Hope everyone's having a great holiday!

It's been snowing a lot out here in Chicago and is too cold to go outside but it looks pretty even if it means a whole afternoon of shoveling.

I did this yesterday for the contest over on deviant art... Hope everyone likes it, not as pleased with it after all as I hoped to be.

http://drigkyle.deviantart.com/art/Take-me-to-Neverland-146194164

Hehe, Star Wars isn't the only thing I dabble in.

In light of the comments about how my Young Reon Vo has a Disney vibe to it, I figured I'd post another Disney-ish piece for your enjoyment.....or bereavement. You decide.
I had to do this editorial illustration for class, and decided to use an actual existing article rather than make one up. It was in TIME magazine's August Issue, in case any of you care.

This is mostly for Drig... concepts for aliens from a book we were writing back in high school. Every so often we dredge it up again and try to do some work on it.

Edit: A muskmelon, a virago and a dovan.

Added a concept of the pho - an alien that communicates via radio waves - and new virago in captain's clothes.

Colored Muskmelon!

So it's been a couple of days now and I am still very new to photoshop and tablets.....I made this piece using a sketch in my sketchbook. I scanned it in to photoshop to try to learn the tools a little bit.

I am a little surprised how fast I can render on the computer, but I miss my watercolors and inks. So I enjoy both, but Traditional is still my fave.

Anyways, since most of you guys do the digital thing any crits good or bad will be appreciated. This is just a color comp...so....be easy.

-Kat/Jynx

Edit: I've redrawn the mining tower. I drew up a bird-like riding animal, and after I realized how much it reminded me of the Roadrunner, I had to draw a desert background. The next two pictures are a riding/pack animal in two versions. Also, the camel-dino picture now has some color.

I've been thinking about doing some kind of illustration project for a while now, and it's gaining some momentum. I've decided to do a story about a planet I invented for a SW RPG campaign - Moridia - but I'm taking it out of the realm of Star Wars. I've got a few sketches so far.

working on my own character. Here's to hoping I can finish it.

A request from Xanamiar;

"Ben McCloud - 50 some years old. Ben and Shayla met back up again, and ended up falling in love, after Shayla got her memory back and apologized for her actions. Ben is wearing the kind of X-men outfit that we see in the movies. However, his outfit would need to reflect his ice abilities.. so either a light blue, with a frost going up it, or something else that would befit him. X-men logo belt to match the outfit. Brown hair, brown eyes.

Just What I am sending as my ship designs from the game. The background is "deepness Dawn by Greg Martin. ARTOFGREGMARTIN.COM. The rest are My designs, screenshots, cut pasted and touched up. I put in a modified Agamemnon from Bab5 and the Sulaco from Aleins just for fun.

With the release of Ironman, and the soon to be released Hulk movie I dusted off a pic I did along time ago.( still used colored pencils though...some things do not change)

Hey guys.
This is a non-Star Wars request, but it came through the site so I figure I'll set the blog up here.

He's a Monk for a D&D game.
Here's the description:

Name: Sasame Hiroki (SAH-sah-may he-ROW-key)
Race: Human
Gender: Male

So I've decided that if I am going to be going to GenCon this year I better have a finished portfolio ready to show off unlike last time. :) This first piece that I am currently working to complete is a non-SW piece, but I wanted to show off this WIP anyway to keep you all up on how I am working my style.

For those of you that don't know, I have been struggling for several years trying to develop a digital painting style and move on from pencil artwork in my sketch book. Finally I feel like I am making some serious headway. Now I just need to steam-line my process so I can work faster.