Threadless T-Shirt Design

Over at Threadless.com I have designed a cute little character named "Little Soapy Fro" for one of the many challenges hosted by the website. By submitting my design I'm promoting my work thus gaining it a bit more publicity. Here is the shirt design below:

Here is the original artwork for it, since then has been slightly changed:

The contest remains in voting stage as of now and will take a while until I hear the results. The prizes include:

• $2,000 donated to the school of your or your kid collaborator's choice!
• $500 Threadless Gift Certificate (can be redeemed for $200 cash)
• $2,000 in cash from Threadless! 

Very impressive I must say.

Work in progress once again...

More Work In Progress...

Work in progress of the younger protagonist of my game concept. I've figured out a new painting style to give my characters more personality. Plus I've been aiming to perfect backgrounds so they aren't so dull. I plan to paint each background of my character portraits like this. A certain colour defines their theme as an individual, for example this one's theme is lilac/purple and makes her recognizable from the main protagonist.

Work In Progress: Simply Magical

Featuring a close up on the younger protagonist's hand casting a spell and her performing a summoning trick.

Example of concept art + painting style...

Here is an example of one of the concept art pieces I have worked on. I've experimented around with texture and overlaying textures to give the picture an overall dark/grunge feel. From looking at it several times I've achieved it, though I need to practice more with lighting, especially from the glowing magic circle above my character's head. Still more painting to go, though I'm getting there!

A busy Easter break!

So for my final portfolio I have decided on a theme of images to stick to that will be included in my showreel. This will include:

• 1 storyboard with 5 panels showing an example of gameplay in a visual story form.
• 2 action portraits showing how the main characters work as a team.
• 1 of these portraits mentioned above will show the villains of my game concept.
• 2 portraits of the characters as their past selves and one of a minor character.
• 2 basic character sheets, front, back and half side view.
• Several "parody" images of the characters in different costumes.

In the past few weeks I've spent time colouring and sketching back and forth, so I've been quite productive. As long as I get all artwork completed by at least the end of the first week of May I am sorted. My website is also coming along okay. I will post a link to it shortly once it's edited to my liking.

What a beautiful necklace...I

I quickly took a snapshot of two beautiful rose necklaces laying in a shop window, one with several rose pendants around the collar, the other only has one. They reminded me of the rose brooches on my main protagonist's costume design, so kept this picture for future reference.