Monday, January 18, 2016

KP Skin Illustration - "Plague" (Trigger Warning)

This skin was supposed to be released the week of/after the release of Trigger Warning, but it went through so many changes that it wasn't completed until just yesterday:


A little bit about this skin:
     - The skin is based off of plague doctors. I wanted to combine the crow motif the Trigger Warning EP uses with KP's existing look without completely turning them into bird anthros. Thought of a crow mask which then led to the plague doctor mask.
     - Here's the sketch concept for R and G:


The reason this piece took so long to complete was selecting a style. It started off similarly rendered to previous KP skin ills but it wasn't working for me - it felt too stiff. I redid the piece with a looser style and it was looking more like how I envisioned:


After creating this teaser image for this skin, all I could see it in was a really rough style:


And that's how the KP "Plague" skin illustration looks the way it does now! :D

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Plushies from 2015

Hey everyone, Happy 2016!!! :)

So much has happened in 2015 and most of the work I've done I forgot to post here. 2015 was a year of plushie experimentation, and here are two plushies I hadn't posted yet:


Lewis here was made for a dear friend of mine, rudeboimonster. He's a character from the animated music video "Ghost" by Mystery Skulls, designed and animated by mysterybensmysteryblog. Even though his design is simple, he very difficult to make. Trying to translate his 2D design into 3D took some reworking, in particular with his hair and his ribs (his back isn't accurate to his 2D design). Other notes about this plush:

- His head is sewn onto the back part of his collar, emulating his floating head.
- I used 18-gauge wire for his legs to allow for posing. His legs were so frustrating to try to fit stuffing around the wires because of how skinny they were.
- He's fun to pose:


 
Photos courtesy of rudeboimonster

And the second plush:


This is Tinlicker's mascot! Unfortunately, I forgot to take turnaround pics of this plush so instead here's a candid shot of the same outdoor photoshoot:

It was windy that day.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

October Daily Painting Challenge 2015

This marks the third year of doing the ODPC (probably will just call it October Playlist for simplicity's sake), and the second year of fully completing the challenge. :D (Here are the two previous years' images: 2014 / 2013) And this year's Playlist was completed on time, yay!

 Left to right:
Adrians Rhythm - Two Fingers
The Hole Where Your House Was - Spor
Banshee - Noisia
Midnight Runner - Pendulum

 Night Owl - Savant
Metamorphosis - InsideInfo ft. Miss Trouble
Nobody's Out There - The Upbeats
Murder of Crows - Knife Party

 Occult Classic - Kill the Noise
Battalion - Black Sun Empire
Caracal - Disclosure
Secret Smile - Technimatic ft. Lucy Kitchen

 The Seafox - Galantis
Num3ers - SOCIETY OF NUM3ERS
A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo! - Feed Me
Little Monsta - I See Monstas

 Hyenas - Noisia, Calyx & Teebee
The Space In Between - Tinlicker
Blood Sugar - Pendulum
La Lune - Madeon

 Lucid - SNAKE & WOLF
Mansion - Gareth Emery, Ashley Wallbridge
Haunted House - Knife Party
The OWSLA Room - (various OWSLA artists)

Foyer Four - Deadmau5 / I See Monstas / Mystery Skulls / Protostar
The Parlour - Knife Party / Savant
Hide and Seek - (various Monstercat artists)
Let's Be Friends - Let's Be Friends

 What Do You See In Me? - Teddy Killerz
The Great Room - (various artists)


Day 30 had a special post, the official [default] skin illustration for The Upbeast:


- Based on the artwork for The Upbeats' LP Nobody's Out There.
- This piece is a mix between traditional and digital drawing. The wolf and snake were done with a mechanical pencil and then the rest was done and touched up in Photoshop.


And Day 31 is a photo, mainly showcasing a large plushie that took 24 hours straight to hand-stitch:


More pics of big Feed Me soon! :)

Monday, September 14, 2015

Art from Work

Here are some released EP covers I designed over the past few months:

Pegboard Nerds: Swamp Thing

Jauz x Pegboard Nerds: Get On Up

(Follow the story images of this EP here)

Animation Test

Practiced some animation a couple months ago, here's the rough and final together:

Test:

Final: