Loki Odinson

Loki - God of Lies and Mischief: is a mythological god from the Norse Mythology, who's character had been adapted into the Marvel comics primarily as a villain, tormenting and misleading the heroes into ruin. He had also been cast as the main villain and antagonist in the hit blockbuster film "The Avenger", where he unleashes an extraterrestrial army upon the world.

This design of Loki, is a mix match between his Marvel comic's costume design and that of his live action counterpart from the avengers movie, where I used plenty of references from both avenues to create this piece, splicing the colors and various pieces of armor and costume designs to create a new and unique design of this ancient god.

It took me well over 10 hours from start to finish, however, this including resetting my workspace and getting back into the flow of things, after not drawing for well over 6 months! but I hope you like the concept piece, this first arts jam piece was very fun and challenging to say the least!  I look forward to the next one and I hope you do too.

The Amazing Spiderman

'The Amazing Spiderman'.
Photoshop CS6
Wacom Tablet Intuos 4
2 hours? or something like that?

And the only progression I could really show after it was made; the initial underlying sketch idea.

JamDoc: The Punisher Process

A short overview and explanation of the Inception, Conception and Execution of my piece for this week's project.

This one here!

As with most of my pieces, I decided to surround myself not only in character references, but colour and style references for this piece. I already knew that I wanted to have a pose of the character in front of a wall, where his cast shadow then formed the iconic punisher logo. However, as the project went along it made more sense to create a stronger pose then to rely on the reality of how the shadow rays would cast from the character.

A super-rough idea sketch, pitching the thought of the piece.

Once I had decided on the idea of the piece, It was a matter of dropping construction lines, rough lines, details in the face and his attire, before hopping into my favourite part of the process - the painting!

A pair of daily WIP posts during my time on the project.

Once again, in talking about my style references, the idea was to go for something quite stylised in terms of his proportions and shading, something quite different to what is usually a hyper-realistic and gritty character. In those terms, Pixar movies are a great reference!

The picture from lines to the finish line, in an animated gif!

So! I hope you guys enjoyed this little insight into my very unprofessional workflow. Let next week roll on in!

JamDoc: The Punisher

When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin. If society won't punish the guilty, he will!

My homage to Marvel's much-loved vigilante murderer - who goes to prove that a lot of guns can be a super power.

Far more stylised then what I usually do - trying to ape something between Pixar and UA proportions, employed with a perky colour palette. A little different to what's expected of the character, which made the juxtaposition a lot more fun to work on.

So, hope you guys like what I came up with this week - and I look forward to seeing what everybody else comes up with.

The Punisher created by Gerry Conway and Marvel Comics

March's Marvel Match-up!

This week's challenge for the Art Jam Guys (should they choose to accept it) is to take on the colourful cast of super heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe!

With such iconic characters to choose from, from the Spectacular Spider-man, the Uncanny X-men, and earth's mightiest heroes - the Avengers! this challenge is the perfect opportunity for the Art Jam Guys to stretch those drawing muscles in this first week.

So, let the casual art match-up of century commence!

Assignment #1: Marvel Comics

'Marvel Comics'
Cell-Shaded art style

Complete by April 3rd 2013

Welcome!

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