Steve(n) Rynders no Rakugaki

Bisoncart!!!

2010-10-26T09:03:00.000-07:00

"Hope for Sale"

2010-03-18T02:20:00.000-07:00

Some friends of mine asked if I could contribute something for a gallery show that's tied into a sketch/improve group that they're involved in. Not really thinking of myself as much of that type of artist, they told me the theme (which is Hope for Sale), and I came up with the idea of doing a short story as a comic page. I also figured it'd be a good learning experience and practice going into a short comic I'm doing for an anthology with some friends.

One of the biggest challenges was getting all of the right storytelling poses and breaking them into panels that would all fit onto one standard size comic page (I just liked the idea of using that type of guideline). After finally getting it laid out, I once again learned that my roughs tend to be far too rough, which means I have to do a lot more decision-making putting down tightened pencils. Also, I tend not to realize how many hands I'm actually putting into shots, and halfway through I start cursing myself for leaving myself all these tricky hand poses I now have to design. Despite spreading the final pencils over two days (1/3 the first day, 2/3 the second) , I notice that I didn't really start to loosen up until maybe the 10th panel, after which the drawings look a lot more loose and confident, I think.

What else did I learn? No matter how loose/light you may lay things down, there's going to get to a point where it won't erase if you redraw it too much. Panel 5, I'm looking at you.

Strongest Panels I think are the bottom row, and the two in the middle of row 3. Weakest? the first two in Row 3, and the first 3 panels in Row 2. Which is funny, as they were some of the strongest poses I thought I had when roughing it all out.

2009-12-10T00:16:00.000-08:00

Here's an update on the Bugbear monster I've been working on in 3d. I'm at a point where I believe the modeling is mostly done, and it's at 6871 tris. That's a bit higher than I wanted, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I've done some basic rigging/jointing tests and I was pretty surprised with how well it was working. Some of the difficulties I found were trying to strike a balance between an overall graphic shape, and how much anatomical detail to put in. I'm going to attempt to do the fur the same way it was handled on the Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus; multiple layers of painted fur with alpha channels; so that will require a good amount of work on texture painting.

2009-11-17T23:07:00.000-08:00

Just something I did in a figure drawing class tonight that I was pretty happy with. There are some areas that can use some work, but since this is my first figure class in a few years it feels good to be getting back into it and improving from where I left off.

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T16:21:00.000-07:00

I've been making an effort to learn Flash a bit better the last two months or so; I'm taking a class in it, which keeps me busy and gives me things to try new stuff out on. As a kid I really enjoyed making Haunted Houses with the doors and windows that would open, and I thought I'd work that into a sort of Halloween card. Just in case it's not clear, click the flashing orange stuff.
Happy Halloween!

Bugbear design

2009-10-30T11:04:00.000-07:00

I've been wanting to design a "monstrous"-type creature in 3d for awhile; and when I started kicking around ideas one of my first thoughts was the old D&D staple, the bugbear. Looking around on the web I wasn't too impressed with some of the other designs that have been produced for this creature. I did a few pages of rough sketches for head designs last year; and one always stood out as creepy and somewhat goblin-ish, which was a right step in the direction I wanted to go. I pulled it out again recently; and started making some tweaks on the design, and after making some silhouette shapes, I put the two together and managed to pull out the final concept. I'm pretty happy with it, and I think it'll look great once it's fully realized in 3d.

Refined Stowaway Thumbnail

2009-10-11T19:03:00.000-07:00

I posted a very early version of this sketch a while back; and I was never very happy with how the composition worked. I put it aside for awhile, and over the last month or so I've been really trying to re-work it to tell the exact story I wanted. I finally feel like I've got the composition about as strong as it can be, so I've started going in and working in a little more as far as the major shapes and what's going on.

They're gonna put it down on the Vegas Strip

2009-08-23T15:23:00.000-07:00

A few months ago I tested for an artist position at a company. They gave me the theme Little Green Men and I made a couple images that I submitted to them. I used this project to sink my teeth a little bit further into Illustrator, the first image I sketched out the main character, the Men in Black character, and the Ufo Alien in pencil, scanned it, then inked the linework and did the text graphic in Illustrator. I then exported it to Photoshop for coloring.

The second image I was a bit looser with the original idea and sketch. It's not as strong of a piece, I think, but I did like that I was able to knock out a second idea, even if it wasn't as fully developed, to show a bit more range. I used the same process, changed up the inking style in Illustrator a little bit but again, did the coloring in Photoshop. I had spent a lot of time on the text graphic, and was pretty happy with how it came out, so I used it for both images.

Ultimately it didn't lead anywhere, and while I probably wouldn't call these portfolio pieces they allowed me to practice and play with some new techniques. I didn't sign any paperwork or NDA, so there shouldn't be any problem, I think, with posting these up for everyone to see.

I'm gonna tell you about an accident, and I don't wanna hear "act of God"!

2009-08-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick glimpse of something I'm working on. A much larger post is in the works, but I wanted to throw up a quick WIP/tease.

When Pirates Attack

2009-08-07T22:44:00.000-07:00

Last spring I took a class in game design and I ended up developing a small prototype/proof of concept. I linked some of the character designs earlier, and I figured I might as well put up some screenshots and a link to the actual demo if anyone were interested in checking it out. It's an attempt at a 2d side scrolling action game, similar to Devil May Cry but with nowhere near as indepth of a combat system. I mostly wanted to focus on fun characters and actions.

While I did a lot of the work, I had some help from some other members of the class who helped with getting some of the artwork into the game (Ben Lamboy), music (Nick Gingarella and Tyler Boyd) and enemy coding (Nick again).

If you'd like to give it a shot, you can download it here. There's a simple tutorial to get you started with moving around. For the menu, just use the arrow keys and enter.

Recent 3d Work: Yoshi Dragoon

2009-08-05T14:22:00.000-07:00

Here's some recent 3d work that I started because of a challenge on gameartisans.org to model a game character cosplaying/dressed as another. So my idea was Yoshi from the Super Mario Bros. games dressed as the dragon from Panzer Dragoon. Limit was 3000 polys and one 512x512 texture sheet. Right now it stands at 2934 with all of the armor pieces, and wings. The texture is rather rough at the moment, but given the design of the original character I'm not sure how much more detailed I want to go with it. I'm going to attempt doing a normal map also to add some more detail for the armor, as it's not something I've tried before and want to finally tackle.

And my original concept sketch:

I don't want no war going down tonight

2009-08-03T11:56:00.000-07:00

I've been playing around a bit with the Unity3d engine, a cross platform 3d game engine that people have used to develop for PC, Mac, Iphone, the Wii, and even the web. So last week I spent some time trying to mock up the basics of a 2d shooter (control, firing, explosions). Here's what I've got so far:

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It's pretty rough at this point, but I'm going to work on getting 3d work into it instead of just using primitives. The engine itself isn't too difficult to work with, but it takes a little getting used to. And that's what I'm after, familiarity and proficiency.

And already, it's June.

2009-06-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted here in a while, but Matt was on me to do something more finished, and this is what came out of it today. I'm not incredibly happy with it, but for reasons that are hard for me to express. Mainly because as soon as I start tying down a sketch into a more finished drawing, in my eyes, it just dies. So if anyone has any thoughts on this, or how to work around/through it, I'd really appreciate hearing them.

Yar...here be some action poses

2009-03-23T01:53:00.000-07:00

Been doing a lot of drawing lately, and here's a character I've been working on for a game project. Also, I've been trying to get some new stuff done for my portfolio (Game Developer Conference coming up later this week), so this is all going on the model sheet that I'm working on. Starting to get a real feel for cleaning stuff up quickly in Photoshop with my tablet, but it probably has helped a lot that I've become really familiar with drawing the character.

Cockpit sketch

2009-01-15T22:55:00.001-08:00

I...live....again. Here's something I did the other day while I decided I was sick of just doing the usual warm up sketches that I've been kind of stuck in a rut doing lately. There's a couple things I don't like about it, might try doing a couple tweaks to the overall gesture to try to loosen him up. Also there's this thing I have about drawing tightly confined spaces, that I never know how far "into" the drawing to set the camera. This is probably more to do with me not planning out any sort of composition, and just coming up with this drawing that has no real action or story to it.

Prepare for silent running!

2008-09-22T18:09:00.000-07:00

I realize I haven't posted much in a while, totally my fault. The webcomic has been keeping me busy, and is now available online at www.studentstuff.com, so check it out!

Tomorrow, however, I'm going to be starting at Jim Henson Studios doing motion capture animation cleanup for about a 2-month contract and it's going to keep me pretty busy. So before the posting blackout begins (yeah, I know, how can you have a blackout if you haven't been posting anything?), I figured I'd throw up a deluge of random sketches.

Comic Character Lineup

2008-06-12T16:41:00.000-07:00

Ah, things have been pretty silent on the old blog front for awhile, and that's my fault. No excuse for it! Anyhow, here's some characters that I've done recently for a webcomic that I was hired to draw. It's for an upcoming webportal for college and high school students, and they wanted a webcomic to go along in a sort of Student Life section. I've done about 4 of the comics so far, and I think I've got a workflow down that works pretty well. Once the site is launched and the comics themselves are live, I'll give it a link here.

Robots, Pt. 1

2008-02-24T22:17:00.001-08:00

Always loved the idea of a group of kids getting together and building something awesome (Explorers from the 1980s was one of my favorite movies growing up, it's a shame they don't make movies for kids like they used to), and what kid never wanted to build a robot? Just kinda working/laying things out for now, there's still one more character I want to get in there. Should have a much tighter version in a couple days.

Big Daddy, final

2008-02-17T12:41:00.001-08:00

Here's the final textured model. Final count is 500 triangles for the body, and 124 for the drill and tank. Kinda playing around with rigging him so I might pose it up or do a couple animations. Overall I'm really happy with how it came out, this challenge was a lot of fun and got a lot of ideas flowing.

Low Poly Fun

2008-02-15T01:11:00.000-08:00

Over at the forums at Polycount.com, they have a low poly challenge running through Saturday to recreate a next (current) -gen game character using a max of 500 polys/tris. So I decided to try my hand at the Big Daddy from Bioshock. I've knocked it out pretty quickly, and should move on to texturing to hopefully get it done by the day the challenge wraps. Right now I'm at 497, and the tank and drill are counted under the additional 150 they're allowing for weapons and equipment to put me at 603 for the moment.

Stowaway

2008-02-10T17:47:00.001-08:00

Knocked this out this afternoon and I thought I'd share it. Just working out the rough composition for a illustration I wanted to do, to get more into the practice of storytelling in a drawing. There are a couple things I'd like to change, mainly grouping the people up at the top manning the ropes. Will probably blow this up a good 2-3 times when I work on the final piece, as I should get into the practice of drawing BIGGER.

3x Faster...

2008-02-10T00:56:00.000-08:00

For those of you familiar with Gundam or Halo at all, here's an idea that I've been kicking around for a bit, and finally got around to executing a bit. A Char Custom Spartan Armor, a combination of the Armor from Halo and Char's Custom Zaku from Mobile Suit Gundam. This was a bit of a challenge in a couple ways, trying to mash the two together so that they are still recognizable to people familiar with either or both, and then just trying to come up with a style/pose that I liked. I have a couple almost completed sketches in other poses before I decided to stick with this one and ink it. Then, since I originally wanted to get this done for a friend's birthday I got as far on it as I could before midnight so I didn't send it to him too late. My inking ability still leaves a lot to be desired, so time that I could have spent on improving the coloring got eaten up a bit by me trying to clean up inks I wasn't happy with. Probably could use a floor/bg of some sort, now that I think about it.

Update: It's now part of the banner/top image up at www.destroytokyo.com

So long, 2007.

2007-12-30T22:20:00.001-08:00

New pens, woo!

2007-11-14T21:47:00.001-08:00

Just felt like posting a couple little sketches I did tonight to break in a couple new pens I got. First we have the long-time favorite of mine, the Pilot Hi-Tec C. A very fine tip pen that I believe is only available through importers, like Kinokuniya Bookstores. I love doing little sketches with these. Secondly I was looking for a brush pen, but with a bit more control, and I ended up picking up something a bit different. It's a dual tipped (one on either end) Pilot pen, similar to a felt-tip, with one end black and the other a gray. I like it quite a bit so far, and I think it'll be great to use to put in splashes of gray for the little sketches I do with the Hi-Tec. I'm going to be traveling to Hawaii on Friday for some good friends' wedding, and I'm looking forward to all sorts of stuff to draw while I'm there!

Love is a Battlefield

2007-10-24T01:51:00.000-07:00

Here's something I've been working on for an independently published video gaming magazine called The Gamer's Quarter. It's put out by some people I met back when InsertCredit.com had a forum that I used to visit. It was a great place for discussion on videogaming and the medium. TGQ grew out of that and I offered to submit a couple art pieces for their latest issue. This is based on one of the articles, and pokes a little bit of fun at the game Gears of War. The theme for it is "Even with all my macho posturing, you still don’t take me seriously."

I'm back!

2007-10-05T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hey all, know I've been gone a while. I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I needed it. That contract ended, so I'm looking again. In the meantime, I am sorely need to get back to posting up some work, so, to start things off...

Kind of a tie-down of a design I've been kicking around trying to get right for awhile. I'm pretty happy where it is at the moment, and should really get on finishing it up, as well as some of the other characters that go along with her. So those should be coming up in a future post!

2007-03-28T11:24:00.000-07:00

Just tying down the design a bit. Going for a real cartoony type of the character you typically see in Epic's games, such as Unreal Tournament or Gears of War. Cable is also a very big influence, so Tal gets 10 points for picking up on that. Even though Cable would totally get his ass handed to him by Moon Knight.

Unnamed Unreal Tournament character

2007-03-25T21:22:00.000-07:00

Thor Hammerbjorn

2007-03-15T14:38:00.000-07:00

A couple sketches of Benedict Blackburn's Partner, the Cyborg Nordic Rock-God from the future, Thor Hammerbjorn.

More 3d work...

2007-03-05T17:40:00.000-08:00

Here's the bookcase to go along with the sketches below. I modeled it out pretty quickly, and at the moment it's pretty much all unwrapped, including the books. For the books, I only made about 3-4 templates, and just made instance copies to populate the bookcase to make it look jam packed with stuff. At the moment it's around 820 triangles, which I would like to get smaller. I think what I'll try is dumping all the faces on the backside of the books that face the back of the shelf where you can't see. As long as it's under 1000 I'll be happy, but I might go back in and add some planes to add more cobwebs hanging from the books. Right now the black polys you see are where existing cobwebs will go, they just haven't been textured yet, and doing a screenshot from Maya on my machine won't alpha-blend those sections out.

Update: I'm about to say the modeling is final, and UVs are done. Here it is, with the Unreal Tournament Default/No-Texture Texture:

2007-03-02T11:57:00.000-08:00

Some Lab prop concepts

2007-03-01T16:52:00.000-08:00

A couple sketches for an environment I've been kicking around the idea of modeling and building, and then throwing into Unreal Tournament for some nifty lightning effects. I think the inking on that book is probably the best inking I've ever done my entire life.

2007-02-27T15:04:00.000-08:00

I've started texturing the lantern that I modeled; texturing isn't one of my strengths, but even so I'm trying to do a good job of it.

2007-02-26T14:00:00.000-08:00

A couple props I've been working on in 3d in Maya. The first is based on a lantern I saw in Kamakura, Japan. The well I just made up out of my head, and tried to stay as low poly as possible. The modeling (the part I find easier, and definitely more enjoyable) is done, now comes the texturing.

a couple pirates

2006-11-30T16:19:00.000-08:00

2006-11-16T23:49:00.000-08:00

Just a couple more sketches I did on the train today.

2006-10-17T22:36:00.000-07:00

2006-10-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Just some stuff I sketched today; I kind of like the finished look of the second drawing, kind of surprised myself with how it came out. Don't think the composition really played out like how I wanted. And I'm still wondering why the tower itself is bending.

2006-10-06T19:37:00.000-07:00

Just playing with some pose ideas for the big sword guy. The 2nd and 3rd are meant more to be a cycle of his head twitching back and forth like he's just waiting for someone to pick a fight with him.

2006-10-01T21:50:00.000-07:00

Just some more stuff for Fanboy Attack! or whatever it'll be called. First up is Big Sword Guy, because he's becoming fun to draw. Apparently SciFi guy isn't as favored much at the moment so I'll be putting a bit more work into redesigning him a little bit (personally I think he looks great). Next is the character who will probably end up being a mid boss or the end boss of the first stage. White guy who thinks he's a Japanese Samurai; he'll probably be introduced flanked by fangirls on each side of him, and will have a standing rivalry with Big Sword Guy that will be brought up in dialogue or something.

After that, two characters from a later stage based around a trip to the RenFaire; and then SciFi Con nerds. From the way brainstorming sessions are going each stage is going to be a descent through various cons and beating the hell out of the people therein. And then maybe a final trip to the mythical land of JAPAN.

FA part 2:

2006-09-29T08:42:00.000-07:00

Some more Fanboys Attack! stuff that I did on the train yesterday. Think I'm closer to nailing the style that I'd actually like to use for the characters. I need to hit up Tremayne and his Summon Night artbook for a bit more ideas and maybe some photocopies for reference. I think my favorite poses here are the two on the right side of the Big Sword guy, and the top left corner of the Sci-Fi dude. Haven't really nailed a good machine gunning pose yet.

Bat Family

2006-09-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

Working on some ideas for a family of bats, from left to right we have mom, son, dad, baby daughter, and another attempt on the son, maybe he'll be the middle child. Just some shape sketches till I get a better idea of what shapes I want to use.

Train Sketching, pt. 1

2006-09-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

Started taking the train, (train) into Burbank for my internship at Nick. Did a bunch of sketching this morning on the way in, and came up with a new beat'em up idea. Something revolving around the idea: Fanboys Attack! So I got a bunch of notes written down and some character sketches. Don't mind the guy on the bottom; he's not one of the character concepts; just a friendly chap from out of town.

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be Valkyrie Pilots.

2006-09-24T22:30:00.000-07:00

So out of the discussion for a flash animated cartoon that would rip on the Japanese Giant Robot genre; I challenged Trey to a blog drawing challenge. The idea was to draw ourselves as Macross characters, specifically Valkyrie/Veritech pilots. Mainly because we think the flight suits (the helmets in particular) are cool.

So I got a very late start on mine, it was supposed to be done yesterday...but that's when I was getting started.

So here's mine; I don't exactly think it looks too much like me; I butchered the eyes; which were really giving me some trouble. I think I stayed pretty loose with it; wish I could have come up with a slightly better composition though. Ended up a bit more centered than I would have liked, and just coming up with a pose that i liked was trouble enough.

This is where I was last night:
And here's the final:

2006-09-03T22:27:00.000-07:00

Needed to take a break from 3d this weekend. Did some sketching in the dark on the patio after dinner tonight while just listening to my family talk/chat/bicker-but-not-really that every family does.

Finally getting a chance to play through Shadow of the Colossus, and I love it. I really enjoyed Ico once I gave it the chance it deserved, and Shadow/Wanda is just really...beautiful at times, and Shadow is turning out to be just as enjoyable, and beautiful, art-wise. Might try a hand at designing a Colossus of my own.

I have a thing with treasure chests, I guess. I think they can be fun to draw, so I kind of kicked this out this evening in the hopes of coming up with a prop to design/model for both a 2d and 3d portfolio. Going for something a bit cartoony, kind of WOW-ish in line quality. Maybe I'll actually get a *finished* piece up on this blog before the week is out.

motoslave wip, part 1

2006-08-31T01:29:00.000-07:00

Ingame, Rev.1

2006-08-27T22:56:00.000-07:00

It's been a long weekend, but I've finally got Priss into Unreal and working. There are still a couple skinning and rigging things that could be tweaked; I want to get a specularity map working on her to make her suit all shiny like, and just a better looking texture in general. But at the moment I'm pretty happy with it. Next will be to get the motorslave bike working as a ridable vehicle, I think. I need a break from Priss for a bit.

whoops.

2006-08-27T16:04:00.000-07:00

Now that didn't come out right.

Vacation Sketches

2006-08-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

About 2 weeks ago I was up in the bay area to visit family...got a new biggie sketchbook (which promptly started to fall apart...crappy binding). Did a bunch of sketching when I could while trying to be sociable.

Rough Colors

2006-08-26T00:27:00.000-07:00

Priss update

2006-08-25T02:07:00.000-07:00

Ok. So my computer died...so I have been going through a big hassle to get my files off so I can work on it while it gets repaired. Anyhow here's an update on Priss...have just about finished the UVs and the Normal Softening/hardening to make it a bit smoother in some aspects, make the armor stuff seem like armor and the soft parts seem like soft parts.

Did a few tests with a skeleton but lost that data when I was doing the UV Layout, but it shouldn't take me too much longer to redo it now that I have a better idea of how many influences I'll need per bone.

I'm not so good with Texturing.

2006-08-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple textures I've been working on; not for the models I posted before but for some simpler things; a rocket/missile; and a gun. I'm not great with texturing so I figured I'd start working with some simpler things. They're both still in progress, but they need to be dirtied up a bit more, and a little bit more detail added. It's slow going but hopefully as I do more I'll get a bit more efficient.

2006-08-02T16:50:00.000-07:00

Been working in 3d a bit this last week or so; trying to get some stuff done that I can throw into Unreal Tournament 2004 just to understand a bit more about working within a game engine's specs, and doing some stuff for a 3d portfolio. I've always wanted to model Priss from Bubblegum Crisis in 3d; it's something I've started and stopped every couple years; this time I think I'm actually close to finishing it. It's around 2500 polys right now; I want to keep her under 3k but I still have to find a way of modeling some underform to connect all the armor pieces together. The left hand isn't done either, just the fingers.

I'm also working on doing the motorcycle version of the Motorslave motorcycle; I'm going to try to do it in a way that the same pieces could be used to make the Motoroid/battlesuit form. And then if it's possible make it transform...but that's a long ways off. Have to get it modeled and working as a motorcycle vehicle first.

Camping sketches, 7-17-06; The exciting Conclusion...

2006-07-18T21:18:00.000-07:00

Here's a more refined sketch that I was trying to turn into a background/layout, using 3 depth/value layers: The far mountain range in the far bg, a midrange hill with a lot of trees, and the trees/bushes in the closest foreground layer. I think I might have messed up the values when I scanned it into Photoshop and played with the contrast. I still think the bg is a bit hard to see, I'll have to keep playing with that 3 layer value thing.

The Spider car/tanks came from some discussing involving driving down a freeway in a MadMax-like vehicle shaped as a spider, with jaws in the front that would pull racer kiddies into it's giant metal shredding jaws, whilst spitting fire from the sides, and electricity arcing between the pipes of the massive pipe organ coming out of the back, while the villain played and his ridiculously long trenchcoat blowing in the wind behind him.

Oh, and a robot.

Camping sketches, 7-16-06

2006-07-18T21:11:00.000-07:00

Now we're actually getting somewhere. The guy on the right I sketched while watching A Fistful of Dollars (yeah, dvds while camping, not exactly roughing it), it was supposed to be the main bad guy, El Indigo I think his name was. Good movie, but something I'd rather watch at home where I can pay attention instead of swatting mosquitos. The rest I did as just playing around with shapes/proportion variety as some head drawings. Just kind of went off of what I saw John Nevarez do at the EAA seminar he gave back in May.

Camping sketches, 7-15-06

2006-07-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

Just some sketches from over the weekend, I went camping with some friends up at Edison Lake (photos are here if you're interested: http://flickr.com/photos/Konamicode/). I did about a page a day. This was from Saturday. Nothing too spectacular, this is typically how a page in my sketchbook looks - lots of scribbly stuff that doesn't really go anywhere, just me throwing lines down, the rest of the stuff from the weekend will be a bit more refined/edited, and just more...interesting.

...continued, again!

2006-07-08T21:21:00.000-07:00

More of a Gackt-style GH hero this time. I'll work on some more flamboyish poses, but just wanted to get an idea of how I wanted him to look, how his hair might go, a general shape overall. He could probably look a bit more alien/effiminate though, to be a j-rock Idol/Saver of Worlds.

...continued

2006-07-08T14:02:00.000-07:00

Guitar "Hero" Concepts, Pt 2

2006-07-04T17:33:00.000-07:00

just a couple more sketches I did this afternoon. Think that I still need to push the variations a bit. The heads feel too similar to me in proportion. Also I need to start finishing off my feet, or it'll look like I'm hiding them.

BBB

2006-07-04T11:07:00.000-07:00

A couple sketches of a character Matt and I came up with after he got a spam message from possibly the greatest name in the world - Benedict Blackburn.

"Guitar Hero" Challenge thread on Polycount

2006-07-04T00:39:00.000-07:00

So the current challenge on Polycount for the next two weeks is to create a "Guitar Hero" style character, 2K polys with textures, wielding a guitar. Since I've been going through a GH withdrawal, I immediately started cranking out a couple sketches for a character. I'm going to do more tomorrow, and try out some different types of characters, but for now I wanted to start off with a hardcore type guy, the ear plugs, annoying goatee, wearing some sort of prison coverall with torn off sleeves, and probably full sleeve tattoos.