Archangel Michael Sketch

Recovering from Holidays Round I - lol - and didn't quite get to where I wanted to be with the next planned post from the Copacabana mini project, so I decided to take a bit more time on it, start over and really make it nice. Therefore, I present a doodly-sketch-thing of Archangel Michael. Just with pencil, no fancy digital tweaking. Had thought to revamp the Angelic War Storyboards that I did my last semester of school for Barry's class, but it will have to wait since I have some Magic Box lessons to get caught up on AND some big portfolio plans on the horizon. ; )
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving/weekend!!

The Last Cat and Some Sequentials

 So here is the finished cat. He's more of a spirit, vanishing like the Cheshire Cat of Alice's Wonderland, a psychopomp who guides the spirits of the dead to the next plane/life. I toned down the Dia de los Muertos theme on the black jaguar, but really wanted to keep the bow tie because I imagine him to be a little playful, a little mischievous while he goes about heralding peoples. I'm tempted to name him Felix.

Below are a couple storyboards: The first is the Angelic War which features the designs I did for Michael and Lucifer. The second is the Public Service announcement that features Katherine and Owl. Obviously one has a more serious tone than the other. (I am not advocating any particular religious belief, nor is this what I believe actually happened, just ran with the story in a way that I thought would be most visually interesting) I enjoyed the challenge of them both. ^^

Still plugging away on story completion. Last 2 weeks worked strictly on portfolio to submit to Dream Job and sent it off this morning...nervous, anxious, excited, hopeful, only somewhat confident. All out of my hands now so back to working on the stories and local job hunt. Enjoyed going to Denver ComicCon, much bigger than I anticipated but not yet as impressive as Armageddon was in New Zealand, especially when it came to the COSplayers. (Thank you, Raul, for going with me even though I know you didn't want to be in those crowds any more than I did) Kudos to all the awesome artists who showed! If I'm still in Denver this time next year I'll see what I can do about getting a booth too. As a last note, I just wanted to say that I'm super excited for Pixar's Brave coming out soon - can't wait to see it!!!

 

Graduation!!

And so my time at RMCAD draws to a close...I am relieved and over-joyed to be finished, excited to be moving to a new place, and HORRIBLY depressed to be leaving my friends. Strangely I'm not stressed about finding a job or repaying my loans, but I'm sure that will kick in soon enough.

Anyways, this was one of the two last completed projects I did for school. This was for Comp. Illustration II > the Client Project. Essentially my teacher was my client and I went through the process of drafting a contract and negotiating terms and completing revisions, etc. My teacher (Cherish) told me to create two characters: a brother and sister, both younger than 15 for either film or games...I went a little overboard.
I created the two characters for the poster....and then I drafted a One-Page game design document, followed by a 10-Pager, and all of this went onto my moving picture frame for Grad Exhibition. It was probably the most fun I had on a project in the shortest time frame yet (Because I essentially had one weekend to do everything) and I plan on working on this even more since I'm liking where it's headed.

The last-last project I completed for school will be posted once I get decent pictures of the images (36 total). It was the storyboard for The Angelic War, starring Archangel Michael and Archangel Lucifer. A little less pleased with that one, but it still came out nice as a whole. So I hope to be posting that in a couple weeks once I have a spare minute again.

Hope to see everyone at Industry Night (19th) and Graduation (20th)!!!

Good versus Evil...plus Nahna

 

This is the finished Nahna piece. I almost have the tutorial part of it done, so I'll be posting that here shortly as well. (Just a few more fun details to make it look nice) 

So as labeled, these two gentlemen are the Archangels, Lucifer and Michael. I did these sketches for the last story boarding project in Barry Kooser's Creative Vis. class - in which I will depict the final battle of the First Angelic War and the following Fall of Lucifer. These are indeed exciting times. ^^