Lollipop Hatchet/Machete

So there's a game being released sometime in 2012 titled "Lollipop Chainsaw". They game follows zombie hunter/cheerleader Juliet Starling who fights zombies in 'San Romero high school' where Juliet used to cheer. The game's main character inspired me to build a character based off her likeness. Here are some of my creations. I mainly experimented with the eyes and the weapons she's holding. I'm happy with how the hair turned out. In my previous designs my characters hair always looks kind of flat, this time, my character's hair looks more dynamic. Between the two sketches, I prefer the second one. In terms of the digital renderings, I prefer the last one. Hope everyone has a happy Halloween!

AAHHH!! ZOMBIES!!!!

Using the 'zombie face' asset I developed from the tutorial, I went and made a poster for the Toronto 'zombie walk'. Here's the final result. I like the colour of the paper texture, the puke-greenish colour is reminiscent of the zombie skin tone and re-making the face was a tough choice to make, but ultimately, I believe the poster benefits from the re-make.

F1 Poster: Monaco Grand Prix

Using the F1 car asset I made earlier, I built a poster promoting the Monaco Grand Prix, just for fun. The  streaks of light were made by creating a rectangle, cinching in either the two left or right hand points to narrow it down, copying the streak and blurring it to make it look like it's glowing. This was all built using Adobe Illustrator.

Finished, coloured F1 race car.

Traced this using Adobe Illustrator. First piece of my F1 poster is now complete.

Zombie Face

Cool Illustrator tutorial using the "Brush" tool. I like how this tutorial uses a stock photo that the user can draw over instead of having to create the zombie head totally from scratch (not that that's not fun either). If you have a tablet, USE IT. it makes this tutorial a little more manageable. I used just my mouse for this one, didn't turn out that badly for a first run. I'm thinking of painting this face in the near future. Tutorial can be found here: http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-a-gruesome-zombie-illustration

For the remake of this illustration, I decided to draw the zombie face and then outline it using my small and medium point brush pens. The lines look much neater and have more definition than the version I built in Illustrator. Overall, I'm much happier with this version. 

Even more drawing practice from the book "Awesome things to draw"

Since I got a ton of free time on my hands now, I'm getting back into drawing things. Here are my latest creations.

This drawing is an Apatosaurus. This takes me back to when I use to watch "The Land Before Time" on VHS when I was like 6 years old.

This is an F1 race car. I've been watching F1 races in TV since I was like 9 years. It was one of things my dad an I use to do every Sunday morning. Even to this day, we both still watch the races.

OH NOEZ! Piranhas!

Photoshop Tutorial: Apocalyptic/Meteor secene

A cool Photoshop tutorial where you composite 3 images together to create an apocalyptic scene. Tutorial can be found here: http://www.psdvault.com/photo-effect/create-dramatic-meteor-and-burning-city-effect-in-photoshop/

More fun and excitement using HYPE frameworks AS3

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.com/uploads/DMA455/02_soundAnalyzer_sexualmanchocolate_remix.swf

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.com/uploads/DMA455/02_soundAnalyzer_megawhacko2-1.swf

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.com/uploads/DMA455/06_soundAnalyzer_sexualmanchocolate_remix.swf

I personally like the turnout of the first link.

Here are some screen captures of what I generated using the frameworks:

Scene Girl cartoon character

Chocolate Dipped Strawberry tutorial

Yet another cool tutorial for Adobe Illustrator. Made this in honor of all the good stuff I've been eating, and the subsequent fattening that comes with it, this Thanksgiving :) The tutorial can be found here: http://vectips.com/tutorials/create-a-mouthwatering-chocolate-covered-strawberry/

Drawing/Illustrator practice

More drawing practice from the book "Awesome things to draw"

A Python in a jungle-ish environment. Not sure if I'll bring this into Illustrator or not. Tracing out the scales would take a ridiculous amount of time and I don't know of any efficient way of tracing them. I'll probably bring it into Photoshop and paint it.

Land Sailer/Wind Jet speeding through the desert

Phoenix

Illustrator Tutorial: Batteries

Haven't done an Illustrator tutorial in what feels like a LONG time. This one is pretty quick and easy to accomplish, but it still yields an impressive outcome. This tutorial utilizes the 3D effect in Illustrator, which I haven't used since the "Wine label" post for DMA455.

Tutorial link: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/quick-tip-how-to-illustrate-3d-power-cells/