Warmup sketchery

I saw a guy who looked like a young version of Willem Dafoe. Just more muscular and with a +2 to his scare factor.

Wardruna: Charge Of The Pahhur Sag




Listening to Wardruna made me absolutely need to paint this last night. A race that I have been developing, the name is roughly Akkadian for "Fire Heads." I'm still working on it.

I'm afraid that i will need a reference for the character in the middle, the pose is too stiff for me to really enjoy painting it. Maybe I need to shift the torso back...

Some Motorcycle product designs!



So I was trying to get some work with this company that makes motorcycle gear, but I'm not sure how well that's going. Here are some concept sketches that I did as part of the interview process. These are just some really generic suit designs, so nothing too radical. I'll probably tighten them up later on anyways even if the work itself doesn't pan out.

HELLO, 2011



Wow, that's a lot of non-updating for this blog....since December! Well, it's a new year now, so happy 2011 people. A lot of artwork has been made since the last update, and I will be faithfully trying to bring more of that to light. In the mean time, if you are too impatient, go ahead and check my website! YAODRAWS.COM It's totally up to date and has a whole mess of credibility now that it's on a paid server. Go on and drop by!

Here I am just trying out some simple, 2D portraits as a series of my friends at MICA. All done in Photoshop, averaging at a measly 1.5 - 2 hours each. Hoping to continue this series, and maybe one day in the distant distant future people will be paying me to do drawings like these. ONE DAY. In the meantime, note how each person's name is hand lettered, and relates to the person's interests or character! Yes, I know, I'm that awesome. Updates to continue!

UPDATE TIME



Whew! Now that Halloween's gone, I can get back to posting some long-due artwork. Digital quickie done in roughly 5 minutes of Danielle, sleeping on the couch with Shanti in front of the FearFest countdown.
Also, I'm super pissed because apparently I deleted all but the black and white tiff of the old Constitution Day image files. So I don't have the high quality files left, not even the psd. URGH.

Sita Character Design


Assignment in Adv. Character Design: I'm part of the group assigned to design characters for an imaginary game about the Ramayana as a space opera. These are some color variations on my interpretation of Sita, Rama's wife. See more concepts HERE