DMF Self Portrait

Picking up photoshop where I left off in concept art, I begin this term with the post of my self portrait. I look annoyed because the picture this image derives from is of me being forced to drink Ihop coffee in absence of mountain dew. The background was a sweet space image I found that I just decided to have me stand in front of.

I was like yeah whatever!

Today began with the drawing of a creature known as a Quartagan. Quartagan are aquatic squid like creatures which have moves to live on land, however that natural body shape makes life on land difficult thus they require the aid of steam powered devices to move around. They are the alien equivalent of a fat guy on a segway.

They however most notibly boring to draw so I soon moved on to a different idea for today. I decided to revisist the sketch from last week I did of Malone and Marion but to add color and deffinition. I am rather pleased with the result.





On a final note my buddy Brent also sent me a link to this Comic. I enjoyed it

What's chillin' Otter pops?

Continuing work on the concepts of the space pirates we come to the sketches of the Galacans. In the story the Galacans have managed to conquer most of the galaxy and become the dominant race, as well as force most humanoids into their servitude. I think Hastings made up some lore to back up why they are so war like...something about a giant clam or pearl? I don't know, anyway....
The Galacans in basically otter people, which fits well with the nautical space theme. Today I did a basic sketch of a more realistic Galacan concpet before deciding it was not what I was after and went back to my cartoon style, except like...otterized. I tried to capture a wide variety of different emotions and expressions.


I have to give some credit to Disney, its not easy making animals show emotion. And it deffinantly not easy trying to make a creature as hairy as an otter look particularly feminine.

Near the end of the day though my creativity reached that point where the silliness became over whealming and i found myself drawing my best freind from highschool as an otter man. Although Brent is not actually a Galacan I must admit to seeing a certain resemblence.

Sky Pirates

So I finally settled on doing a bunch of stuff involving the sky pirates Kyle, Tasty and I made for our current Ancar campaign. I will probably have drawings of the crew, the ship, enemies and planets they go to. Today I did some roguh sketches of Marion and Malone and a sketch of the Dread ship Wolfface.


Note to self.....do a study of wolf ships in their natural habitat and take notes for Wednesday..

Finished town....and the Sax Horse

The finished town concept. I think overall despite several difficulties to recover the damn file off of Lindsay's flash drive it is here! The colors and shadows turned out well I think, the use of layers worked well to achieve value. I would like to go back later and try to change up some of the texture a bit I think, but otherwise lookin' good.

And Now without further distraction the creation of the universe as presented by the Sax Horse!

Town continued

Today I added some detail to the background building as well as hills beyond the city walls. I also roughly slathered some color on the building in the foreground and added some shadows.

Plans for whats next. Detail front buildings, work out bugs with the hills, decided if I want street lamps or not, make final decision on what the towers are for...if anything other then the rule of cool. And add the final shadows to the whole thing.

The town that isn't.....yet!

Here is a quick look at the progress I have so far on my idea. The first image is an early concept a sketched in on the tablet in class.

The idea evolved the next day while I was at work drawing in my sketch book. This sketch was what I decided to go with for the time being.

Here is a look on the current progress of the idea. I am still working with color trying to figure out exactly how to get photoshop to do what I want it to. Right now the plan is to just get some color on there and them work on shadows and light mostly after wards.