Halloween Spirit....

brush pen and the magic of photoshop...
In honor of Halloween, heres one inspired by my dawgs at Chewbone... heh, that worked out well.
Figured I'd theme one for once...
Just a quick lunchtime thang... Deffinately gotta get the hang of crankin these out... nice loose excercise. I tend to think too much during these.

I'm looking forward to looking and acting stupid with my girlfriend and her son Isaiah!

Big shout out to 'saiah by the way for recieving Student of the Week honors!

Way to go Bud!!

Happy Halloween yall!

The Mafiosos...

Its been a while since Ive posted anything,
so here's an oldie...
Did these about a year or so ago.

oodles 'o doodles

Heres a few doodles I made while consuming a lot of coffee... hunched over a tiny table in the childrens section of a local Barnes and Nobles this weekend.
I'm 6' 4" and can contribute this to my back problems ;)
Pencil, brush pen, and marker...

Sick of these yet?

Jeez, I just realized I hadnt posted anything in over a week!
I've kinda been struggling to tell the truth. But at least Ive knocked out a bit of the actual story. Story is important.
This is another version of the same character from the last few posts. I'm trying to find an approach that i like but at the same time it's got to be practicle. Otherwise I dont see myself finishing this short story...
This approach seems a little more practicle to me and involves really lose color and minimal textures. I'd probably need to iron out a few things still, but at least the self color lines werent as big a pain as i thought they would be. Big ups to my peeps at work for trying to find a practicle way to color rough linework quickly. Thats you Kevin Baraber! Yes THE Kevin Barber of Disney fame!( You tried Bruno!).
No channels in photoshop, just quickmask goodness.
Oh yeah, I guess I should try to knock out some multiple angles at some point for these characters...
Once I figure out which design and approach I hate the least. He, he...

Rawhide Redux...

Artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman

Heres one more version of the previous character....
This one resembles more of a witch than a wildwest bounty hunter i think, but i had fun nonetheless...
I did this one in flash to try and achieve a different style (no lineart) and textured it in photoshop ( ala Steve Lambe. Take that loser!)
But his brushes kick much more ass... he's got it on lock!
Go Canada!

Rawhide Final Concepts...

Artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman

Here they are...
Two variations to finalize the whole process...
the one on the left is pretty straight forward where as the lighting on the right, i think, seems to be a bit more situational... I always run into problems during this process, because usually its tough for me to make up my mind (or I get a bit carried away).
Thanks to Bruno Werneck for giving me the idea to post both of these!
Luckily I was able to only waste 1 day during this process. Thats a step up for me ;)

P.S. Sorry, Quality is a bit low.

Rawhide Tres...

Heres a loose first pass at flat color...
before any shading, tones, hilites or textures....
Color usually changes for me drastically from here as the process continues...
With this approach I guess I just usually try to keep things loose...

Rawhide part Deux...

Heres a clean up of the previously posted rough....
as you can see my guns suck.... gotta work on that....
it's a bad habit but I also do small revisions and touchups as I color...

Rawhide...

Anotha' rough western character concept.... Not crazy about the quality and the wrinkled paper, but I like some things here, so I think i might realize this one to color....
I might just post the steps I take for the hell of it....
Stay tuned kiddies...
Artwork © 2005-2006 Javier Guzman