Formulas

Lately I've discovered just how much I rely on certain formulas when drawing in ways I'm comfortable with. For example, on a character piece I'd usually start with the head and work down to the legs in a nice, precalculated process. This piece, however, was chaotic. I'd never drawn a face at this angle and keeping the perspective consistent without a horizon line was tricky. I couldn't really work out the tilt at which the spider was supposed to hang or whether it was straight overhead, and I suddenly realised that despite drawing a quick study on this exact thing a couple of posts ago, I had absolutely no idea where branches were supposed to end and nice leaf clusters begin. All the stuff you never think about.



I felt much more at home with this:



And a Moleskine thing.

Sketchbookage

Fashion Design

Not something I really considered important in my line of work - until I tried to paint a character who:

a.) Wasn't wearing armour (fantasy)

b.) Wasn't wearing armour (sci-fi)

c.) Wasn't wearing armour (hot dog - see earlier post)

d.) Wasn't completely and deliberately ridiculous.

Developing this character tought me a lot about what I have been subconsciously avoiding, such as clothing folds. Good ol' plate armour. I learned a lot with this one - part of me wants to decribe this character so you can get the gist, the other part of me says I shouldn't have to explain it. Also, it's late and I can't be bothered.



Moving on: The other day I felt like drawing fish, then I felt like drawing guns, then I drew fish-guns. Now I'm sick of fish and guns.



Aaaand top it off with a nice, normal, gamey sketch. A bit of an anticlimax really.

Horned Helmets = Kewl

Believe it or not, I actually began painting this before the Skyrim trailers were released. Ipso facto, they stole my idea.



Also, trees.

Site Update

Now that Happy Feet 2 is out, I figure it's ok for me to share some of this stuff. Head to brendandeboy.com to see more from the series!









All art copyright KMM Games.

Chocolate

Hello! Here are some new things:


First, a chocolate block cowboy thing. It might surprise you to learn that I spend significantly less time developing the initial idea than I do illustrating it:





Also, some studies and sketches.






And finally, a sketch of a horrible, horrible dream I had one night featuring a plane belonging to no airline in particular and even if it does resemble a certain airline it doesn't matter because it was just a dream I had and if you're the type of person who makes decisions about air travel based on someone elses dreams then maybe flying isn't your thing anyway:

Together at Last

Hopefully this idea hasn't been done before.



There really wasn't any point to this other than I wanted to design some game characters but I'm finding myself pretty bored with space marine and/or black op motif. Game art is looking pretty samey these days.