Rediscovering the Road Not Taken …

Due to some changing needs from a major client, a bunch of illustrators were laid off on Monday - me included. It was a sad parting. Animax is a fantastic company and I loved working with my wildly creative companions.
So, in between updating my resume, trying to put together a new portfolio with all the work I’ve done at Animax and applying for unemployment, I decided to set some time aside each day to explore selling vector art and textures on sites like iStockPhoto and TurboSquid.
The first is just because … a bee, his hive and a cool breeze. Can you tell I’ve been working on props for Beanie Babies for a few months? I need to start drawing stuff with dragons, swords and wizards soon or I’ll slide all the way down into cute land.
The Robosapien image is an early shot of a recent job -it has several problems that I corrected later in the process. This was done in Flash with gradients and the file size was surprisingly small since I built it with the line tool and by manipulating the points. The finished piece was much better and shows a full turnaround but I don’t have permission to post that. This wip had issues with symmetry, the feet and hands and the location of certain features; we didn’t have the exact product on hand for reference so I was unsure of certain details. It was tough to find reference on the net as most people take pictures of the front of the bot and I needed close ups of specific features.

[Updated: April 2: Final Image]

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I don’t have much character design experience but I’ve been kicking around some story ideas with two fellow artists and these drawings were one late night effort. They were quickly rendered so you’ll note some details aren’t as clean as they’d be if they were for prime time viewing.

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