Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Oogie Boogie Pumpkin

It just isn't Halloween to me if I don't get to carve a pumpkin. I carved two this year, but to stop this entry from getting all cluttered I'll put them into separate posts.

Halloween night my friend Connie and I watched horror movies, ordered a pizza, and broke out the carving knives.

On my pumpkin I carved the Oogie Boogie man from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Really, what says "Halloween" better than Oogie Boogie?

Here he is with the lights on:Aaaand with the lights off!


I later decided to see what Boogie would look like when lit by a green glowstick instead:

Then (in true Boogie fashion) I thought, "Why not light him up via Blacklight?"

Now, since I had already filled him up with glowsticks and bathed him in UV light, why not go the whole 9 yards and make him glow in the dark?



There you have it. More evidence that I can never leave well enough alone, and that my immediate access to glow-in-the-dark paints can only lead to trouble for everyone.

Happy Halloween!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

My Left4Dead Hunter Costume for Halloween 2010!

I've been super busy with life lately... During the Summer, it was my job, and now I have school work.

Still, I feel like I should give this blog thing another shot.

Why not start back up by showing my Halloween costume for this year?

This year I dressed up as a zombie creature from the game "Left 4 Dead," known as a Hunter. Here's the concept art of one, for comparison.

I had a lot of fun making the costume, mostly because I couldn't afford to spend anything on it. It was interesting trying to find "free" alternatives to methods you would usually use... it was also my first time trying to do "horror" make-up. That was the most fun out of all it!

Here's some photos of how it turned out:

Those first three photos were taken by my friend, Connie. I may have gotten distracted from acting the part of a hunter by awesome fish...

The above photo was cropped, because I wasn't sure if Connie wanted me posting a picture of her up here. She dressed up as Louis from Left4Dead, and our friend Erin dressed up as Francis. It was amazing.This second set of photos was taken by my friend Molly, aka freckledlass here on blogger.

In all the costume cost less than $10 dollars. The hoodie was $1 at a garage sale, the pants and shows were old beat-up clothes I had. The fake teeth were $2, and I also bought fake nails for $2 and some cheap black and white make-up for $2. Everything else was made or "left overs" from previous costumes. The fake blood I made out of red paint, milk, chocolate sauce, and corn syrup. The gross "skin" was dried acrylic paint.

Anyway, it was a ton of fun.

I'm hoping to make a post of carved pumpkins soon!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Digital Practice

I need more practice drawing digitally. I'm still really shaky with my tablet.

Here are some random things I've done with it lately:

This was a drawing based on the theme "Smash Bros" for my friend's webcomic, but I totally had the wrong due date and kind of epically failed with it. Whoops.

This is a speedpaint of my cousin's Phantasy Star Online character as sort of a birthday card kind of thing:

Finally, here is a silly little comic based on Super Mario Galaxy 2. That game is hard, and after awhile you start to think the "GAME OVER" message is personally mocking you:
That's all! I've been busy with my summer job.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Matchstick Tiger

Tiger made out of matchsticks. It's a rework for a project in Illustration II. It's made out of around 4,000 matches.

Here it is messed around with in photoshop. Design is not my forte, unfortunately.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Dinosaur Project Concept Sketches 2






Dinosaur Project Concept Sketches 1

I scanned some of the concept sketches I did for my group's Dinosaur project. They are very rough ideas.

Pteradons and some dudes:Some general concepts, including a rough sketch of a "jungle" area:A whoooole bunch of sketches of the raptor character:Sketch of a Styracosarus and his size in comparison to his rider:A more detailed raptor head. None of these are scientifically accurate at all, haha:This is all I have for now. The scanner I was using at the school started acting all weird. I have some more that I'll scan tomorrow, hence the "Part 1."

Couple o' Sketches

Just a few little things from my sketchbook.As you can tell from this next one, my favorite things to draw are kitty cats.This last one is part of a project that I've been working on forever. I just can't seem to get it right.