Character Design
Why do I keep coming back to this character after all these years?? I don’t know. Just when I think we’ve moved on from each other we get back to hanging out, going on adventures, fighting bad guys.
I guess there’s a lesson in here on never giving up on your OC, or nurturing creativity in teens, or maybe dragging something on for way too long.
Hope you got something out of it.
-Jake
P.S. Let me know in the comments about any OCs you made as a kid. Would love to hear your stories!
Using Cybernetic Action Tech or CAT for short. These security droids could be modified for a variety of purposes.
C.A.T. Bot is another collaboration with my son Calvin who has all the good ideas around here. This the design evolution of the character from Calvin's initial drawing to the one I just finished last week.
Here's a character design I did of Star Princess Aven recently.
Here's the original drawing I did back in 2012.
and she's in the BG her of the Skull Chaser Japanese Movie post I made a year later.
I've always wanted to put her in a Skull Chaser story, but since drawing comics is too hard, and I'm lazy she never went beyond those two drawings...until now. I'll have to incorporate her in the next comic I do.
I was going through my archives and found these drawings from back in 2010. The first 50 people who bought my Spacecave drawing book got one of these original drawings in their package. Anyone out there still have one of these?
My 12-year-old son (Calvin) and I have been collaborating on a character design for @t.m.wilson’s Character Arena!
Below is my design, Calvin’s original design, and the bio he wrote for the character. Calvin is a fun art director to work with but accepts no compromises😅. Hope you like her!
Illustration I did for the latest episode of 3 Point Perspective, the illustration podcast I do with @leewhiteillo and @willterryart . This episode was all about building a team around you and I thought it would be fun to draw the @svslearn red bunny as a team of superheroes.
Listen to it here: LINK
I've been kind of taking it easy this month. My family and I all got covid, so I've been down and just been evaluating the year, and calibrating my plans for 2021.
We are all feeling a lot better now, except my wife and I can't smell anything.
Wish I had more to post this month, however, this week I've been inspired by all of the great Christmas classics the kids and I have been watching and I wanted to do a line up of a bunch of characters inspired by the movies we've seen recently.
Sharing them here with you, hope you like them!
Merry Christmas!
Jake
From the Drawings Unit a division of the Art Department in cooperation with the Department of Partnerships and Collaborations
I had the unique privilege to design the cover art for this years Inktober Art Box sketchbook, and I'm REALLY happy with how it turned out. This is an excellent sketchbook to draw in and I’m honored to have my art on it.
Here's the original art that I made which was then put on the sketchbook.
The Star Catcher
I created this guy last year for the ArtSnacks print. Not sure who he is, or what he's about, but he's a lot of fun to draw:
And I drew him again for one of my Inktober52 drawings:
I already have several space characters I've created and drawn comics with (Space Skull, Missile Mouse, Lucy Nova) but each of those are grounded in traditional sci-fi tropes. I think with Star Catcher I'm subconsciously wanting to explore a space fantasy that can't exist in reality. I guess this means you can expect to see more of him in the future.
-Jake
Last week it was Independence Day here in the United States. It's probably my favorite holiday. I usually spend way to much money on fireworks and put on a show for the neighborhood kids. Which would be good enough by itself to celebrate the holiday, but the city I've been living in for the past 7 years really knows how to do the 4th of July right. There's the Freedom Run first thing in the morning with thousands of participants, a hot air balloon launch, my neighborhood has a pancake breakfast in the church parking lot, there's a giant parade, and then a huge fireworks show at the stadium with an F-22 flyover.
Oh, and my neighbor has a replica revolutionary war canon that he fires off at 6 AM to wake everyone up.
In that spirit, for the last 5 years I've done a ridiculously over-the-top illustration staring Abe Washington Eagle, a character I made up that embodies the patriotic soul of my country. Here's the drawings from the last 5 years:
Hope your 4th was explosive!
-Jake
