Cannery Row Characters

I haven't touched these in a few months, but I haven't posted them either. These characters are meant to go in my Cannery Row environments, based on the Steinbeck book. From left to right is Mack, Lee Chong, Doc, and a local girl for Doc's love interest. I definitely need someone to pose for me so I can make some corrections to her.

Below is a quick test of Mack in Lee Chong's grocery store.

Shades Continued

I've been tied up with a work project, but this project goes on as well. I've been thumbnailing environment ideas, and expanding the shade thumbs into full monsters. When I have more of the moments somewhat clear I'll explain the story. The kitty is still in the WIP state. He's not a shade, but he lives in the same world.

Electroknight - Expanded

So I extended this into a more interesting poster (I hope). I used a lot of rough lasso shapes and loose brush strokes. Pretty fun.

Electronights

I borrowed my Uncle's copy of "Mortal Engines," by Stanislaw Lem, and this is a sketch from the first short story. I may make this into a full project, if I can find where I put that book...

Shade Monsters

Here's a quick bit of something I'm working on.

Fall 2009 Quick Paintings

Just the small panels I did in oil... I finally started getting more comfortable with my water-mixable oils in the top painting, which is most recent.

Here is some current work (some in progress) from my most recent project at SJSU, based on John Steinbeck's book Cannery Row. The objective was to make 4 interior layouts, which I treated as animation backgrounds. I decided to try and work differently from my previous school projects, and more like the last two personal projects I did over winter break.

This is the first piece I did. I made this to test the style and mood of this world, looking at Golden Books and artists like Charles Harper for inspiration.

The next two are interiors of Doc's lab. Doc is a self-made marine biologist, and he supplies marine (and other) animals and supplies to universities and labs to make money.



The next two below are Lee Chong's grocery store. The top one is more "in progress" than the rest of the project.