Smash Brothers

Hey folks,

So my buddy Scott recently commissioned a piece from me, and here it be:

So those of you that played Smash Bros. growing up will know what's up here. Ya got your 4 secret characters from Smash brothers duking it out on top of the StarFox ship, which is Scott's favorite level, and probably the coolest one in my opinion too. I had a lot of fun with this. I really like taking characters and putting them into my own style.

  

Figured I'd give you a closer look at the characters. I didn't really now much about Ness starting this off. I never really played earthbound as a kid, but looking at him i wanted to give him a more bad ass look that fit with my style. As soon as I found out he uses a baseball bat I figured i needed to work that in. So i got him here doing his best Mickey Mantle impersonation much to the dismay of Jiggly Puff. Poor Jiggly Puff, but she's so close to the shape of a baseball I had to do it. I don't think any of the other characters would've looked that good being batted out of the park. With her I really wanted to make her my own so I made her a lot more anatomical with a more organic shape. And I had to add the bow. Not sure if Jiggly Puff has teeth, but she does now.

 

Luigi was easy enough cuz I pretty much just used the design from when I did my take on Mario way back when. Captain Falcon I decided I needed to make use of the Falcon Punch seeing as I love doing fire effects as well as drawing characters throwing punches. Naturally Luigi wants no part of that, and is getting his plumber self out of the line of fire.

 I also need to thank my buddy Steve and the folks at Canvas Pop for doing such a great job with the printing onto canvas. I did everything digitally, but it looks painted on there. I was quite impressed. They're definitely getting some return business. There are some shots of the print itself on Scott's wall. there's me there in front of it, a little lacking of sleep, but happy to see it up. If anybody is interested in purchasing a print of this, or any of my stuff let me know. Prices would vary depending on size. I'm also looking to do some more commissions. So if you've got an idea in your brain that needs to be put into visual terms drop me a line.

First post

So it's my first post, so I figured I'd start off with my demo reel.

Most of it's from the last show I worked on called Dex Hamilton. I did up my own version of the characters while I was working on it so I figured I'd throw that up next to it. I thought it would be cool to do them in kind of an edgier style, seeing as it's a kids show. I was kinda trying to go for a kinda 60's campy space show kinda feel.

Anyway, here's some stuff i've been doing more recently, I just finished this today.

In kinda keeping with the theme of my version of other franchises, here's how I'd tackle a Mario movie should they ever see fit to do another one. I kinda wish I'd done bowser a little different but other then that this is pretty much how i'd handle it .

And lastly for this post; this is a little something i did last week with the intention of using it for a business card.