Monsters and Stuff

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.

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.

Think Twice (Innistrad set)

2011-09-27T21:08:00.000-07:00

The title of this card is "Think Twice"

Draw a card.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

I also added a couple of studies before I did the final painting. I wish I kept the same hand gestures in my monochromatic study.

Chasm Drake

2011-07-20T07:10:00.000-07:00

This was done for the 2012 Core Set for Magic: the Gathering

The King Snake

2011-07-17T03:42:00.000-07:00

Here was my image for the red engine gallery show yesterday. I titled it the "tree snake" but "the king snake" sounds better. Something different.. it still has a monster in there though :)

the UBER monster

2011-07-07T11:17:00.000-07:00

This is UBER my boxer-pitbull mix. I love this dog. He has passed due to cancer, he was 9 years old. These photos were taken a year before he left us. The vet told us that he would not live for more than 1 month and we should put him down now, but we couldn't just put him down that day, he is not just a dog to us he is family member, and man I can't believe that I cried so much that day for a dog. I am glad that my wife did not just believe that we should just call it quits for him. So she researched on holistic approach instead of the toxic chemotherapy, and he lived for 8 more months. I wish we knew about the benefits of feeding raw organic meat/chicken instead of dog food years ago. What's interesting is, ever since we started feeding the dogs this way they had no fleas and their coats are better, isn't that weird? We spend a bit more on food but we don't spend it on flea chemicals which was $100 for each dog and we have 4.
So now I spend a lot more time with my family , I don't want to just blink my eyes and all of a sudden my kids are in college or my parents are dead. I try to make sure I have my priorities in the right order. This is what UBER taught me.

Red Sonja

2011-07-03T23:41:00.000-07:00

very loosely based on an Aztec goddess from Mexican Mythology "Teteoinan".

WOOT! WOOT! RED ENGINE 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

2011-06-08T21:14:00.000-07:00

My good friends that started Red Engine survived their first year and they are picking up steam!

I will be participating in this event with an image for the gallery and I will also show up to eat all the food:)

thanks for inviting me guys

New Phyrexia Cards

2011-06-02T00:48:00.000-07:00

Psychic Surgery

Conversion Chamber

Blighted Agent

If any of you guys are interested in checking out the Wizard Con - Los Angeles. I will have a table at the artist alley. It will be on Sept 24-25 (SAT-SUN) at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Careers in Concepts

2011-04-28T11:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.careerinconcept.com/

Sorry, another late notice... I am sure everyone will be busy with the weekend but if you guys are not doing anything and want to learn some cool stuff about concept art from JUNG PARK, STEVE JUNG, JERAD MARANTZ, JONATHAN BACH, DAVID HOBBINS and BRIAN YAM ... and myself :)
We will all be doing a quick lecture and demo ( 2hr )

also check out
http://illustration.org/
for some video interviews of the instructors and more information about different events in the art community.

Wizard Con

2011-04-28T11:02:00.000-07:00

Hey Everybody .. I know this is really late notice but, I was offered a table in the artist alley at the Wizard Con (in Anaheim) on April 29-30
So if you happen to be around the area and want your cards signed.. or buy an artist proof please swing by... plus there are a bunch of other Magic the gathering artist, actors, writers and more artists that you can meet :)
http://www.wizardworld.com/anthonyfrancisco.html

Finished Minotaur Demo

2011-02-15T17:26:00.000-08:00

This image is the finished demo that will be streaming on the CGMW site on February the 15th! http://www.cgmwonline.com/workshops.html?cid=1

Just to avoid confusion.. . this image is the actual final image for the demo. (it's not that other minotaur image which is similar to this one that I had done years ago)

Mirrodin Besieged

2011-02-01T01:56:00.000-08:00

Kemba's Legion - White Creature Card

Vivisection - Blue Sorcery Card

for the description of the card and to see the rest of the set please check out the link below

MTG SALVATION

exploration sketches for Vivisection and Kemba's Legion

Goblins

2011-01-18T22:26:00.000-08:00

Some goblins from project offset.

Mounts

2010-12-29T01:19:00.000-08:00

Some rough sketches for the mounts that were going to be in the project offset game. This was before we got bought by Intel. Worked on the basic shapes in black and white, and then dropped some photos for the textures(using softlight) .

CGMW Second Workshop

2010-12-24T11:17:00.000-08:00

Hey Guys,

First off I would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays!

For those of you who missed it the first time around CGMW is re-releasing my first workshop which is the design of the Aswang, and I will be doing anothe one on dissecting a minotaur (Character design for games). The workshop is only $25 and will be streamed and available all day for 72hrs starting on Feb 15, 2011. I will also be doing a 1hr live QandA for the new workshop as well.

John Park ,Louie del Carmen (Dreamworks), Hong Ly (Naughty Dog) ,Darren Quach (Insomniac), as well as the team of amazing artists from the last series will also have their workshops available throughout the month of Feb-March.

http://www.cgmwonline.com/workshops.html

Aswang

2010-10-09T20:58:00.001-07:00

The image I did for the CGMW workshop

CGMW QandA session

2010-10-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to thank everyone who purchased workshops for CGMW. It was a successful run and I am sure we will see more workshops in the future!

In my QandA session I promised to post the books I use for reference and inspiration. There are so many books I like,.. some I dont even have. So here is a really short list for now. I will updated it as often as I can. So please check back when you have the time.

Animal Studies (by Meheut)
the Art of Animal Drawing (Ken Hultgren)
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for the Artist ( W. Ellenberger; H.dittrich; H.baum )
More Wildlife Painting ( various artists )
BEAST (art of John Banovich) I love this book

I would love to hear any recommendations from you guys too. I am always interested in adding good books to my library

-Cheers

Thirst for Knowledge

2010-09-25T10:54:00.000-07:00

Magic the Gathering card

Dark Elf Invasion

2010-09-14T00:19:00.000-07:00

Illustration I did when I was still at project offset

Some night painting

2010-09-07T21:56:00.000-07:00

Last weekend was really fun. Went camping at Morro Strand with family and friends. I ended up trying some painting by the campfire. Just painted whoever wanted to get painted that night. A bit tipsy with the last paintings, lol.

none of these by the way looked like the person I am painting lol.. hopefully I am getting better at this.
the pictures dont look as colorful. They were shot in an overcast day.

RED 5's FireFall Cinematic and gameplay

2010-09-03T17:40:00.000-07:00

Red 5 just released their new cinematic for their game FireFall at PAX. I was in charge of the story and storyboards, and created a rough animatic. I just wanna thank Mark Kern for giving me the opportunity to work on something as important as this.

I will be posting my rough animatic as soon I get the ok, but for the meantime I hope you enjoy the cinematic :)
http://www.firefallthegame.com/ Blur did an awesome job.

In 2007 before Offset was acquired by Intel, I worked for Red 5 as a Senior Concept Artist. With the guidance of Bill Petris (art director at the time), these were some of the head studies I did when we were searching for the art style. More to come.. I just have to ask permission first

BEAUTIFUL GRIM wave 3 up on ebay

2010-08-03T16:31:00.000-07:00

Mike "Daarken" Lim has put up the list of art submissions for the Beautiful Grim charity auction on ebay,
here is the link just scroll down to find my name.
Since this was just a digital print I included 7 signed artists proofs. Tezzeret the seeker and the Maelstrom pulse are the 2 most powerful cards I have and Magus of the Future is the first card I ever did for Magic:the gathering:

CG Master Workshop

2010-07-28T02:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.cgmwonline.com/workshops.html

Hey Guys,

I will be featured in a series of online Concept Design workshops with (CGMW) CG Master Workshops. I will be doing a Creature Design workshop on Saturday Oct, 2. The workshop is only $25 and will be streamed and available the entire day for 24hrs. I will also be doing a 1hr live QandA that same day. Carlo Arellano (Insomiac),Nico Marlet (Dreamworks), James Paick (Naughty Dog) ,KeKai Kotaki (NCsoft), Patrick Faulwetter (Gotachman), and Peter Han (Trion Network) will also be doing some workshops throughout the month of Sept-Oct. Make sure to check it out.

http://cgmwonline.com/

Some paintings from the Bill's workshop

2010-07-27T20:10:00.000-07:00

Towards the end I finally got some faces in. I got a looong way to go to get better at this... I was really trying to focus on getting accurate color, Bill always stressed this in the class. Forget about likeness for now and just focus on the color.

Bill Perkins Color Workshop

2010-07-26T19:02:00.000-07:00

Since I had more free time I had the opportunity to attend Bill's color workshop at Atelier Marchant (thanks Matt for letting me know about this class!!). I had a great time learning from a really good teacher, it was an awesome experience. It was also an awesome group of people I had an opportunity to hang out with. I have never painted this much... 25 paintings in 5 days, some people had more (sorry I am a slacker lol). Most of my paintings had no faces coz I was really slow. Most of the paintings were 40-50 min with a break in between and we just did one after another until the class was done (9AM-8PM) it was insane.. for me anyway. So in a day we would have 6-7 paintings. I learned a lot. I need to paint some more ...
link to Atelier Marchant
link to Bill Perkins Site

THE GIG IS UP

2010-07-02T20:06:00.000-07:00

I am sure most of you guys know about the news yesterday. Now its official, the Offset/Intel project is no longer in development at Intel. Check out the links if you haven't read it already.....that was 3 1/2 years for me, time goes by soo fast

BigDownload
Kotaku

Pin-ups

2010-06-12T11:38:00.000-07:00

I see a lot of pin-ups that I like and finally did one recently. It was fun and something different from what I usually post on this blog.

Hellion Eruption

2010-05-16T17:16:00.000-07:00

painting a face

2010-04-19T13:28:00.000-07:00

here is the mock Poster I did for a friend of mine, he was pitching his script to Miley Cyrus that is why I just chose a random picture of her to paint from, but I dont think my friend liked it much, so I ended up using whats in the top image .

Prints for Sale

2010-04-16T20:52:00.000-07:00

I have been asked if I sold any posters of certain Magic : the Gathering Cards and I didn't at the time so I finally got an account set up at the Gallery Nucleus.
Here is the Link to some of the cards that people asked about. If there is a particular card you guys wanted just let me know so I can add it to the list.

Rise of the Eldrazi pre-release

2010-04-16T17:56:00.000-07:00

I'll be attending the Rise of the Eldrazi pre-release tomorrow at 1:00PM.
I will be selling some artists proofs and signing cards. If you are around the San Jose area come check it out :)
It is going to be at At the Santa Clara Convention Center,(Free Parking) 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Magic Card spoiler for Rise of the Eldrazi

My Portfolio

2010-04-13T18:54:00.000-07:00

I finally put together my online portfolio. The "under construction" sign has been there for years. The site will also have all the Magic: the gathering card illustrations I have done, and will continually be updated when the cards are released. I have had some requests for prints and I am in the process of getting that set-up.

www.anthonyfrancisco.com

Zbrush studies

2010-04-10T00:22:00.000-07:00

this study is pretty old, I wish I kept going with it. The top one is what I ended up with

my attempt at coloring the head.. still WIP but I don't think I will be able to finish ..lol

base model in maya and then zbrushed. this image is in the offset engine

generic alien z-brush study

Photo Manipulation

2010-04-06T19:33:00.000-07:00

I wanted to try doing character design like how you do matte painting. Photo collage is harder than it sounds...for me anyway.. :0
here are my WIP ... I try to keep things under 1 hour but these end up being almost 2 hour sketches.
-weird crab sketch

Chronicles of Riddick

2010-03-03T16:49:00.000-08:00

Request granted Larissa :)
Here are some sketches I did for Chronicles of Riddick.

Filipino Folk Tales

2010-02-11T03:31:00.000-08:00

The Kapre is described as a tree giant and is known to like smoking tobaccos, I think he is a type of Faerie. I haven't looked around for reference about his story. This is just a quick idea of what he might look like, I need to explore more...

BEAUTIFUL GRIM

2010-01-09T03:13:00.000-08:00

Last year Mike "Daarken" Lim and Leif Jeffers had contacted me about participating in an art auction fund raiser. I just wanted to let people know about their noble endeavor. And if you want to be part of this please contact Mike soon because the deadline is on Feb 1st.

from the beautiful grim site:

My name is Daarken and I am a concept artist and illustrator working for Mythic Entertainment. My friend Leif Jeffers, an animator at DreamWorks, and I are organizing an art auction fundraiser that will be held next year.

Earlier this year my girlfriend, Cat, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 25. On November 3rd, 2009, she had a bilateral mastectomy after going through 16 weeks of chemotherapy. As you can imagine it has been hard for her, not only mentally and physically, but financially. In order to help alleviate some of her medical bills Leif and I wanted to throw an art auction. The proceeds that are left over after her medical bills have been paid will go to a breast cancer related charity to be determined by the artists in the coming weeks.

We currently have artists contributing that hail from all regions of the industry: concept artists, animators, photographers, sculptors, fine artists, illustrators, you name it. The theme for the auction is "Beautiful Grim." The interpretation of "Beautiful Grim" has been left up to the artists. December 15th is the deadline for artists wishing to voice their interest in contributing art. A tentative deadline for the art has been set for February 1st, 2010.

some WIP

the first one is a Tikbalang - a type of faerie in Filipino folk lore, half man half horse and really skinny.

the second image is a mananangal another enchanted creature from Filipino folk lore but its a type of vampire. It looks like a regular human by day, but at night when its time to feed, its upper body detaches from the waist and grows wings. Its lower half is found near a banana tree( I think ). You are supposed to sprinkle it with salt so the mananangal will not be able to put itself back together again and once the sun come out it turns to ash. This is what I remember of the story from when I was younger.

I am still searching for a better idea... running out of time...

another WIP ... need to clean up more ..

ThunderCats (meowr?)

2009-12-16T07:13:00.000-08:00

Two years ago, I was sketching out some ideas for thundercats. I used to love watching it when I was younger. I would like to finish one of these ideas some day. You can see with these images how I realized (what the hell am I doing?!!) that he was looking too primitive ape-man kinda, Lion-O needs to be somewhat handsome and young, well he is handsome and young but I did not want him to be too much of a pretty boy, which explains the last image :P. I dont know why I thought he was an older and wize fellow. Lion-O has a mind of a 9 year old or is it 12 year old... I forget.

This is more how the cartoon looked like but I wanted to try to design the glove/gauntlet a bit more.

Body structure studies for Lion-O and Panthro, although Panthro does not look like this I just wanted to start off with a different look for him. ...and Mumra, my favorite he doesn't even have to work out, he just says some sh-tuff then he get really buff ..lol

Monster Sketches

2009-10-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

I posted earlier that I was going to do one sketch a day until halloween,
and I missed my first day which was yesterday (monday). But better late than
never..lol

I wanted to post sketches I made the same night so it would be more spontaneous but I owe you guys 2 days already.. I am so bad with this, .. just not enough time .
so here is a couple of oldies...

Blitz the Robot

2009-09-04T14:00:00.000-07:00

Something I had done a while back.

Project Offset Concept Art

2009-07-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

Mind's Desire

2009-07-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

Card Art

2009-07-25T20:48:00.000-07:00

Minotaur

2009-07-23T22:30:00.000-07:00

EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED

2009-06-18T01:03:00.000-07:00

due to unforeseen circumstances, the workshop will be scheduled on a later date ( I needed the weekend to start packing and move out of the house I am renting, the stupid Landlord did no tell me that it was being foreclosed, and do you believe he was actually still trying to charge me rent on a house he does not own anymore! ) good thing the lawyers of the bank sent a note saying not to pay anymore rent.

Hi everyone,

I am doing a painting demo with Khang at Gallery Nucleus on June 28 (6-10PM)
the details of the event can be seen through this link http://www.gallerynucleus.com/event/203

It is pretty cheap just 60$ and you get to watch 2 artists. Khang will be doing an environment and I will be doing a character for that environment. Our theme is Street Fighter... it's my favorite game so far..I am so addicted :)

AetherStomper

2009-04-27T05:12:00.000-07:00

Evolve 3D

2009-03-29T19:47:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to inform everyone that I am going to be teaching a workshop at the Evolve 3D event that is going to be on April 18 in Florida.
so if you live in Florida maybe you can go...
Check out the link :
http://www.evolve3d.net/evolve3d.html

the other guest speakers are really awesome, and they are cool guys so don't be shy in approaching them with your work . There will be recruiters from some big companies like Blizzard and Activision.
I will also be there to look at some portfolios of possible candidates for our internship program at Intel/Offset (animator,3D environment artist)
and for our full time position we are still looking for an animator..
just send me a link of your work and I will pass it along. (Sorry if I don't get to reply)

by the way we updated the offset site just recently check out the new videos!

thanks

Arcane Sanctum

2009-03-26T00:33:00.001-07:00

a fleet of floating ship castles

Tezzeret the Seeker

2009-02-12T16:59:00.000-08:00

the magic card that got published actually had him
looking younger and with darker hair. I liked this one.

Elric of Melnibone

2009-01-12T00:04:00.000-08:00

Elric of Melnibone was a character I did not really know, but have seen some of my favorite artists paint him. This is my take on him, nothing special just wanted to sketch him out. Hopefully it looks cool. I listened to the audio book it was interesting.

not just any girl

2009-01-03T03:28:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to do a quick sketch of one of my favorite characters.

Giant from Project Offset

2008-10-03T01:09:00.000-07:00

Intel released some concept art to kick-off
the re-opening of the forums at the Project Offset site.
Hoping to start some kind of buzz....
So I might as well post it here.

The little guy there on the side is one of the human soldiers you fight. . .

CesspoolColossus

2008-09-23T00:39:00.000-07:00

Elves of Project Offset

2008-05-02T23:10:00.000-07:00

Dark elf concept for Project Offset. He was in the video
that was leaked out a while ago.
The link on the site was not working
so if anyone was is interested.. here it is :)
I will be posting more rough ideas of the other characters that
have already been put up on the Offset site ...

Initial concepts for the Wood Elves

Men in Black 2

2008-03-25T03:03:00.000-07:00

Only the shark head on the upper right made it in the film. (lost in the background)
Not all of this was for the movie, but all of it was designed just in case there was a sequel :) lol

Good Times . . .

2008-03-25T02:39:00.000-07:00

Some old sketches I did for HBO's Carnival. I do miss doing these kind of designs- sometimes :) They wanted a guy who lost his jaw coz he got mauled by a bear or something, I had no idea how that would look like ... so I had to look for some pretty pictures (if you know what I mean .. rotten.com ) they settled on the guy with the mask, I think they realized that the actor had some lines he needed to say . . .oh well

Mycon Creatures

2008-02-04T00:02:00.002-08:00

more generic creatures ..lol

Mr Spaghetti Face

2008-02-03T23:42:00.001-08:00

This was done a while back with prizma colored pencil. It was for the nucleus monster show.

Eloh ( Tabula Rasa )

2008-01-25T02:13:00.000-08:00

These were some Eloh ideas that did not make it to the game.
They were supposed to the advanced race, angelic / divine.
They were mistaken by humans to be angels.

more creatures from Tabula Rasa (NCsoft)

2008-01-19T12:45:00.001-08:00

Concept Design Academy (Spring 2008)

2008-01-14T01:31:00.001-08:00

Here is the schedule of classes for Spring2008. I teach the Creature Design Class.

Creature Demos

2008-01-12T04:40:00.000-08:00

These were done during ConceptArt's "Revelations" workshop.
I am going to try to finish these up some more later(I hope to have time).

Emma

2007-11-14T00:59:00.001-08:00

I am a bit too late for Halloween ..... so Merry Christmass ....Mmuahaha

Enhanced Human

2007-10-12T04:46:00.001-07:00

Djereek

2007-10-12T04:31:00.001-07:00

Mycon Reaver

2007-10-12T04:25:00.000-07:00

Everyone's probably seen this piece..

The Moss Grubber

2007-10-12T04:19:00.000-07:00

Neph Enslaver (Tabula Rasa)

2007-10-12T04:17:00.001-07:00

Bane Caretaker (Tabula Rasa)

2007-10-12T03:21:00.001-07:00

Scarecrow

2007-10-08T01:40:00.000-07:00

Sea Monster

2007-10-02T19:23:00.000-07:00

Evil Sorceress

2007-10-01T16:35:00.001-07:00

Swamp Monster

2007-10-01T16:15:00.000-07:00

what's in this cave

2007-10-01T01:03:00.000-07:00

no eyes ....no problem, he can still smell you

Halloween Boogyman

2007-10-01T00:49:00.000-07:00

Offset Dragon

2007-09-30T23:45:00.000-07:00

Magus of the Future

2007-09-29T03:36:00.001-07:00

A card for Magic:The Gathering