My Friend Rachel, cartoonized

Back in June, Rachel had a contest for her facebook group for people to make an entry for the group's banner. I lost track of time and by the time I realized it, I just submitted a random car design. I lost...but got second place, with the prize of giving her a new avatar for a month. 

Rather than give her a random image from google (briefly considered Zoidberg...hey, why not Zoidberg?) I made her a one of a kind original cartoon version of herself.

This one...it came out amazingly great. The face really does look like hers (same glasses, hairstyle, and a Pokeball for her love of Pokemon...lol), the body...well, I think I had some scale issues in retrospect. But, live, learn, practice, and try again (someday anyway).

In short, she liked it for a month I saw her on my friends list with my creation.

-Spin

Programs used: Paint Shop Pro X2, Paint Tool SAI

Production time: 3-4 hours 

Cornelius, The Brave Knight

Wow...5 months without a single update. But to be fair, I have not had much time to work on anything new (college...taken up all my time). 850+ pageviews...last time I checked my blog I was around 600 I think. So I give mad props to the people checking my blog, despite the lack of updates. Believe me...for what I plan in the coming weeks this wait will be worth the wait. I'm taking on animation...and not just any kind, I'm bringing the Phantom back. The first full length movie will be a completely original music video of Ember's "Remember". It's all new animation, not clips from the show (I mean no disrespect to anyone who has done that, I personally wouldn't have the patience to go and trim clips so quite the contrary you have my respect). If all goes well, I plan to release the video on 12/25/12...but with my luck that will get pushed back. So keep checking back, I'll be doing more work in the impending weeks.

Now...whatizit??? (above lol)

The creation above is something I did for my friend Rachel. She had an art contest on facebook a few weeks back for who can draw the best looking vision of Cornelius. The specs I had was that he was a knight, turned into a bear by a witch's curse (I'll link up a story when she finishes it)...so I did something to that extent, and gave him a star shield (shoutout to Rockstar Energy lol). Turns out I won the contest, which was awesome and my image got used on her group's header for a while. I know it's not DP...but it was done in the DP style.

The question is...what's with the random orange he's standing on? Well...last year she was supposed to meet up with one of her friends and in her good hearted nature brought him an orange as he had no money for food and was moving from friend's place to friend's place (dude was homeless...long story why). He stood her up, I ran into her, and walked around with her for a few hours. Eventually the orange dropped to the ground and we just laughed calling it the "evil orange". So, the whole image is supposed to represent good conquering evil.

Overall, he came out great I think and she loved him.

Programs used: Paint Shop Pro X2, Paint Tool SAI
Production time: 7 hours

Ember McLain Rockstar Energy Ad (Summer 2012)

I wanted to do something new for Ember finally. I also wanted a new Rockstar ad (Penelope's was good, but Ember looks better with that sponsor). So I took a pic from the 2012 Rockstar Energy models calendar (June 2012's) and converted it to an Ember version.

Overall, it came out great. Quality is there for sure, and I went a bit more detailed. Even gave Ember flowing hair down her back...something I don't see too often, but do like seeing it here.

Penelope Spectra Wallpaper

Just a wallpaper I did for myself. Gave Spectra a more laid back look, gave her a can of Rockstar Recovery, and put it on my desktop. Overall, it came out nicely.

I also did it for general practice. Fact of the matter is I want to cut the production times in half...and it's not gonna happen if I constantly change things up with how I make DP art. So the more I do, the more I see what works.

Production time: 9 hours

Remember: TEMS Test Run

A recent screenshot of the visual novel in progress.

Remember: The Ember McLain Story Visual Novel

Possibly one of the largest project I may ever undertake is about to get underway. caferreri11 of DeviantArt and myself have been teaming up for over a year now to work on his story, Remember: The Ember McLain Story (R:TEMS). Ember's song "Remember" from the series has been rumored to give away a lot of her background information. He turned it into a multiple chapter long novel essentially, while incorporating original ideas into a backstory of Ember.

 We thought about converting the story into a flash series at the end of summer '11. But while we both were psyched about the idea, it was really just something to get shelved until life calmed down. It's a lot of work, and something I'm not up to doing in the near future. So I suggested a different idea...a visual novel of the story..

Long story short, my one friend introduced me to visual novels. A visual novel is a story, accompanied with changing backgrounds, characters, sound effects, and music to make the story realistic. You download it, run it, and click through it. It's also a way to see it the way the author did (caferrer11 approves all my character designs).

A site has been made to host the novel:

http://remembertems.webs.com/

I hope you all will enjoy the final product.

-Spin

Johnny 13 and Kitty human forms

Based on a scene from caferreri11's story on deviantArt (Remember: The Ember McLain Story), this is the couple in a hospital scene. Kitty's comforting Johnny after some unsettling news. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, so if your interested I think it was in chapter 4 or 5. This was done back in like April '11. Maybe May...unsure. It's on deviantart for a date.

Also updated my blog with a new banner. I'm digging it :)

-Spin

Ember McLain human form

The first of my DP art, Ember McLain's form from her past life. While I love my new work like her Rockstar ad and some other WIPs I haven't released details on, this is a personal favorite of mine. A lot of her past life fan fics exist, mainly because she is the only character that was given a backstory to work with.

#13 Blood Energy Potion OWR Car

Just a little something I threw together for fun. Blood splatters aren't always an easy concept to work with, but this pulled it off nicely. Blood Energy Potion is an actual drink.

Jack Daniel's Lynchburg Lemonade Logo

A recent request on HRR was for this logo. So I made it for them. A question raised was how did I get the font when it's licensed to Jack Daniel's....it's simple, I made each letter by hand.

Check either HRR or URD for a download to the .psd of it. That file is about a 1000x2000 resolution, I minimized it for previews.

Heavy's Racing Replica's Forum Sig

This was a design for my friend Steve (aka Heavy) of Heavy's Racing Replicas (HRR for short). HRR is an affiliate of United Racing Designs. He's currently using the sig on his site, which is nice to see one of my creations used by the owner of another NR2k3 paint site.

Getting a chance to draw the Fright Knight in a fire suit was actually kinda fun.

Production time: 6 hours

#13 Circus Gothica NASCAR

A personal ride for URD's Cup11s S4.

If I had to pick a car that represented me and my painting style...this is it. It's wild, insane, dark...

This car was started in July '11, however I had to go in for some retina surgery. It was only recently a due date on this car was announced so I rushed to finish it.

Dani Phantom and Rockstar Energy?

I wanted to test Paint Shop Pro's efficiency at DP art. It is AWESOME. Dani came out great, she looks awesome and kind of dark.

This took...8 hours total I think. Ember's human form took...I don't even want to think about it really. Paint.NET was just a hassle when it comes to lines and curves.