Buck Rogers

In concept art II we are re-imagining The classic Buck Rogers into a modern video game. We have to due 3 characters model sheets(Buck, Killer Kane, and a female) and one final illustration with them in action. I will admit I have been slacking at scanning my sketches so you are seeing the finals in progress. Below we have Buck, I imagined him more as a nerdy guy, shy, and not so impressive. I guess just a lame super hero, if you can even call Buck Rogers a super hero.

Murder Weapons

Sticking with the more graphic style ive been using lately heres my latest pattern/illustration. Im exploring weird things not normally associated with pattern and decorative arts. Which seem to be dominated by flowers and birds. So naturally as a boy I went with murder weapons! The first one is a skateboard deck pattern layout attempt. The bottom is just a detail of my favorite weapons especially the Uzi. Lastly im not sure about the dark grey background.

Alphabetter.

Remember when you were a kid and the borders of your kindergarten class room were awful plain Helvetica letters with a cheesy illustration of an animal next to it? Well I do and I personally remember those animals and letters being very boring. I have decided to redo these letter, animal pairs in a set of cards with less common animals. More importantly a much more lively typeface, ITC Officina, and bolder more graphic style images that might be a little more visually challenging for the younger ones. Kids in general are way smarter then adults think, so I think they can handle it. Heres a select few, I have 18 done 8 more to go.

Whole Grain Pasta

Kansas is a large producer of wheat and this helps to produce whole grain pasta. Im not positive why I made this but it was made waiting for my girlfriend to get home so we could have dinner. This lead me to the idea of a series of states exports who knows. I have a lot of time during spring break and I might do a couple more. Either way I guess my point is the next time you eat whole grain pasta think of Kansas.

Baby Napoleon

Baby Villains were due in class on monday and after a weekend of working twenty four hours at my lovely part time job this is what I cranked out in about 8 or 10 hours. It is done in oils. No im joking its just digitally painting in good old photoshop. On a side note the drawing on the background paper was the most fun. Lastly I plan on a Illustration IV update pretty soon.

Skateboards

So ive been doing a lot of concept sketches for skateboard graphics in illustration IV and here is the first one I decided to push to finish.

Final product.

first concept sketch done during illustration 4 class. Just a doodle and I did not think much more of it.

Patterns Revised

Heres some patterns revisited, you know fixing negative space and slight color changes. Im a big fan for the flowers at the bottom, girly, childish, decorative, not my style at all but they turned out well.

Baby Villains

Our second concept art project has been underway for a week or two, the assignment is baby villains. Heres my better ideas.

Left baby Napoleon crossing the play room on a rocking horse (this is the idea im going with.) Right baby Shredder, you might wonder why there is a can opener and a juicy juice can, the answer is simple the ninja turtles always used to call him a big can opener.

Left the bad guy from the karate kid (Johnny Lawrence) vs a crane. Right Harry Potter vs Voldemort in a game of magic the gathering. Note I think Harry in my sketch looks a little bit like me.