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Greetings and salutations once again my friends! New addition to the Gallery today! For a few months, I was enlisted as an artist for an on-line RPG campaign called Supreme Kaiju Battles...or to put it plainly, the SKB. So, wanting nothing more than to let the world know that I can draw, I accepted the job as one of their concept artists. The other artist is my partner in crime, Ralph Carpenter. We do everything together, look after a studio on Monster Zero, draw for websites, other Godzilla fans, and the like. The only thing we don't do is Yatzi. Heh, little Kedzuel joke there. Anyways, since art is a major subject on this site, I might as well toot my own horn and show off the work I've done for the SKB. So, let the artist set down and talk your ear off about what cool art she's done, also talk about various problems in the creation process, or how some old drawings helped in the inspiration. I think this page is dedicated to--myself because I love to hear myself talk. Heh heh...
Drawn for Deathbeast.
Okay, Deathbeast, a gigantic dragon with an electrifying personality. (Almost as electrifying as Kedzuel *wink wink*.) Anyways, this was the first drawing asked to be done. And I was happy! It was a dragon! And it was a slightly different style of dragon that I was not use to. So, it was a refresher to draw something I don't normally draw. Usually, my dragons have two horns that are positioned on the back of the head and either curve up or inward. And they usually have two horns. Deathbeast has one--and grows out from his brow, like the horn of a blue dragon design from the Wizards of the Coast Monster Manual--3rd Addition, of course. The description told me to draw that way, though it was worded different--I thought: "It's a black dragon with the horn of an Oerth blue dragon and the breath of one...okay." And Deathbeast ain't that bad looking either. I could never draw something that does not have some form or charisma. Deathbeast has charisma. I can't get over the eyes. Very nice. And I'm glad that the real Deathbeast thought so too. I've rarely drawn other people's characters--let alone follow actual descriptions. I was satisfied with what I created. Not a bad start. Also, it's great to draw a dragon for a fellow dragon-lover. Maybe I can get him started on Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern, or the Dragonlance books.
Drawn for CLS.
Mecha King Ghidorah, without the mechanical central head. Believe it or not, before I met DB, or CLS, or Varan, I wrote a story starring Ghidorah. Something happened, and he became Mecha King Ghidorah without the mechanical central head. So, with that, I knew exactly what to draw when I came to MKG 3K. It was easy, I just used the design I had drawn for my own version of Mecha King Ghidorah. I guess some people think alike. But during the coloring process, I decided to take a different route and use texture for the black breast plate. I've never used texture in my drawings before, so this was an experiment as well. I was very satisfied by the look. Now I know that I can use texture to really make my coloring stand out.
Drawn for Megaro.
Now here is a different and unusual creature. Based off of the design of Iris from Gamera III, Iris Kurata was one of the most unusual creature to draw. Never drawn anything like Iris, may never again. But it's good to draw something totally different. I love expanding my horizons. Now I can prove that I can draw just about anything. Megaro helped, finding me pictures of Iris to go off of. The head was the hardest part of drawing IK. Mostly because I'm use to drawing something with eyes, eyebrows, and for that matter--a mouth. So, I spent a few hours on this one. It was interesting. Though, I felt I had messed up the coloring, I knew I should have put not so much red in the coloring. But either way, it worked out.
Drawn for Tomzilla.
Looks like Soukougeki Goji with Space Godzilla's crystals and Destroyer's horn. Tomzilla is a good pal of mine, he read my story, Gojira: the Dark God and told me how much he loved it. He gave great comments on my artwork, so I was more than happy to do this. This one, I did in ink and then colored it in Photoshop. Since Space Godzilla was a familiar design and I've drawn a load of Soukougeki Goji pictures, Tomzilla was easy to draw. I'm glad to draw it for him and I appreciate the many thanks I've received when he saw the drawing, in it's first stage, and in it's final stage. He was one of many patient art customers I've met at MZ. I'm glad I've had so many, with the way I procrastinate!
Drawn for Varan101.
The hardest character drawn! I had to admit, this was a troublesome character. For one thing, Ghostlier is all bone. I usually draw creatures with skin. And well, the description was a bit vague. Though, it left room for an artist interpretation of what he should look like. I felt like Michael Whealand when he drew the dragons from Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern. Only going by a few small descriptions, I had to come up with a creature that looked like he could exist. Ghostlier was supposed to look like a prehistoric, predatory creature, and non-dinosaur looking. Well, that could mean anything from a saber toothed cat to an ancestor of the wolf. But believe it or not, I chose the ancestor of the whale for the design of Ghostlier. And what did that look like? The ancestor of the whale was a rhino sized wolf with a long snout and long canines. It was perfect. That was Ghostlier, to me, a really huge wolf with a really long nose! Though, it took me drawing after drawing to get him right. I kept hearing about other stages that the character went through, though, I was only asked to draw him as he is. The real focal point of that picture is of course is the ball of energy forming in his claws. I used a familiar design for that, very simple to create--only took a few moments. It really turned out the way I wanted it to. I'm happy with the design.
(More coming soon.)
I know, you all came here to listen to me jibber jabber. Well, I hope that I've jibber-jabbered enough. Don't mean to talk your ear off. But I just do it to listen to myself talk, you know. I think it's because my Sun Sign is Libra and my Moon Sign is Ares. That means I'm a self absorbed artist--which most artists are, so what were you expecting? Well, that's it for me, catcha later!
If you want to learn more of the SKB and the characters I've or Ralph have drawn, go to the main website.
