The Hollow Tree

A Cool Thing Happened

2012-01-19T23:15:00.000-08:00

I just realized I had posted these on my facebook but not on my blog! Here they are now. I uploaded some sketches to a comics/cartoons hobby site I like to go to and some other viewers liked them so they digitally inked and colored them! I thought they were pretty sweet so I'm sharing them.

A Little Splash of Color

2011-10-30T20:10:00.000-07:00

So here's a set of character designs I did for a card game. They're a bit old but I finally finished the last one in the set and I wanted to go ahead and post them.

Portfolio - ASSEMBLE!

2011-07-28T13:03:00.000-07:00

This year's pièce de résistance from my portfolio - The Avengers. Special thanks to my good bud Alan for suggesting this project and to JJ for helping me pull it off. A lot of people favored the Aspen pinup as the strongest piece but I think this one better shows what I can do as a sequential artist, which is what I'm going for after all. ^-^ And woo hoo, my first double-page spread! This reaffirms though that I need to buy a bigger scanner. I had the Kinko's boi scan it and he didn't quite get all the picture, leading to this unfortunate seam through the middle of the image. *sigh* Oh well, he was cute so I forgive him ^.^

Diving In

2011-06-29T15:23:00.000-07:00

My first pinup! I think this turned out really well. I had to delay posting it because it was possibly going to be included in a book but I missed the deadline :( At any rate, I'm glad I could display it because I think it shows a lot of growth.

Being THORough

2011-05-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

Yessiree, I'm totally done with these pages. They took a while, I Thort I'd never finish. Maybe I'll celebrate by getting hammered. ^__^

At Last

2011-03-16T14:45:00.000-07:00

Yes that's right, at long last I completed a real illustration gig. Here are the two comics I drew and colored for a new, up-and-coming company called Blekko. They're a company like Google, promoting a new search engine type of thing. Anyway, if you happen across one of the baseball cards for the company, you'll see they changed the color of the second one, and I think it looks better but thought I'd mention it to avoid confusion. Maybe I'll scan one of the cards to get that version up here.

The last one is an excerpt from a larger piece. Just testing out some things, some inking and other finishing techniques. I've already started coloring this - don't worry, I saved the text on a separate layer. ^-^ Sorry, I know this image is huge, I had to make a full size print of it earlier. I'll probably shrink it and repost it a bit later.

Girl Power 2

2011-02-09T17:19:00.000-08:00

I know it's been forever since I updated...but I have some good news and bad news!

-The good news is that my scanner is working again!

-The bad news is I moved and no longer have internet at home.

So, I'll scan stuff at home and do my best to update while I'm out at a cafe or something.

For now, here are the completed Power Girl sample pages from earlier. Enjoy!

A Perfect Fit

2010-12-05T01:12:00.000-08:00

Haven't had much time to draw lately - finals weeks in school. Anyway, thought this'd be cute. It's also kinda symbolic, if you know the characters. Also some super shmexy Nightcrawler ^v^

And Some More

2010-11-21T15:55:00.000-08:00

It's time for more! These drawthreads have been really productive for me...
AH Freakout!
I'm sure you don't know who Machine Man is. Well he's a Marvel character and a robot. Now you know.
D'awww...

It's Time

2010-11-06T15:12:00.000-07:00

Alright it's about time for another sketch dump. Here's what I've sketched lately, starting from most to least recent. Bonus here: Find the hidden backwards question mark!

Sketch Dump is Go

2010-09-18T23:34:00.000-07:00

If'n yoer kinna in'tersted in what I been doin'... Here's some of what I've been up to lately ^-^

Girl Power

2010-08-31T20:30:00.000-07:00

Or is it the other way around....?

2010 Portfolio

2010-08-14T18:53:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the wait everyone. I have a cool project I've been working on that I'll post soon. In the meantime, here's the comic I showed at this year's Comic Con. ^-^

A Shocking New Post

2010-06-08T11:19:00.000-07:00

Some concept sketches for Electro. The face up at the top right corner isn't really what I want him to look like, it actually looks more like another character in the comic.

My Kitty Boy-Toy

2010-06-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

I try to draw him periodically. I think I finally got it right! Both these guys are actually the same person, but I'm sure you can see some notable differences.

2010-04-03T23:58:00.000-07:00

Seems I haven't lost momentum yet! ^^

Update

2010-04-02T16:51:00.001-07:00

Here comes another one!

The Comic Continues

2010-04-01T13:41:00.000-07:00

Page 5. The plot thickens o.o

Mighty Muscular Men

2010-03-29T21:32:00.000-07:00

Yet another WIP. Done in Photoshop CS2 with a Bamboo tablet. I'm not sure how long this one's taken, I'd say about 2 hours for the sketchy one and another 3 or 4 hours for the cleaned up one, but with bathroom/food breaks.... ah, I wasn't paying close attention. And last but not least, a sketch of Thor.

Don't be Shia

2010-02-28T21:10:00.001-08:00

I'm not afraid to show anyone my Yelnats. Acrylic over ink wash, around 2.5 hours total execution.

Ace's Trip

2010-02-23T19:43:00.000-08:00

This was a submission to an art book/contest. I submitted two other pieces that are also on this blog, and I don't know if any of them have been accepted or not yet since the submission deadline was only yesterday. Anyway, this was done with graphite and Blick watercolor markers, warm gray set. Took roughly 2 hours total execution.

Cool hWIP

2010-02-12T21:03:00.000-08:00

Why am I saying it that way?! Anyhow. Just got a Wacom tablet, been practicing with it. Gonna do some more cleanup on these, but just thought I'd post the (h)WIP now. ^^

Hoo Boy, This is Gonna Take a Minute

2009-09-07T18:05:00.000-07:00

You probably wonder why I haven't posted in quite some time. Well, all the art has been backing up and the dam just burst.

Let's start off with the celebrity portraits.

Natalie Portman
Christian Bale
Keanu Reeves
Chris Evans
Ok, now that we've got that out of the way, time to show the fun stuff!
Emily's wedding gift
Another study
Sketch I like and will probably finish
Fun little gallery piece - the theme was "Coffee and Cigarettes"
Shift - you know, the one I posted the value study of before
The Joker!
And the one that takes the cake, my comic piece from Ron's class
This follows a page out of the script of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman".

Phew! That's a lot of stuff and it's not even everything! x__x Keep your eyes peeled ^_~

Study: Shift

2009-07-27T16:04:00.000-07:00

Value study for a painting I'm currently working on.

Studies Show...

2009-06-27T22:50:00.001-07:00

Credit to my friend Jeff for coming up with the title. Anyway, I learned this awesome color technique in my comics class so I decided to keep practicing. Here are some of the studies. It's still rough but I'm working on it. Let me know if you think of something that could help! Done with acrylic and colored pencil on bristol board, plus ink wash in the bottom one.

Render Bender

2009-06-09T00:18:00.001-07:00

I've got to practice rendering texture and form. I also need practice making things look more dynamic in general. Here's some sketches I experimented with.

More Fanart Again

2009-05-28T21:46:00.001-07:00

I'm considering finishing these ones in color, possibly ink. Vote for your favorite to be finished first! lol I kid but seriously, I like how these are going so far and I wanna work out the kinks before I really do finish em.

A Gray Day

2009-05-07T01:21:00.000-07:00

That's right, I finally updated!! So I've been playing with watercolor markers. Here're some of the results.

Ketchup

2009-01-10T00:24:00.001-08:00

No, I'm not dead. I just haven't had a computer for a billion years. However, I went and bought myself a shiny new one so now I can finally post all the stuff I've been waiting to. So here they are!

Coloring: Tony

2008-11-24T12:55:00.000-08:00

So I decided to play around with Photoshop for a bit, as I just got a newer version. I attempted to color a pic of Tony Stark that I drew (not really based on Robert Downey Jr. even tho I luv him to death) Overall I think it turned out well and the technique is something I'd like to incorporate into more of my work. I was up against a few limitations, though: I don't have a wacom tablet, so there was a bit of fine tuning I couldn't really achieve, and in addition to doing this with a mouse I was doing it right handed, even though I'm left handed. I just thought I'd see what feedback I could get that might help me improve despite all that.

The final version. In the top pic I messed with a technique that sort of amps up reflected light.

Gettin' into the home stretch...

Boy those lips are lookin' pale... The eyes gave me a bit of trouble too.

Probably should've just stopped here lol...

Yeah I'll keep that hair after all....

Pretty much the bare basics. You can probably see how I worked up the detail from flat color.

This is the sketch underlaying all the color. I was amazed because the sketch wasn't really anything too fancy (actually there are some unresolved structural issues that gave me problems while I was coloring) but I was still able to make something fairly nice out of it!

So please help me out with critiques cuz I plan on doing this sort of thing more often.

A Hedgehog Walks Away From His Shadow

2008-11-03T18:42:00.000-08:00

My friend is taking a 3D animation class. They're learning about character modeling right now, so he chose Shadow the Hedgehog. The next part of the project will be learning to make the character walk, so I offered to make a sample walk cycle for him to follow. I've never done this before and I didn't do it the way you traditionally would if you were going to take it straight into 2D animation, but I really like how it came out anyway. ^-^

Learn to Love It

2008-10-22T23:30:00.000-07:00

I've been practicing cityscapes and backgrounds in general. I no longer think of them as a burden, some tedious task that my pictures require. After checking out some really beautiful scenery in the Japanese Batman movie "Gotham Knight" and in other works, I've actually started seeing drawing this kind of scenery as something to look forward to. I hope to one day make my backgrounds look as amazing as they did in that movie, or pretty close ^^

But of course I never get tired of drawing cute guys, so a sketch of Zack from FF7 ^_~ \\//

Another Round of Girls

2008-08-20T13:14:00.000-07:00

My latest endeavor in my quest to draw hot chicks ^-^ I reposted a couple pics and added two more!

Longest Post Evar!

2008-08-16T16:47:00.000-07:00

I got a lotta pics for this post!
I tried sketching two digital divas, Morrigan and Lara Croft. If these two promising pics are any indication, I'm on my way to drawing really dazzling damsels! (lol sorry about the alliteration)
My friend Eric Evil-sin made up this character called Sister Sinister (or Sista Sinista if you will) but he'll never draw her and her dismembered side-kick! I thought it was really funny so I tried out a rendition.
Grr!
One more cute girl for good measure ^-^

This Year's Portfolio

2008-08-02T14:39:00.000-07:00

I forgot to ever upload the one I did last year! Oh well, this is the one I used this year.

More Hot Chicks

2008-07-28T19:02:00.000-07:00

I'm practicing a few things here. Mainly I'm trying to draw more loosely and efficiently, so the anatomy is taking a few hits cuz I'm not used to doing it that way. The other thing is, I just need to practice drawing girls cuz even tho I prefer drawing cute guys, I feel like I should be able to draw them both with close to equal skill.

Robin Master of Disguise

2008-07-01T18:38:00.000-07:00

Sketches of Robin and a possible undercover mission for the "Boy Wonder"

A Trial Batman

2008-06-24T20:20:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd take a crack (and a biff and a wham) at drawing batman. And one silly one for kicks ^^

New Glasses!

2008-04-27T15:40:00.001-07:00

I got some new glasses so these sketches may be a little odd looking cuz I've got to adjust to these new ones. My prescription didn't go up, it's just that my old ones were bent so my eyes were forced to focus in an odd way but now I have ones that are straight so...anyway.......Tony Stark!! *__*
Practicing lol
Need to get my Spidey-fix ^^

More Armor and Fancy Get-ups

2008-03-02T10:42:00.000-08:00

Yay, I got my name back! Thanks J-rad. This guy is the dood who's in that full armor and helmet in the first post. By the way, I keep getting these comments with viruses on them so I'm turning on the comment filter for a while... Sorry 'bout that ^^;

Armor Amor

2008-02-26T23:00:00.000-08:00

Yeah I felt like trying to draw some armor so here's some sketches.

Cap'n Jack

2007-10-29T02:07:00.001-07:00

I spent all day on this, and dammit I feel accomplished ^-^

Concepting

2007-10-26T21:30:00.000-07:00

It's tough to take a real person and try to make a cartoon character out of them, but I think I've made a pretty valiant effort here. ^-^

ARRR Ye Ready for This?

2007-10-25T23:28:00.000-07:00

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate sketch for me....

No, I'm Not Dead

2007-10-03T20:45:00.000-07:00

Ich bein practicing drawing girls ^-^

Still Going...

2007-06-25T14:38:00.001-07:00

Some more Robins. I like Robin ^-^

Fresh Start

2007-06-18T18:30:00.000-07:00

Of course if you know me you know I'm all about anime. But, I'm not against American cartoons either - just extremely intimidated by them. Anyway I'm experimenting, trying to get something far away from anime to try to improve and broaden my drawing horizons - but I can't take credit for the idea of doing so.... By the way I know the face doesn't look much like a woman's face and there's a good but LONG reason for it.

Johnny Again

2007-05-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

I like this pic of Johnny too! ^-^

In Motion

2007-05-20T14:39:00.000-07:00

Here are some gesture drawings. That first one is going to end up being a picture of Spiderman vs. The Human Torch, the rest are everyday people in motion. Except that other one that kinda looks like super people too.

Vicious Beasts!

2007-05-14T19:14:00.000-07:00

Rawr!

Heeeeere's Johnny

2007-05-13T20:14:00.000-07:00

I feel a Storm coming on....hah, get it? ^^

And Without Further Adieu, the Titans

2007-04-25T12:10:00.000-07:00

There she is. ^^ So, I'm taking comissions now! You can check out more of my work at http://darke-imp.deviantart.com/gallery. Email me at ddjimp@hotmail.com if you wanna get a drawing too! ^___^

Fan Art Attack 2: Titan's Revenge!

2007-04-06T17:53:00.000-07:00

lol sorry bout the cheesy title. Anyway here is the finished pencil version of this picture, soon to be colored. For Geo hath commanded that this picture be finished! ^__^

Imitation Storyboards

2007-04-05T01:46:00.000-07:00

Well I had to write a scene from this and I chose the first scene. But as I was trying to think of all the words to describe how everything would look and happen, I remembered I could draw. lol

Some Stories

2007-03-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

Man, blow the dust off this blog, I haven't posted in so long!

Put Your Hands Together

2007-03-07T22:49:00.000-08:00

lol well, it may not be worthy of applause, but I liked this so much I decided to post it up anyway. Gosh, what a difference some crosshatching makes. O.o

New Story

2007-03-04T01:39:00.000-08:00

Well of course I lost the Tokyopop contest. But you can start submitting to the contest again April 1! ^-^ Some conceptual sketches.

Fan Art Again

2007-02-06T11:13:00.000-08:00

Leon this time. ^-^

Fan Art Attack!

2007-02-03T22:24:00.000-08:00

I'm working on s'more fanart, Teen Titans (Go) this time! I did a rough sketch in my sketchbook, here's the first overlay on marker paper. Also, this is the first pic I've done with more than two people in it! I swear.

New Sketchbook

2007-01-29T22:15:00.000-08:00

This new sketchbook is huge, it barely fits on my scanner.
First pic!
Some o' them Teen Titans. Raven's my fav here.

Recent Stuff

2007-01-23T20:02:00.000-08:00

Here's some stuff I did recently. Workin on some speed racer.. and some more animals.

Inkin' Sinkin'

2007-01-04T00:11:00.000-08:00

Well I've been working on my inking more but it doesn't look like I'll meet the deadline..

Kuri 2

2006-12-29T18:40:00.000-08:00

Ya'll know what dis is!

Kuri

2006-12-19T23:15:00.000-08:00

This is Kuri disguised as a human but something's forcing him back to his real form.

Stinkin' Inkin'

2006-12-11T18:23:00.000-08:00

I'm workin on it... here's some more of the crow quill.

Thinkin' Inkin'

2006-12-09T22:27:00.000-08:00

Alright. Technically speaking, all of these inks sucked the universe into a black hole of failure. But I gotta choose one to start practicing so I can ink my comic.

All microns
Microns and a brush pen
All brush pen, and the guy's a special brush pen anne had. The middle's all micron again"Crow quill" pen. Bad smudging but I felt most comfortable with this type.

Aminals

2006-12-02T00:40:00.000-08:00

Aw so cute widdle aminals...

Sketch Crawl!

2006-11-30T13:06:00.000-08:00

We went around town and drew ALL day, literally - till 4 am! Here's my favorite thing that I drew, gotta decide what else I wanna put up. I didn't draw the lil rocks he's kicking but I thot they were so cute I left em in ^-^

Game Screen

2006-11-24T23:19:00.001-08:00

Uh....dunno why it took me so long to post this.

Impy Leans

2006-11-12T09:13:00.000-08:00

Diggin' in the scene wit a gangsta lean!

And Some Mo'

2006-11-01T22:18:00.000-08:00

Top one's Kouda, you should know by now I guess... second one is Christian, kind of Kouda's rival...
Here is one Faucius-Alexander Roland IV... Yes there IS a reason he looks that feminine...
And finally, Kouda's loyal companion, Toner! The border collie. ^-^

Life Drawing Stuff

2006-10-25T22:06:00.000-07:00

Kouda

2006-10-23T19:48:00.000-07:00

So cute! Colored in photoshop of course.

You can check out the pencils here!

Mo' Fanart

2006-10-09T21:39:00.000-07:00

Some Sakura....
And a bit of comic.

Psycho Mez!

2006-10-04T21:57:00.000-07:00

Okay so I had this dream, right? I was at work and I was all mad about something, but I was off so I walked into the office, which was really a workplace kitchen that lead into a garage/parking structure. I got a snack and was eating it. At the door, some big burly black guy was hassling Mez. He was a Seaworld employee, not Kaman's so Mez obviously wouldn't be able to do anything for him but the guy was unloading all these demands. He wanted a longer break and more money and all kinds of other stuff and Mez was like "You need to talk to your own supervisor" The guy got even more mad! He's all "Your badge says you're a lead so why can't I talk to you about it?!" and Mez is like "I'm not a Seaworld employee-" and the guy gets all in his face and is like "Oh YEAH?! If you don't work here you should get out!!! Sounds like you don't know what you're talkin about!" And I walked over there and was like "back off!" and I kicked him. But he didn't even feel it, he just pushed me out the door and threw me in some bushes. I got back up as fast as I could and ran back over there but somehow Mez had got on the guy's back and had him in a chokehold! The guy was down on his knees!! He was passing out and I was like "Whoa Mez, are you gonna kill him??" and Mez didn't say anything but it looked like he was thinkin about it but he kinda let the guy go and I kicked the guy again then Mez let him go for reals and the guy and some other big guy he'd been with ran off. Then Mez stood up and he looked all crazy at me, LIKE THIIIIIIS!!!!! Then there were a bunch of newscrews with cameras and stuff in the way and they got all in his face and he was like "NO COMMENT" and pushed the camera away. And that's where it ended I think.. I think there was more about the news broadcast but whatever that's all that pertains to this pic.

Fan Art

2006-10-02T23:31:00.000-07:00

So I did some fanart. WANNA MAKE SOMETHIN OF IT?! >.>

Got Things, Will Do

2006-09-30T01:14:00.000-07:00

Some more Sam.

Mo' Things to Do

2006-09-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

Some secondary characters

Doodly Oodlies

2006-09-27T21:02:00.000-07:00

Some doodles

Mini Con!

2006-09-21T23:43:00.000-07:00

Man that Mini-NCN was so much fun! I've never liked caricatures so much and laughed so hard! Cept when Eric got there and started suckin up the place >.> Here are some I drew but the regular pencil one I didn't draw at the actual con but later at the dinner. Was still fun and good practice for me tho ^^

Oyasumi Nasai

2006-09-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

Oyasumi nasai, which is also partially written on Kouda's shirt, means "goodnight" or something close in Japanese. And what a good night it is. ^_~

Full Shot

2006-09-13T19:16:00.000-07:00

Ok here he is, his whole body. Isn't he cute? ^^

Things to do Two

2006-09-06T00:40:00.000-07:00

Aww so cute

Things to do

2006-08-21T23:03:00.000-07:00

I gotta work this out. I like how this stuff looks but all the drawings about him afterward have been totally unsatisfactory. I'm not sure what I picked up on in these pics that I really liked and how I should proceed...

Kuri and Scera

2006-07-23T01:01:00.000-07:00

Different comic. One that's likely gonna be post-ponned since I gotta do my entry for this contest...

Kaman's Komic pg5

2006-07-12T22:26:00.000-07:00

lol isn't she evil? I'm proud cuz I did this all in one day, something I've never done before.

Kaman's Komic pg4

2006-07-12T02:57:00.000-07:00

It's not what it looks like. I swear!

Kaman's Komic pg3

2006-07-07T23:27:00.000-07:00

Just wanna explain this a bit. He didn't flip her off to make her mad. She was gonna beat him up anyway, whether he did that or not or even if he did nothing. He did that to show her he didn't care. But if he had really punched her like he faked he was going to, he'd have only hurt himself in addition to the ass kicking he was about get since she's all made of metal and robot-y. That's all. ^-^

ps I hate the last panel on this page but whatever, filler was needed.

For My Friend Imi

2006-06-28T22:38:00.000-07:00

Here you go, "Imitation". ^__^

2006-06-19T02:38:00.000-07:00

What Have I Done?

2006-06-12T23:38:00.000-07:00

I'm...not sure why.......

Kaman's Komic Again

2006-06-09T00:09:00.000-07:00

I know it's been a long time coming, but here's the next page of the comic. Technically this isn't the beginning of the story. The beginning is supposed to be with "me", my character getting captured. She's about to get killed but Brian's chara saves her by throwing her into the truck that's taking people to imprisonment camps. I might go back and do that part later. Like I said this isn't for real for real...at least not yet... Please excuse the ridiculous look on Brian's chara's face and the fact that Rachel's chara is missing her little glove thingies and the fact I guess... that neither of them really look like Rachel or Brian ^^;

Only For Life Drawing

2006-06-05T01:19:00.000-07:00

Can't say I'm too proud of this....without puking.

More To-do About that Comic

2006-05-22T12:17:00.000-07:00

Kuri is also part of the comic with Impy.

Impy Again

2006-05-02T23:49:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be starting a comic. For real. One that I am going to promote using my deviant art and blogger accounts. Go on, laugh, I'll wait.
...
...
You good? Ok. So I tried out doing some character designs of the main character, Scera Imp. I have no idea how to do turn arounds but what the heck. I still haven't gotten into her outfit that much but I wanted to focus on her overall appearance first. Tell me whatcha think!

Infinite Possibilities Theory

2006-05-02T00:31:00.000-07:00

The theory behind the statement "If you put enough monkeys and typewriters in a room, eventually they'll write all of shakespeare's plays". I'm sure there are an infinite number of sketch nights with an infinite number of Erics who said "let's listen to me babble about something stupid!" But luckly in our universe, the theory proved itself and Eric said something not stupid. Eric #4290749306 suggested that we take one pose from his pose reference book and make up a superhero based on it. Amazing, isn't it??? Anyway I'm not so sure about how correct the pose and stuff is and I didn't really get into the costume or her powers but I really like this pic and thought I'd post it.

What DOES Happen to a Toad When Struck by Lightning?

2006-04-27T00:41:00.000-07:00

Who knows.

I'm The Sheriff Round' These Parts

2006-04-25T01:42:00.000-07:00

Yes I realize he doesn't have a sheriff star. Anyway I was talkin to Brian and he said he was sitting back with a toothpick and a ten gallon hat and he tol' me "Draw a cowboy" So I was like, well what the heck.

Illustration Painting

2006-04-22T23:51:00.000-07:00

Painting for my illustration class. Some critiques were I need to make highlights brighter and shadows darker, and some compositional/perspective issues in the right half of the picture. Wanted it to be worm's eye view but somehow I couldn't seem to draw the guy in that perspective. Anyway, just if you wanted to see how I'm doing in my illustration class.

I Sure Render...

2006-04-06T21:32:00.000-07:00

Yep, I sure do.... *ahem* So but anyway, people have been getting on my case about cartooning lately, so I'm trying to render people more realistically. This is still cartoony...but I hope the rendering is good. ^^; And anyone who says I have a crush on him is a lamzor noob ~~cuz everyone knows that already >>~~ .