THE CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURINE COLLECTION - Owl Artwork

On the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection blog we were shown a great step by step process of creating artwork for the magazine, with the line-art posted for the inside cover. The editor mentioned he created the artwork in about 1-2 hours, so I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could create something similar in the same space of time.

So this is my attempt. It is quite rough and I didn't bother with any shading. The contents box is just a copy and paste from the actual artwork posted, but the artwork itself was around an hour to complete. I choose against textures like the editor used, as I thought the inks defined the texture of objects enough. I also just re-used an old background I had for a previous piece of artwork...so a little cheat there, but altogether for 1 hour I didn't think it looked too bad.

Follow the link to see the original artwork and to follow the CMFC blog.
THE CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURINE COLLECTION: Bonus Art Blog

Euro 2012 Predictions #2

So my predictions were alright in the end.
http://www.lawaycartoons.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/euro-2012-predictions.html

I correctly predicted 7 out of the 8 teams who qualified (didnt account for Greece pulling an upset)

I correctly predicted 58% of the results and 21% of the scores.

If I had placed a £10 bet on every prediction, I would have won £675.36, which would of been a profit of £195.36!

So obviously I am kicking myself now.

But since the quarter finals have changed from how I predicted them, I gotta make new predictions and see how it goes.

KNOCKOUT STAGE
QUARTER FINALS

Czech Republic 0-1 Portual

Germany 4-0 Greece

Spain 2-0 France

England 0-1 Italy


Still tipping Germany to win the thing.

16-bit Keyrings

Some Gameboy and Pokeball keyrings, made with hama beads.

Velthice Commission

Another commission drawing. Still got a few more to post. Phew.

Purple Vixen Commission

Forgot about some pieces or work I did. Getting lost in the football excitement. :)

Euro 2012 Predictions

Time to talk some tosh and blindly predict some results without huge knowledge of the Euro football scene.

GROUP A
Czech 6
Russia 5
Poland 4
Greece 1

RESULTS
Czech 0-2 Russia
Czech 1-0 Poland
Czech 2-0 Greece
Russia 1-1 Poland
Russia 2-2 Greece
Poland 1-0 Greece



GROUP B
Germany 9
Portugal 4 GD
Netherlands 4
Denmark 0


RESULTS
Germany 2-0 Portual
Germany 3-1 Netherlands
Germany 4-1 Denmark
Portual 2-2 Netherlands
Portual 3-0 Denmark
Netherlands 1-0 Denmark



GROUP C
Spain 9
Italy 6
Ireland 1
Croatia 1


RESULTS
Spain 2-0 Italy
Spain 1-0 Ireland
Spain 1-0 Croatia
Italy 1-0 Ireland
Italy 2-1 Croatia
Ireland 0-0 Croatia



GROUP D
france 7
england 5
Sweden 4
Ukraine 0


RESULTS
France 1-1 England
France 1-0 Sweden
France 2-0 Ukraine
England 2-2 Sweden
England 1-0 Ukraine
Sweden 1-0 Ukraine



KNOCK-OUT STAGE
QUARTER-Finals
Czech 0-1 Portugal
Spain 1-0 England
Germany 2-0 Russia
France 1-0 Italy


SEMI-FINALS
Portugal 1-2 Spain
Germany 3-1 France


FINAL
Spain 1-2 Germany


WINNERS
Germany

I wonder how much money I would make if I actually bet these. Maybe something I'll try checking if I have time.

Macattack Commission

Another commission from someone on deviantArt of their Champions Online character, Macattack.

Red Wing

Another commission from deviantArt. I think I made him look like a digimon.

In otherwords, I made him look awesome.

Blaze Commission

Another original character from an artist on deviantArt.

The School Girl

Another character commission for someone on deviantart, a super hero character who dresses as a school girl.

Firefly commission

Just finished a commission of someone's original superhero character.

Fire Mario

Just a pic of the Fire Mario sprite next to a flower. These things are pretty small.

Mario Pixel Art

Saw people making sprite art out of beads and fancied having a go.

Great fun. I think I am hooked now. :)

My England Squad 2012

..............................................Hart...................................


.............Richards.............Cahill................Terry.................Cole...



.Oxlade-Chamberlain.........Lampard..............Scholes..............Young..........



..................................Rooney...............Welbeck......................


Subs:
Ruddy

Baines
Lescott
Ferdinand
Johnson
Jones

Johnson
Gerrard
Carrick
Walcott

Holt
Sturridge

Cut come players out due to injuries, and didnt take 3 keepers. Never need 3 keepers unless there is a freak injury and a keeper gets sent off. A risk I am willing to take.

Animation Showreel 2012

Featuring examples of my work using Celaction, Flash and traditional hand drawn animation from:

Abadas
Soli & Mo's Nature Show
Barnacled Warship music video
And personal short films and animation tests.

Contact: LA_Way@hotmail.co.uk

Simone

So the character changed from 'Jade' in my last post. I just felt the name was abit too cliched for a character wearing green, and this one seemed to just click. I also opted for this costume for a number of reasons, but mainly because it was the first that I did and was trusting my gut too.

I also didnt intend on the hair colour or removing the glasses, but seeing the red hair due to my red brush sketches, I thought it just worked, and in the end I thought the glasses looked abit messy and ruined the picture.

So there we go, new character done.

Jade

Some designs for a new character.
Struggling to decide which works best.

Initially I didnt plan on her showing any legs and was going for an all green suit, but then added a sort of corset, then tried with showing the legs...and I like them all.
Any feedback welcome. :)

Wiccan Edit

After another great update at the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection blog, we were presented with an excellent sculpt of Wiccan.

THE CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURINE COLLECTION: Day in the life of a CMFC drone...

A few of the bloggers there, myself included, thought he looked alot older than the teen in the comics.

So I broke down the sculpt, tracing it to get the contours, then worked on making the face younger. What makes the sculpt feel old is the large ears, longer than the nose, which is unusual. Also the square, long jaw line is also very mature and macho looking, while Wiccan is often portrayed as young, quite soft, feminine like features.

So narrowing his face and softening his jawline made him look younger, but it didnt look in proportion with his body now. So I looked into what made him look older. Again, he was very muscular, thick legs and arms and long in the torso and pelvis. So I made more changes to make his body look more fragile, like a teenager, yet to pile on the muscle of a filly grown hero.

Overall these are drastic changes that I cannot see happening, but I just wanted to see what I could do to change the sculpt into making it feel more like the character. I still feel the sculpt is really well done, but just wanted the drawing exercise really.

SpiderMan 2099 Edit

Another edit of a figurine from the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection, this time looking at the new Spider-Man 2099 sculpt.

I was disappointed in the sculpt after seeing so many promising and dynamic sketches of the pose, I think the sculptor really missed the mark nailing the pose in 3D. Instead it is rather undynamic and rather awkward looking. I made some quick adjustments to match the sketch more and think it is an improvement. Although it is probably way too late to change, just wanted to show that someone needs to keep a keener eye on the quality and direction from design to sculpt.

THE CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURINE COLLECTION: CMFC #2099

Ultimate Spider-Man trailer

Looks pretty good. Although the visual looney tunes style gags look really out of place here. Some bits feel more suited towards a Deadpool cartoon than a Spider-Man one, but I think its cool iron spidey suit has got an appearance. Anyway, hope they actually release this one in a boxset in the UK.