Dodonpachi Daioujou: Type A - Player 1

A ship from Dodonpachi Daioujou, a brutal yet addictive shoot'm up that is probably one of my most favourite games ever. I always wanted to draw mechanical scifi themes, but I always chicken'd out during the progress. I'm happy with this one, even it was a reference study.

The queen of lust

This illustration of Malissa, the queen of Oparaha took long enough. I wanted to paint without any countours, since I'm relying on that too much. A lot of hard work for me, but I learned a lot from it and there is a lot of room for improvement.
WIP version from this post

Ruan the sailorman

Finished finally this illustration of Ruan.

WIP version from this post

Sea life

I just had the urge to draw some sea life. I used pictures from the internet as a reference.

The waitress revisited (updated)

Waitress: "Here's dessert!"

Claire: "Why thanks!"

I redrew the waitress from Witch Cat #2, because she's so much fun to draw. It was also a good change to try a different CG painting technique. And I'm loving it!

Update 22/07/2011: I reuploaded another version where she's is standing correctly without falling to the left. Thanks to walnut at conceptart.org forums for noticing.

Also check out the backcover from WC#2 from 2007!

Summer vacation

I have summer vacation at the moment and I'm mostly drawing on my computer. After a long time studying comic design at the art academy, I'm exhausted and it's good to do something of your own and sit back and relax before my 5th semester starts.

The following work in progress pieces will take a while, so here is a screenshot for teasing you!

Claire is putting her clothes on #3

Finished!

Claire is putting her clothes on #2

Last post before Christmas.
Happy Christmas ya all!!

Claire is putting her clothes on #1

This time I inkt directly from the thumbnail which is about 10 x 5 cm to 29,7 × 42 cm at 300 dpi. Pretty satisfied with the outcome, might to check her waisline out before I'm going to do the background and painting.

Witch Cat sketches!

At last, I have holiday season! Which means I can finally do personal work, want to get back to my Witch Cat project and other things. Here are some work in progresses:

I hope this is the final design for the Evil Queen of Oparaha. Her pose is referenced from a pin up model.


A quick overpaint from the original. I dig the rough shadow casting.
I have a name since the second chapter of Witch Cat for the Evil Queen but I made a mistake in the editing proces. It should be "Malissa" which means honey bee which might have a suggestive link to the saying "The flowers and the bees" which her personality reflects. Also it's a pun on malice which has a connection for being evil and stuff.



I was thinking the other day to make 11 × 16 prints of Witch Cat to sell at conventions. This is one of them, Claire putting on her outfit in the morning. I really liked how the thumbnail came out, but after working more in to it, I'm not satisfied with the results. Will use references from now on, since I'm very rusty. The 'X' parts are obvious anatomical errors, although the whole piece might be completely redone.


The colour pallette should give an early morning impression. Will be redone.