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Concept Doodles help to release stress and have some fun in between all the stuff you have to do for your job.
This set of Doodles is basically about HATS! From the time I was a kid, I've always loved wearing hats. So for this session of Doodles I made different hats on some humans and hats on some basic creatures.
What do you do to release stress on a daily basis?
Some years ago I worked on a picture book concept called "Peach Blossom's Birthday Party" and did a ton of drawings for it. Here are a couple of those drawings with the color versions.
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As an artist I tend to draw everywhere I go. Buses, cars, trains, planes, coffee houses, restaurants, etc. Annoying everyone that I have a relationship with. But it did help me constantly to work out ideas for working in the game biz, picture book biz and to amuse friends and strangers. I love drawing and can draw all day.
A few years ago I decided to use a thick ink brush pen (Tombow ABT N15) to do some striped down, simple and quirky ink drawings. This was so much fun. Need to do more soon.
I only have names for three of them. Middle Left: "Guitar with Puppets"
Bottom Left: "Coffee Well of Souls" and the Bottom Right: "Planet of Robots at Sunset"
For so much of what we do as artists in the game biz, we concentrate on so many tiny details and making sure we get all the items in that a game needs to attract eyes. A simpler approach is just as appealing and can be done faster and at a lower cost. And there are plenty of examples out there.
Here is just one example of a concept that I pitched but sadly, didn't go anywhere. I'm not a game play designer so my thoughts about how to play the game was about as simple as the art for the game. I still think it could have worked.
SUNDAY SALE DAY!
I've put each one of the covers for my graphic novel series on RedBubble for sale as Art Prints, Pins, Stickers, Notebook covers, T-shirts, BBQ Aprons, Coasters and other every day products.
When I was working at this big company in Redmond, I was tasked with creating Instant Messenger Games for about 6 months. The first one they wanted me to design, do animations for and to go over the way that all worked together with the one programmer I worked with in China, was the game "GO".
When I'm not working on a project at a job or at home, I'll doing a lot of drawing just to get the ideas out of my head. Love drawing and it doesn't matter if it's in pencil or ink. Each has its own way of working with the ideas that come out of my head. Sometimes it's a matter of feeling. There are times with it feels like I should be drawing that idea in ink. Other times it will feel that a pencil approach would be better.
These drawings are from my "Book of Doodles Vol 3", which is still available on Amazon. Get your copy today.
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Last weekend I was doing a quick line drawing portrait of Alfred Hitchcock, for practice, cause you gotta kept them skills up, and I thought, why not add some color. So I did and this is what the final looks like. Done on my iPad Pro using ProCreate.
Being a bit of life long Cinephile, I got used to seeing certain names in the credits on old movies and new movies. I'm a fan of so many directors and cinematographers, designers, etc... it's a long list.
So over the pandemic I started to revisit old movies and some more current ones. I'll get on a jag and see several from one director or star and then switch over to others as the last few years went by.
Hitchcock was one of those directors that had very long resume of movies. Some in black and white, others in color. Over all he was one of the masters of building tension and keeping the eye of the viewer on the movie till the very end. I don't think he relied on much in the way of special effects until his film "North by NorthWest" which is a stunning movie. Quite the visual treat, albeit static when viewed by today's standards of special effects.
Definitely worth checking out.
On a project some years ago, I was tasked with creating as many different types of "Tribbets" for a game. I would do 25 of them a day. After I finished each batch the PM and I went over them to see which ones would fit and which ones to reject. Rarely got any of them rejected but a few had changes that needed to be made. Not a problem.
I had such a blast creating these little creatures. Here are just a small sampling of "Tribbets".
Today's Saturday morning Doodle... it started out as a caricature of David Bowie but went awry. 😁
Spring time is a good time to get all your reading done and then go out in the Spring time to frolic in the newness of the season. Warmer temps, sunshine, less snow and rain, etc.
With Chapter Twelve of my graphic novel series just released a few weeks ago, time to finish up the story of Enatai Beach. And if you haven't read it yet, time to get a jump on Summer reading by ordering the first chapter and then subsequent chapters.
Posting a few of my ink drawings that are in my new INK TOWN book (available on Amazon) and a couple that will be in the next volume.
You can get a copy by clicking on this link and have some fun for spring:
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First in a series of art from games past that I've worked on. When working on a game, there needs to be some background elements and working on them should be fun. These images were done for billboards in the backgrounds for a game I was working on some years ago. I had a lot of fun coming up with these. Some of which were based on stylings from the 1950s and 60s. Mid Century Modern fun. I have a couple more that were based on the stylings of the 1970s. I don't show them here because they are so different from this grouping.
This is the last chapter to the story. Make sure to read all twelve chapters of Enatai Beach! Available on Amazon today. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW65K3YC?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
