Category Archives: Fantasy Art

03/6/12

Megacon Recap

Just a couple weeks ago, a friend and I attended our first real comic convention. We loaded up the car and made the drive down to Orlando for Megacon.

I’m told that Megacon is pretty much the smallest of the big cons, and the largest of the small cons; either way it was huge to me and what an experience. So much to see and do.

We met up with several other friends while down there, one who was able to introduce us to a lot of cool people like the amazing artist, Brian Stelfreeze . We spent the first day of the con taking in the sites and riding the roller coaster that is nerd-dom. On day one I got to watch several artists get critiques on their work; something I had no intention of doing while on this trip but I learned so much just from watching others get crits, it seemed ridiculous to pass up such a great opportunity.

That said, on day 2, I mustered up the courage to show my work to a few super talented artists in the hopes of some useful feedback. I have to say, the responses I received were way more helpful and way more informative than I could have imagined.

My critique from Brian Stelfreeze was especially helpful. Whether he was born that way, or he picked it up over time, the man is an amazing teacher and has a great eye for his craft.

When I returned home I couldn’t wait to put what I learned to practice and so far its been going great. I’m still working hard ro produce as much as I can, as often as I can. Heres some of what I’ve been working on…

 

Heres to growth, and continued learning!

-Danno Out

10/7/11

Friday Night Frenzy

It;’s late so I’ll keep it simple. Heres the scribblings of the week!

 

1: Business Hamster (Business in the front, hamster in the back?)

 

2: Onti (Re-imagining of an old website mascot)

 

3: Project Ruin (Playing with landscape concepts for project)

 

4: Gone Campin’ (dunno, just did it)

 

 

5: Project Ruin: (More character concepts)

Hm, no fanart this week. Well that’s all for now. Been polishin off some of these on the side. I’ll try to get those posted soon.

-Danno Out!

09/10/11

Friday..? Night .. …? Frenzy

Alright gang, sometimes Christmas comes early, and sometimes Friday Night comes late… this is one of those times. Due to abnormal circumstances I was unable to dump yesterday so heres what youve waited for so patiently.

 

1. Project Ruin – Concept for a character of Royalty/Nobility who is capable of more than people know.

 

2. Fanart – Luigi goin to town. Perhaps this is why he gets so little screen time.

 

3. Quick portrait – Lillith (Darkstalkers)

 

4. Quick Portrait – B.B. Hood (Darkstalkers)

 

5. Foreshortening Practice

 

6. Project Ruin – a highwitch (witch of noble descent) (Some inspiration from Poison Ivy), breeding a creepy “children-of-the-corn-like” army to do her bidding.

 

7. Fanart – Samus Aran. I always loved the character and realized its been over a decade since I’ve drawn her so…

Had a hard time findin time this week, but I made it. Stay tuned for more work in progress, and hopefully I’ll get some new completed pieces up here soon too!

-Danno Out!

09/2/11

Friday Night Frenzy

Got plenty to show from this week. Theres a lil more variety this time around. Lets get started, first up…

 

Character sketch for project RFI (note she was intended to be riding on a golemn):

 

This was intended to be the afore mentioned Golem. He ended up much larger than originally intended. (Then for fun I started playing around with the idea of a “steam punk” golemn. I know everything is “steam punk” these days. It was fun, theres a lot more I could do with it though so we’ll see if another one doesn’t pop up at some point. Still playing with ink. really enjoying it:

 

Random attempt at a muscular guy. Dont draw them very often, just trying to stretch my capabilities. Not really pleased with the outcome, but hey its all part of progress!

 

Lil guy … nuff said.

 

Still doing my daily figure drawing and 1 of the poses that came up was similar to this one. It reminded me of some of the old Pin-up art by folks like Gil Elvgren or Alberto Vargas. (Of course there are tons of others like my favorite artist of today Adam Hughes) . So I ran with it:

 

 

Up next we’ve got a slew of Street Fighter portraits. I dont do portraits all to often, which is a shame because its quickly becoming one of my weakest areas. Thats why I put in a little practice tile doing quick portraits or already made characters ranging from 10-20 mins a piece.

 

Ken:

 

 

Chunli: (Edited in PS her right eye was buuuuusted, so I cloned the other real quick.)

 

 

Cammy:

 

 

Dhalsim: (pardon the quality. Lost the scan some how so I just took a picture with my phone.)

 

 

Blanka: (or as I like to call him in this picture. Blankgeta)

 

In fact blankas, resemblance to a Super Saiyan makes me wanna do all of the street fighter characters in the DBZ world.. … or maybe the other way around. Ideas to play around with, we’ll see what happens. Thanks for tuning in!

-Danno Out