New Street Justice Characters Designs

So for the past two weeks i've started up working on Street Justice Ch. 2. I've gotten 4 extra pages done bringing my total up to 16 pages. So with any luck i'll be done by the end of summer but until then here are some character designs for some upcoming characters 

fear all the mighty Giraffe Man! 

When you've got lazer beam eyes who needs hands? And yes only cool people spell lasers LAZERS because "Z's" are cool

This street tuff is ready to hit a home-run with someones face. yikes!

mysterious 4th rat with mysterious powers

BONUS FEATURES

Abstract Narrative Drawing

Mighty Boosh pieces finished

So for the past week or so I've been working on this Mighty Boosh piece. I don't often do fan art at all, but that just tells you how awesome I think Noel Fielding and Jullian Barrett are.

the final was done in watercolor and acrylic. if you can believe it the portraits are all in water color and the background is the acrylic. some water colors such as lemon yellow, cerulean blue, new gamboge and white have a chalkier pigments so if you build them up you can use them as gouache layers. crazy right!?

color study. Originally I wanted to do the background as a type of photo collage digitally as a homage to the opening of the show "come with us now on a journey through time and space, to world of the Mighty Boosh" sigh...but it didn't work out quite as well as i had hoped. it either felt to busy or to separate from the portraits  

Final sketch. the original concept was to put them in different costumes that represented their character's personalities. Howard is the minstrel because he's the tiny eyed jazz loving musician and Vince is the clown because he's fashionable androgeness free spirit.

concept sketches

initially with my final concept I wanted to do full figures but I was having trouble with a composition that would put their face into prominence... cause they have awesome faces so I did portraits instead.

BOUNUS FEATURES 

I haven't been posting for a while so to make up for that here's some other things i've been working on. this first one is actually really old but I didn't have a good picture of it until now

Mr. Susan! He's gonna do the chosen! 

this is actually a messed up version of the background that i painted over cause i was bored  

Tree Tattoos

The original concept behind this was a tree's getting tattoos. above is the the finished piece and here are some of my other sketches that help me refine this idea

From the beginning I envisioned the tree as a couple getting tats together.

But I also wanted to see if I could come up with a separate concept on the same idea. this is of a more independent tree lady having her tats done by the local wood peckers.

I liked both my ideas for this one so I made two color studies but decided to go with the upper one because it had more going for it compositionally. hmmm it only needs a bit more refining so you might see this one again soon. 

mystery revealed!

I was working on a editorial for one of my absolute favorite  books Life Of Pi. which is about a boy trapped on a life boat with a tiger, zebra orangutan and a hyena. 

These are my original concepts. 

This one I'm definitely saving to do for latter (be sure to look out for it) because I've never seen anyone illustrate the part of the book where he get's stranded on a seaweed island were it turns to acid at night and the plants have the teeth of digested travelers in them. So metal! 

Color study

   

the finished product in digital media 

Lich King poster

Mystery Project!

you all get a sneak peek at the prelims for my next project. can guess what it's about based on the animals?

New project Lich King

Doing some poster work for the band Lich King. Check it!

these first two were mainly to play around with type and go through some character designs.

  

This one was more for fun to see what an opposite gendered lich would look like

mo character design

This is the one I'm set on for character design. these are in inks and in my final sketch I'm gonna desaturate my a bit. like that cloak... i did it on the plane with my brush pens... apparently altitude effects them because my red came just gushing out. I looked like I was bleeding all over the place... which was awkward to explain to the flight attendant 

Here are my comps. I'm really felling the fist one up there so I'm going for it. He's gonna be busting out of a bunch of swampy water with his magical ax and inextinguishable torch