Category Archives: Concept Art

Recent Commercial Work

Genie

OK, so I’m mostly a developer/programmer professionally these days, but every once in a while, I find myself doing a little bit of character illustration. Here are a couple recent works, and some notes about how they were received. First of all, here’s a character I drew for a certain bank headquartered here in the [...]

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Niobe Sketch

Just got a new PC with Vista and installed CS3. There were a few hiccups (Illustrator not saving, Wacom tablet lost pressure sensitivity), but all is good now. Also I realized I should have been coloring Niobe’s lips green all along. Much more natural with her skin. Anyways, here’s a little practice image… And if [...]

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From the Journal of M. Sands

My fellow conspirator Andrew is back, and he’s provided some text for this teaser image. Click to enlarge.

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Character Study – Odji

Rumor has it that Andrew is returning to work on the writing front soon. In the meantime, here’s the art for a character study of a heel in the story.

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Light Study

Here’s another early Niobe image. I was just practicing coloring. I learned most of what I know about comic coloring from a presentation I saw at the Chicago Comicon in 1999. The speaker was Brian Haberlin. He now sells inking and coloring tutorials online. When I find the URL, I’ll post it here. I haven’t [...]

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Character Study – Melinda

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Character Study – P. Nathan Alexander

The requisite shady Lex-Luthor lookalike.

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Character Study – Niobe

Character study for the Mermaid Niobe.

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Character Study – Neru

This is the first image I officially created for the project. Had an idea to do something with mermaid-people, and as a story started to form, I put together a character study for one of the main characters.

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