For a competition going on in tafe called "Fact or Fiction" (choose a character/person from history to do a portrait of), I decided to do Jak from the game 'Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy'. I wanted to do something in a sort of art nouveau kind of style, showing the villages you travel through (each representing a different type of eco+colour in the game) and the dark eco silo, one with white eco and one with dark eco (hinting at the eco duality in Jak in the later games). Behind Jak's head (in the circle) is the Seal of Mar which is an important plot point for his character in the second game. Daxter, his best friend turned Otsel, sits on his shoulder as he is always with Jak. They are inseparable. It would not be a portrait of Jak without Daxter in it.

I am creating the borders and seal in Illustrator to make the lines and measurements linear.

This is still a work in progress. Can't wait until it's finally finished! The backgrounds are going to be difficult but I'm welcoming the challenge.

"The Fool"

For drawing class I wanted to do a piece based on a character archetype. This one is 'the fool'.

Bouncing back to old ideas

I had always wanted to complete this image, one that I had drawn in my sketchbook a long while back. It is still in progress as I have not completed the shading. I stuck with the same sort of black white with a solid shadow style that I had experimented with in my Free Comic Book Day prints.

Free Comic Book Day

I needed a break from Bruiser, so I have put it on the back burner.

I was invited to draw free sketches for people at the All Star Comics Free Comic Book Day artist alley this year! It was on May 3rd and everything went well. I was encouraged to have some merchandise to sell so I gave them some copies of my comic from 2012 and decided to make some new art for prints! I did these two during the mid semester break.

Slowly but surely..

My work on my project is slowly falling behind, but we're getting there surely. The deadline for this piece was much too small considering the size of the background, the detail and consistency I want to maintain, and the fact that we have other assignments with closer due dates than I expected. There are so many more assignments in other classes than what I expected, so I've been putting this piece on the back burner.

Instead of sticking to a 3 week schedule, I will decide on a comfortable due date piece by piece. To get this one done to the standard that I would like, I am going to keep this piece going until the end of the Easter holidays.

I'm embarrassed that I haven't been able to stick to my schedule, but I have underestimated the time I need to take for a piece this size.

In other news, progress on the creatures is going well! I have the mane left to darken and then I need to put in the highlights. I've decided to do all of the highlights right at the end to keep them linear and consistent. I will move onto the trees next. c:

Colour Rough!

This week I have done a colour rough in preparation for when I truly get started! I wanted to put in some dramatic lighting to create more of an atmosphere to the piece and here we are.

I still haven't completely finished the lines, but there are only tufts of grass left so I decided to save my sanity and begin throwing in the flat colours.

It's moving and I can see a great piece coming out of this in the end which is exciting!

First piece beginnings!

The first thing I did when I started work on my project was make a big list of themes I could pick from. I will most likely continue to add to it as the year goes on as I think of them. This is just a good reference store so that I don't have to hum and hah too much when it comes to the time to choose another. c:

I want to work on backgrounds a lot this year because I'm always very character focused, so writing down a bunch of terrains that I can mix with other themes is helpful. I chose a lot of different character tropes and types and also emotions so I can choose from either to come up with characters. I would also like to maybe do a few book covers or try my hand at depicting book characters so I might do that a little later! There is really no complete plan when it comes to the choosing of the theme or character.


The first theme I chose to do is 'bruiser with a soft centre", so I did an initial sketch of a creature that came to mind and tried a few different poses that would suit this theme. I also decided to put in another small creature to show the bruiser's soft heart. In the end I decided to go with the sleeping scene. The bruiser has noticed that the little creature is snuggling up close to him, but rather than getting angry and attacking him he's just letting the little guy be.

I took my rough sketch into photoshop and sketched back over it. I changed the pose of the creature to make it more snuggly and also the bruiser's back legs to make them look more understandable. I decided to put them into a forest setting.

I have now begun the lines but they are currently unfinished! I will post again when they are complete! c: