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Piccolo sketch card.

Piccolo sketch card.

The Ice King Approaches #adventutretime #sketchcard

The Ice King Approaches #adventutretime #sketchcard

Interactive Empathy as a Design Concern

Considering how interactions flow - whether in-person or in an app/web system with empathy as a focal concern.
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Character Design Practice

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This design is based on what I learned in Krishna Sadasivam’s Creating Crazy Characters class at Lean Into Art.

More practice to come, this time I tried to do all the steps in Sketchbook Pro which led to some improvisation on the silhouette step. The characters silhouette step is a way to establish a character pose and outline that “reads clearly” showing key aspects of the character’s inner and outer life in addition to their physicality. 

Krishna uses the lasso tool on this step in Photoshop to great effect. The Sketchbook Pro lasso doesn’t have the same feel or instant fill flexibility so in this attempt I blocked it all in by scribbling fills with the pen brush (pressure sensitive set to a brush width of about 10 pixels) to complete the character silhouette.

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Dear Gearbox Software, I’d totally get the special edition of Borderlands 2 if it came with a Claptrap diorama. Ran out of time on this sketch - next draft I’d add a Bandit or Skag lurking behind the ammo vending machine. That would make the diorama tell more of a story by begging questions like “Is Claptrap in danger?” and “Is he setting a Claptrap-trap?”.  Thanks for making Borderlands… one of my favorite games ever.

Dear Gearbox Software, I’d totally get the special edition of Borderlands 2 if it came with a Claptrap diorama. Ran out of time on this sketch - next draft I’d add a Bandit or Skag lurking behind the ammo vending machine. That would make the diorama tell more of a story by begging questions like “Is Claptrap in danger?” and “Is he setting a Claptrap-trap?”. 

Thanks for making Borderlands… one of my favorite games ever.

Work in progress pics - Crunchy and Battle Axe Bill!

It’s the Mystical Guitar Brothers! A few weeks back I drew a similar pose of them on a sketch card - but they were clearly not happy about working together. This piece is both larger and based on the thought of “what-if they actually fought on the same side”?  Made in brush pen and Copic marker 8”x10”.
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Yes, a foam sword can be too large. Iron Man with a ponytail learned this the hard way. Don’t let this happen to you at your next comic or Anime convention. Inspiration to do this sketch comes from Krishna Sadasivam’s tweet earlier today.

Yes, a foam sword can be too large. Iron Man with a ponytail learned this the hard way. Don’t let this happen to you at your next comic or Anime convention. Inspiration to do this sketch comes from Krishna Sadasivam’s tweet earlier today.