Guitar Designs

I originally created these designs a while back for the "Ibanez Design a Jem Contest" sponcered by Steve Vai and Ibanez.

After the disgraceful ending to that contest I pretty much lost my interest in owning a Jem and having been converting the designs for use on the Stratocaster I'm building.

debating between Zig Zag, Snake Eye and modifying Avery to look more like the Zig Zag Design

ALL these designs are (c) Myself and NOT to be used without permission!

Korevus' Head

We're working on a flash project for the next 2 weeks at school where we have to create a character running, so far I've drawn Korevus' head and I'm rather pleased with it, even after recycling parts of other art into this one.

and I did use reference. I pretty much always do even though I know I shouldn't rely on it.

Korevus and Art (c) Myself. and not to be used without permission.

Post-It-Note Girl

A girl drawn on 6 Post-It-Notes.

Part of a class lesson today
We drew a stick figure skeleton, then I overlaid post it notes and drew her.

Sarah ‘Lightpaws’ Berents

Part of an art trade with a loyal watcher over on Furaffinity.

Original Description Copy Pasted from Furaffinity.

- I've had this trade with   direwolf505 That needed to be done for little over a year now. Got so swamped with school and things happening in my life I hardly had time to do the art I HAD to do let alone the art I wanted to do.

But here she is Dire, your Sarah ‘Lightpaws’ Berents done to the best specs I could based on your text ref sheet.

Hopefully I did her right!

Also because I took so long I know our trade was for B&W but I coloured it AND you are the recipient of my first shaded digital work (seriously I've never shaded a digital work before)

Sarah ‘Lightpaws’ Berents ©   direwolf505
Art © Me

(c) Myself and not to be used without permission.

Sarah 'Lightpaws' Berents is (c) Direwolf505 and not to be used without his permission.

Sketch Book Assignment 6 - Jon Burgerman

I looked into Jon Burgerman a bit and to sum up his style I'd say it was extremely colourful and abstract in most cases, being huge mish-mashes of characters and odd faces.

Certain Pieces like these 2 here heavily remind me of Craig McCracken who created Power Puff Girls and Fosters Home for Imaginary friends.  The styles to me seem very similar and both contain a certain wacky factor.






Unfortunately I was unable to be inspired by Mr.Burgerman while he had pieces that caught my eye and reminded me of similar art it didn't bring out anything new from my mind or any ideas I felt like putting to paper.  BUT what it did do was remind me of one of the paintings I had done (also here in a blog post) so I went hunting for my original sketch (god it took me forever to find) which I...for lack of a better word "misplaced."  and now that I found it I've scanned it and posted it bellow and you can see why it sort of reminds me of Burgerman's art.  It doesn't contain the same colourful characters but it is the same basic idea, a mish-mash of awesome stuff.

(c) Myself and not to be used without permission

DMA101DB 3D Assignment Part 2

Finished my second 3D scene.

Like with everything I do in these classes I only wish I had more time to do them perfectly and learn more about the tools before being thrown in to use them but I try and pump out a hopefully good result!

(c) Myself and not to be used without permission

The Building of a Skateboard

From Start to finish how I went about creating my Avery Deck

1. I started with inspiration from the Hook-Ups board seen here. 

2.  I tried the possibility of a logo in-capturing one of my nick-names "Grimm" so I cropped the eyes out of the skull and vectored them for the board (a note to the original artist of the skull there were no mentions of copyright in the place where I found it but know I intended no copyright and do not intend to profit from it without your permission)

3.  I started on a concept drawing, followed by trying to vectorize it which turned out to be a failure not in the sense the art wasn't any good, but it was to difficult to make work on the board (what a shame)

4.  I then proceeded to try and create something more directly related to the hookups board and went straight into illustrator with no base sketch work  and quickly put together an idea starting with the legs and working my way around piece by piece until the final product arose.

5.  I then filled in the empty background with a matching Radial Gradient  along with the "Predator Line" theme text and signature on the inner thigh (along with Grimm at the base)

6. Added in my creation, the "Predator Eye" Logo under the "Predator Line" text.

7. Got the board printed and spent an ass of a time trying to get the sticker onto the board itself!

8. Finally got there Thank God.

The Colour Pallet I used for the design came from one of the first pieces of art I ever did of Avery seen here -   http://thelastnoteoffreedom.blogspot.com/2010/11/bond-we-share.html