More Metroid Illustrations and Sketches

As the title suggests. Nothing super innovative, but full versions below.  

Was original a throwaway sketch with Colerase pencils on a Moleskine while I was working on a commission for a friend (yup, the same one from last time). All the inking and color is Photoshop. Cheated a bit and threw an image in the background as a color palette, worked the coloring up from there. Knowing the surrounding colors early on not only helps with choosing how intense your base colors and highlights are, it also helps give ideas for secondary light sources. 

More workup sketches, both Moleskine and digital, which got a color treatment much later. The ones below were from more than a year ago. I think I approach character faces a little differently now.

This was just me playing around trying to get a feel for general shapes of facial features, how far I wanted to push or simplify them. It ended up turning into figuring out how the Metroid Fusion Samus suit would actually work if it had to move.

Metroid Illustrations and Sketches

My versions of Samus Aran. Full image below.

 And a few older sketches and illustrations I did of Samus, based on a friend who asked for an original. Goes without saying that she likes her her video games, so I played around with making her the star of the show. The first set were work up sketches for the pen & ink version, the latter were for prints for a charity show we were both a part of. So in effect she's famous now, at least for the half dozen homes where this art is framed on the wall (hopefully).

 

Forget Me Not - Art Against Alzheimer's 2019 Print

One of several prints made for this year's Forget Me Not - Art Against Alzheimer's, held in downtown beautiful San Luis Obispo by Allan Hancock Animation alumni Mr. Brandon Tokunaga. More closeups and full print image below.

First Gen Nintendo Mashup - Part 1

Another potential print for next year's Forget Me Not: Art Against Alzheimer's charity art auction, run by former Allan Hancock animation alumni Mr. Brandon Tokunaga.

Guest appearance by world traveling photographer @karasushirow, who requested herself drawn as Samus. Her atmospheric and introspective photos of Japanese provincial towns and countryside are also featured in the show, so give her stuff a look.