Neneuche Land

Dog soldiers

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 12:26 PM, 1/29/2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Well, once I'm going to create an army of cats, they need someone to fight against. I don't think these are them, though. These were just warm-up sketches this morning. I think in the end, I'd like the cats to be fighting some foe a lot more fearsome and monstrous. But ti's fun to experiment, and I like all of these characters.

Dog soldiers

Captain Woogums

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 10:38 PM, 1/26/2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Yet another made up character from my 'Cataclysm' project: Captain Woogums is the Captain of the Fastpaw. He's a bureaucratic type, very into the regulations.

ED!!!

{ Posted by Tinman2040 }
{ 4:29 AM, January 23, 2008 } { 1 comments } { Link }
Heres pre-zombie Ed from Shaun of the Dead, Has anyone seen this movie?? its in my top 10 list of all time favourites!! I even bought the British dvd of it just for the extra footage and commentaries from the Zombies and crew!!

Shaun of the Dead!!

{ Posted by Tinman2040 }
{ 4:48 AM, January 22, 2008 } { 1 comments } { Link }
This is my first piece for 2008, I hope you like it.

New Shop & Sketches

{ Posted by Vinny K. Krotchy }
{ 07h02, 1.21.2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }
The new shop is up and running, since last week actually, but I've been too busy to post here... You can buy the calendar there now, and I'll have prints available as soon as I can get it all set up. The tentative date for that is February first, but my schedule has been filling up quite a bit lately so we'll see how that idea goes!

Here's a page from my sketchbook to keep things going here. The dragon is from my favourite children's book author and illustrator, Bill Peet ("How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head"):

Clean Up

{ Posted by emceeONE }
{ 12:42 PM, 1/17/2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Private BooBoo

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 9:06 AM, 1/17/2008 } { 2 comments } { Link }
Here's the latest in the series of Cataclysm characters, Private BooBoo. Because you can't have officers without enlisted men - er, cats - right? I've edited this image from the original post to fix up his eyes a bit.

Chick Walk

{ Posted by emceeONE }
{ 4:50 PM, 1/16/2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }

CLICK

A rough walk cycle from my latest short. Compare to my earlier walk cycles from as much as 2 years ago.

The Fastpaw

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 12:22 AM, 1/13/2008 } { 4 comments } { Link }
Continuing concept sketches for 'Cat-aclysm,' here is the Fastpaw, Major Socks' battleship. The top half are all the rough sketches I did to get to the final ship. The one I went with is the one in the upper left. At that angle, you could see a little better that it looked a bit like a cat. A little bit.

Commander Muffin

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 12:56 AM, 1/8/2008 } { 2 comments } { Link }
...And yet another character from the same series: It's Commander Muffin. I wanted to keep things military but not necessarily make it all guys. Muffin is Major Socks' commanding officer. The other two characters so far have both had some serious mass to them, so I wanted to keep that consistent for her as well, rather than making the usual svelte feline female. I'm happy with how she turned out: Not slender, but still very sexy...as well as being tough, too.

To answer your earlier questions, Laura, they DO have claws but like with any cat, they can be extended as needed. They didn't need them out in this case. I'd tried drawing them in but didn't like how they looked. As for the big hands, well hey, after creating Major Socks' hands, I had to keep things consistent.

Admiral Whiskers

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 2:26 AM, 1/6/2008 } { 3 comments } { Link }
Another very late night painting. I mentioned in yesterday's post (Major Socks) that I had other characters in mind for whatever astro-military service the Major is a member of. So this here is Admiral Whiskers:

Major Socks!

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 2:37 AM, 1/5/2008 } { 1 comments } { Link }
So I was doing more doodling (see previous post) and I came up with this guy, a feline heavy-armored warrior. His name is Major Socks. He serves dutifully aboard the starship Fastpaw for his commanding officers, Commander Woogums and Captain Fluffy. The entire fleet is under the direction of Admiral Whiskers, whom I did a sketch of: He's a Persian, so he's got one of those smooshed puggy faces. I'll post it later, maybe even as a color piece. Anyhow, I did a couple of sketches of Major Socks and really liked him so I stayed up late to render him out. This whole thing, start to finish, is about 5 hours of work (the last hour of which was finicky (ha ha!) details that you probably can't even see at this resolution! )

Creature and Robot sketches

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 5:52 PM, 1/4/2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }
It's been ages since I uploaded just some plain old sketches, not for anything in particular, just for fun. The top left one was kind of a Moblin from the Zelda games, or at least inspired by them a bit. The lower right ones are shambling robots of some sort. Anyhow, nothing special, just having fun...

Happy 2008!

{ Posted by Vinny K. Krotchy }
{ 09h05, 1.4.2008 } { 0 comments } { Link }
My new year is starting off with updates - the website, the blog (4 days late... oops), and developing a new store with my late 2008 calendar. If you're a client of mine this past year, you should have received your calendar by now (if not just email me!). Everybody else please be patient as the site should be up in the next week. If you can't wait just send me an email.

Here's a commission from this Christmas:

Mermaid for the holidays

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 9:44 AM, 12/18/2007 } { 4 comments } { Link }
Over on the PixelBrush forums, we had a holiday art gift exchange. My recipient was Rita, who happens to be into faeries and mermaids and such. She's already "unwrapped" her present, so it's okay to show this now, my mermaid for her:

Happy holidays to all out there!

Chanukkah Alien progress

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 12:49 PM, 12/14/2007 } { 1 comments } { Link }
Well, Chanukkah is over, and I've since posted my finished artwork for this year's holiday cards... but I had a little fun throwing together the progression of the piece into an animated GIF file. Enjoy!

Mom's Xmas Card

{ Posted by Vinny K. Krotchy }
{ 13h00, 12.4.2007 } { 0 comments } { Link }
Every year I make a Christmas card for my mom to send out to all of her clients. It always has a winter activity theme, so this year's was curling. This be the front, minus the big ugly signature of course:

MIA

{ Posted by Tinman2040 }
{ 5:46 AM, November 27, 2007 } { 0 comments } { Link }
No, I'm still around but have been gone far too long....... heres some new pictures if you've missed the thread on the board. I hit 33 years old today with a bump my god where has the time gone!! I HATE BIRTHDAYS!!
Hope my Pals are still around!!

Another try at the colors

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 11:14 PM, 11/26/2007 } { 2 comments } { Link }
Trying to refine the colors a bit - lots more warmer colors around Vampi so that her pale skin really sticks out, the one cool spot on the page. I've de-empahsized Frankie's towel so that it doesn't grab so much attention. The umbrella is now darker so that it doesn't blend into the background. And I flipped the image so that Vampi's face gets seen sooner. As an extra-special bonus, I've included a close-up of Frankie's magazine, the monster edition of Cosmo.

Color progress on the Sunbathing Vampire

{ Posted by walrus }
{ 9:06 AM, 11/26/2007 } { 0 comments } { Link }
Here's the first pass at colors for the in-progress Sunbathing Vampire piece. I still may vignette the entire piece, make it look more like a spot illo - I haven't decided yet. And I still will add some sort of a design to the left towel. And I know the first pass at the foot-smoke isn't reading yet... it's a start!

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