HIT AND RUN

So after ingesting much inspiration from artists like karl kerschl, nick bradshaw, crisse, humberto ramos, mastuda, amongst others--my inner toon just had to come rushin back to me. So here's a work in progress based on one of my favorite movies. It's nice to change it up sometimes you know and run with different styles. Dig?

BIG CAT

MRROAR.

Jungle Fever Concept

Alright. Let's begin. It was a good weekend. The kind you don't mind reliving. Spending time with family and friends--eating spam musubi's and pizza is never a bad thing. Caught Astro Boy---sort of an inner child loyalty thing to the classic character. Anyway---here's the WIP on my recent painting. There's too much contrast right now--so I still need to sort that out. Need to bring in alot more of the lighting--and there's more characters to add. Nevertheless--progress. The name of the game is progress. Havagreat week everyone!

Deadpool Movie Teaser Art

So at long last--I think of somethin to do with pool' here--and it ended up being a fan art teaser movie type thing. I'm a big fan of the character and just needed to do something for it. That being the case--here it is. Ehnjoy.

PS This character and deadpool logo is property of marvel entertainment. This piece is created solely as fan art.

Concept Madusa

So I'm about to call it a night when I run into this old painting I NEVER finished for the game I had worked on a looong while back as an intern. It always bothers me the idea of not finishing--so I dug deep and started to repaint ol' mad here. Turns out--I was hooked! And--here it is. Above is before--where she's a little bit cutesy and looking a tad agitated, so for the new one I took it to a more aggresive yet "seductive" tone, adding highlights, defining facial structure, so on and so forth. Well, time to call it in--and that be that!

Character Concept Series 2

Original character copyright Edward J Chua.

The second character of my upcoming comic book property. Good times!

Jungle Fever

At last! The two leads squared away. One more to go and its on to background. Movin like lightning now....

Pressing On

So in between time outside of the studio, family, and other activities--I normally take a bit of time to continue on solo project pieces. This is the continuing evolution from the post last week. A bit more painting done on all three characters, the jesture on the panther is stronger---but there is a bit too much darkness and contrast on the two animals in the back. Value wise the human is popping a bit better, but there is still a long way to go on this. Keep creating, painting, and loving what you do everyone.

Go Time Again

Been awhile--my apologies. Life, family, all that jazz. Now it's time to reset--reboot--refresh. Stage two of my latest piece. I'll post the work in progress as it goes along. Cheers, doods.

From the House of Con

So, its been a few days since Comic Con 09--man what an experience. From meeting Geoff Darrow (The Matrix, Big Guy Rusty the boy robot), J. Scott Cambell (Gen 13, Danger Girl), Joe Jusko (Marvel/DC painter), Dean Yeagle (Mandy), to Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black (Spiderwick Chronicles)--just to name a few---it definitely ranks high on my once in a lifetime meter. It was also my first time reviewing portfolios on behalf of Petrol (an honor indeed)---and I gotta say there is ALOT of talent out there. Thank you to all you artists for dropping by---keep the great work growin and who knows--I'm sure I'll be seeing some of you again. In the meantime--this is the revised painting of the previous character. First in a series. Watchout---here comes the art!