Art Portfolio

Digital artwork done in Photoshop: environments, key art, character and creature sheets, and mascots.

Tools: Adobe Photoshop
Work: Environments, key art, character and creature sheets, mascots
Format: 19 images, each opens full size
Carried over: Colour, shape and layout: the same eye I bring to labels and pack artwork

Fig. 01 Environment painting: a fortress city on a misty coast, with a sailing ship and two statues.

01Characters, creatures and key art

Key art, character turnarounds and creature paintings. Click any image to see it full size.

Painted key art of an armoured fighter with gold trim swinging a long glowing spear in a dusty landscape — **Fig. 02** Key art: an armoured fighter with a glowing spear.

Grey line-art sheet of several armoured characters and weapons — **Fig. 03** Line-art sheet: armoured character and weapon designs.

Colour turnaround of a white and blue armoured character, with head studies, a hand and a glowing sword — **Fig. 04** Character turnaround: a white and blue armoured character, with head studies, a hand and a sword.

Colour turnaround of a dark armoured warrior in front, back and side views, with armour parts and a spiked mace — **Fig. 05** Character turnaround: a dark armoured warrior, with armour parts and a spiked mace.

A glowing blue winged creature with crystal feathers on a dark background — **Fig. 06** Creature painting: a glowing blue winged beast on black.

A girl riding a winged beast beside a large blue dragon above a sea of clouds — **Fig. 07** Painting: a girl on a winged beast beside a blue dragon, above the clouds.

02Design sheets

Layouts for four designs, titled Elteras, Seraph, Nefal and Mortalis on the boards. Each has a main sheet and a second sheet with more poses, details or effects.

Design sheet titled Elteras: a white and blue armoured character from the front and back, four face studies and a hexagon emblem — **Fig. 08** Elteras: character sheet with front and back views and four face studies.

Second sheet titled Elteras: the character in action poses and inside a glowing hexagon shield — **Fig. 09** Elteras: action poses and a hexagon shield effect.

Design sheet titled Seraph: an owl-like creature with gold and white armour in three poses — **Fig. 10** Seraph: sheet of an owl-like creature in three poses.

Second sheet titled Seraph: the owl-like creature in flight with golden energy effects — **Fig. 11** Seraph: in flight, with energy effects.

Design sheet titled Nefal: two views of a dark, spiked insect-like creature with purple and gold details — **Fig. 12** Nefal: sheet of a spiked, insect-like design in two views.

Second sheet titled Nefal: detail studies of the head and parts, and a purple lightning attack effect — **Fig. 13** Nefal: detail studies and a lightning attack effect.

Design sheet titled Mortalis: a large six-legged machine creature with smaller flying drones and green glowing effects — **Fig. 14** Mortalis: a large machine creature with smaller drones.

Second sheet titled Mortalis: detail studies of a drone and a part, and a size chart — **Fig. 15** Mortalis: detail studies and a size chart.

03Construction and mascots

How a character is built on the page, and a few cute mascots.

Construction guide for a scarf-wearing cartoon character, with head grid, bean-bag body shape and mitten hands — **Fig. 16** Construction guide for a scarf-wearing character: head grid, body shape and hands.

Six facial expression studies of a cartoon character with a white scarf — **Fig. 17** Six expression studies of the same character.

Eight sticker-style poses of a white sprout mascot with green leaves, smiling, waving, holding a gift and sleeping — **Fig. 18** Sprout mascot: eight sticker-style poses.

Fig. 19 Rabbit-eared mascot concepts and a Kinetic Soap logo sticker.