Zombie Samurai

I had this idea of an archaeologist type discovering some ancient tomb where there was a corpse of an ancient Samurai. Next thing you know this corpse gets reanimated by a spirit and the poor chap gets choked out.
This started out as a random doodle in Alchemy with the mirror option turned on. Once I had a shape I could identify with, I opened the file up in Corel Painter and started blocking in the figures, then on to Photoshop for the FX, texture and color correction. I like the composition with the victim being cropped on the bottom of the page. Hope you dig it.

Random Doodles

A few warm up sketches and thumbnails that help me to generate ideas. On these I used Ball point pen, colored pencils, and digital painting. I may use some of these thumbnails multiple times and in many combinations.

Sea Creature

It was hard not to draw some eyes and a nose, but I think this guy looks creepy this way.

Digital Sculpting

So, I'm starting to get somewhat comfortable with Z-brushes sculpting tools. It's hard to put the Wacom styllus down once I get going. This program is allot of fun. I'm hoping to improve my z-brush skills as I experiment with it. This Devil head reminds me of the Darkness character from the Ridley Scott movie: Legend.

Dragon Head

Messing around with Z-brush, mainly using it as a 2D illustration tool. This started out as a profile of a T-rex, but then I felt it needed more of a Dragon look. Z-brush is a lot of fun, I will be experimenting with it more often. I know squat about the program right now, so I modelled it some then carried it over to Photoshop, where i am more comfortable.



eye detail,

Killer Goofy

I had this weird idea for a creepy serial killer wearing a Goofy mask... Don't ask, here it is.



this next one is a Liche king fan art from the Art of World Of Warcraft book, the wrath of the Liche King. I used the dodge and burn in Photoshop, then colorized the black and grey art.

Animal Caricature

This guy reminds me of Frank the Pug from Men In Black 2. I did this to force myself to work in Corel Painter more, and the wrinkles on the pug's face are good practice.