Samwise Gamgee

I put this together for a video tutorial for my old school. For whatever reason I've been wanting to do drawing of Sam for a while now.

Hunter Dude...

     

Tis' the Season

Favorite holiday. A little sketch.

Don't Let Those Robots Eat Me!

I was painting the spare bedroom yesterday and listening to the Flaming Lips while I did so. This quick sketch and Photoshop color was the result last night! Couldn't resist. Go Yoshimi!

One for the Show!

Here is a piece I did recently for an art show benefiting a charity focused on mitochondrial disease. It's called "Ill Gnome".

Cranklepuss!

This was a quick sketch for a co-worker.

Sorry!

I've been really busy that last couple of weeks with my internship and haven't had time to post much. So as an apology I figured I would go ahead and post the first page of Oni Roll, the web comic. I am setting up a page for just the comic too, but I want to get a little farther in the story before I start really putting that out there. Anyway... here is page 1. Hope you like it!

Some pencil stuff!

Just wanted to share a couple things...

This is the first of a series I want to start about golems, they would just be pencil drawings with perhaps a tiny bit of Photoshop touch up. I might try to eventually do a gallery or something if I do enough of these...

And... bonus?

This was just my last in-class portrait drawing of the semester:

Hudson the Alligator

Hudson the Alligator is for Hudson the Human nephew (coming soon!). Ima do digital mural thingy for his bedroom starring this little critter.

Oni Eyes 2 (for one)

As promised...here are a couple more quick paintings of "close ups" on the other two oni characters from my story.

 

The Eyes of an Oni!

So I am planning to do set of three of these, just to sort of get in closer to my oni characters. Buuuttt... since I kind of used part of this for my new banner I figured I would go ahead and share - a shot of what it might be like to look one of my oni in the eyes. Happy Friday!

The Crew!

Soo... here is the line up of all the central characters (in all their forms) to my upcoming web comic Oni Roll! I started the project for an illustration class, but I definitely plain on taking it to the next level. I'll keep everyone posted when the comic is up and running!

And the Dragon

Sooo... this is the final design for my central set of characters for Oni Roll. This is my villain, Fuuntatsu, in his dragon form.

Shop Concept 2!

Another crack at the design for the sushi shop...

Shop Concept!

So... here is the first full concept painting of the exterior of the sushi shop. I don't think it is going to be the final design but I wanted to share it anyway!

Fuun 2.0

This is a re-working of my villain character for Oni Roll, he now has a name: Fuuntatsu ("bad luck" and "dragon"... I think), or Fuun for short!

And oni no. 3!!

And the 3rd of the oni brothers... this one is Tong! Next up... a dragon!!

Oni No. 2!

Here is the second of the chefs, Bolo,  in his "oni form"...

The first of the Oni!!

So... this is one of my sushi chefs in his oni form...still a good guy, used to be a bad guy... he may still get some final tweaks, but I wanted to share.

Bad Guy 2.0

Ok, so here is a second crack at the villain for my Oni Roll story:

Potential Villain

I haven't given him a name just yet, but this guy is a potential design for the villain character in my Oni Roll story. He is a wandering samurai and he turns in to a dragon.

Jin or Min

This little girl is one of the central characters to my Oni Roll project, she is the pseudo-daughter of the three chefs. I haven't quite nailed down a name, but my lovely wife suggested Jin or Min, any thoughts?

Tong Listens to Prayers at the Shrine

Another Oni Roll development piece. Pencil drawing.

The sushi chefs together!

Okay, so my visual development project this semester is called Oni Roll and it centers around three sushi chefs in medieval Japan who are, of course, much more than their appearance would suggest. I was going to show these guys one at a time, but I put them together in a quick line up and figured I would just show them that way. Anyway, more characters form Oni Roll to come, but here are (from left) Mac, Tong and Bolo!

The first of the sushi chefs!

Sooo... the sushi story continues to be developed. Here is Bolo, the first of the sushi chefs I am developing! Might be his final design, but always subject to change. Anyway, here he is:

Another sushi shop study...

... this time of the outside.

Ye Olde Sushi Shoppe

I suppose this will serve as an intro to my spring semester illustration project. It involves a mepdieval sushi shop...

Ol' Red Hands

I wanted to try my hand at a painting with a little more "realism" to the style and details so I made this over the weekend. Ol' Red Hands is a character I've had in my head for a long time. I envision him as a sort of shaman/warrior in the Appalachian Mountains with the ability to shape shift into a wolf. He would cause havoc for early settlers and what not.

A Couple Quick Paintings

Happy New Year, everyone! Here are a couple quick paintings I did today and thought I'd share... any Goro Fujita fans might recognize a lot of his influence in the one with the dude standing in the field!