Studio Killers Doodle!

My copy of the new Daft Punk CD came in the mail, but before then I spent all day listening to Studio Killers, so here's a quick and dirty doodle of Chubby Cherry!

Have some Rolls! (they're delicious)

Here's some Mega Man/Rockman fan art I've been doing lately. It's my own little interpretation of mega man's house-sitting sister, Roll!

These were all drawn in Adobe Flash, by the way.
Here's some official art I used for reference:

Latest artwork of her original design

During and after Mega Man 8 she looked like this for a time

   
I noticed she always had rather large bangs, so I thought it would be fun to exaggerate that and give her a more mature, mellow look. Maybe over the years she becomes a little less of  a coward and more of a big-sister-type for her hero brother? He could probably use the emotional support, I dunno.

Her original design is cute but I think I like her Mega Man 8 look a bit more, it's more fun to draw and simply adorable! If anything, her tank top dress + sandals would be her summer outfit and the long-sleeved one + boots would be more ideal for colder seasons. Err, if robots were actually bothered by heat and cold - I like to think most robots in the Mega Man universe are advanced enough to sense those kinds of things.
Ok, enough of my rambling.

The ~jeminy3 signature is my alternative online name, these pieces and more are up on my (far less professional) deviantart and tumblr sites. Feel free to visit if you're tired of me not updating here often enough! 
(be warned I'm serious about the less professional thing)

Some Snake Man Sketches

Forgot to post these here last night >_<

I think I promised here a long time ago I would make better Snake Man drawings, so uh, here they are. He IS my favorite robot master after all...

...but I'm a big reptile fan in general, so yeah...

He's a bit tricky to draw so I spent most of yesterday drawing him - or his head at least.

Was also experimenting with the Pencil tool in Photoshop, kinda fun to work with for me...

...or I might just be weird, since I also like using ballpoint pens when drawing on paper. >_>;

Right corner felt empty so I doodled in my cartoony-styled Snake Man, who looks too cute for his own good since in my headcanon he's essentially a huge troll. xD

None of these guys look consistent haha, but I like to experiment and I'll be damned if I fall into the Style Trap.

Old Megaman Sketches

I would have uploaded these earlier if my internet hadn't mysteriously crapped out on me last night and stayed off all night and day. Eventually I had to turn off the computer and unplug everything from the modem, then plug them back in and turn everything on. Thanks goodness it's back and we don't have to get a new modem!

Anyway, where was I...? Oh yeah, old Megaman sketches. Here ya go.

First up is Fireman - As I remember, I made these in Autodesk Sketchbook Express 2010 to test it out. It's a nice, intuitive drawing/painting program for artists, but I don't have the full version so anything I save will merge all my layers. Oh well. =/

I'm Back! Online and On-Task

After moving in with my aunt and being without internet for a few months, I'm finally back!

It's been hard times for my family and I so far, but we're working to get to a better place in our lives now - in simpler terms, we're saving up to move to Oregon in a couple months.

In terms of my art, I've been lacking in inspiration/motivation, so I've decided to get back into practicing every day (ideally).
I've found a great website to do so - Posemaniacs.com
It's a massive free database of CG human models in various poses and camera angles for artists to practice figure drawing.

Work from Background Design, April/May/June 2010

Though I'm planning on going into Animation as a career, I still try to take as many fine art-like classes I can to improve my creativity and artistic skill. I also wanted to become a Concept Artist when I first came to AI of San Diego, but quickly learned that its a very competitive career and only the very best make it that far.

I looked forward to this class to learn techniques for digital painting with Photoshop, and to learn composition and designing backgrounds/environments.

The overall theme was the story of the Odyssey.
The first painting was in all grayscale to help us learn values and such.
I designed an underwater shack as the home of Poseidon.
Next we were introduced to color. It's a bit easier digitally since you can just paint it in grayscale and colorize it.
I chose a more vertical page ratio, and designed Mount Olympus, home of the gods:At first they were going to be more Skyscraper-like, but the teacher insisted on keeping every environment within the same world in terms of style. So I took reference from 1800s style buildings.

For the final painting we were shown how to incorporate photo textures to enhance the painting and reduce the painting work you have to do. You have to tweak it A LOT to make it work though, or else it looks....photoshopped. :P

I tried an indoor environment this time, with our heroes sneaking through the home of the Cyclops seeking an escape:
The teacher showed me a way to darken the whole scene drastically, but I don't have the jpg of that version. I'd rather redo this painting, honestly.

Of the the three, I liked my first painting the most. Still, it was a great class.