Elric of Melnibone

I've been working on this off and on in my spare time and think I am done with it. It seems like completion is wholey dependent on when I get tired of looking at it nowadays. Elric of Melnibone was a character that struck a huge chord with me when I was an adolescent. Tortured, tragic, anti-hero. Forging destiny? Or slave to fate. Great stuff for an overly emotional and sentimental emo kid! Happy New Year!

PS2 Resident Concepts

More concept art for that old PS2 game that got shelved. Concepts of the background people that inhabit the game. The world was 40s inspired but I looked at anything vintage. JC Leyendecker was definitely an inspiration (even though it probably doesn't look like it).

These were concepts for the workers around the city. It gave me an opportunity to incorporate some military elements, spats, jodhpurs, and leather which are always fun to design.

PS2 Girl Concepts

Concepts of a few character variations for Sony Playstation 2. Some goth inspired girls and a motorcycle girl.

PS2 Tech Girl Turn

An old character concept turn I did back when I was working at Sony Playstation (PS2).

Legolas vs Azog

My girlfriend's son, Tomi, wanted me to draw him a picture of Legolas. I was hoping to do something simple but the the more I put it off the more I got art directed. A picture of Legolas became Legolas in an action pose shooting arrows into an orc. I decided to put in Azog (who Legolas never fights) and have Legolas wearing Narsil (which isn't his sword). I drew Azog pretty loose since this was taking me forever thinking I would be done with it. Tomi loved it! But ... he had more notes :( "Could you tighten up Azog and add some arrows sticking out of him? Pleeeeesseee!" ... And here it is. Art: me, Art Direction: Tomi Lin.

Old PSM Lineart

Old illustrations for Playstation Magazine back in the late 90's.

Grey Fox from Metal Gear Solid and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7. I think this was for best "bad guys" in video games of that year. It's been touched up a little from the original since the internet was new back then and I didn't have much reference for Grey Fox. I don't even think he had a name back when the first MGS game came out. He was just referred to as the "Ninja"

Solid Snake and Grey Fox (Ninja) from Metal Gear Solid.














Leon Scott Kennedy (thanks Wikipedia!) from Resident Evil
II facing off with an Umbrella agent.

Old Exalted RPG Stuff

Sometime in the early 2000's I did some illustrations for Whilte Wolf Publishing's RPG, Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded and Caste Book: Twilight.

Interior. Scene of Horakinis spying on some Dragon-Blooded dudes.

Illustration for the spell "Stoneskin"

Interior art. Horakinis taking a stand against ... Werewolves? ... Cat people? I can't remember. I modified some of  their sizes since they were off by quite a bit. I scaled and shrunk to make it look less bad.

Lineup of the characters I designed off of descriptions.

Batgirl and Robin

Originally this was a study for a piece I was going to do for a friend. Ultimately it didn't happen but I still kind of liked the rough so decided to clean it up and put some tones on it. These were based off of the Young Justice design done by Phil Buorassa and slaughtered by my own incapability of drawing any other way.

Girl Concepts

Old concept work I did back in the late 90s for an online clothing store that is no longer existing. The concept, if I remember correctly, was they wanted a mascot avatar that would interact with it's customers as they navigated through the website.

They wanted a cute hip girl and sadly I know absolutely nothing about hipster fashion.

Alien vs Predator

AVP. An old Aliens vs Predator drawing I did back in the late 90s.  I can't for the life of me remember the comic book series where the Aliens had the numbers painted on their heads. I think it had scientists on a floating space lab. The Alien 4 movie took elements from that book.

Old Predator study.

Old Sketches

Bubble girl

Robot Concept

Spiderman sketch I did while on my trip to NY (2002)

Sketch while resting in a cafe in NY (2002)

Page of sketches while waiting for a recording session. (1997)

Old Superhero Stuff

More old sketches from the old website.

Iron Man

Batgirl for Rico Renzi when he had the Batgirl site.

Copycat of DV8 done for one of the Wildstorm card sets.

Gen 13 kids. Grunge, Burnout, Rainmaker, Freefall, and Fairchild.

Roxy And Caitlin

Caitlin Fairchild

Pin up for E.J. Su's Stone Monkey comic. Mid 2000s

Old Elf Stuff

I've decided to shut down itchstudios.com since I never update it anyways. With sites like Blogger and DeviantArt, it makes posting art faster, easier, and all around less of a hassle for me. I'll be posting up some of the old stuff that I still kind of like just for posterity.

"Arms"

Elf Warrior

Elf Warrior "Undaunted"

Winged Girl

Faerie

Black Widow

I'm not sure what my fascination with Black Widow is but in thinking of something to draw for the blog, this came out. There are perspective problems with the gun and magazines ... probably with the figure too while I'm at it. One of these days I will put some more thought into what I'm going to do before I draw it.

 *Edit: I changed her right foot. It was kind of reading as a stump so I went for a safer angle. And added her bracelet to make her more Black Widow-y.

Iron Man

I didn't have any real design idea when I started this. I was just having fun pushing shapes around. Well it started out fun then got frustrating when I realized it was all over the place. It's wildly inconsistent but it's done as far as I'm concerned.

Darkseid and Misc Superman/Batman Apocalypse Characters

The Green Lantern animated series is winding down. As I was clearing space off of my computer I found this Darkseid turn we did for Superman/Batman Apocalypse back from the DTVs. I did the initial design and Jeff Johnson did the actual turn.

When we were going through the approval process, we were instructed to make his head bigger. But director Lauren Montgomery decided to revert him back to the original "small head" version when she did her attitude sheets. That's why she is a badass in my book haha.

I've adjusted the model and proportions to the longer and less squat version and did a quick shadow treatment on it.

The second is a page of initial sketches for the Furies (Guilotina, Mad Harriet, Lashina, and Stompa). Based off of Michael Turner's designs from the comic book.

The third is a page of other secondary characters (Granny Goodness, Treasure, Harbinger, and Artemis) again based off of Michael Turner's designs.

The last is Doomsday.

Tron

I always seem to finally get around to doing a drawing of something that has passed it's hype window. I actually sketched this before the movie had come out and only had what little I could find on the internet as reference so a lot of this is made up and way off model. I'll probably tweak this a bit more once I can see straight again. For now I'm tired of looking at it!

Aang

Easter 3 day weekend. I'm rested and thought I would draw something for my little nephews to color. They LOOOVES their Avatar! Looking at it now I'm wondering if the spikey spears will be okay with their Mom.

Spidey and Doc Ock

I'm going up to Vancouver tomorrow to visit my sister and her adorable boys. Kirk, my brother-in-law informed me their oldest son Kai, REALLY wanted a Spiderman drawing. So, in trying to be a good uncle, I drew one up semi quick. The idea was to make it cute but muscle memory kicked in and Spidey got kind of sinewy... Well it's cutish!

I'm sure I'll see how grotesque it probably actually is in a month or so once I can see it for what it is.

Wonder Woman and Big Barda Turns

Wonder Woman and Big Barda turns for the Superman/Batman Apocalypse DTV. Based off of Michael Turner's designs.

Jeff Johnson did this turn on Barda with some touch ups from me. Especially the face since she was my favorite of this movie and I had a pretty specific look I was trying to get.

Superman and Batman Turns

Superman and Batman turns for the Superman/Batman Apocalypse DTV. Based off of Michael Turner's designs.

Supergirl Turn

Superman/Batman Apocalypse hit the shelves last Tuesday. I had the good fortune to be asked to do the designs for this movie. Even though I don't consider myself a character designer, it was a lot of fun and a lot of stress trying to emulate Michael Turner's style. Special thanks goes out to Jeff Johnson for doing a ton of the heavy lifting with the finishes, turns and, and incidental designs.

Produced and Directed by Lauren Montgomery.

I'll post the other main characters once I finish my work for the week.

Weapon X

Wolverine: Brown suit. Even though this is in black and white..... I haven't followed a comicbook series in the last ten plus years, but the other day I was reminded of Chris Claremont and Paul Smith's run on the X-Men. That era was my introduction to the series and, for me, the definitive group and look. So I had to draw Wolverine in the brown suit and in keeping with the nostalgia, he had to be fighting some ninjas.

Widow

Natasha Romanoff/Natalia Romanova aka Black Widow. I thought it would be a good idea to spend a little more time and do some forced perspective with a background. It turned out not to be such a good idea considering how much time I spent nitpicking "is the hand was too small or the foot?", "are the windows too big?", "why isn't the gesture swooping as much as I want?", "ugh, I can't figure that shape out at this angle!" type of neuroses...

My buddy Jimmy Tran was kind enough to color this pic. Check it out!