Hellboy shops at American Eagle

Yes fans and foes, it is a quick doodle of Hellboy...in a v-neck.

Joiningthe Bandwagon...

This was originally submitted to DevArt, then culled. I am still ambivalent about it. It is of Jason Moran and the Bandwagon.

I met Jason once when he was with Greg Osby's live band, and he was a great player and nice person in the rather brief encounter.

I have seen him play with both the bandwagon and solo, and he always shines. I am pretty much convinced he is the most important pianist in jazz since Monk.

The Joker

Jaz Coleman is the frontman for post-punk/industrial/arty metal band Killing Joke. He is also a composer of symphonic works for various orchestras in places like New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Egypt and the UK.

He's a bit of a nutter, but a great subject.

Rekonstruction 1.19.06

Another of the concept sketches made to fit to the storyline releases for the Rekonstruction MMOG website (now defunct). I actually had a goal to do a Frankk Quietly/Geof darrow style semi-topdown poster of this room, because I felt the use of conceric circles as a design element could have made for some arresting imagery.

As it stands, if I ever dig up the roughs for that idea and flesh it out, it will be a while before anything like that would see the light of day (I have not really started anything new related to Rekonstrcution, but merely posting up initially internal work, and did some post-facto finishes on largely complete work.

Who knows though.

Rekonstruction 01.18.06

A parlor of sorts, where reconstituted clones can lounge in peace.

Another of the Rekonstruction MMOG images, this one was put together to satiatethe need to get some concept art availbel for general consumption.

Much of the time there, I was in disagreement with what was ready for prime time and what was not, but it was not my call to make, and I since have had some measure of fun "finishing" some of the items I would have preferred to release on my DevArt account and seeing the generally positive reaction as a validation of sorts.

This image had potential, but was otherwise left a bit anemic t omatch the other anemic images used for the main site at the time.

Rekonstruction 01.17.06

Another random image from the Rekonstruction MMOG worked on. This was a speedy (and outside of the skin tones) slapdash CG job on my part. I still have the original lineart and fully intend to re-render this in real inks/paint, and finalize digitally, as I recentlyhave for several other character designs, which you can dig ino here.

Loony Bunny

It is a dozen-year-old rapidograph drawing of a rabbit in a straightjacket.

No, I do not know what inspired it.

Do not mock me...

...or I will hurl black bolts of furious misanthropic spite at thee.

Yes, this is actually a silly inside joke between myself and a few other DA admins.

Rekonstruction 01.10.06

This was a ten year old loose sketch of what was going to be a batch of interpretations of Fremen in stillsuits from the Dune series of books, that I then started retooling for the Rekonstruction MMOG for Damage Studios. All I ended up adding was the rather large cutting utensil.

Oh well...maybe I'll do something with it eventually.

I don't want to work...

I ...just want to bang on the drum all day. OK, silly Todd Rundgren songs aside, this is one of the few 3D renders I can find of stuff from the Rekonstruction game. Its a generic 50-100 gallon drum. IIRC this was worked on in a hurry for an alpha test of some of the engine stuff we were working on. This and a weird hydrant I remember distinctly. The textures are acrylic paints and Photoshop, with 3D and final render put together in Maya.

Rekonstruction

A set of character designs I had done that later I brought in and tried to adapt to the MMOG Rekonstruction that I had been working on while at Damage Studios.

The one on the right had hair I am sure was inspired by Caron Wheeler.

The Nurturer

An early version of a render of jazz pianist (and great live) Geri Allen.

Buy Aveda...

...that's all I have to say on it.

(this was done in the margins of a page of classnotes from a Brazilian History course last term).

Comics the zeruch way, part 3

An initial take on another much maligned B-grade character from the DC Comics roster: Blue Devil.

Done several years ago in pencil, rapidograph and pen and ink washes, it was never finished, but may very well end up as a blueprint (pun on partially intended) for something more final.

Takin' Ya Back ta 2005

Let us start 2006 with a bang. A vivid one at that. This is an outtake of something I did of the band Living Colour (the single best live rock act I have seen, bar none...and I have seen a lot). They throw more genres into one live show than the combined efforts of the entire Elektra records catalog it seems.