MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Best wishes to all this holiday season from from the Fixes!

Robo-Dad

Imagine FX Issue 51

Go out and buy Imagine FX Issue 51, out in the UK now, available in the U.S soon. Imagine FX is a pretty sweet art mag stuffed full of art-nerd goodness. This issue focuses on Character Design. It has tutorials and features artists like Dave Dorman, Antonio Caparo, and a 6 page article about yours truly. I'm stoked just to be asked to be in such a cool magazine. Check it out- POW!!!!!

Jimmy The Clown Sketch

Just found this sketch of "Jimmy the Clown" (previous post) from my days back at SJSU.

Jimmy The Clown

Here's a portrait I painted of my buddy Ian "Jimmy" Ameling done in oil back when we were in art school together. Ah those were the days, back when clowns could smoke cigarettes and not be constantly harassed by the man. Found this image when I was looking in some old folders, just thought I'd share.

X-Men Bros

My wife made our sons these amazing Halloween costumes -Gambit and Wolverine from from the X-Men. I messed with some of the photos taken of them and made this Young X-Men image.

Captain Grab-Ass

This guy is nothin' but trouble, a real walking HR violation. I guess that's why he's known around the office as Captain Grab-Ass. And come on man..... no pants? Really? You're one hell of a workhorse, and that's why we keep you around, but sheesh. Put on some pants and keep your friggin' hands to yourself Cap.

Gor-Gon 5

I like you, but this guy doesn't. He's a bit of a jerk. His unsavory personality stems from his severe insecurities he developed as foster child constantly being moved from abusive "family" to abusive "family". Knowing that might help you understand him a little better, but it won't lesson the emotional kick to the crotch you'll feel when you find out he drop kicked your sweet doe eyed puppy off an overpass and onto the freeway.

Sketchbook Post 57-59

Derek vs. Chupacabra

World renowned lady's man Dennis Cornetta suggested Derek and Creepy McCreeperson (now Chupacabra) throw down in a comment on a previous post. So here it is! Who will when this clash of the titans? The man with the ultimate beat stick? Or he who sucks goats?

Bats

Lil' Batman image cause darn it, he's one swell guy.

Creepy McCreeperson

I have mostly been working on character design at work and with my freelance. Been itching to do a monster of some sort, so here's this fella'. Inspired by one of my fancy pants mentors, the all powerful Carlos Huante.

Derek

All the other Aztecs are all like- "Let's just chill and drink this tasty-ass coco drink. This sh@t's hella good." But not Derek, he's all like-"F this Sh#t. I'm sacrificing some peasants. I mean damn, have you seen this sweet ass beat stick I've been wielding around that past few days? I mean have any of you noticed? This thing is bad-ass and not one have you has said sh*t. It'd be nice to hear a-"hey Derek, sweet beat stick! Where'd you get it? ", but whatever. You nerds drink your coco crap. when you're not lookin'- WHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sacrifice!!!!! You're welcome Lizard-Snake-God-Guy. No problem, anytime. Oh this? It's just my beat stick. You do? Thanks! I think it's pretty bad-ass too.

Oh Derek.

Sketchbook Post 56

Swords! Scars! Evil! Hurray!

Once Again- More Cancelled Game Art

Player Big Daddy

Here's the final concept for the player character featured in Bioshock 2. Check out the action figure here- http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/neca.html I'll post some early versions of this character at a later date. In the meantime check out my two sons's blogs- Action Packed Flame Thrower (My eight year old Xander) and Luh Look Mommy! (My two and a half year old Dax) Unfortunately my two month old daughter Zoe has yet to do a drawing. Hurry up and draw already!!!! ;)

Early Big Sister Sketch

More Bioshock 2 Concept Art

Final design for Big Sister.
Ceiling Crawler.
Final Concept for player's hand.
Early Big Sister Sketches.


Once again 2K Games has been kind enough to give me the go ahead to post some more of my concept work I did for Bioshock 2. Aside from getting the chance to work on such a great game I've also had the privilege of working with my wife on this project. Despite being pregnant throughout her stint on the project, keeping our household together and taking care of our "more than a handful" two year old, she's managed to do a lot of great character designs for the game. Here's a link to her blog where she's posted her Little Sister Design. Pretty much all the design work on the game that involved little sisters was done by her. She brought just the right sensitive feminine touch to these freaky little sweethearts.

Faux Spider-Man Cover

Got an itch to do a Daredevil sketch tonight. First few strokes I laid down felt very Spider-Man to me so it turned into this. I put the good ol' Amazing Spider-Man logo because why frggin' not.

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Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams- Big Daddy Doll

Here's the first piece of Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams concept art to be released. 2K was kind enough to give me permission to post this on my blog for your viewing pleasure. This piece was a concept used for the teaser trailer that appeared at the end of Bioshock (PS3) and on an internet near you. Check it out- Bioshock 2 Trailer

Bioshock 2 has been the most fulfilling project I've worked on to date. Working on this game has been a dream job for me as an artist and the team is a joy to work with. I'll post more Bioshock 2 art when appropriate.

Awesome Bioshock Fansite- Cult of Rapture
Offical Bioshock Site- Bioshock

Sketchbook Post 53a

My sketchbook pages are more or less in a constant state of change. I just keep working on top of them until I'm satisfied with the image. I did this work directly on the pages from the last post. I used Sharpie Poster Paint, a Presto Correction Pen, Sharpies (black, red, orange, silver) , a white Gelly Roll pen, Higgins india ink, a Derwent Studio pencil, Crayola Crayons, Liquitex Matte Medium, a ball point pen, scotch tap, artist tape, and some other crap. This latest post is a done for now.........................

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Magic: The Gathering Boards

Here's some beat boards I did for a "Magic: The Gathering" television commercial.

Good ol' Venom

Always dug McFarlane's Venom. So here's a little rendition. I'll try to un-slacker myself and post more shit. POW!!!!

Sketchbook Post 52

Sketchbook Post 51

Bioshock 2!!!

It's been a LOOOOOOOONG-ass time since my last post. I've been pretty busy with freelance as well as changing companies for my full time work. After 3 years working at Iceblink Studios / Image Movers Digital I've moved on. I made some life long friends and learned a great deal during my stint there. I recently accepted a position at 2K Marin as Senior Character Designer on Bioshock 2!!! This image is a little doodle I did in painter to celebrate my new job.

Hellboy gives back to the church.

On December 2nd Maverix Studios will hosting yet another fund raiser for a good cause. This time it's for Glide Memorial Church. The proceeds from the charity art auction will go directly to their Children's Creative Arts Media Center. Here's a link to Maverix's blog for updates- http://maverixstudios.blogspot.com/

I'll be donating this piece entitled- "Hellboy n' Shit".

When I found out about the auction I didn't have a clue as to what my piece would look like. So I just whipped out a piece of matte board and started slappin' down some acrylic paint, India ink, acrylic gloss medium and torn newspaper pieces . I then took a photo of of the acrylic/ink chaos, cut the photo in to pieces and glued it back on to the matte board. Next I took a blurry photo of Venetian mask my wife and I have in our art studio and glued that to the matte board. At this point I still had no idea where the fuck I was going with this. I then drew a face on the blurry mask photo, threw in some stars, started slappin' some paint around, added a cig, and what not, then scanned it. After futzing around in Photoshop for a while, this guy kept saying to me "dude, I'm Hellboy, hey, it's me, Hellboy", so I finally agreed with this red feller, "yeah, he is Hellboy." So I Hellboyed him up a bit, printed it out on a big ass piece of paper, and that's where I'm at now. Next up, I'm going to mount it to a piece of Masonite and finish it off with some acrylic paint and various media. I'll post that when it's done.

I AM BEOWULF!!!

Here's some examples of the concept work I did for Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf. I spent about two years working on this film and I learned quite a lot during the process. If you want to see more concept art for Beowulf check out The Art of Beowulf. There's a lot of great work in it from my friends at Iceblink Studios who did all of the concept art for the film.

Beowulf: Final Portrait

Geats

Key Frames

Wulfgar: portrait, Hrothgar: final portrait

Wiglaf Portraits, young and old.

Wiglaf, Unferth: final portraits

Unferth portraits, young and old.

Unferth: costutume design, portrait

Ursula, Grendel's Mom, Yrsa: final portraits

Grendel's Mom: foot design, character design, portrait

Grendel's Mom (mermaid form): character design

Grendel's Mom: portraits

Grendel's Mom: keyframe

Wealthow/Grendel's Mom: transformation

Jester: character / costume designs

Jester: paint treatments

Grendel / Hrothgar's decapitated head

Beowulf's Son Dragon transformation a and b

Dragon c

Hondshew tattoo studies

Breka: final design

Sketchbook Post 47-50

It's been sometime since my last post (swamped with freelance). But I have been able to squeeze in a some time in my sketchbook during lunch, my commute, etc......

Sketchbook Post 46

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Sketchbook Post 44

Super Creep

So here's what sketchbook post 43 turned into. This is part of a side project some co-workers and I are working on after regular work hours. I'll only be posting a very, very, small handful of images from this project on my blog. The large bulk of the work will be available for viewing at a later date. I'm super stoked about this little endeavor and will be hard at work on it for the next year.

The Creep

Sketchbook post 43 all gussied up.

Sketchbook Post 43

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Snippy McScissorson

This lil' diddy here is a personal piece inspired by Ashley Wood, Austin Briggs, and my pals Dermot Power and Bill Mather. Look out!!!!!!! Falling Scissors, be careful.

Cancelled Game Art

Here's some concept art I did for Planet Moon Studios last year. Unfortunately the publisher canceled the project, but here's a lil' peak at what the game might have looked like.

Sketchbook Post 36

Boredom Begat.........

........................this guy.

Sketchbook Post 34 & 35

Sketchbook Post 32 & 33: Star Wars

I recently flew to Seattle with my wife and two sons to visit family. For my youngest son, this trip was his first flight in an airplane. For my oldest son, the flight was an opportunity to go off in his sketchbook, drawing tons of images of Sponge Bob and Star Wars. I was inspired by his drawings and decided to take my stab at some Star Wars pages myself. Unfortunately my Black Sharpie Poster Paint Pen experienced a change in pressure and spilled out all over my sketchbook and food tray. I spent the remainder of the flight wiping up ink. I had to wait till after the flight to work on my Star Wars pages. I like my son's better, but I still had a lot of fun playing in my sketchbook.

Mandrill at the Dump

Here's a little bla, bla, bla......

Sketchbook Post 31

Jade Giant, Grey Goliath

He's such a handsome devil in green and in grey, ready for his school picture. Done from sketch book page from "Sketchbook Post 23".

Transformer

Check this guy out, and much, much more at the Image Depot- http://theimagedepot.blogspot.com/

Slappy Jones.

Finished piece.
Sketchbook page.

Another Mutha F-n Zombie

That's right, this zombie f's mothers. Just accept that fact and move on.

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Sketchbook Post 29

Blood Sucka's

Sketchbook Post 28

If I ever have a daughter.......

I would be greatly saddend if she became a stripper, or a zombie.Hey you guys (all three of you that frequent my blog, including my wife) should check out "The Image Depot" http://theimagedepot.blogspot.com/ , the unoffical art blog for Image Movers Digital. I've posted this piece on said blog. You can another zombie piece I did at The Fish Barrel http://thefishbarrel.blogspot.com/ . They asked that some of us at Image Movers post some zombies on their blog, and so in order to kill two birds with one stone we've made our first blog subject zombies as well.

Have a spicey day,

-Colin

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Sketchbook Post 20 & 21

Sketchbook Post 19

That's Some Puss Ya' Got on Ya.

Here's a lil' diddy I cooked up from one of the sketches from Sketchbook Post 16.

Sketchbook Post 17 & 18

Afterburner: Black Falcon

Here's some concept art I did for Planet Moon Studios. It's for the Sega game Afterburner: Black Falcon on the PSP, in stores now.

Sketchbook Post 16

Unmasked!!!

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Sketchbook Post 11

Not a Virgin Mary: Revised

Posted this guy a while ago, but I recently printed it out and painted on it traditionally. So here yah go.

They will kill us all.

This lil' piece is made up of the previous 3 sketchbook posts, mixed and tossed in Photoshop. Bla, bla, bla, bla.......

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Sketchbook Post 9

I typically post my sketchbook pages as scanned. This time out I threw some mustard action in to the mix with good ol' Photoshop.

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Balloon Pop

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Darrett Villagers

Couple of Eragon Peeps from the Village of Darrett.

Southside Galbitorix Crew

More bangers from Eragon.

Varden Posse

Here's some straight ganstas from the Varden set. More Eragon who-ha.

Team Durza

Here are some character designs I did for Stormfront Studios action adventure game "Eragon", based on the film adapted from the fantasy book of the same name. The game is out in stores now. Go buy it!!!!!!!!! Or save your money, either one's a pretty good idea.

Pink Nightmare

Big Balla'

Dah Duh Dah Duh Dah Duh Dah Duh-

BATMAN!!!!!!!!!

Fluffy

Here's a quick lil' bit o' cloud crap I pooped out.

Deadman

Been a while since the last post. I've been on vacation, and had nutty-ass deadlines with my freelance. Anyway, here's a Photoshop / Painter painting of DC Comic's Deadman, created by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantin in 1967. I was blown away by Kelly Jones' drawings of the character in the early '90s. A few years later I finally discovered Berni Wrightson, and the Kelly Jones work seemed a little less special. Anyway.....Hopefuly I'll be posting more regularly.

Soviet Jet Pack Soldier

Here's another character I did for James Bond: From Russia With Love

Some Photos

Here's a few photos I took....................um so, yeah, there you go. A few photos..........for you, the person looking at this blog. Uh..................you're very nice, I like your eyes. So congratulations on your pretty eyes. You should be very proud.

Christmas in July

Since it's been so retard hot latey, I thought it'd be nice to post a snowy christmas piece. I did this illustration a while ago for Planet Moon Studio's PSP game "Infected". The top image is the final version that I like. The one the client liked (not posted) and used for marketing had a big red santa nose, his mouth was more closed and had big boots, as well as having less stylized porportions. I've also included the origianl sketch done with india ink, white out, an maybe some acrylic paint, but I don't even friggin' remember.

Mercenaries for Hire:

If you need to take care of some dirty work, but don't want to get your hands dirty- then you need "TRIPLE THREAT!!!!!" Mercs that show no mercy!!!!................................I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I was just trying to spice things up a bit, throw in a little pizzaz. I blew it, I really blew it. I though some sorta A-team spoof thing would be a huge hit, but I was wrong, oh so wrong. This post has turned in to a huge disaster. Just click on the image to get a closer look at the pretty monkey.

Not a Jesus

Ummmmmm.............................. I'm going to have to go to church with wife this weekend. I'm going to be in trouble for this one.

Not a Virgin Mary

Ummm......... I'm tired and here's a new post- A free flow whatever the hell, with 2 close up details. Bon Apetite(sp?)!!!!!

Steve Tuttleman

This sonofabitch is a game programer at a small video game developer. He's a wiz with code n' shit, but is socially retarded and doesn't realize it, or doesn't appear to realize it. He's an insecure guy in his everyday life, but when's he's at work he's the alpha geek. Steve is very good at what he does and loves being a condescending dickhead to those who work with him. He reads D&D books and "Hard Sci/Fi". He publicly dismisses the Harry Potter books, as "mildly interesting for kids" but internaly dreams of going to Hogwarts someday. I hope that someday Steve will touch a woman's breast. As anoying and creepy as Steve can be he's really just a sad guy who needs boobs in the face.

Rat Bones

Here's a self portait. Man I'm fat. As of this posting, I'm going on a diet, and bustin' out with some exercise. "Take a good look in the mirror" they say. Try taking a good lookin in the mirror and paint your mug, you'll discover things like- "holy shit, I'm a real fatty" or "my headphones are silly big".

Enough fat talk. The symbol behind my head is a blast from the past. It's a Powell Peralta logo for some skateboard wheels called "Rat Bones". Son of a bitch, me and my buddies used to draw that damn logo everywhere, on skateboards, ramps, bus seats, books, etc..... I went on the internet to look at some old skate deck graphics, and hot damn, I used to love that shit. I didn't realize it at the time but that stuff really inspired me artisticly. Mike McGill, Steve Caballero, Steve Steadman, Rodney Mullin, these skate decks were the fuckin' shit. I never really wondered who the artists were that did the artwork on these decks when I was 11 or 12, but I've now discovered that a lot of these pieces where done by a guy who goes by VCJ or VJC (i found both orders of initials online). His stuff kind of reminds me comic book artist Brian Bolland, a little bit.......anyway if you know anything about any of these old school skate graphics dudes, let me know. I'd apreciate it. ZAMMY!!!!!!!!!!!

Who the F are these fellers?

These fellas are up to something. The problem is I don't know their names and I don't know what they're up to. Help me name these m-f-ers and come up with some sort of info about them. I'll try to find some time to do an illustration, comic strip or something involving these characters I'll post later. SHAZAM!!!!!!!

Savage Dragon

I used to dig on the Savage Dragon back in the day. I wasn't Shakespeare by any means, but it was obvious that Erik Larsen LOVED writing and drawing that comic. It was a fun read. I had such a good time doing this piece, I think I'm going to do more blasts from the past. Mutha fuckin' POW!!! POW!!!! POW!!!

Floaty McGee

This little flella' lives in Ian Ameling's small intestines. His name is Colonel McGee. He's a loyal friend, a great athelete, and would do anything for his wife and kids. The ladies love him and the men want to be him. God bless the Colonel..................... he's also a legendary cocksman.

More Rabbits

Here's a little diddy-