Run cycles!

After another little absence, here's some more animation!

This time, we have a run cycle for 8-way top-down movement, 16-bit style. For more details and a little making of, look inside!

Animation: Walk Cycle

(click to enhance)

This is just a quick update with a walk cycle I've finished just now, intended for a theoretical point and click adventure.

Click for some background and sketches!

VN character: Lady with basket

Another one-off character artwork. Like last week's entry, this would work as a VN portrait for dialogues.
Click to see the full image, and there's also a small WIP sketch!

VN Character: Flight attendant

Happy new year! I'm starting this year off with a still illustration designed for use in a VN-style game, meaning: has to be nice to look at, has to show some personality at least, doesn't need to be animated. In practice, a still that's more or less facing the viewer and can be used for dialogue scenes.

Click to see the full picture, and there's also a small making of showing the various stages the image went through.

Two pixel artworks!

Click the images to view at full pixel size. Trust me, it'll look much nicer! 

Two samples of pixel art, fresh from the presses! It's a set of more than 20 pieces, so patience is needed in case you're looking to see more

Hope you like them!

Pixel art: Units!

(click to enlarge!)

This is part of a bigger thing, and I thought I'd post some of it here. Four-way walk animations in 32 x 32 pixels. Character designed by myself, and there's a stack of other animation and characters in the same set. The whole thing should come out in due time. Hope you like it!

(And if you were wondering, the inspirations for each faction are Indian/Sikh/Khalsa and 19th century Russian infantry.)

Character: John Charity Spring

After another lengthy absence, here's another full-body piece, this time based on a non-central but extremely interesting character from a great series of novels.

Click to see the entire image, a few making-of sketches and a bit of information about the character (and books!).

Boo!

Sorry for the long silence, I've been terribly busy what with life and all.
Trying my hand at concepting, this time with actual lighting and stuff.

Enjoy! ...Or hopefully, don't!

(Deformed fantasy monsters are Easy Mode anyway, this is beginner's class...)

I don't normally post my animations, but...

...this here made me a bit proud :)

From top to bottom: idle, run, (idle again), walk, talk.

Angelito!

Here's another little illustration - something I made for a friend a week ago.
Click to have a look at the final image. But what's more important, I included another little Making Of in case you want to see how the piece came to be.

In any case, have fun viewing :)

Indie space marine

The unsung hero of the current gaming generation. Poster child for truly modern aesthetics, originality and a profound need to voice an individual artistic message via the medium of gaming - The space marine.

Hero of countless AAA big-budget titles, this bold fellow with lots of personality has been making his entry into the independent gaming scene as well. Alas, with short budgets come... economic restrictions.

Character: Caffeine Fairy (+ making of)

So here's a "real" piece of concept art this time, not just some doodle.
This is the Caffeine Fairy, a lovely and helpful spirit that gets you going in the morning. Or afternoon. Or whenever you need a good shot of wake-up magic.

Click to see the full image, and a making of including sketches and a wallpaper!

Dumb fun.

Yeah, I got nothing.
And for the people that don't get the joke, see below. :)

A handful of sketches (January update!)

Again, I'm actually a bit busy at the moment, but here's a handful of sketches. Read the post to see more pics, even more cute and cuddly than the one above.

Also, I added a few new ones to the post!

Hope you like them.

Sketch: Soldier Guy!

Just a small update, but a nice spot of green in this drab season nevertheless.

This was done on request, otherwise I wouldn't have made him so extremely generic (and unfortunately resembling the TF2 Soldier, who is something of a wonderful archetype).

Mythical creatures - a sample!

Just a little preview of things to come. There will be many more Pokém... ehm, creatures added to the pool. Stay tuned!

TEAM POLAND! I CHOOSE YOU!

Polevik! - Rusalka! - Noctitsa!

(click to enlarge)

We're not done yet! Click to see more of them!

Digital painting collection 1 (Also: Photoshop versus Paint Tool Sai)

I haven't been updating for a while now, but I'm actually quite busy with *gasp* art projects. These are a few digital drawings I did on the side. It's a really, really tough learning process, but it seems to pay off. Slowly.

I'm doing the switch from Photoshop to something simpler as well. I'm currently trying out Paint Tool Sai, which is far less bloated (for drawing purposes) and less laggy. The above picture is actually a direct comparison between both programs.

Click to see the full image (+ sketch) and more works!

Mortadelo y Filemon - Hardcore!

If you're reading this and you're not Spanish or German, you probably don't know who Mortadelo y Filemon (or Mort & Phil, or Clever & Smart) are. Imagine the silliest, goofiest slapstick comic, bar any deeper substance, consisting of 100 % comic violence and sight gags.

If there's one series that never needed a hardcore, dark 'n' gritty makeover, it's this. So I made one. Read on to see the full image and closeups of each character. Bonus sketch included!

Character: Erkan

Nothing fancy this time - although I tried to get the idea of a loose, badly fitting leisure suit into the picture. This guy is a concoction of all the standard mobster clichés you can think of, with a bitchin' mustache to boot.

Click to see the whole image including preliminary sketch and lineart!

Character: Susanna (+ sketches)

Other than lovely Susanna here (inspired by the artwork for a certain strategy video game about... wars of the advanced kind), this time you'll also find her earlier versions and a handful of shapely figure sketches.