Kung Fu Elvis Remix

Kung Fu Elvis has returned and will play an integral part in a story I’m developing.  Since I’m on currently on hiatus from Titmouse, my buddy Grif suggested that I use the downtime for my own projects.   I came up Kung Fu Elvis a while ago but wasn’t too happy with the results.  At the time, he just looked like a dragon ball z character with a pompadour.  Now that I’ve had some distance from the initial idea, I came up with a better way to incorporate Elvis into a martial arts character.

He’s the arrogant pretty boy that you want to stomp a mudhole into and also the perfect villain for my story.  Anyhoo, look for more characters as I further develop my story.

omega-9

Another tokusatsu hero design I came up with during breaks at work.  Wanted to go for a more classic look hence the presence of a popped collar.    Took a lot longer to resolve the design than I would have liked, but I like how it ended up.

Anyhoo, lunch break is over.  Cheers

Quick Case of the Updates

Didn’t realize that it’s been a while since my last blog post. A quick recap of what I’ve been up to since then: helped character designer David Colman put together his DVD on the basics of character design, took some classes at the animation guild, went to comic-con, started working at Titmouse as a clean-up animator the day after comic-con. It’s been an interesting few months.

For those who are interested, I still draw and on toned paper too.

Celtic Warrior

From a costume gesture drawing class this week.  The model came in as a Celtic Warrior and I was fortunate enough to turn out a decent drawing.   A tad too heavy-handed with the drawing, but I like the overall design.   I approached the drawing wanting to use different proportions and shapes from what I normally do.   It’s probably why this drawing was one of my favorites from the night.

Buffalo Brave

I was looking at my portfolio recently and noticed that I didn’t have that many character designs of kids.  So I spent some time during the week coming up with a design that I would care about.  If I didn’t, it would just look uninspired and just plain boring.  After some thought, I came up with Buffalo Brave.  I drew it in pencil, scanned it in photoshop for digital inking and coloring.  Hope you guys enjoy, cheers!

PS – Buffalo Brave has a sidekick, so look forward to that