tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85460391620596911202024-03-06T01:34:45.722-05:00Concussive blows to the headthe official sketchblog of LeWayne jones aka xxsp!racyxxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-27516488719146075672017-07-09T09:04:00.001-04:002017-07-09T09:04:02.682-04:00Saturday Bosscade - Daemon Bride So, yesterday I had the opportunity to play Daemon Bride for the first time, and I have to say that the game itself is pretty awesome. Examu did a really good job of taking the established controls in games such as Blaz Blue and Guilty Gear and streamlining this into something that both casuals and pros can xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-62841977665032928232011-07-12T11:10:00.007-04:002011-07-12T11:52:07.873-04:00Part One: Head Games
At my day (night) job I can often be found at lunch sitting in the breakroom drawing faces. Random faces, faces for character designs ect ect. Often i'm told that it's difficult to draw faces and heads from co-workers and friends who watch, and to be honest if you don't have a basic idea of what you're doing it really is. So I decided this will be the first thing I cover in my quest to help youxxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-31542349542815858732011-07-04T07:45:00.002-04:002011-07-04T07:51:53.120-04:00RestartFor a little over a year i've been sitting around trying to figure out what to do with this blog. I'm not anywhere near my goal of being a professional artist. However, I have been spending more of my time plugging away at my video game blog which has been doing quite well these past few months.In addition to that I've been slowly working my way up the ranks at my day-job. I have found kindred xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-13439164868338685432011-01-25T04:57:00.000-05:002011-01-25T04:57:34.359-05:00Man's beast friendSalutations.
Been all sorts of busy with other things. thought I would make it up with something really cool. This picture came out of a hilarious convo about dogs and Berserk. Hope you guys like it. Other than that. things have been interesing on this end. I've been video game blogging for a bit and I have a couple ideas going on for what exactly I want to do with this blog in particular.xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-48015894084086973192010-05-29T05:58:00.003-04:002010-05-29T06:00:44.212-04:00One small step for me...Well not that much of a milestone, but I've pretty much reached the first cliffhanger to Solar Bomb, which is pretty awesome. Seeing your work actually materialize into something you can actually show to other people just gives you a serious sense of accomplishment. Soo to be nice. I'm going to show off two pages that I've been working on.
Just two, but enough to know that I'm not just sitting xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-50993409566094514802010-05-26T03:44:00.001-04:002010-05-26T03:45:47.691-04:00Retro Bomb Comix....I was looking through some discs and found some of my old pieces from 2007. People who are interested in what I'm doing for Solar Bomb will be pleased to know that the following comic I show you is actually one of the prototype versions of this comic. Note: This character will still be in the newer comic, but not exactly how he's portrayed here. Enjoy.
xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-53023445792274891702010-05-17T18:06:00.000-04:002010-05-17T18:06:57.106-04:00Supernatural sketch par-taeDid this while I was checking out the season finale of Supernatural, which was pretty damn good. I didn't know how they were going to lock Lucifer back in his cage and stop the 'planetary enema' that was the biblical apocalypse, but the Super Winchester bros. and the gang pulled it off quite nicely. Of course not without some big character deaths along the way... Season six is so close yet soooo xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-36880919765372168002010-05-15T04:20:00.000-04:002010-05-15T04:20:47.857-04:00Corridor to HangarFigured I'd show off one of the background shots I worked on today for chapter 1-1. It was a bit of a struggle, but I keep playing around with the colors until I found something that works. It started out rounded, but went to a more half circle shaped corridor. I may go back and make some changes to the other shots I colored going off of this shot for reference.
Anyway you guys have a xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-4337921826690388232010-05-14T04:35:00.001-04:002010-05-14T04:36:47.746-04:00"COLORS" Original Animation by Anima : DigInfo
digging around for references for what I'm about to work on, I found a video for a project that one of my favorite artists provided the designs for. Ippei Gyobu designed the costumes for the characters in "colors" a short film for a possible video game.xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-70428283164121002362010-05-13T17:26:00.001-04:002010-05-13T17:27:18.622-04:00I've settled on a style.I spent the last month and a half trying to figure out what type of style I want to go for with Solar Bomb, but the answer was right underneath my nose. As I'm sitting in the school auditorium for my niece's graduation rehearsal something kind of just went off in my brain; "Why not digitally paint the backgrounds and use flash to create cel styled characters? " The result would be a webcomic withxxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-22330088822381263542010-05-06T02:11:00.001-04:002010-05-06T02:11:42.638-04:00B-boys and Babies.
So After the last jam entry I went back to square one. Watched Breakin, did a couple doodles, and decided to get back on the coloring horse and this is what I came up with. Part of the way through with the first guy, I realized that this whole time I've been treating the stylus like a mouse instead of a digital brush. So I started brushing in the details of the pants and adding highlights to thexxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-19106034312309181142010-05-01T03:31:00.000-04:002010-05-01T03:31:18.241-04:00A very late Day Four: SheenahYeah it took me a bit of time to get this one out. We had some severe thunderstorms rolling through the area last night, with quite a few Tornado warnings, so I couldn't really get anything done. Then this morning as I was blasting through the previous one I realized that there were way too many mistakes that I would have to go back and fix on the drawing end. So after a redraw, and some coloringxxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-45614439294036745472010-04-28T21:02:00.001-04:002010-05-01T03:32:42.022-04:00Day Three: Mikie JayWow. This was way faster than any of the other designs. Four hours and here we are. Once again obligatory Michael Jackson impersonator is necessary for an 80s fighter. I know you guys are thinking " no chicks?" Actually, I had a female character ready but I got caught up on watching thriller on youtube. Rest assured There will be hot 80s ladies coming.xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-48668993280644350202010-04-28T01:25:00.004-04:002010-04-28T01:29:28.140-04:00Day Two: Master E. NuffI finished this one just before the stroke of midnight. Then again, This was one a bit easier to get together than Chakka Do. It's not a fighting game without an obligatory guy in a karate gi, and who else would be a better analog than the late Julius J.Carry aka Sho'Nuff!!
I liked how this turned out, and I kind of stumbled onto some new coloring techniques so that's definitely a plus. I can't xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-78302857663681374052010-04-27T05:41:00.002-04:002010-05-01T03:52:11.134-04:00Day one: Chakka DoIt's a dumb name for a character, but names don't really matter. This is the first finished character for my week-long jam project. The basic premise is that a Developer needs a minimum of five character designs for a fictional fighting game. Every day I'll be designing one character from pencils to finished colors for the game. In this case the game will be called "Ghetto Blastarr: Heavy beats xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-74362446149795856762010-04-25T16:31:00.007-04:002010-04-25T16:37:34.350-04:00Plans, expectations and admirations.
I've been doing a lot of contemplation about my future as an artist, and I've pretty much come to the conclusion that if I want to get into a future of character design for video games I'm going to have to pull a really impressive portfolio out of my ass! I mean what I have so far through this blog, and what I post on forums and DeviantArt is by no means bad, Just that it's not really a xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-69182534702407917002010-04-23T03:23:00.001-04:002010-04-23T03:27:02.323-04:00Wow! what wireless plan are you on?So to end this week on a high note I decided to do a bit of fanart for some friends of mine. This is Apple Cyber, who is the creation of Ashleigh "Py" Hetrick. Apple Cyber is the soon-to-be star of her own forthcoming video game which is the first of many games coming from indie developer studio LaidOffGames.
Hit up their website when you get the chance. Py and her husband, Teben are fantastic xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-23997058103573390422010-04-22T20:20:00.001-04:002010-04-22T20:25:09.801-04:00Speed painting isn't so bad after allNot that I ever really thought it was bad, I just thought that my work was incredibly bad lol. Yes, I needed more confidence. Right now I'm trying to try everything in order to both become more well rounded, and to make my skillset that much greater. So after looking over Nicklas Jansson's website I came across a process tutorial that was an enormous help. I want to do more of these until Ixxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-1284058255646757632010-04-21T21:01:00.000-04:002010-04-21T21:01:41.182-04:00with a name like Mechanical Violator Hakaider.....
After a frustrating Monday, I decided to spend some time getting back to an awesome classic; Mechanical Violator Hakaider!! Hakaider was originally the villain of the Japanese Henshin hero series Kikaider, but in this movie he's more of an anti hero who helps a band of rebels overthrow the leader of Jesus town (yes that's exactly what it's called). Why? Only because he believes that peace is xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-35457289114255074902010-04-21T20:29:00.001-04:002010-04-21T20:31:57.532-04:00A crisis of colors
It appears that the hardest part of creating a comic is figuring out the coloring style. Or maybe I'm just looking way too deeply into all of this? who knows. On the one hand people are really digging the vector style of last post, and I would love to do a full on book like that, but it's very time consuming. On the other hand I really like Ben Caldwell's atmospheric coloring style. The xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-23568574371582148402010-04-08T23:25:00.002-04:002010-04-08T23:31:17.723-04:00Ohhhh shiz!
Here's another promo piece for Solar Bomb. I tried to go for more awesome colors to make a more eye popping piece. I like this one way better than the last one. Just finished up chapter 1-1 on the drawing end. I need to do some patch up work on some of the pages. blah blah. back to work.xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-9495061532402363872010-04-06T19:13:00.004-04:002010-04-06T19:28:07.124-04:00I'm never happyHere's the finished version of the Solar Bomb cover/poster I wanted to do. I'm not happy with how it turned out, but I can always go back to redo the image in vector style. Always a positive lurking in negative space; persevere! Well I should get back to work.xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-9382609202923649462010-04-05T19:25:00.001-04:002010-04-05T19:26:05.091-04:00Peek at my ProcessesBusy busy busy these days. Going through pages, redrawing pages, and trying to get some cover designs going. I spent yesterday drawing up thumb nails for cover ideas and settled on about five designs out of eight. This is the first drawing from this series of covers. Basically Sol will be added to the shot, but I just wanted to focus on the Bombah portion of the piece.
Notice that when I xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-53711407553585948882010-03-26T21:15:00.001-04:002010-03-26T21:19:20.236-04:00WIP: P Soldier
Here is the link to a detailed tutorial created by Niklas Jansson. His digital painting work is phenomenal!!, and I've been google stalking him for a couple years now lol. Well after finding the link though the Planet-land forums, I spent most of the afternoon working on some tests to up my digital painting skills.This little work-in-progress is one, and below is another. I really want to get xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546039162059691120.post-71207653375180267552010-03-23T01:04:00.001-04:002010-03-23T01:10:09.828-04:00Sometimes I feel ....
Like I'm being pulled into too many directions. I want to be a game developer, I want to be a graphic artist, I want to be a freelance illustrator, I want to create comics. For all of that I tend to find out all too quickly that I am only one person, but One person is all it takes to make a difference in their own and other's lives. Maybe I just need to try harder?
After doing some thinking I xxsp!racyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304572474735064615noreply@blogger.com0