Historical Characters

Found some old sketches for characters that were used for a pitch.

Legends of history sketches and illustration

Inktober 2014

I have been participating in the #inktober movement again this year and it's been a lot of fun.

Follow me on instagram to see each drawing individually...

By Airmail - Making Of

Here are some development artwork for the animals in the animation short: By Airmail

Sketch of Haz

Little sketch of my good friend Haz...

She's gone

She was a vampire like him...

Making of El Dodo Freedom - Part 1

Recently completed a short animation for the Annecy Festival 2011 competition:
http://www.youtube.com/user/neongsan#p/u/0/4z-TfoWMShg

Here is the making of.

At first, as usual, a lot of time was spent sketching and doodling around to look for something that might feel right. It can sometimes be a long journey of exploring new ideas and combining with old ones. When presented with the theme referencing the USA, of course the theme of classic western movies came up and out of nowhere cowboy sketches started to pop out.

Cowboy standing out from the crowd

Character taking shape

blueprint for the modelling phase

For a recent project, there were some random dodo doodles flying around but the dodo concept was not used. Then it all kinda merged together: a cowboy who tries to ride a dodo...

Dodo sketches on the fly

Part 2 will show the process of developing the unique visual and animation style for El Dodo Freedom...

Birds... not angry

Those are some old bird illustrations done for a pitch. 

Amazing how sometimes when you dig back trough old stuffs, you can find them more interesting than they were originally... maybe after I've been playing Angry Birds too much.

Windy reading

I had this dreamy vision in my head and I was itching to quickly sketch it to get it out of my mind...

Reading on a windy day... 

It was a windy day yesterday and I saw a little girl reading her book, totally immersed in it with no care about what was happening around her. I don't know why but this stuck in my little brain and I had to draw that emotion I felt whilst seeing that scene.... and share it :)

Reading on a windy day... a bit clearer

Finance illustrations sneak peek

Finance and management illustrations- sneak peek

This is a sneak peek of a series of illustrations I worked on for a finance newsletter. 

It shows some insights on the process of starting out with the rough sketches and then moving on to the create a unique visual treatment. I have to say that I'm far happier with the printouts as the colors and textures turned out richer than on screen.

More sketches on Sketchoholic

Big Eyes

Whiskers

Sketches on Sketchoholic

Trap

Big Belly

I'll post some of the quick sketches i've been and will creating on sketchoholic for the rapid sketch-o-daily contests which as a different topic all the time. It is the perfect opportunity for me to quickly practice my drawing and also to see what other people come up with in less than a day... 

Rabbit Revenge Concept

Rabbit Revenge is the latest flash game hand crafted by Dan and I. The aim here was to target the mobile platform and bearing that mind, optimization was priority.

Below is the concept art during concept phase where we came up with the simple idea of dragging elements to the stage to alter the journey of our protagonist:

It was a lot of fun to come up with the imaginary world around a magician...

As usual, I start off with lots thumbnail sketches trying different options and refining and the character gets stronger visually and conceptually...

The same process with the other characters to be created.

Rabbit Revenge is nearly complete, so stay tuned for updates!

Street performer

I didn't realize that one of the quick sketch above that I created on sketchoholic actually inspired the idea behind the flash game that Dan and I are currently working on! Well you can see the photoshop digital painting, but you'll have to wait just a tad longer to see the game...