Mall kids

I went to a local mall to people watch. Good thing about mall's that it attracts all sorts of people and to check out the street fashion, which nowaday's is a bit retro, like a mix of 70's, 80's, 90's I think. Just character's of people, as you look closely you can see that I used graph paper, cuz I forgot my to bring my sketchbook(Frac'in sin!).

If anybody's curious, I used a red color-erase by prisma and outlined using 2B graphite. Got question and comments? Let me know.

creature feature

The creature page! These are quick sketches while riding the bus to school while listening to slow jams(don't know why?). Listening to Rhianna or Ericka Badu or baby bash inspires the worst creatures I can possible think of (lol). Also I get more inspired out in about then at home. Home is like the "black hole" of creativity, sucks the life out of me.

Starting from the top left: Is the wendigo, parasite spider, fallen angel, sexually diseased hell-commando, tauran from the forever war, revamped Frankenstein characters, an ogre at the bottom.

Organ Meat

“Organ meat” was a person who committed suicide by jumping off high places. It will haunt a location where he perished only those who will commit suicide. Organ meat is a type of fetch, an apparition the appears before someone dies. Before suicide it appears and vomit it's organs, hence his name.

A scanned drawing using a combo of Photoshop and Painter.

Sweet dreams...

Irena Zaric

The character I illustrated is based on a book called “Pretty Birds” by Scott Simon. Her named is Irena Zaric. Set during the siege of Sarajevo, Irena and her family are brutalized and chased out of her home by Serb Para-military. In order for her to survive she steals from the dead to buy food, dodges bullets in her own home, risk her life to contact her best friend. Under the tutelage of rogues and heroes, Irena becomes a sniper.

According to the book, her uniform consist, from head to toe: Irena covers her head with a dark ski mask, paints her surrounding eyes with shoe polish to cover her exposed flesh. She wears a shemagh, Arab headdress (not mentioned in the book). I thought it would be a nice design element. Adorned in a mechanic's coverall as her basic uniform. Black gloves, again to hide most of her exposed flesh, except for her trigger finger, nail painted in purple (favorite color.). Wears a simple military belt, to carry extra ammo and food. Also fitted with Russian inspired combat boots. Irena's rifle of choice is the American made M-14, used during the Vietnam war, and still in use today. Chambers a 7.62mm round, kept nicely packed in a 20 round magazine. She also tapes up metal parts that can rattle and make noise, especial her rifle sling, in order to maintain noise discipline.

I painted her using a couple of software packages using Photoshop and Painter. And of course the illustration started off as a drawing. And then scanned to Photoshop.

Tabitha

Again the green goddess graces the blog. This took awhile to finish, about 10 hours total, but in the back of my mind, I feel I haven't finished her yet. Oh by the way, Tabby started out as a sketch on the Nintendo NS (as you can see the example above). What should've done is create values ruffs to speed up development, but I jumped the gun. Her tattoos are the pacman symbol. near the small of her back is the "Leo" birth rune, and on her arm is a tat I just made up.

Lee Cayuga

Lee Cayuga, a another resident of Sucka Free. A 19 year old freshman from college, she lives in the Engleside district. Her and Joan Natoma are part of a series of Pin-ups located at Sucka Free. A scanned drawing, using a combo of Photoshop and Painter.

Joan Natoma

Joan Natoma, age 20. Born in Sucka Free City. She's a Taurus as you can tell by the accessories and tat on her chest. On her arm is the horned heart. She resides in the heart of the Mission district.