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:

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).

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.

Personal piece – awkward background perspective and another drawing where an absurd amount of time was spent making the perfect cloud stamping brush tool in Photoshop.

Well, it looks like Harmony Line Music has finally closed its doors – it was a good run, and I wish the best of luck to that team. There were a lot of really good people working hard to bring Hyperscore to the masses.

While working with Harmony Line I was responsible for creating a few UI elements for Hyperscore – very cool and innovative music-making software/doodling software, as well as the music-sharing and ringtone community H-Lounge.com. (see previous post).

Consequently, the evolution avatars I was doodling are now up for grabs – feel free to contact me if you’d like to license them. They start off one-celled and follow the major changes in evolution – eventually getting organs, skeletons etc and ending up at the end with mammals. Although admittedly, you’d have to have a pretty specific project to use them.

Another illustration added, this one in a more painterly/shaded style rather than a comic-style shaded one. And now that I notice it, a curiously similar color scheme to the theater one I did a few months ago. Hmm… I’ll have to do something in blue next.

Another quick illustration piece done in my free time loosely based on this coffee house in Annapolis that had a few cramped tables set up in a dark alley in the back of the restaurant – a  choice location for goths to get their caffeine fix.  I’m still not terribly happy with the color scheme, and I need to add a lot of grunge and grime if this is an alley, but I like the hand of the girl holding the sugar packet.

My linework continues to get a little too fine as well, I’ll need to go back and thicken that up a little.

Sorry for the lack of updates… here’s a quick doodle that I did today with some free time. (Click for higher resolution version).

Also – a quick ice-shader material that came out pretty awesome (if I do say so myself). Click for the turntable video (Quicktime format)