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Here’s a few quick pirates concepts for an as-yet-undisclosed casual Facebook game. (Hence the large heads, mildly retarded wall-eyed bird, excessive smiling and overall cloying aura of cuteness.) The Dread Pirate Roberts is pretty easy to pick out, Orlando Bloom less so.
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Here’s a quick ‘landing page’ styled site I did for musicpets.com, a casual Facebook game based around feeding and playing music for your own cute little pet. The background art, fonts and assets were taken from the game itself, and site content uses Facebook’s developer’s tools for ‘Find Us’, ‘Like’ buttons and ‘Recommendations’. Amazingly cute pets concepted and 3d modeled by the freakishly talented Damon Iannuzzelli. Play the game here.
A hand-drawn splash page/loading screen for SuperDance, another casual Facebook game by Conduit Labs that involves leveling up your own trendy club hopping hipster-themed alter-ego. The game is still a bit rough around the edges (beta). This drawing ended up getting vectorized and turned into an 8 ft. tall vinyl wall decal for the Conduit’s office.
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This is a second piece done in the same ‘Girls with Oversized Insects’ theme as the first and a companion piece. I’ll probably end up doing a third to round out the set.
Same process – Photoshop sketch, printed as blue linework, reworked in pencil, scanned back into Photoshop and colored. Same color format as well – analogous color scheme with the insect (and eye color) as a small complimentary accent. The background is a soft pastel brush. Final piece is 9.5 x 14.5″. Click for a larger version:
Hey guys – I’ve got another website up , a WordPress-based portfolio site for the sickeningly talented sculptor/movie effects artist Scott Velenovsky. Scott contracted me to design an appropriately horrific framework to house his creatures, art and for pitching his impressive abilities to potential clients.
After a look through his work, I knew I’d have to step up the gore, splatter and horror aspect a bit… not my usual style, but still, fusing two mutated aquatic old men into a wall of skin with a dripping blood logo was fun.
You can view the rest of the sculpey madness and abominations at www.svcreations.com.
Here’s a piece I’ve been trying to finish for a few months now. I knew I wanted an stable triangle composition and to pop out the skin tones as much as possible and hide a central object in shadow… a black bee on a dark dress would usually be considered a contrast issue, but whatever – I liked it anyway, and the wings and fuzz help it pop out just a little. The dress changed a few times, the ribbon was a hat for a while and the bee went back and forth becoming a house fly a few times before deciding to stay bee-like.
It almost ended up a full digital painting, but I stuck to comic style rendering and limited things to only three tones to keep a comic cell-shaded feel. Final piece is 9.5 x 14.5″ Click for a larger version.
Yell if anyone is interested in a print. I may do a small run if a few people want one.
Here’s a piece I created as the splash page for photographer/engineer/designer Gabriel Lopez over at gabriellopez.net. He had quite a sites he wanted to showcase – his own business, several photo collections, a WordPress blog and a few other random interests, and wanted to present a unified navigation without a boring laundry-list of text. I ended up drawing this portrait over a toned grid of activities, and let the visitors pick a section that interests them (click for a larger 203k version).
There’s a longer-winded piece up on blog.conduitlabs.com about the direction and iteration through these logo designs for loudcrowd.com as we struggled to find a worth concept. I won’t repeat all that here. The short version is that we wandered around through a lot of concepts dealing with music, explosions, fun, volume, social connections, groups, games etc, while still trying to hang on to ‘playfulness’, and eventually ended up with ‘shared music experience’ as the core concept, with kids sharing that music to hopefully also hint at ‘play’. The final logo has a sweet ‘The Shining’ vibe as well.
Here’s a few of the brainstorming concepts:
The final logo, with a little of my siamese-twin + The Shining vibe intact:
Here’s another bit of concept art that I’ll post rather than letting it sit on my computer gathering dust. It was one in a long series of logo concepts (I think somewhere around the 50th or so) for Loudcrowd.com, which is currently getting a final round of polish before we let people start banging on still-quite-rough alpha. The ideas the logo needed to express were ‘play, social activities/games, and possibly music’.
I’ll also post the final selected logo once it’s up on the landing page, and maybe a few sheets of concepts.
On the illustration end of things, here’s a wallpaper I created for Conduit Labs’ new site Loudcrowd. This background sits behind the site UI and works in a few of the themes the site is working with – music, hot chicks, gaming elements, and a dash ‘o punk rock (click for full version 150k).
I still can’t give away any more details, but Loudcrowd.com is just a few weeks shy of an alpha release to get some close friends beating on the new architecture.
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