a preview of my past

 As I mentioned before, I wanted to post something that I honestly thought would never see the light of day. That is my old pet project/comic, as well a rightful precursor to my current fledgling one: Ultima Novella.

The 'cleverly' (ha, not really) titled 'Ultima Child' comic, was without a doubt a cornerstone in my making as an artist up to now. Like any artist that looks back on their past works, I feel amused at how far I've come, but in this case how much I was growing in that period of time. In a way, I feel blessed. 


So before I move on to try and accomplish bigger and better things, I'll let those interested enough take a look into into my past. For now I leave you a preview of one of my favorite pages from the comic, as I try to sort out the pages.


 Cheers! 

Update again, this time with some character concepts  for Ultima as well as some random doodling. More to come...

still undecided...

A character design that I'm not content with just yet. I plan on redoing this guy's design from the ground up. Though his outfit will stay somewhat the same, the finalized concept will be quite the contrast. By then I'll be sure to reveal his whole identity (full name & all.)


Here's an earlier sketch of his initial design that I posted not to long ago...

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. 

pale character from Ultima

Another character I'm working out for my project. This one in particular is important and will have certain ties (in more ways than one.) 
This is not the final concept of course.

more concept work from Ultima

Still coming up with some neat ideas for this little project of mine.I plan to Let this one cook nice and slowly.The character sketch on the top has yet to be given a proper. He's also from the same story as Lupus.

The blurred picture at the bottom is a bit more special to me, planning to revive an old hero :)

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.

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.