This is the first page of a personal project I'm working on, involving the show The Legend of Korra.  I have a few subsequent pages planned for the project, and I'll get them done and post them as soon as I can! 

Hope you all enjoy this! 

Chris 

This is a piece celebrating my friendships with the members of The Crack Pack, , , , and , as well as and . I met Sarah, Riza, Kimmy, and Alicia on this say four years ago in Irrel's Zutarian Chat Room, when the topic of discussion was the finale spoilers released in that premature book adaptation. Meeting those folks that day led me to meeting Farah and Erica as well. We've come up with a lot of crack over the years and I could them each among my best friends. This is celebrating all the great times we have together thus far, and looks toward a future filled with even more crack.

As such, it's basically composed of a bunch of inside jokes that would be hard for ME to even name all of if I hadn't made this myself. If you spot some things you recognize, let me know. If you want research, you can look through my gallery, as well as all of their's if you really want to do a Where's Waldo? kind of search thing XD Even then, some of this stuff isn't even on dA.

If you want to read a looooong sentimental companion explanation to this, you can check out the entry on my tumblr: [link]

Drawn with pencil, inked a Sakura Pigma Sensei  04, and colored and lettered in Photoshop.

If you want to see a larger version, you can view the full size file on my deviantART page here. 

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this. I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out.

Chris

Everything copywritten within this picture © Whoever owns it. There's toooo much stuff here. And that would also be spoiling the Where's Waldo? fun.

Small Planar Head Sculpture

Here's a turnaround of a head sculpture I've been working on.  A small planar form head to assist in head drawing.  Having made it, I can see all the mistakes and flaws I made in its construction, so next time I'll be able to construct a better sculpture.  But this will help me out quite nicely, I do believe.  I think I'll finally do a simple head form in sculpy soon so I'll have that basic form around whenever I need it. 

Anyway, here ye go! 

Chris 

Inaugural Korra Fanart

Heyo again! 

So here is my first official Korra fanart after watching the first two episodes online!  They're absolutely amazing and it is so wonderful to be watching the splendid work of the Avatar team once more.  It's like I'm back in 2008 all over again.  Stupendous stuff, and I cannot waaaaait to see more! 

My friend Farah wanted some Korra art and I wanted to draw some anyway, so I drew Korra a water tribe/20's style outfit, since the show runs into asian style dieselpunk territory.  I'm pretty happy with it.  Just sort of whipped it a couple days ago, and now it's here. 

Hope you all enjoy, and be sure to check out Korra on Nick when it comes out on April 14th!  It's gonna be JAWSOMMMME! 

The Janus Machine Development Art

Hello everyone! 

It's been too long since I've updated here, but I rarely have time to do so while I'm in school.  Now that I've finished up my winter classes, I wanted to upload some of the work I've done in the interim.  This post consists of various work that I've created in the past quarter to develop a neo-noir sci-fi story idea of mine called The Janus Machine.  You'll see character designs, environments, props, fashion, and more here.  I'm looking forward to working on this story more in the future, so keep a look out! 

Without further ado, let's jump right in! 

Here's the male protagonist, a private detective named Sam Carnehan:

This is the female protagonist, Isidrid Riad:

Here's the primary antagonist, Lucio Altieri:

And here is another protagonist, Dr. Perry Warner:

And here's a line-up of all four:

Here's an environment showing the sort of classy 20's art deco feel I'm working to incorporate into the world:

Here is some of how I've designed future fashion in this world:

And here's a bit of technology that will play a major part in the story and the world it inhabits:

That's all for now, but I'm looking to get a lot of work done in the near future, so keep watch here and I will do my best to do my best! 

Chris

Final Planar Hand Model and Recent Visual Storytelling 1 Projects

Hello everyone!

However are things?  I've been busy working on projects, most of which I'll include in this entry.

So let's get to it!

First of all, here are pictures of my finished clay hand model.  It's in planar simplified form, which was what we worked on most in class, so it's not supposed to look exactly like a real organic hand.  It gets down the basis of all the forms of the hand, from which we can extrapolate the rest of our knowledge about its surface form and structure. 

 

Here's grids, thumbnails, and tight roughs for six pages from a script of Y: The Last Man, done for Visual Storytelling I. 

 

Our next assignment was to draw from a script written by students in a Comic Book Scripting class in the Sequential Art department.  I had a lot of fun working on this one.  It involved a homeless man who hallucinates about space bears coming to Earth and making him their commander.  Grids, thumbs, and roughs are below. 

This project was given to us as a career-related challenge.  Our professor gave us five days over a weekend to thumbnail, grid, rough, pencil, and letter five pages from a given script.   It was meant to represent a last minute project given to us by a comic book company that, if done well, could increase our reputations in the industry.  It was definitely challenging, and was certainly a good lesson.  I did manage to finish it all, which I'm quite happy about.  Given more time, it all would have been more polished, but with the time allowed, I'm relatively satisfied with it.  Below are grids, thumbnails, roughs, and finished pencils with lettering.  

 For our next project, we were given a script from a comic about Wyatt Earp, famous western law man.  I quite enjoyed this project, particularly because I got to collaborate with my dad, in a way, and he's a top notch expert on the history of the Old West and Wyatt Earp (and many others) particularly.  I consulted him to maintain historical accuracy in my depictions as best I could and he gave me a lot of fantastic reference material to work with.  Below are the thumbs, grids, and roughs. 

For our most recent project, we were required to write a two page script, the subject being some sort of journey.  Aside from that requirement, we could write about anything we wanted.  My story takes place in Tittawin, Morocco in 1914.  Two figures, Tilelli and Amezyan are sneaking into the Casbah  of José Marina Vega, the High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco, to steal his prize sabre, a symbol of his power in Spanish Morocco.  Tilelli and Amezyan are part of a group of Barbary pirates, who are seeking to overthrow the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco.  In the middle of the theft, they are seen by guards, who attempt to capture them.  The guards give chase out the window of the casbah and across the street.  Tilelli disables a guard about to fire on the two of them by throwing a knife into his gun, which backfires.  The two jump down off the roof onto their horse, and ride off.  Tilelli's turban is removed to reveal that she is, in fact, a blond caucasian girl.  She turns and mocks the guards as the two escape.  

I love the things I'm coming up with for this story and would love to take it further in the future.  As far as the project is concerned, I really wish I'd had a couple more pages to spread the action over, because I feel the small space I had to convey the actions I wanted caused some compression of events, which took away some of the clarity I'd have liked to get across.  I'm relatively pleased with the pages however, and I look forward to working with this story and these characters more in the near future.  Thumbnails, grids, and roughs are below.  

 

 Well, that's about all for now (a lot, I know).  I'm working on final projects in my classes now, so when I get done with those, you'll see them up here.  

Until next time!  

Chris