Jordan

This is Jordan, one of the protagonists for Nexus. Of all my characters, Jordan has given me the most trouble in locking down his appearance.

Vertijar

Still doing a lot of sketching, though with very little in any state to be displayed. Been doing some revisioning of the vertijar race. Some of the original head sketches i did a long time ago weren't doing it for me anymore. Since that sketch, I've kinda pushed the vertijar toward more of a matriarchal amazon-esque race. The women of their species tend to follow a sort of Bushidō code and see themselves as the liberators of the races that have fallen under the thumb of the Ataraxi empire. Also, I'm pretty sure that a race that doesn't have mouths probably wouldn't have evolved boobs, so I've still got some redesigning to do. Expect further iterations in the future.

Cast

Just some quick head sketches of the protagonists for Nexus.

Tessida - Color

In the interest of producing the Nexus strips in any kind of reasonable time frame, I'll likely be angling toward a very sparing use of shading. Here's a sample of what you're likely to see.

Tessida

Women with horns are awesome. That is all.

Torcrist

Meet the torcrist. It is basically biological power armor for the much smaller invertebrates known as torcrid. Technically alive, it has no higher brain functions, and requires the symbiotic bonding with the torcrid to survive. While technically eyeless, most of its epidermis is photoreceptive, and the torcrid symbiote is able to process the massive amount of visual data this yields, essentually granting omnidirectional vision. Another fascinating aspect of supporting a torcrid host is its ability to rapidly alter its host's body structure to suit its needs. The detail and aesthetics of such transformations will vary from torcrid to torcrid, depending on their own artistic talents and preferences.

Space Marine!

Just breaking in my new cintiq. It takes a little getting used to, but on the whole it feels a lot more natural than working with a tablet. I just need to work out a better method for reaching my hotkeys.

Numb

Some days you're just going through the motions.

Piper Lockhart

This is Piper doing what Piper does best: being incredibly confrontational. Piper is a pirate, born and raised to take what she wants. Her loyalty is only to her crew, and anyone not a part is liable to be met with extreme hostility. A lifetime on the run from the ataraxi will make anyone edgy, but Piper has a habit of making everything personal.

The Ataraxi

Just a couple head studies for nexus tonight. The dude on the left is a refinement of my original concept for the ataraxi. The ataraxi are the sinister reptilian conquest-driven overlords of most of the known galaxies. Their tyrannical reign is all carried out in the name of Yoki, their undead goddess, drifting through space on her tombship, accompanied by her elite dreadnaut caretakers. She's a spooky bitch. The face on the right is, for the time being nothing in particular, although I like the way it turned out.

07-09-09 Sketch

Meet the nolnidine ravener. Check it. These guys hurtle through space in a crysalis form known as the nolnidine harbinger. They're big. Like a kilometer long or so. When the harbinger impacts something large enough to stop its momentum (generally a planet or moon, though the occasional space station has fallen victim), it sets down roots and burrows in, injecting the fetal stage of the nolnidine into the core of the planet. After a certain amount of time, the juvenile or ravener form emerges from the core and terrorizes the planet surface, sort of godzilla-style. but everywhere he goes he's secreting these spores, coating everything he doesn't eat with 'em. once done, the ravener retreats back into the core of the planet and dies. as his body decomposes, the chemical breakdown becomes massively unstable, and eventually, the giant creature's corpse detonates, typically blowing the planet or moon apart. the spores on the surface have been maturing into these harbinger/chrysalis forms in the mean time, and they all drift off into space to repeat the process like cosmic dandelion fluff.

07-08-09 Sketches

Playing around with some vector style stuff from photographs. Got bored with it pretty quickly and spent a little time sketching for Nexus.

07-07-09

Some quick hard and soft brush sketches.

Inaugural Post

Just a couple pieces to kick this thing off. Two images from two unrelated projects.