The Orange County Fair has always been good to me whenever I enter a piece. Usually reviewed by a panel I manage to get at least two out of three drawing entered. I'll stop in with my wife on the opening day and check out the world's largest cow. She's huge. Put a plate on her and call the DMV for a CDL.
I'm planning on entering three pieces this year and the King Kong image above is my first drawing. The others I want to concentrate on a something down to earth for once. We'll see if that's possible since I'm a crack junkie when it comes to sci-fi and fantasy themes.
I would love to design a game, this is a running theme in my Fight Club ( 1st rule of..) things to do before dying. So while sitting on the pot or working I usually get a narrative from IGN or Gamestop on the game I'm imagining. No really... I know.
It's a testimony to all the articles I read as a young adult when Valve's Half Life was but a blip on the horizon.
I also love monster movies. Giant rubbery beasts duking it out over a cityscape are the movies for me, especially when I need a pick-me up. The Original King Kong was one of those Saturday afternoon movies that was played almost every other week in the 70s that I loved. In the evenings it ABC broadcasting the 70's remake of Kong and that got me thinking of a interesting game in the present. King Kong 70's version depicted a oil company descending on Skull Island. Along the way they find a blonde just drifting in the sea. You find them in the dangested places.
Peter Jackson would create a fine Kong movie, but I always felt the rush to get Kong to New York took or somehow lessened the nightmarish first half of the movie. I almost wished he had made an four and 1/2 hour version, instead of the film's 2005 three hours running time.
The X-box movie-tie in game was okay. It's shining grace was being able to play as Kong in a few levels.
I personally wanted it to be the entire game. After playing a few hours in Just Cause2 ( Really they owe Lucas Art's royalties for Mercenaries 3) it struck me that Universal could drop players on a Virtual Skull Island. Now that would be a interesting to me. Playing as Kong in a free roam map seems a viable adventure game.
Playing games alone can get boring quick, so adding a few extra Kingish creatures to complement Kong's own grandeur would allow for mixed gameplay and a real chance at never having the same thing happen twice within say a campaign or Multiplayer match. So Kong needed his own Mothra and Rodan to quest with hence all the beasties next to him in the picture. Should be fun to color and I'll be following up with the finished work later on.
Peace.
Thanks to my wife I was reminded that I needed to finish the first half of my story board. My timeline has me done around December before I head down to see family. Then in January of 2011 I will begin the final chapter sequences. 
Fleet is an adventure game at heart. I would have to admit it has a vein in the old movie with Clint Eastwood called Fire Fox. Only with Fleet we're following the adventure of a ghost within the machine who's lost his memory. You take on his quest alone in a pocket universe seeking a massive doomsday mecha dubbed the TYPHON. The main character is more ship, rather than man and his history is a sorted one. He learns this as he goes, pursued by the military, while becoming embroiled in the games between empires. All the while the player explores multiple options to the conclusion of the game's story. 
Looks like Deviant Art is having a Eve Online ship contest. I've been working over on Fleet so I'm in the position of drawing up strange space craft. I'm considering entering so here's my first painting. I've got six more to go of various positions of this ship before I'll enter the final drawing. This ones a solid paint job. No pencils or ink just painted it in CS3.
Getting to play with some custom made brushes. Trying out shapes and searching out the feel for this project, while learning new art tricks and what I want to say with them. The Revada are an ancient people. Bordering on the final evolutionary gap between organic beings and pure energy. I wanted a deep sea creature feel for them that's basically housing the energy to span the stars in a blink of a eye.
With the completion of Chimera V1.2 finished I'm ready to begin on another concept. I've been messing around with Gorgon a prior game project, but in reality I'm burned out on drawing monsters and dungeon explorers. The AVT story board will restart in January of 2011 and too my surprise my wife asked me when I was going to finish it ( She really hates it when I get into a project deeply). Beyond whatever freelance job I manage to pick up pretty much for the remainder of the year I'll be working on FLEET for the end of 2010's portfolio.
Here's One of Three of my conceptual ideas on what the Monster from Super 8 might look like. I see it as good practice on coloring...sigh lots of lots practice, LOL
Chimera has been a long project. Chiming in from time to time this game concept was inspired by the Artistic vision of Shadow of the Colossus and Fable. The idea was to take the perspective of Grendel. The lurking monster in the mountains come down from up high to terrorize the villagers and make off with a cow or two. This project helped me get back into drawing and trying my hand in art again. Version 1.2 took some old drawings and repainted them with better results. The story did a 180 and the humans are not so horribly drawn on this go around. Though I'm ready to move onto some other ideas. AVT:Rescue has been grumbling in the back of my to-do list. Fleet beckons and Gorgon needs a few more monsters for good measure. Needless to say take a look at Chimera and enjoy.
The Orange County Fair has always been good to me whenever I enter a piece. Usually reviewed by a panel I manage to get at least two out of three drawing entered. I'll stop in with my wife on the opening day and check out the world's largest cow. She's huge. Put a plate on her and call the DMV for a CDL. 
I love the movie the Thing by John Carpenter. I find myself watching it just to figure out the clues and nuances the actors incorporated into the movie. When did they get taken over? Did they know it happened? Does the Thing itself hide so deeply into the being of the person it has consumed to blend with the others... lose itself? 
I love music to a point. I'm set to certain beats, which are basically something between a dirge and a building back beat for my internal soundtrack. Most of my drawing for this AVT project are drawn to what I call my Asinine Metal Playlist. 
