Concept Design for The Abhorsen - The House

 It's been a while, but that's because I was busy re-locating to Seattle, WA! Woohoo!

More work for my Abhorsen series! Credit to the wonderful writings of Garth Nix and 'The Old Kingdom Trilogy'. Truly awesome reads :D

Concept Design for The Abhorsen - Bells Design

so i've been working on creating my own interpretations and designs of props and environments from the Garth Nix trilogy 'Abhorsen'. really awesome books that basically deal with zombies in a medieval era and a believable magic concept, i highly recommend them. here's my first design:

the Abhorsen is a necromancer on the side of the living that wields these 7 powerfully magical bells to fight the risen dead. when rung, each have a different effect on the entity its chime is directed towards.

like i said; really great books. go read them.

more to come soon!

Hourglass [Purgatory]

a while ago, i finished an hourglass design for a friend's animation project. with that done, he then asked if i would design a dead city (his idea of Purgatory) that would reside in the bottom bulb. here are the final designs we came up.

as always, crits and comments welcome! ^_^

Jack Frost's Forest (1979 Redesign)

The final project for my Sketching for Environment class was to redesign a space from the 1979 Rankin & Bass Jack Frost stop motion animation. I got Jack Frost's Forest, which is where he first meets Elisa, his love interest and main motivation throughout the film.

The villain of the film, Kubla Krauss, is said by the very poor and unfortunate townspeople to own everything in the land; down to the last brick and tree. His army and servants are all mechanical, coal burning robots he's manufactured. With that in mind, I thought this forest could have been partially destroyed and Jack Frost takes it upon himself to transform it into a beautiful place for the townspeople and children to visit during the harshest, most miserable time of the year.

Hourglass Concept Design

did an hourglass design for a friend's animation, very stoked to see it all animated and stuff :D had a lot of fun figuring this design out and even more fun getting back into the painting saddle!

crits and comments welcome! :D

The Forgotten House

Another concept off my list :) moving on!

Kunoichi

some designs i did for a perfume label for IndieCade. thanks to the wonderful Beverly Sage for contacting me about this small but super fun gig!

this is the one they decided on:

and then i decided to throw some texture in thurr, and then they went with it:

figures and assassins

my figure drawing hwk (gotta keep going!! :D) thus far this week, plus a quick and super basic sketch i did today. finally met Azrael in Arkham City; not super impressed with his design, but it got me motivated to try the sketch.

Lotus World

hooray! finished it! ^_^ onwards, to the next one!

development thumbs and archway design silhouettes:

Blacksmith's Workshop

new concept. many thanks to my good friend Josh, with whom i toss ideas around with, for being as into medieval stuff as i am :D

the final presentation:



the blue and red pencil line drawing:



the first sketches and lots of writing:

Graphic Elements

little project i started a while ago, trying to design things in a simpler and more graphic way.

left to right: fire, earth, metal, wood, water, air.

Foras Once More

i decided to fiddle around with his design just a tad more and settled on this. really excited to begin the final illustration :D

Foras

more development on President Foras. I'm very excited to do a line drawing and paint him up soon >:D

head designs:

full character:

President Foras: gettin' there

first-and-almost-second pass on my take on President Foras. here's a description from Wikipedia about him:

"In demonology, Foras (alternatively Forcas or Forrasis) is a powerful President of Hell, being obeyed by twenty-nine legions of demons. He teaches logic and ethics in all their branches, the virtues of all herbs and precious stones, can make a man witty, eloquent, invisible (invincible according to some authors), and live long, and can discover treasures and recover lost things.

He is depicted as a strong man."

President Foras: prelim

some initial sketchwork for a forum project:

grenade!

new concept for Blink! grenades for the game's enemy unit!

here's the final concept sheet:

and here are the process passes:

some more concept work

another prop concept for the student project i've been working on; the warehouse section's mechanical crane arm.

here's the concept sheet:

and here are the process passes drawn over a screenshot of the warehouse:

some recent concept work

some work i've been doing for a student group. they've got a pretty awesome project going on ^_^

high priestess character concept

i had a dream about rectangles and i had the desire to design some kind of clothing that was really rectangle heavy, paneled and all that. it turned into a character concept for a high priestess specializing in healing arts as dictated by her outer veil's blue stripes. I have a whole thing about how people would rise up in the ranks in the temple and what colors and patterns would signify what specialty they are, but i'm too tired to get into it here, hahaha!

production painting: Enclave

I got permission to show this on my blog and website, yay!



this is a production painting I did for DeMonner Industries of an environment in their project. learned many a thing here :)