Gas Station Attendants

Did these guys for work. They wanted gas station attendants shaking people down for money. I wanted the overall theme to the game to have a retro feel to it.

Mermaid

This has been a WIP for the past couple weeks... just got around to finishing. Might just end up in a story Im working on dealing with Circus sideshows. Enjoy

Girls Night Out

Girls Night Out, was a request for just simple girls out on the town. They make look familiar as they are the girls from the Bikini & Martini theme I did below. They have more clothing and are at a club now. The guy is new though. I really enjoyed these past two games. All again with a HEAVY influence from the G-Man himself Glen Hanson. I felt they may be a bit too inspired, not that, that is necessarily a bad thing... but I think its obvious where i drew inspiration from.

Bikinis & Martinis

Got to do some more girls at work. Title: Bikinis & Martinis - at first they were thinking of girls in bikinis shaped like Martini glasses. I sketched one out and it just wasnt working or looking all that well. So we called up the customer to get a little further explanation and see what they had envisioned for this game. Their response was something like "i dunno, we just liked the name, do what you think would look best." Ahh, man I like it when that happens. Freedom!! This customer is VERY VERY picky however, one of those " i dont know what I want until i see it " - they are notorious for changes as well. So I thought about it and decided to put the girls IN the martini glasses as opposed to the girls BEING the martini glasses. Made much more sense to me. Hopefully it will to them as well. I spent some days on this one, sketching, inking and coloring. Would like some more time to maybe had highlights and shadows... but then again i do like the simplicity of them. These were HEAVILY HEAVILY influenced by one of my favorite artists Glen Hanson The guy is truly an artist and amazing at line work, likeness and form. So this was my tribute to him.

Muscle Man

Circus Sideshows was the theme over at Art Jumble a month or so ago. Thought I'd post here as the jpg was sitting on my desktop. This was one of those times where the initial sketch just kinda flowed and was quick and fast, and didnt give me a lot of trouble. I like it when that happens... had a professor at KU once tell me that some of his best work he thought were his doodles and sketches when he was half paying attention and was somewhat semi distracted. This was the case in a sense with this. I was just getting ready to eat lunch, had some music on, flipped over a piece of paper and just tossed this guy on there. Man, its so fun and refreshing when you get something you like out like that. Anyways, I had a good time with this one! Enjoy!

Flea Market

Did this game a few weeks ago. Received the title and a very brief description of what was wanted for symbols. I was really swamped at the time I did these, but thats been the case the past couple of months lately. I liked the way the bugs turned out, dealing with 4 arms, with the request of having them all "filled" or holding something was a bit of a challenge though.

Batman

Latest Art Jumble

Squeals of Fortune

I had to do Pat Sajak and Vanna White as pigs at work last week. It seems to be a common theme here at work. Pigs, pigs, and more pigs. I would have really liked to do more with the shadows, highlights, and lineweight but this was one of a half dozen "rush" jobs I have had this past week.

Dogs Dogs Dogs

I had to do 15 different dogs that were to be in hotdog buns. This turned out to be a little more challenging and fun than I had originally thought.

Lobster

An Art Jumble lobster i recently finished. Theme was "Food comes to life" i guess in this case the food came back to life.

Box Design

Each artist at work had to design a box. Basically it was a tissue box they were going to fill with tickets and give to distributors free of charge. They wanted a generic theme and they wanted a name to accompany it. When it was pitched to us the phrase "advancing the business" as well as "the future of dispensing tickets" was repeated numerous times. Soooo I went with a futuristic theme. Ive always really liked the "retro future" - what people in the 50's and 60's visualized as the future. A little Jetsons with rocket ships. One of the best interpretations of this I have seen recently was in the movie The Incredibles. The environments and overall designs/concepts/themes for that movie were really well done. Right up my alley. If its your cup of tea too, I HIGHLY suggest checking out Art of the Incredibles. As for the name "Box -o- Dough" I thought it had that retro future feel to it. Besides our company has had the tag "Jar -o- Dough" for literally 50+ years. This being one of my few attempts at package design I really wanted to focus on making all sides flow together. So the rocket ships trail will match up and look to fly from the left side to the front. The sky lines/clouds should match up, I tried to focus and keep to a color palette, etc. Anyways they seemed to like it, so its gonna be made!! Maybe Ill get my hands on a finished, printed box and post pics.

Soda Jerk

Did this not too long ago. They just wanted an old time soda fountain type guy. Had fun with this. As per the post above I have always really been into all things retro. The 30's-50's especially. So whenever possible, I have liked to get a little retro feel across in my work. At least an "inspired by" feel to it. This one, I thought, got that across fairly well.

Office Weasels

I received a request to do a game around weasels in the office. I took that and ran in the direction of making them "caricatures" from the show "the Office." A show, that when i have watched ( a total of 2 or 3 times) i have found entertaining for a good half hour. After this I'll probably watch more. So if their personalities arent captured enough i can go back and tweak.

Urban Cougars

This was a new term for me obviously because i havent ran into one as of yet... but i was assigned a game called "Urban Cougars" They are older rich women who "prey" on younger men. Words were added later to the images, The girl in the bikini was calling for the Cabanna Boy, the girl with the whip was calling for the Stable Boy, the girl in the garden was calling for the Gardener... and then i obviously had to do one of the guys who is the "victim" - i figured a buff handyman type guy would do.

Christmas Card

Here is my submission for the Christmas Card for Universal. The guys pictured are who make up the "Three Horsemen" of our company. Or as they like to call themselves... President Mike, President Joe & President Shawn (in that order). First real attempt at using drop shadows in my illustration... as i usually go for the "flat" vector art look. There were so many colors going on here i do think they help seperate things a bit. I kinda like em, doubt i will use then for everything here on but ya know, they're cool once in awhile.

Steve Jobs

Latest illi for Art Jumble. Theme was Nerds. Who better than the founder of Apple.

Zombie Ed: I Got Wood

For Zombie theme over at the art jumble & my first attempt at flashy flash

Ahnolds

This game was kinda fun... I had a specific request to do certain "Arnolds" - a young bodybuilder Arnold, a Terminator, a Conan, a Twins version, and an older Governor Schwarzenegger.

Daisy Dukes

These 3 girls were done the same day (and weekend as it turned out) as the 3 below. This game called for girls in Daisy Dukes, obviously. Their feet arent "chopped" off or missing, they got cropped in the final output. Again I like em, but I think i will go back, add some more details and give the poor girls some feet!!. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines.

Beach Babes

I like these kind of games... I get the title "beach babes" and a simple sentence... "please create babes at the beach" Thats it. Nothing else. I do them, turn them in, they are accepted, and I move on. Couldnt go any better!! Well, the deadline was one business day and i had to do these AND the 3 above soo they arent as detailed as i would have liked but none the less... they are a good start.

Rear Ends - AGAIN!!

Well so the customer changed their minds about having people in the game so they suggested animals. And they were specific as to which animals they wanted. Who knows their rhyme or reason but i got a request to do a gorilla, a moose, a tiger, a donkey, a hippo and a skunk. I like the top 3 MUCH more than the bottom.

Rear Ends - the Girls

Here are the 3 girls that accompanied the 3 guys from an earlier post. I liked the way they turned out for the most part... a few things i still would like to change/add (my sketch had a leprachuan the Irish girl was looking out) but, as usually seems to be the case in charitable gaming, I ran out of time and they needed this "yesterday"...

Dancing With Stars

I had forgotten about this game I had done awhile back. One of the games where i sat down and did everything from start to finish in Illustrator. Not one sketch was used for this. I really enjoyed it, and I like the simplicity they each have... although it sure does seem to take a loong time to make things look "simple"! - Anyways, from top to bottom -
1) Jerry Rice and his dance partner
2) J. Peterman (from Seinfeld) and his dance partner
3) Stacy Kiebler and Mario Lopez

Blondie

Latest illi for Art Jumble. Theme over there was "Spaghetti Westerns"

What's In the Box?!?!

My second contribution to the Art Jumble... man I dig that place. I was a day and a half late but i swear i had the sketch done on friday.

Miyamoto

Tis was my first post over at Art Jumble... theme was Video Games.
Soooo I did Miyamoto - Head of Nintendo, created Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc - I'm really diggin the Jumble... lots of cool cats pumpin out amazing work, & it gives me some much needed motivation to create something new every week

From the Back

Got an assignment to draw some muscular guys and pin-up girls with their backs facing the viewer...(girls post to soon follow this) I was, as is no surprise, more excited to do the girls than I was the muscle men. But I was pleasently surprised with how the fellas turned out. When doing the girls I wanted to give each of them their own "theme" or environment. As opposed to just random people standing with their backs to the viewer. So here are the 3 guys first... a "dad" type grillin outside, a surfer, and a cop.

Camels

Well I recieved a folder not too long ago requesting a camel/desert themed game. And wouldnt ya know it... they called it... Cameloot. BRILLIANT!!! Sense an overall theme here? Dino DOLLARS Camel LOOT. Anywhoo the camel symbols you see here have negative space in the sky - thats where the dollar amount goes. So now you can run and tell all your friends about what you learned about charitable gaming today. Negative space in symbol = Allows placement for $ amount. Unfortunatley as usually seems to be the case here, I was pressed for time when it came around for the backgrounds... they could use some more shadows etc to really "plant" them in the ground so to speak. I also felt it necessary to have one of them smoking a cig... unoriginal, yea but hey whattya gonna do.

Boys of Summer

Well this is a game from a month or so ago. They (customer) wanted baseball players... Did a really cartoony Babe for the header and then they specified The Mick, Roger Maris, P.Rose & Kirby. Most random cast of players? Yeaup. Their reasoning... Mick: was their favorite player -Maris: true home run leader -Kirby: the customer is in Minnesota -P.Rose: Cause hey, its a gambling game. Yeeeaaa whatever, I just try to make pictures.

Surf Party

Well, another example of someone tossing me a folder with a name on it. Obviously in this case the folder was branded with "Surf Party" Above is what I came up with. Keep in mind that there is a heirarchy to these things. Each one of them is tagged with what we like to call in the gaming industry a tier (dollar amount) Hence the reason for the cool guy surfing followed by the guy just chillin on the beach with his board, and lastly a shark. I like em but Im still working on my black outlines. Seeing how they get sized down tremendously... black is usually the way to go to make them... and I cant believe I am even using this word *sigh* ... "pop".