Illustration - Bad Dog Lineup

The final lineup! Enjoy!

Illustration - New Character Designs for Bad Dog (part 2)

And now...back to Bad Dog!
Father Preston
The priest who presides over Sarah's funeral and later, helps Linda get through her anger about losing her mom. He was the most difficult to redesign, mostly because I wasn't sure if I wanted him to stay young as in the original comic, or to become an older, more fatherly figure to Linda.

But in the end, I felt this design didn't mesh with his character.
Sarah and Preston's Redesign
I finished these two together to save space. Sarah is Linda's mother, who only appears at the beginning of the film. Mostly, she is young, pretty, and a good mom. And here's the new Preston.

Detective Reed
The man in charge of the serial murder case. He's a small-town detective, but not without smarts. He is also a new addition via the screenplay, and also serves as a father figure to Linda.

Illustration - New Character Designs for Bad Dog (part 1)

You guys remember my comic from Narrative Illustration? Well, that turned into a full-blown, 47 page screenplay (wherein the little girl Linda lives with nuns and attempts to kill the dog "that killed her mom"). I'm very proud of the story and the screenplay, but I felt like the characters could use some updating. I spent my Advanced Character Design class recreating them, with some great results.

Linda
The main character from the story. She's an eight-year-old girl who loses her mother to a serial killer in the town, and Linda believes that this killer is actually a stray dog she's run into. The nuns take the orphaned girl in, and after recruiting another girl, Linda sets out to kill the monster that took away her mother. The screenplay is essentially her coming-of-age story.

Becky

This is one of the only characters who did not appear in the original comic. I included her in the screenplay because I wanted Linda to have another kid roughly her age to talk to, so that all of the dialogue wouldn't just be a little kid talking to adults. Becky is a bad influence on Linda, and often says things before thinking them through all the way.

The Black Dog
The dog is the main villain of the story. He contracts rabies from the rabbit carcass her devours at the story's opening, and grows sicker and sicker as the days pass. He is fully rabid by the final confrontation.

Sister Mary and Sister Francine
These are the two nuns who take Linda in. They live in a convent beside Linda's school, where they act as librarian and principal, respectively. Sister Mary is the tall, gaunt one, who is cold and distant but an old softie at her core, while Sister Francine is the stout, bubbly one who takes the firmer hand with the girls.

Illustration and Game - The Evolution of the Ponga

For the past year, I've been doing artwork for a small gaming company called Action-Reaction labs. I've learned so much about making video games and art, and I want to show off one of the characters I designed for them.

I call this guy Ponga. He was created for a game we ended up scrapping, so I get to keep the design and do with it as I chose.


Here's a concept screen for the game. It was going to be for iPhone, and the goal is to get the weird blue creature in the middle to the goal point off screen. Also, bear-pillar.


And here is my 3D model of Ponga, which I've been working on in my 3D character class. I'll put up my short animation test of him once I finish the apple toss.

Illustration - Kurse

This summer has been a hectic one. I have a job doing all of the art for an iPhone game that should be coming out this fall. I've also been writing and trying to sleep before school starts.

Anyway, my friend Matt Smith started this publication at MICA called The Rooster, and he generously let me publish one of my writing pieces in it. It's a short memoir about my best friend Kirsten (aka Kurse) and our adventures in 7th grade. Anyway, when he asked if I had a little illustration to go along with it, I couldn't help whipping this up.
I was sort of inspired by playing cards (but then again, when am I not?), and it also has a lot to do with the themes of my memoir. Also, still figuring out people in my style...bear with me.
Done in Photoshop.



Now back to work.

Illustration - Dogs Do Bad Things

Skate deck and T-shirt.

Illustration - Bad Dog

In addition to being an illustrator and animator, I am also a writer. I've written countless short stories (most unfinished), dabbled in screenwriting and plays, and started a handful of novels. Basically, I've thrown my hat into nearly every fiction ring, some way or another.

This is Bad Dog, a four-page graphic novel written and drawn by me.

Illustration - Multiple Universes

Based on the WNYC Radio Lab program "Multiple Universes".

Illustration - Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Do's and Don't's:

DON'T go on a first date.


DO plan a creative date.

Illustration - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"

A series of digital paintings narrating Poe's short story "The Black Cat".

Illustration - Dogs, Etc.

BLACK DOGS
A dual "illustrated monster" piece, about the mythic Black Dog. The first is based on an old English story about a Black Shuck destroying a church, the other is based on the concept of black dogs as an omen of death.


MOKI
My puppy Moki, then six months old. Based on photographic reference. Watercolor.


HYENAS
Meat-eating noises! Hyenas (I know...not actually dogs) and other wildlife devouring a carcass.

Illustration - Cards of the End

A series of playing cards, Apocalyptic themed.
Each card (2 to King) conveyed an increasingly horrific image until we arrived at the Aces, or Four Horsemen - Famine/Clubs, Disease/Diamonds, War/Hearts, Death/Spades.