The Great Art-Dump Post!

I figured it'd be fun to show you guys some of my past and present works. Anything present being things that I'm not doing specifically for a class, and past works being literally anything from the past.
Maybe one of these days I'll show you the horrors of my early childhood sketchbook.

...But then again, maybe not. The point of this is to get people to look at my work, not scare them away.

I was a frightening child.

So, anyway, here we go!:

Now this is, I think, a pretty recognizable photo. If not, then here is the reference for you. This was originally done as a line drawing, but I got super into it and therefore super carried away. My professor loved it, though.
This is from...2009?

I used an HB, 4B, 6B, and 8B pencil on sketchbook paper.

This was done at a friend's request. I couldn't think of anything to draw, so she eagerly sugested a shark vs. squid battle. This was going to get a lovely makeover in illustrator, but I never got around to it. Maybe one of these days I'll find the time, but I have a ton of other works that need to get finished before I can visit this one again. Sadly.

2011.

Just your standard mechanical pencil on sketchbook paper.


This was part of a much larger project. These guys are maybe 9 inches long at the absolute biggest, the greater portion of this project dedicated to a very desolate environment. I don't have a photo of the full thing, because it's the size of a standard poster and it was given away to a firefighter as a gift.
This was a school project in which I had to make a poster for the word "sustainability". Everyone else did something related to the environment, but I wanted to do something with firefighters since they were the first things I thought of. My professor told me that it most likely wouldn't work, and that I would be better off just doing something eco-friendly. Instead, I made the guidelines for the project work to my idea. I went back to my dorm and found this definition for sustain:
to undergo, experience, or suffer (injury, loss, etc.); endure without giving way or yielding.
Just tacked a "the ability to" to the front of that, and BAM! Sustainability. My professor was thrilled and so was I.
2009. These guys in particular were bristol board, acrylic paint, and technical pen. Here's the reference.

I debated putting this piece up because it's really old, but it's still nice.
This was done during one of my fine arts classes back in...2007?
Since it was a drawing from life, I don't have a reference photo. Though if you find a photo of a handkerchief pinned exactly like this, please let me know so I can let my art teacher know we're both secretly psychic.

Charcoal pencils on charcoal paper.

Look! Colour! This is a portrait I did for someone after their childhood pet had died. I'm using this photo, because it also includes the reference photo. Also, I don't have any other photos of this portrait.

This was charcoal pastels on charcoal paper. It also dates back to about 2010.
CIRCA 2010.

This is also super old, but everyone really seems to enjoy it, so here it is. Pretty sure we all know this lovely character, but for those who don't, this is the Joker of Batman fame. Infamy? No, fame; he pretty much stole the movie. This is from 2008, and currently it's framed and hanging up. I've gotten a few offers on this, but it's not going anywhere.
If I could do this over, it'd look better.

Here is the reference. Now excuse me as I still refuse to get over how I straightened out his head.
Charcoal pastels and a playing card on charcoal paper.

I don't know how into Norwegian Folk-Rock anyone else is, but I, for one, am totally for it.
Vote Charbot Labs 2012: We're All About the Norwegian Folk-Rock.
This was the product of a vicious Møkkaman earworm. I decided to draw out what I felt this Møkkaman would look like had I any say in the character design. In his hand, he would be holding a flute of some sort.
I'm aware of how ridiculous the wrinkles in his sleeve are. It looks like an accordion.
2011.
Sorry about the obnoxious contrast; I sketched it out fairly lightly and had to up the contrast in order for it to be visible.

Mechanical pencil on sketchbook paper.

This was me just sorta...screwing around in Photoshop. I took an old character of mine named Stu the Emo Kid, and I gave him a makeover. Now he's older and a hipster.
It started as a sketch, by the way. I didn't draw the entire thing out in Photoshop.

I feel like you should be able to see his other hand, but right hands are so over-rated.
Too mainstream for Stu.

This is also 2011.

Mechanical pencil on sketchbook paper, then a vicious bludgeoning in PS CS5.

This is a current project. I've never done a digital project, so I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I'm also not going for that absolutely beautiful and amazing photo-realistic portrait look, either, because I was never really into that. I wish I was.
Loki's nose makes me very sad and I'm dreading the day I need to work on it again to make it more...not weird-looking. Everything else I don't mind fixing.
It's just that nose.
And no, his eyebrow isn't monstrously long--part of that is his helmet's shadow. That would be really amusing, though. "I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious eyebrow."
2012.

Here is the reference photo!

Last but not least, here's a gif of the WIP of a rotoscope I'm currently working on. I want to say what these guys are being rotoscoped to, but I don't want to give away the surprise.
So unless I get yelled at because of copyright issues, it's staying a secret.
For those who don't know, this is (l - r): Iron Man, Captain America, and Phil Coulson.
I just love Iron Man in this gif.

2012.



And there you have it, folks! Some of my past and current projects that aren't necessarily school-related. As long as the photo quality was decent enough, I could find the reference photo when applicable, and it wasn't too old, it's here.