Mary?

sketch night at paul richards! wee! possible that this will be the look for the chick character. was named Mary. might change the name to something with one syllable. oh and theres a big fat dood.

The Hero

The hero. In his world.

did some gal sketches tonight. was invited by Garret and Mindy to Barnes and Nobles so i picked me up some tat mags and went with it. finished up an old page and did a quicky. ill have a new post tomorrow related to my last post. :D

Krom's Past Life

Sooooo this is my first daily post of this week. supposed to be for monday but i had a bit of a late start tonight. These are some more concepts for a story ill be working on for awhile. its a super fun world to concept for. First I have some sketches for baddies here. On the left is General Krom. He is King Krom when he was still alive as a human. His minions are on the right. the fat ones are called FooFoes and the skinniers ones are called NohFoes :D I started renderign out the FooFoe. might redesign a few elements about him but im satisfied with the overall idea and silhouette.

Xan Redone

So recently i've been using all my time as wisely as possible. I know i have a tendency to jump around personal projects alot and i seem to never commit to one. This time however I have every intention on fleshing this out to the end. I tok some feedback on one of my favorite characters named Xan. Many friends were stating that he looked kind of hill billyish. With this in mind and some inspiration from Garret Hanna; I recreated the character to be more old school videogame oriented. This was ALOT of run to design and paint. Making this dood really sent me back to my childhood. Playing old school videogames for hours and hours. Enjoying the intricate 8bit melodies. The songs so catchy that you just couldnt stop humming them for days. Games that were fun to play, fun to explore, and sparked inspiration.
Turns out Garret and I out share a passion for old school games and music. We have been 8bit jamming for the past couple of weeks using various plugins and listening to alot of nindendo melodies. We have decided to join forces. I've made about 9 different 8bit beats and chose one to flesh out a bit to sort of tease those that are interested in what ive been doing with all my free time. Do have a listen and tell me what you think. thank you!


ps- sorry for all those people who i dissappeared from. ive been very busy doing what i love ;D
-Betel

Isi namid. this is the pink haired girl minus pink hair. i felt she was more mysterious with platinum like in the original sculpt. maybe she dyes her hair different colors later on. went for a rough painted look on the render. i like where its going and will probably dabble with a similar vibe for 2 more characters in this story. the painted lines on her are tentative until i can think of some neater designs to be painted on her skin.
im really looking forward to Burning Man. aug 29th-september 5th. I will be camping with a group called the galactic jedis and the pyronauts. i thought that was kind of funny seeing how ive been working on a fire spinning fighter for the past month.
cant wait to see half naked babes runnin around lookin like this one :D

Isi Namid

This is infact the same character from the previous post. Her tentative name means deer star dancer. visually i was going for a burning man mononoke vibe. her hair is going through some growing pains. thinking about having her wear some hair extensions or they might be natural dreads branching off of possible a faux hawk.
The outfit design is basically final. I will only make minor changes to it NEED TO MOVE ON lol. As you can see I did several different quick sketches of this character befoer coming to the final design at the top of the pages.
Also I would like to note that the masks were heavily inspired by Francisco Ruiz Velasco . I saw some sketches of mask concepts he did for hell boy 2 recently. I watched the movie JUST to see those masks... They were each in ONE scene for about 2 seconds... FAR in the background. I was very saddened by this and chose to create a clan of masked fire spinners to accompany Isi. The 3 other masks are roughs of what im thinking for em.

Isi Namid trains her fire spinning skills to mask her fighter spirit. Martial arts training is banned so she learns fighting in dance form. Her abilities have no connection to magic initially.... but she soon finds that her haunting past has the ability to evolve her technique into something else entirely. :P