rakugaki robo

Some designs for an old style giant robo. I want it to be inspired by the generation of robots that came before the super robot in 70s. Tough to balance a look that at once recalls the simplicity of Tetsujin 28, the power of Giant Robo and the grandeur of Big O.

yeah, i don't know either

On the left: watercolor on moleskine.
On the right: digital colors.

The one on the left was done after the one on the right. A lot of people couldn't figure out exactly what was happening when I was working on this, and to be honest, now I can see why. It was intended to be a final rendering for a conceptual illustration class last year; and this scene tried to capture the climax of the story I had come up with at the time.

End result: meh.

I did learn some nifty tricks in the digital version, however.

Digital Love

So I was hard-drive rummaging this past weekend and I found two unfinished digital coloring sketches that gave me painting bug. One of them became the new header for the blog... do you like it?

I put up the old header here for nostalgia's sake.
There's also this really old rendering of Jett fighting some weird insect rock monsters or something. I don't know.
Slapped on some color and well.. that's it.

watercolor splash!

So! After finally picking up the watercolor sketchbook and dabbling in color after a summer-long hiatus, I also ended up scanning the thing and much to my dismay this is all I have... it's not even one picture for each month I've had the sketchbook! In order to rectify this, I'm gonna... start drawing in the watercolor book!

The oldest picture is last with the most recent one right below.

rakugaki re-imagining

So if you've been keeping track of my blog posts, I've been trying to "re-find" my self and style.
Seeing the New Getter Robo OVAs helped put me back on track as Bandai's interpretation of of the Getter Robo mythos provided me with the energy needed to evolve!

Here's a link to the first 10 minutes of the show; watch to the end to see some sweet fighting animation!

I also ended up drawing a little Cutey Honey fanart before going back to freesketching.

The last picture is an idea for an short animation music video set to Radiohead's Lurgee.

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by!

shin rakugaki restsuken!

So here I've got some more interesting pictures... I hope.
Some old villains redrawn along with some philosopers on the right hand side.
The second picture is something I thought up while listening to Mew's Snow Brigade.
The third picture came about as I was riding home one night. For some reason I thought this was how the universe came to be.
Man I have a headache.

rakugaki update

So here's an update on the Rakugaki sketchbook. I've actually got more than these scanned and stuff, but I figure I'll just spread the wealth throughout the posts.

Rakugaki BEAT

Whoa... it's been a long time....

Everything is like spiral for me. If I don't draw one day... my ability to put pencil to paper weakens and then before I know it, a month goes by without a single sketch getting drawn.

That'll be put to an end hopefully now that I've got my Rakugaki BEAT sketchbook.
In reality, it's just an ordinary moleskine, but with the flame of spontaneously combusting imagination, it becomes my tool of drawing destruction!
My aim was to do 2 pages a day, but I've been getting ahead of that, so I'll stick to drawing 2 pages as a minimum.

Here's what I've gotten scanned so far.

MURDER ALLEY DEATHRAIN

BBTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Jenny Deathrain doing some up-the-wall gymnastics. I drew this towards the beginning of the quarter but wasn't quite satisfied with the version I had inked, so I redrew and inked it, but this time adding in some tone. Pretty cool, huh?

In real life news, I just finished up classes about a week ago. Now I have allll the time in the world (for 3 months and in between work) to draw! I'm work on 4 Asphalt Graze teaser pages to show in my portfolio along with a crossover oneshot using a character from my good friend, James Stanley. You can check out his crispy deep fried art at beefykunoichi!

PS- I bought Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 and it's destroying my life. 11 hours in one day... what is wrong with me.

watercolor dabbles

So, lately I've been a bad student and I've been trying to build up my watercolor sketchbook instead of doing eh... scientific illustration. But that's between us. (I still did some sci-illust.)

These were all done on a two pager spread and are about 3-4 inches in size. I resized them for the web. Jett (leftmost) was actually drawn the smallest, probably since I can draw him in any angle. There's more stuff I'm drawing, and it will probably be all Asphalt Graze concept stuff.
Well, that's all for now!

What powers you?

Let's say you wake up one morning.

You know it's gonna be a bad day just by looking at your bedsheets. Just as palm readers divine the secrets of fate from the wrinkles in your hand, the creases in your bedfabric tell you that your day is going to suck. You don't know how or why you know, but you just do.

If you take one step outside that door, the world, the ENTIRE. INFINITE. UNIVERSE. is going to bend backwards and roar at your insolence; the fact that you have the gall to live. And because of this, the world is going to do everything it can to make sure that this error is corrected. That you do NOT get through the day alive.

So what are you going to do? Stay in bed and let time erode the fabric that ties you to reality?
Or are you going to kick the universe outta the way and scream like the human you are because dammit you are alive and you are NOT gonna die?!

Well, those are some pretty dramatic conclusions... but what I would like is to know what it is that keeps YOU (yes, you) living from day to day.

For me (and everyone else in my comic), it is the drive to make my dream a reality; to become a comic book artist. Not just any artist, but the best damn shonen manga artist in the west. That drive is what I call "astropower."

So... are you astropowered?