Evil Genius
Posted By Scott Hallett at 1/22/2010 4:52 PM

I really tried to avoid all the Evil Genius cliches for this Drawer Geeks entry, but I'm sure I hit on at least a few. I love the idea of a tiny little man piloting a giant robot, very fitting.

I haven't had too much in the way of free time this year so far, but I'm hoping to at least develop some sort of steady art output. To be continued...

Labels: Drawer Geeks, Evil Genius, giant robots, ink, Photoshop

Some Traditional Ink Work
Posted By Scott Hallett at 11/27/2009 8:04 AM

Here's some more recent ink work I've been doing in the spare moments on my lunch hour. The first is a failed attempt at a design for a longer story I had planned for Popgun a while back. Never came to be, and may end up finishing it someday.

The second one is a small character that fits into a world I had always pictured as a graphic novel, but there's holes in the premise I've yet to be able to adequately fill, so it's always been on the back burner.

The final one is a character who fits into a story that's almost fully fleshed out in my mind. I'd love to tackle it after my current obligations are complete, but we'll see where things are then.

I had planned out a tutorial on preparing line work for coloring in Photoshop (at least the method I use), but I'm afraid I just don't have the time to give it the proper attention at the moment. It's on my "to do" list though.

Labels: comics, graphic novel, ink, Popgun, robots

Spirits, Monsters & Wild Things!
Posted By Scott Hallett at 10/26/2009 9:28 PM

I ran into some technical snafu's in the past month or so that made getting art completed and posted a bit of a challenge. Hopefully that's behind me now, so I'm posting some things that were completed recently. I'm also brainstorming on ways to add more content to this blog with or without new art to show, but I'll have to iron that out a bit more first.

First up is this week's Drawer Geeks, "Frankenstein":

I wanted to show a bit more of the messy business of stitching someone together of disparate parts. My Frankenstein is falling apart at the seams, literally.

Next up is another Drawer Geeks from the previous round, in honour of the film and book "Where The Wild Things Are".

Played with a whole new palette for me, as well as colouring directly on the pencils and skipping inks all together. Relatively happy with how this turned out, even if it wasn't anything like I pictured initially.

Finally, this is a pencil drawing of a duo that figure into a larger story brewing in my head at the moment. Not ready to talk about it yet, but I like the design enough to show it around.

Labels: Drawer Geeks, Frankenstein, Illustrator, pencils, Photoshop, Tree Spirit, Where The WIld Things Are

Site Updates & New Gallery
Posted By Scott Hallett at 9/19/2009 12:39 PM

After sort of dealing with the proprietary flash gallery on the site for a few years now, I've decided to re-vamp it and write my own from scratch. It's actually been up for a couple of weeks now, but I keep forgetting to write a post about it. It is done using only javascript and XML, forgoing Flash all together. I did all the coding from scratch, by hand, except for a few re-used libraries that weren't worth re-doing (i.e. Date formatting, mobile browser detection). You can check it out at the illustration link at the top of the page.

After putting all that work into the gallery, I'm thinking the site may have to be re-designed again. It's functional, but it's not exciting to me any longer. We'll see.

Labels: AJAX, Illustration, Javascript, Web Site Design, XML

Spider-Man, Spider-Man...
Posted By Scott Hallett at 8/12/2009 9:40 PM

...does whatever a spider can! Not my usual thing, but a fun departure. Broke out some of the stronger crayons in the color palette as well for this one. Just trying new things all around. This was for Drawer Geeks.

Labels: comics, Drawer Geeks, pen and ink, Photoshop, Spider-Man

Design a Deity - Akamushi
Posted By Scott Hallett at 7:38 AM

This is a character design I did for the "Design A Deity" blog. The idea is to throw a bunch of deities at each other, and see who would be left standing. Mine is named Akamushi, which means blood worm in Japanese. Here's my description: There's some great talents with more deities on the way, so check it out!

Labels: character design, Deity, pen and ink, Photoshop