Progress, things, and the X-Men...

The Qirin Hunter is now available in my online store.

I'm also working on a new X-Men insipired silkscreen project...

Coming soon!

A Chidren's Show

     I recently did a design test for a Children's show gear towards Indian youth. It was taking Indian Children's Rhyme and creating a world out of it. It was gonna be in the vein of Yo, Gabba Gabba and Mother Goose Club.

I, sadly, didn't get it but I had a blast doing the test.

However, it gave me some great addition to my portfolio.

 I've always loved Indian design aesthetics.

It was fun simplifying those in these characters.

 I actually did it twice. The first attempt was to "cartoon-y" for a live action show.

So, I altered the characters on the second attempt.

 They are more "Live-action" but still showed kid-friendly costumes.

I definitely did more than what I was asked... that's how much fun I was having with it!

     Hopefully, I'll get another opportunity to get to do it for real. Or I'll just make my own children's book with these characters.

What do you think?

Folkdance

With her veil.... looks better I think

     I was messing around trying to design some new X-Men members that I ended up just creating new characters for myself. This is Folkdance from the Philippines.

     Her design is based off the costumes worn in Filipino folkdances (where her codename is derived from), namely Singkil. I liked the dress like suit and the "head cape" (veil).

     She is supposed to be super graceful/ agile/ and other abilities I haven't quite settled with yet.... Kinda like a Filipina Psylocke. It took a few tries to get her to the point that I like... 

Without her veil

     Quite different from a previous Filipiniana design I did. I'll draw her again in action poses.

Agni

     I was trying to do some re-designs for X-Men characters but ended up just creating new ones... This was supposed to be Thunderbird (III).

     I ended up creating, Agni, based on the Indian God. He creates fire (and flaming arms) out of the silver panels on his costume.

More character designs soon....

"Bug Test"

Starting Issue #2 of Nature of Nature... this time dealing with bugs and fungus.

I'm planning out this new issue with 2 colors... probably Black and Red.

'Still trying to figure out how the overall look of the "fungus" will be.

Lineart or NO lineart. Then, I gotta design the bugs...

Hileva the Sphinx

This was my third silkscreening project. Utilizing a Sphinx with a pretty basic 3-4 color set-up (blue, yellow, magenta, and a light overtone).

 The digital illustration shows the intended colors.

As you can see, the colors didn't match perfectly with the digital guide like my previous attempts. But nonetheless it looks great.

 This has 3 colors overlaying each other with a very light overtone that is barely seen on top.

These were the various stages of the silkscreen process and the combination of the inks once overlayed with each other. 2 color combinations of blue, magenta, and yellow.

Blue and Magenta made Purple.

 Magenta and Yellow made a light Orange.

 Yellow and Blue made Green.

And these were some of the accidents that happened when I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing... Kinda cool-looking abstract prints.

 It's kinda cool where the colors overlapped creating new colors and darker tones.

The overtone on this was a bit more noticeable, but the screens never lined up.

I'll eventually sell the good ones in an Etsy shop or something along with the others.

Meh... a bunch of comps...

Did this today in my internship... Still working on a "pet" project. I'll post them in a few days.