Monsters and Stuff

Vampire Hunter

2013-04-23T08:36:00.001-07:00

Just wanted to let you guys know that I am going to be part of a book on Character design and Illustration for film and video games. We have the book up for pre-order on the amazon site. For more information please click on this LINK :)

and below is a sample of one of my images in the book. Hope you guys like it!

AKIRA (fanArt)

2013-04-23T07:45:00.002-07:00

Here are some speed paint photo-bash studies of the espers and I started and idea on the military special forces unit but did not get too far. I just watched the movie recently and got inspired to paint for no reason.
Akira was one of my favorite cartoons growing up... but I just mainly watched the last part and the bike chase coz the rest of the movie was boring as hell.. lol, I was a kid, I just wanted to see the action parts. But as I grew older I started paying attention to all of the movie and start noticing all the overall design and story that makes this movies special. I had the same experience with Stanley Kubrick's "2001" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner". I liked them as a kid but I started to appreciate them more when I got older.

G.I Joe 2 - Retaliation

2013-04-03T23:48:00.000-07:00

Hey guys this blog has been dead for a while now but I am planning to start sketching up some monsters again soon. But for now here are some concepts I did for G.I Joe 2- Retaliation . Nuthin special .. just wanted to share and try to jump start this blog.

MTG Grand Prix San Jose

2012-09-01T18:24:00.003-07:00

Hey guys I will be at the San Jose Convention Center on October 13-14
I will be signing cards and selling some artist proofs.
I am planning to also have some prints available and hopefully some play-mats with printed MTG art.
If I can get some recommendations.. which card art do you think I should make into a poster or play-mat?

thanks!

Guild Wars Executioner

2012-08-26T10:19:00.003-07:00

Some more older work
When I first got to NC soft Santa Monica in 2004, I was tasked to design this boss for the cinematic(link).
I was working closely with modeler Manny Fragelus, unfortunately he had to leave for better opportunities at Dreamworks.

But luckily we were able to get another awesome modeler, Richard Diamant, and this image I posted is a paint over on top of his 3d model to show art direction for the materials and textures. It was my first game gig so there was a lot to learn :)

I am still searching for my sketches for the design, I should get to post it up next week.

Gnomon Workshop Live

2012-08-21T23:24:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone Gnomon is is presenting a two day event which I am going to be a part of.
They will be featuring 10 artists and they are all pretty awesome , please click the link for more information.
Hope to see you there :)

Kekai Kotaki Ian Joyner
Fausto de Martini Jerad Marantz
Laurel Austin Anthony Jones
Jaime Jones Wes Ball
Cecil Kim John Park

Infamous 2 Creature Designs

2012-08-21T00:35:00.001-07:00

Here are some sketches I did for the Aaron Sims company for Infamous 2, a variation of one of Jerad Marantz design. I know it is very late posting these. Things just get lost sometimes when you got a lot of hard drives. These were all sketched in photoshop and done in a day.

Book Cover for the Kindle

2012-07-20T23:47:00.000-07:00

Hey guys here is a book cover I did recently for Ariana Harris. The e-book is just .99 cents . If you guys are interested in reading anything sci-fi and dont wanna spend so much money you can support this independent writer and buy the book :)

Flying Guillotine !

2012-07-16T00:04:00.001-07:00

A re-imagining of the old Shaw Brothers movie.
Not my usual style, but I used to love drawing/copying the Super Street Fighter Characters and Rival School characters.

Species 3

2012-06-30T15:23:00.002-07:00

Here are some oldies. Sketches for Species 3 which went straight to dvd. Some of you had probably seen these sketches before.

Hawken

2012-06-04T01:45:00.002-07:00

My good friends at Adhesive games(former co-workers at offset) just released a teaser trailer for their game. I have played the game a while back before they got funding and man did I have fun, but those guys are merciless and destroyed me anyway...yeah I am talking to you Dave :) lol
Man it seems like everyone that split from Offset Software has a game out already or coming out. The studio from my last post were also from Offset.. plus I did not get to mention that Fractive the original owners of Offset also has a game out called "Lane Splitter"click on the link and check it out, they got like 5 million downloads!

...anyway.. enjoy the trailer for Hawkin...

gameplay

Brainsss

2012-05-12T11:51:00.001-07:00

Hey guys I just wanted to promote my friends at the Lonely Few game studios.
Their game BRAINSSS just came out. It's an awesome zombie game, hope you guys can check it out!

Descent Into Madness

2012-05-07T00:15:00.000-07:00

Another card I did for the Avacyn Restored

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents he or she controls and/or cards from his or her hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.

Sounds like a pretty sick card

"Blessings of Nature" MTG Avacyn Restored

2012-04-30T06:45:00.003-07:00

"Stolen Goods" MTG Avacyn Restored

2012-04-29T10:46:00.000-07:00

Info on card can be found here

"Thunderbolt" MTG Avacyn Restored

2012-04-29T01:34:00.000-07:00

Some quick B/W studies and I tried some z-brush into my process for the final image .
The good thing about doing the z-brush model is that I did not have to struggle so much with the overlaps and the perspective of the head's angle, but since I did not finish sculpting the legs I struggled with that (lol). All in all this was a really quick turnaround (for me anyway). 1.5 hours sculpting and 3 hours trying to decide on what shape that lightning should be .. aargh lol

MTG card info can be found here

Clinging Mists

2012-02-20T23:05:00.000-08:00

Another Card for Dark Ascension

Enduring Vengeance

2012-02-08T09:23:00.000-08:00

Constantine Sekeris MATAMORFX

2012-01-19T00:15:00.000-08:00

Hey guys I just wanted to let you know of a book that is coming out this year from a really good friend of mine. I have seen the early versions of it and it is sick! It should be out by June-July hope you guys check it out :)

Order from Amazon
Website

Swamp Thing

2012-01-10T02:09:00.000-08:00

I wanted to start this year with a creature post and get this creature blog back on track! Here is a quick photobash .. well not so quick, I wanted to keep it under an hour but I ended up changing the design a bunch of times, I am still not happy with it. I will post the final next week.

Inspired by the man thing / swamp thing , I first saw him when I was 4 I think. He was one of the first comic book characters I remember that I liked.... Incredible hulk and the X-men were also introduced to me at that time.

Here is the final. I decided to clear the background to minimize the clutter and keep the focus on the creature.

Santa versus Frosty

2011-12-24T20:14:00.000-08:00

Turf war between Frosty and Santa. A bit morbid, I know .. but I am sure Santa had to take someone out to rule the North Pole.. and Frosty wasn't going down without a fight !

Merry Christmas!

WURM

2011-11-24T12:41:00.001-08:00

from a black and white sketch to color comp, render and the finished card
Hope you guys liked how it turned out.
and for you guys that are asking me about posters, I am currently working on getting things set-up.

thanks and have a happy thanksgiving!

G.P. San Diego sketches

2011-11-16T07:41:00.001-08:00

The event went well, there were I think 1,200 in attendance, I heard one guy say but that was small compared to the other times, but that was still a lot of people for me. Thanks Tim for inviting me to the event :) . People really liked the think twice card and it seemed like it was getting a lot of playing time. I finally got to hang out with Doug and Jason, their tables were right beside mine, its been a couple of years since I have seen those guys. I did not get to meet all the other artists coz we were soo busy signing cards. I did get to meet Mark Tedin, Steve Argyle, and got to talk a little bit with Alex Horley and RK Post, they were cool guys.
I will update with pictures and some sketches I did for peoples play mats tonight

Some card alterations with a familiar theme :)

more sketches and alterations...

I was able to take some photos of the other artist sketches, will post that soon... I gotta finish some work right now :P

MTG GRAND-PRIX SAN DIEGO

2011-11-02T22:47:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be at the San Diego Grand Prix on Nov 12-13 .
This is my second Grand Prix that I will be attending. The first one was in Oakland and I was the only artist that was able to make it. It was my fist ever signing event. I was not prepared for it. There were soo many people. Anyway I can't wait to hang out with my good friend Doug Alexander Gregory (amazing artist!) and meet all the fans. I used to be addicted to this game back when I was younger and to see that energy in these events is great.

Here is the link to the event site
I will be selling my artist proofs and maybe some posters. I still have some Maelstrom Pulse and Tez the seeker artist proofs available. (very limited quantity)

Tikbalang in Spectrum 18 and a Chesley Award Finalist

2011-09-27T21:37:00.000-07:00

Hey I just wanted to let you guys know that my Tikbalang image made it into Spectrum 18. I would like to thank the judges and, Cathy and Arnie Fenner for including my pieces in the book. I had always looked at this book for inspiration when I was younger and to finally be in it is an honor.

This image was also a finalist for the Chesley Award. (The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year) but unfortunately my image did not win, but I am happy that it even got nominated! Thanks to everyone that voted. link

I also wanted to let you know that prints are available and can be purchased at Gallery Nucleus. Just click on the image to go to the page.