Russ5377 Collected edition Cover

Haven't done anything that I felt good enough to post here. I had fun with this quick piece I did over the last couple of days. Roughed this out on 9"x12" pad and "inked" on Retas Stylos HD then colored on Adobe Photoshop.
The original interior art in this collection were done by a couple of friends of mine as well.

Son Goku

My Dragonball Z fan art finally done...almost...
I was a fan of this anime when it hit Philippine shores in the late 1990's. It was refreshing to get to see cartoons be fun and yet have adventures and storylines again unlike most of the cartoons we've been importing from the US around this time which were mostly a series of gags per episode of poorly drawn characters.
Not long after Dragonball Z came out, I landed a job at the local satellite studio of Toei Animation - the company that produces this show- just in time to do assisstant animator work on Dragonball GT, SailorMoon S, Teacher Nube, Kindaichi, Kitaro and Hana Yori Dango.
I went on to do key animation work on One Piece, Pretty Cure, and Beet the Vandel Buster before I quit to try my luck having a studio of my own.
This piece is inspired by the Man of Steel movie. Watching the action sequences on Dragonball always used to make me think, "wow, if they ever make new Superman movies, the action has to be something like these with all the super powered beings he has to fight" and it seems that's exactly what they did.
I can't wait to see the repurcusions to Superman's career all the devastastion left behind in the wake of Kal-El fighting off the alien invaders when the sequel comes out.

Molly

more practice...
Miss Molly of EB Babes has such an endearing face it's always interesting to use her likeness as a subject when practicing doing portraits.
It's hard to get looking at her and it inspires me to work even harder to get the likeness right.
I'm sure I'd be using her pictures as models at least a few more times and I hope if she or her fans see my work, they wouldn't be disappointed.

New 52 Superman

Here's more practice on vector art stlye drawing. This one on New 52 Superman.

Autumn

grabbed some photos off the web and used them for more vector art practice

Vector portait commission

So, a friend of mine is getting married. He asked me to draw his soon-to-be bride as his gift to her and I gladly obliged. I wasn't confident though that I could get this right because they live across the world in New York, USA and I haven't met his girlfriend but I'm glad he's really happy with the way this portrait turned out.

Jahziel vexel portrait

vexel practice using the beautiful likeness of Filipina model, Jahziel Manabat.

Batman vexel

Another vector style practice. This time on Adam West Batman
My favorite superheroes growing up were Spider-Man and Batman. Actually, they still are.
And I remember seeing the Batman television series when I was a kid thinking he was so cool and then starting to read Detective Comics not realizing as how much more "grown up" the comics were than the tv show until the Michael Keaton movie came out.
With the gritty, "real world" tone of the Dark Knight Trilogy with a growling Christian Bale, it's great that we can look back to Mr. West's Batman, think back to our childhood and see that superheroes are just as good when they don't take themselves too seriously and just be fun.

Duckface

Here's another portrait practice in the vexel style.
I love how beautiful faces look just as pretty when they're in wacky or contorted poses.
This is why I chose the gorgeous Rosie Huntington-Whiteley for this session.
I chanced upon this pic over the interwebs and was smitten with her ducky pout.
It's fun to do portraits with character.

Quick vexel practice

This vexel practtice is based on the likeness of sexy model, Mia Solis.
She's actually a redhead but I wanted to keep to flat strokes for the hair on this piece and
the red just didn't quite work like I wanted.
The grainy texture that I applied also made the red overlay look a bit sparkly, I think.
Oh, well, more practice then...

Kajal vexel practice

practiced more vector/vexel style portrait using Kajal Agarwal's likeness...

Hippolyta colored

Finally found the time to color this old sketch, was hoping to make it look more like Lynda Carter but didn't quite manage it.

Nathalie Vector

simple vector-style portrait practice on photoshop, using Miss Nathalie Hayashi as model

Leah D. as Lightning

Have had a sketch of former Jpop singer Leah Dizon lying around. Decided to color it today and added in armor based on Final Fantasy XIII-2 character, Lightning.

Angel Nathalie

This is my anime-style interpretation of local vixen Nathalie Hayashi's from one of her photos. A side-by-side comparison may be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532881450064162&set=a.388604401158535.99540.100000269364974&type=1&theater

Saida "vector" portrait

There are a lot of very impressive artists out there and lately I've been seeing tons of talented ones making magnificent vector portraits. After countless failed attempts at making a fairly accurate portrait of this lovely girl I used to see a lot on a local noontime show (and whom I have a really big crush on),  I decided against my better judgement to try my hand at doing it vector style. I'm obviously not as adept as most vector artists, and have limited painting skills - learning mainly on self-study, but I hope I did pretty well on my first try. This was done on Photoshop which isn't really what real vector artists use, but it's the only digital software I use for most of my artwork.

The Dark Knight sketch

Was having a bit of trouble getting some drawings for work right or the way I want them to be, at least, so I decided to do a warm up sketch and came up with this little filler for my sketchpad.

Stargirl concept sketch

I haven't posted any new stuff in a while (a drawback of being a freelance artist juggling too many projects with non-disclosure clauses), so I roughed out a quick concept sketch of one of the characters from a webcomic, "The Celestial", for which I used to do art. I never actually got the chance to draw her on the comic series during my stint because she was already dead, but I really enjoyed designing what she could have looked like if had to appear in the chapters of the series that i drew.

Zombie Plague promo art

this is the promo pin up for the Kickstarter campaign of RSquared Studios' "Zombie Plague" project; I did pencils and inks, colors are by Ronda Pattison.
please head on over to the kickstarter link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847163926/zombie-plague-issue-1; we have only a few days left and hope you can help us out. thanks!

another Starfall concept poster

unfinished colors on an artwork by Willie Blue Bussell

StarFall concept poster

pencils by willie bussel and me, colors by me.

Bottled

pencil commission of selena bottled by doctor facilier, colored in photoshop cs

Hit-Girl commission

I posted 2 versions of this piece because I like them both. I rarely get asked to redo a commission after the final stage of color and I thought I had it right when I sent the golden blonde version. the client preferred a more copper tone to her hair though, which I think looks pretty good too...

Selena In SludgeBucket commission

this is my "realistic" take of the sludgebucket character from "the real ghostbusters" cartoon series.

Gypsy Girl commission

I enjoyed doing this piece. it was fun to do the over-sized fabric of her dress and to do a turban-wearing lady for the first time. one of the reasons I like drawing girls with long hair is that I can practice creating the illusion of motion in static poses by drawing flowing hair. in this piece I had to practice that effect with the long cloth.

Tigra commission (colored)

Hippolyta

since I enjoyed drawing the princess diana commission, decided to do another "amazon" warrior sketch - her mother, queen hippolyta. guess all the hype about a new wonder woman tv series rubbed off on me. I think I'll try to make her look more like Lynda Carter when I do a colored version of this piece.

Princess Diana commission (colored)

I couldn't decide how to color the background but wanted to suggest majesty and radiance, to give the impression that she is a goddess...

Princess Diana commission

Wonder Woman in royal garb; pencil and ink on 11x17

Tigra commission

Mary Jane commission

Mutants and Masterminds groupshot

This is one of the six pieces of art I did for the Mutants and Masterminds TCG that I just finished. I enjoyed doing this piece a lot because it felt like doing an X-Men cover art in the Jim Lee era or just a standard cramped X-Men groupshot poster. I'd definitely love to do more stuff like this.

Scarlet Witch colored

My friend Jose, liked my sketch of this character when he saw it posted here and paid me to color the drawing for him. I really need to learn more about coloring blank backgrounds though...

Maricar

just another practice at the portrait style i've been developing

Vicky

another filler for my sketchbook; a "tame" drawing this time. this was taken from a pic of vicky zhao wei the chinese actress

Selene

the werewolf-hunting deathdealer from the "Underworld" movie series.

The Scarecrow

after drawing the scarlet witch, i decided to sketch another "halloween - themed" character, this time from batman's rogues gallery...

Scarlet Witch

here's another filler for my sketchbook. there's a lot of blank pages still because doing key animations take so much time and i haven't had this much downtime in a while

Poison Ivy Sketch

i'm trying to practice doing backgrounds - something i don't get to do much in animation - here, on a poison ivy sketch which i might color soon

Hulk

another sketchpad filler, this is one of my favorite Marvel comics characters but this is the first time I tried drawing him, I think...

Stitches

concept art of a clown/dr.frankenstein's monster for an animation project. clowns scare me, so this one had to be put on paper a.s.a.p. to stop giving me nightmares...lol

Captain Liberty and Liberty Belle sketch

a quick sketch of two characters from the webcomic "Celestial"

Black Widow Commission

Lara Croft Commission finished

took me the whole day to finish the colors which i had to redo from scratch since i lost the original file. glad i have a new wacom bamboo pen to do this with. colors were done on adobe photoshop 7.

Vampirella

colored with a mouse - something i haven't done in a while since i learned to use a wacom pen tablet.

Lost and Found

an unused cover concept for the comicbook "Vigilance"

Lara Croft Work in Progress