on the guy on the right as of now for a painting. Some freelance might push it back though, duty calls though.

Seven studios deck of cards art

Few months ago the artist at my company decided to do some art for a deck of playing cards. Eventually it will be printed and we all get copies of the deck which sounds cool. Here are my contributions. Other than that not much other news except that one of my games has finally been announced. Fun Park for the Wii, well actually "Six Flags Fun Park" but I want to say that it was an original game before the "intergration" of the license. So our guys did put our hearts and soul into working on an original game. More to come on that game as it is released.

Exotique 3 Book signing at UCLA campus April 27th

Hey everyone, I'll be signing copies of Ballistic Publishings "Exotique 3" (which I am featured in) at the UCLA campus for the LA Times "Festival of Books" fair on Sunday April 27th between 1-4pm at the Hi De Ho Comics booth (Booth 318 Near Royce Hall+UCLA Library) There will be copies of the book there to buy from what I've been told. Also if you want bring your Warcraft cards I've done and I'd be happy to sign them as well. Hope to see you there!

http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/eventmap.pdf

Dominance War complete!

Fun Fun

A little fun this week, a good battle. "But the war has yet to come"...Dominance War that is. I'll get on that next week. Zzzzzzzz

Dominance War ideation sketches

Seasons....GREEtings?

Hey everyone, just wanted to send you all a happy holidays this season. I did a little holiday card after work this week to send out to my contacts. I might as well put it up on my blog too. So yeah, I'm heading back east to Michigan this holiday, very excited this year for some reason. I'll be around, maybe add another entry but I'm focusing on packing my bags and getting everything ready for next week or so. But I hope everyone has a good safe holiday and see you next year!

March of the Legion released

Hey guys. I'm fairly sure its safe to show this now. The card set came out last weekend and bad scans of the cards have been on the internet and eBay for a few weeks. So here are some cards I did in April/May 2007 for Upper Deck. Looking back at these I definitely feel I could have did a better job in quality. I've learned a lot since then thanks to freelance and studio experience, especially working on my current project at work. At any rate here they are, hope you enjoy. I've definitely learned from these pieces.

Update

Hey everyone. Just a quick update. I'm about to start my 4 day weekend but I thought I'd share some images from my desk at work and the things i engulf myself in daily. I recently picked up this badass artbook on Gil Elvgren the pin-up artist. That's his book in the corner of the photo. I also started collecting these little anime figures. No idea what its from, probably something i don't want know but I think they look pretty bad ass.










As for art, this is my latest. I had a really old sketch I did for a possible character design during the early pre-pro phase of the game h'm working on. Apparently the style wasn't suitable so I just kept it on my cork board for almost a half a year. I decided to paint it up last week.












Also, the day after Thanksgiving i think that ImagineFX magazine issue 24 comes out in the States if you are interested. Me and my Concept Director Miguel Lleras will be in the DVD gallery.

Garo Artbooks have arrived!

Just received my package of Garo art/design books straight from Japan. Man this stuff is nuts! One book details the characters armor designs and production sketches. The other deals with the Equip and Prop figures thats are insanely expensive and hard to find. It shows closeups of the toys and detail put into the figures. Also they have a guest artist that does "kit-bashing" and he creates these little scenes from the show but its incredibly detailed and amazing. I'm pretty happy to get these books!

Happy Belated Halloween

Rawr!

ImagineFX DVD

Hey guys, just wanted to post this up. It's a few screen shots of the DVD that comes with ImagineFX magazine issue 24. The one that Miguel and I are in. They've seem to have butchered my descriptions but that's cool I guess. I've got a bunch of paintings that I've been working on but never had time to finish, perhaps this weekend I will do just that.

PS- Thanks to Doug for letting check out his copy of the magazine. Subscribers get it once its available where bookstores will get it 2 months after the UK release. So thanks!

Published at last! Summer '07 recap and more!

Ok, well its been a long hard while over the summer. I hope everyone has been doing well. I've been busy doing cards for World of Warcraft Trading Card Game (which should be coming out in November in the "March of the Legion" set) and working at 7 Studios on our new original IP game. Very exciting hard work going towards there. I'll try and give the low down on things thats been happening...

I have great news for everyone, As some of you may know, my piece "Onuwen" will be shown in the prestigious new Ballistic Publishing art book Exotique 3 and now the webpage is up and running for people to preview the amazing art in this book. Check it out, theres a flash flip through preview. It's quite an honor to be amongst these gods of digital painting. Here's the link: http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/exotique_3/index.php

Second news, on October 23rd, the newest Imagine FX issue will be out in the UK and hopefully the US. My concept director Miguel Lleras and I will be featured in the DVD that comes along with that issue as FXpos'e digital artists. We'll have a gallery on the dvd and small interview with it. I haven't received my issue yet but I'm sure its going to be sweet. So look out for it at Borders or Barnes and Noble!

Thirdly, they've finally come out with Napoleon Dynamite screenshots for the Nintendo DS and PSP. Yes, I know, my company<3 movie games. http://kotaku.com/photogallery/NapoleonDynamite

That's all for now, here some speed paints i've been doing lately in Painter. I've come across a pretty awesome thing in Painter where you can adjust the pre-set brushes and make things work the way you want it. I've got so that I can make a circle brush act like photoshops but have the functionality of the oil brushes in painter without the crappy scratch marks. This in essence creates the ability to paint like photoshop but pick up surrounding colors just like real painting. This is also helped by putting the layer I'm working on to "pick up underlying color" which means that it will blend and pick up anything i have under that layer without affecting those layers. This was pretty awesome today as i was doing some of these paintings, it was like i was back in school actually applying paint and moving it around and blending colors on the fly to create new ones. Good times, I have to learn more about the inner workings of Painter.

Keita Amemiya is awesome!

I know its pretty late, around 3:30 am. But I was traversing the interweb and discovered the name of the guy i pretty much owe my teenage/adulthood to in terms of artistic inspiration.

Keita Amemiya was unknown to me but his work has etched itself in my artistic backlog since I've seen Kamen Rider and Zyu Rangers (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in U.S.) He was the primary Director/art director on those shows. Later he would become the Character Designer on one of my favorite game series of all time Onimusha. Working on Onimusha 2, 3, and Dawn of Sorrows. Now his latest and greatest is a show instantly got hooked on and now i know why. Garo is perhaps one of the best Japanese Tokusatsu (Japanese live action special effects shows) that I have seen and the quality in his character/monster designs are top notch.

Here's some of his work in art/toy form from a Garo artbook, which i plan on getting once I save enough money.



I would love to one day be as prolithic as this character designer from Japan.