Everyone Loves Sagat

another generic head painting of a character that rocks

Kind of a Funk Lately

Life is spinning, so I am cannibalizing my storehouse of drawings. Hopefully I will have some recents to throw out soon.

Capoeira Nostalgia

Good friend of mine Scott Stoddard had his last day at Avalanche yesterday and here are some of the characters that I drew for his game Capoeira Fighter 3.

Identity Crisis

I have been bouncing around in new approaches.

Practice What You Preach

It is not very often that I post gestures (more like never). So here is a lot of ones that I have been doing recently. Since I started up teaching again, a lot of what I used to practice is rising up to the top of my memory and mind. It has actually been really good for me to use the principles.

Son of Erik

Dino Love

In the early nineties there were Genesis kids and SNES kids. I was happily a Genesis kid, but I had a lot of SNES envy. Now with the advent of the Virtual Console I have been playing some of those old games that I never got to play. You might have deduced that I have been playing Super Mario World, and man oh man I am loving it. I really love that little frickin' dinosaur! I always die a little inside whenever I see him run off of a cliff.

Two Backs

Belated Birthdays!!!!

Mr. Joe Olson made his transition in the the Thirty-Somethings a couple months ago and made this for him as a belated card.

Two For the Show

One of the best designs and fighters any series has had.

It's Depressing Being a Second Tier Street Fighter

Going to walk through the process I did to make T. Hawk.


1.
Get a solid drawing.

2.
Polygon lasso and flood fill drawing and keep separate colors as separate layers.

3.
In a Softlight layer I painting in facial banding. Warmer nose and yellower forehead.

4.
In a Screen layer light the scene with key directional light. I made a sunlight. i did this by airbrushing in an orange/brown into the screen layer.

5.
Turn off sunlight layer and make another screen layer for ambient lighting. In this case, since the sky is blue I lit him with blue lighting.

6.
In a Multiply layer I paint in ambient occlusion. With all of these layers I can HSV slide them until the color combo feels right.

7.
While I going through steps 3-6 I have all other lighting turned off. This is so I can light the subject in a distilled environment without getting confused. When I am done I can turn them all on together and see if I am getting good results.

8.
Now I take my photoshop file into Painter and work on edges and subsurface scattering.

Love and Death

Complete with patented Push Up Toga Technology