I got this idea while reading about chinese herbal remedies. Apparently the Chinese womens swim team some years back was accused of using performance enhancing drugs, their coach in a press conference claimed they were taking herbs including the rare and expensive cordyceps.
Cordyceps is a fungus that ...Read more
Still refining the pencil to Photoshop workflow. With some extra work this typical midieval euro-style frog soldier could be clean. Without his pencil outline he is actually pretty solid but would need some inking details. I left the pencil instead and called him done.
Right now I'm sketching...a...Read more
This guy came out OK except his ink lines stand out and look a bit spotty next to the clean cel shading of the rest of the image. I might go back and stroke the body and get rid of the ink layer. We'll see.
Frankenbean...I have no idea what the Mercury part means..Maybe they know in Japan.
So I was re-reading some H.P. Lovecraft and felt the need to whip this guy up. "Yogg" is a pretty down the middle name for a Lovecraftian elder god. Following "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" this small village has summoned Yogg from the mists of the sea town, long fallen into decay but not abandoned. Sea...Read more
OK! The blog is created. Nothing much on here yet but I thought it would be a good idea to preserve some of the half-baked ideas I work on and abandon. Hopefully some move on to be finished works but sometimes a decent sketch lies around forever without any attention so here some of em come to rest.
This guy is basically me trying to work up a semi-rusted metal texture that might be found on an aging robot. I'm always intrigued by decaying technology and the dented automaton to left is one take on that theme. Not quite a finished piece but I pulled it out of the gutter and it looks decent.
The name "peacebot" is from a concept me a...Read more
Concept artist and creature designer.