Star Wars: Rise of the Empire Concept Pieces

I have been working recently on the character development for the Empress in an upcoming Kickstarter campaign to create an original fan film set in the Star Wars universe.  As a Stars Wars fan would expect, the Empress is a symbol of absolute power and evil, and it was a lot of fun to design this character.  This is my work so far, my first completely digital commissioned project, and when the Kickstarter is live I will make sure to provide a link!

Digital Sketch #4

Digital sketch #3

Digital Sketch #2

Tried a different approach to lighting, 2 hours

Digital Sketches #1

Digital, 1 hour

Autobiographical Self Portrait

My final submission for my last anatomy class this Spring, tasked with creating a life-size self portrait of ourselves.  Once again I tried for a Alphonse Mucha inspired shapes and design.  Colored pencil on butcher paper.

Rock Creature Concepts

A side project I lent a hand in was coming up with an idea for a new mascot, revolving around the idea of a "dirtbag" character, somewhat resembling a human and rock monster.  There were multiple artists, and work is still being done on the project, but these are some simple concepts for shapes/look of the creature, as well as some color schemes.  Hopefully this project continues, and they ask for more help.

Wheel of Time: Lan vs Demandred *Spoilers*

It's been a while since the last update, mainly because of this project and finishing up this last semester.  Going without saying, this is an excerpt from the book Wheel of Time, book 14.  If any readers don't want to know what will happen, don't look down.

Creature Combination

A haphazard combination of a horse, lizard, gazelle, lobster, and magic.

Old Portraits

Digging through the files on my computer I found some oil portraits of myself, along with some charcoal.  These are around one year old, the charcoal older.  I think it's time for an update.

GOT

A quick sketch for the return of Game of Thrones.  More to come!

Book Cover *updated*

As I Lay Dying, 13.5"x8.5", watercolour

A simple assignment to recreate a book cover for a random book without outside inspiration from past covers.  I received Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, a book I have never read, but decided to use a Alphonse Mucha-inspired tone for the cover.

3D From Glasgow

I recently spent a semester abroad at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, studying animation, 3D design, and web development.  The stay was amazing and I learned a lot, especially in using 3dsMax.  I had a background in using AutoCAD so it wasn't too hard to jump into a second-level course and start creating.  By the end of the semester we were to present an organic and architectural model, along with short videos showing them off.  These are my first 3D creations.

Organic, character from sketches

Architectural, connected towers on floating islands

Biomedical Rendering

I took a class specifically focusing on doing biomedical rendering for medical books and teaching, but what was really being taught was attention to detail and patience.  Most of the class was spent on only a few projects as each one took a lot of time to bring to finished quality.

Skulls, colored pencil on toned paper

Flowers, copy of photo, colored pencil on toned paper

Illustrate a Word- Behemoth

An assignment from a little ways back.  After picking a word the intention was to create a scene that best depicts that word's definition.

Zine

Drawn and inked, then scanned into Photoshop for the value, color, and halftones.  Assignment was to create an 8 frame comic with a complete story, and I'm a sucker for dragons.  The final frame is all images together, meant to be printed on an 11x17 paper and folded into a short comic.