Itsy Emo Spider

 Here he is, ready to update his facebook status with sad emo song lyrics and sit in his web all day blogging about all things miserable :P I plan to pose him sitting and leaning over a little laptop or perhaps a journal so right now he's in an intermediate pose that reflects those plans. What about some little combat boots for his stripey legs? :P  I'm thinking a forelock of hair with a burgundy streak might finish off the look. You know, like the ones the kids outside Hot Topic are bumping into walls with, cause they have no depth perception...what with one eye being completely covered...or in this case two.
  I have no idea if there actually is a band called "Ded Spyders." If not... then dibs on the name and logo, haha!

Zbrush is so good at rendering realtime detail I can't believe my dinosaur PC is holding up under the weight of all the subtools in this model. This is a screengrab of the BPR...I'd like to try the multipass technique but when a simple BPR screengrab gives results like this it's almost like instant gratification. It would be fun to give the new Zapplink a test run to compare a mentalray/maya render with spec and displacement though.
  I really need to move on from 8 legged things, first a pig-squid, and now this spider guy, heh.

Pig Squid?

Playing with Zspheres and messing about in Zbrush. It's a pig-squid-crab thing? Perhaps a source of bacon flavored calamari?

Snowpocalypse 2011: Zombie Yeti Edition

He shambles through the drifts at night, in search of frosty BRAAAIIIINS! This is for all my friends under the blanket of snow covering half the country. Especially my friend Becky, who challenged me to draw a zombie yeti in the first place. As suggested, his official name is Gwee :) This was a real brain buster, painting all that white on white. hopefully the yeti isn't invisible, LOL.

"Walkin' in a mucus wonderland"

Everybody sing along! "In my lungs the germs will build a snotman....."
I got the flu for my birthday! This is what I draw when I have a fever, lol. After the third straight night of hacking and coughing my brains out I imagined the germs in there having a happy time in my trachea. Sledding, building snotmen, making snot-angels, a motley assortment of ugly germs engaged in basic winter flu season shenanigans.
At some point I developed a low grade fever and began sketching since I was stuck inside anyways. I'm on vacation back home with the parents and they keep the house cozy...a temperature range somewhere between what's appropriate for incubating live chicks or forging steel. That combined with the fever, and Ny-Quil made for some strange visions. I hate being sick on vacation. S'not fun at all. :P

Happy New Year!

I don't know how many times this year I have heard the phrase "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" As if life is some toddler following you and picking up lemons off the ground and handing them to you, again, and again, and again. Whenever someone tells me to make lemonade from some unfortunate circumstance, I imagine the lemon comes from some annoying, malicious imp like this. I'm definitely looking forward to 2011 with great hopes that this year will be less......citrusy. Too much lemonade can give you gout, you know :P
Happy New Year everybody!

Merry Christmas!

I can't ever sleep on Christmas eve...so I did some painting! Just spending some good times with family on vacation :) I feel blessed to also have the kinds of friends who share their different and interesting ways of celebrating all the holidays at this time of year with me, and I wish happy funtimes to you all as we close in on 2011! And yes, he is a little crosseyed, but you would be too if you saw a cookie that big. :P

Character study for Bunny

Here it is...me finally getting my behind in gear and moving beyond the pencil-doodle stage with ideas for a short film, tentatively called "Overturned." This is bunny. I hope you can tell from this character study that he is pure, concentrated, unadulterated, calculated evil. Oh, he is indeed.