ink for blood

Some recent ink illustrations for my personal project, Ultima Novella. Featuring Caliga, the Guilty from one of the tales in the project. 
More to come

sword & shield of the night

Here again with yet another character I'm designing for my personal project dubbed "Rebuild Ultima Project". The character in question plays a vital role in one of the stories and is one of my current favs, for several reasons. One of them being that he somewhat serves as a homage to two of my most favorite artists: Yoshitaka Amano & Yoji Shinkawa.


His name has yet to be decided, but for the time being I gave him the nick name "Caliga"(Latin for Darkness.) The unit code name pertains to him and his comrade companion, who I will show shortly. 


The bottom pic is how he looked before he adopted the full body prosthetic armour. His design is not by any means final, neither is the scenario for the story he's in. 

Meh...

Made another banner, yep.

wolf guard of the King

I think I'm finally getting closer to a final design for this guy.  
He is Lupus Tego Regali, the etymology of his whole name is Latin for (the wolf that guards the King). 


He is a protagonist for one of the stories from my personal project, "Project Ultima".  I still have yet to workout the details in his prosthetic armour, but I'm pretty fond on his entire design thus far.

some expected & unexpected fresh starts

 

Well looks like and unexpected predicament happened to me recently, My entire Hard-drive on my computer crashed or somethin. Apparently it became corrupt after some program I unfortunately installed (wont be doin that again...)  

Had to get it repaired, and I just got it back today. And pretty much everything I ever owned (art work, music, movies, brushes, the whole nine, were all erased since windows had to be reinstalled again. Tho to be perfectly honest I'm not at all upset or regretful. It's like a proper clean slate that I've been lookin to get lately. So with that, I guess I'll have to round up all my previous content again and be more organized this time around and get a portable HD just to be safe. Lesson learned ha ha.   

Not to mention, this random fresh start is more than appealing for my personal project under the working title "Project Ultima". Should be fun.

it's a wonderful world...almost

Trying my best to make the final stretch for my comic "A.K.A: It's A Wonderful World" for the zine M&D on GBX. And man am I rusty! Haven't done proper line art for far too long, not mention this is my first time implementing halftones into anything comic related ha ha.

Well anyways, I'll post the first 4 pages once I finish them.

back in the day...

Continuing to work out more concepts for the characters and the world. I can see the story starting to shape itself more. This is a running concept of "one" of the protagonists in his youth, when he was a rookie soldier in the military. It's the blonde character from before made new, but during this point he is a teenager.

concept art for ultima

Second update of the day (well that's a new record).

Anywho, I don't necessarily feel like withholding much artwork from this project, unlike before. This is a character I'm working out at the moment for a part of the project. So some changes are most likely expected. 

His name is Cuspis (if only for the moment)

old character render revealed for new project...

Well since I've already begun drawing up the concepts for my new project under the working title 
"project ULTIMA", I figured it would be okay to show an unfinished character render that's no longer going to be used. 

It was originally going to be in my previous collab, but since that's been canceled for now, I decided to go on and revamp this one character all together. The final rendition of said new character is underway at the moment.

Hope to share more on this new project soon enough.

wolf speed paint + news update!

Been practicing heavy as of late, it's a must really.

I'm feelin more and more like my ambitious old self lately, and it feels damn good.

This dire emphasis on practice and experimentation pans into something even bigger and more ambitious I have working at the moment. The old comic project The Alame' Rentei I was previously apart of is put on hold indefinitely (not sure for how long to be honest).

This new long term graphic novel project will showcase the return of old favorite characters of mine as well as many other concepts long gone in my earlier days.

Look for for the (semi) announcement soon.

some banner fun

Test drove some new pencil textured photoshop brushes today, got a neat little sketch out of it. Resulted in a Army Gal or...something.

Figured I'd spruce it up and make another banner out of it.  Also, the graphic designer in me is really gettin better & better, 

the man in white...

Introducing some concept art for an unrevealed stranger for "The Alamé Rentei"
Keeping lips sealed on this one ;)

I'm cooI cuz I gots scars...

Dropping another lame teaser for AR. This time featuring one of the main characters "Zeminoru" at a very drastic point in the story. Will unveil the whole thing when the time is more than right.

Also, Turned 19, ate pizza.

step by step by step

Just dropping the first of a series of AR teasers. This one showcasing the official Title design, only without the logo illustration as of now (y'know, FF style).

The sub header "PROLOGUE" is exclusive to the name of the 

soon-to-be preview book.

This was just a reminder, next ones will be more than promising.

Ceci est notre histoire...

Most of this blog is going to consist of concept & promo work for The Alamé Rentei.
Well, at least until we get enough pages done to show case to the public. 
So for now enjoy these tidbits.
 
Here's a quick teaser of a render I'm doing of the protagonist Tazinku Derkesthai

This here is Zeminoru, another one of the main characters of the story

AR sketchbook

A batch of concept art for a graphic novel I'm working on named The Alamé Rentei