Spring 2013 Advanced Entertainment Design @ RED ENGINE STUDIOS

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more work on some concept art...

These are all works in progress for Steve Jung's and Luke Berliner's Entertainment Design Class at Red Engine Studios.  The world / story that I've designed revolves around Future-Orientalist themes.  A kind of Sci-fi reinterpretation of classical Orientalist paintings by Gerome, etc.  I'm also interested in how Islam would be reinterpreted on a different planet.  Would they create an analogue to the Kabaa in Mecca, for example?  Anyway, there are some homages to authors and painters that I admire.

Merry X-Mas! Happy New Year!

I went back to Chicago for a week for Christmas.  For the last several years I attended a New Year's drawing marathon downtown, but I decided not to go this year.  Maybe it's all the Japanese I studied over the years, but I like the idea of starting the year off right with a lot of good momentum--kagami-biraki or kangeiko.  This year I tried to do 100 mech designs.  Merry X-Mas!  Happy New Year!

Some advertising sketch work i did for Batman Arkham City. I did a lot of Joker & Harley Quinn comps too.