The Portal post.

I like Portal 2.

I like Portal 2 a lot.

The amount of fanart I draw for this game is obscene. It is my current artistic fixation and I'm going to ride this wave of creative energy for as long as it takes me. Remember that one post where I realized that if I wanted to draw something, I should just draw it? This is partly where all these come from [oh, and I'm also a fan of humanizing, which is why there's very little robots here for a game filled with robots]-

[SAI, touch-ups in Photoshop]

I also decided to make a couple of prints to sell at conventions based on this game. The first one here was a collaboration between me and a friend; I came up with the composition and values and he did the coloring-

[SAI]

And this second one I did on my own, trying my hand at digital painting-

[SAI]

I am ALSO working on a collaborative sequential narrative project with a friend based on a story she wrote based on Portal 2. The story assumes that the robot character Wheatley was once a human being who was forced into becoming a scientific experiment against his will. I started this project because I genuinely like the story and I also figured this would be a great opportunity to push myself into taking on a huge project that would challenge my skills in storytelling, something I desperately need. Here are some concept sketches I drew up for the project-

[SAI]

Aaaand here are the pages I've gotten down so far. The story has 11 parts to it and I HOPE to be finished with it by the end of next year...-

[SAI] 

[oh jeez, Blogger resized that like CRAZY, click here to see the full-res version]

Expect more Portal stuff in the future~

ALRIGHT let's the the Pokemon stuff out of the way.

I like Pokemon.

And for a while, I drew almost exclusively Pokemon- whether it was for myself, for a client, or for merchandise. And sometime around last year, I burned out haha [I didn't even make it all the way through Pokemon White]. I still enjoy the franchise and all but my interest has definitely waned.

BUT there are still a few pieces that I like. Like this set of prints that i made over the course of what... 3 years I think? I still sell them at conventions and online-

 

[all drawn in SAI with the exception of the first one which was drawn in Photoshop]

 And like I said previously, if I wasn't drawing Pokemon for conventions, I was drawing them for clients. Like THIS little gem right here-

 

[drawn in SAI over the course of about a week]

 That piece is a couple years old now but I'm still pretty fond of it, and the client was happy with it too.

What else... Here's another commission, although this one was taken at a convention and finished at home. I even managed to take some progress shots for it-

[blue Col-Erase, Micron pens, Copics]

I'll end this post with a piece I actually drew for MYSELF [what a concept]. This was before the 5th Generation of Pokemon was released and I was sorely wanting an anteater Pokemon. SO I made one up for myself-

[Photoshop]

Aaaand that's all the Pokemon stuff for now!