Some New Life Drawings

Meant to post these before... I think life drawing uses a different part of your brain than drawing for games :) Good to stretch that part out once in a while.

Life Drawing

Here's what I got from the first life drawing class down at MICA. That one at the bottom there went through some weird stuff, but I decided early on I was going to just let it happen and play with it. So don't blame the model.

Life Drawing Session

A number of Big Huge artists are participating in a series of life drawing sessions at MICA. It's been many years since I last sketched the figure, however 10 minutes into it the familiar feeling of having pencil and sketchbook in hand came rushing back. Good times...

Come Join Our Team!

The Big Huge Games art team is looking for an experienced, exceptionally knowledgeable, talented, and motivated Concept Artist to joing our team and contribute to our upcoming original RPG title (Xbox360, Playstation3 & PC), headed by internationally celebrated Game Designer Ken Rolston of Oblivion fame. This is also an opportunity to work alongside award-winning Big Huge Concept Artists Sean Andrew Murray and Jeremy Enecio. Together this talented duo has earned high accolade from Spectrum, Dominance War, and Society of Illustrators to name a few.

To view some of the concept work from our past titles visit our ConceptArt.org forum post.

The Big Huge art team has been bestowed with Gamespy's 2006 Special Achievement in Art Direction Award and critics have commended Rise of Legends as "A playable piece of art..." (Game Revolution), and "...the best looking RTS I've ever played" (PC Gamer).

If you think you're the right person for the job then click here to read the full job listing with directions on how to apply, as well as take a closer look at our benefits and fun office perks such as free sodas, extensive game library, pool table, ping pong, and bar modeled after a local Irish Pub just to name a few. We do all we can to adhere to our motto of "You Gotta Have Fun To Make Fun!"

We look forward to seeing your work!

A few concept examples from our past titles...

New Stuff

Gnomon Monthly

Right below is my piece for the Gnomon Monthly art contest and below that is just a doodle.

Samus

Here's something I've been noodling around with, but its getting out of hand so I'll stop now.

Mock Turtle

I think I'm done with the Mock Turtle, if for nothing else than he's been sitting too long on the back burner. The barnacles were a final thought, trying to ground him in the scene a bit more.

Portrait

Here's my attempt at getting back into serious mode. He reminds me of someone....

Robo-mode.

Here is a new image i finshed today. Robo mini mode...and brain!

-Kenji

Old Work Dumpage

Here's some old images I dug up from my computer at home. I really should get back to sketching again.

Some Older Life Drawings

Some Sketch Book Stuff

Trying to get back into sketching regularly again :)

Update 5/16/08

Here is the colored version from the previous rough sketch I posted ages ago. Been fun working on this but hope to update with some more stuff soon. Tight mode.

-Kenji

Wow/sang inspired...

I sketched this a few months back when I was wowing full steam... hehe 8P

SPARTA!!!

I, too, finished Dominance War!

And here are the final illustration and model sheet from my entry. Twas good fun, and I wish all of those who entered "good luck"..... you're gonna NEED IT! MUHUHUAHAHAHAA! OK, that was dumb. Ted, Sang, awesome entries!

The war is over!

Finished up my entry for the dominance war III contest. It was really tough to find any time to do this but it was worth it. Big thanks to Sang for giving me some great tips and advice on the image. I learned a lot. By the way I hope Sang and Sean post their images soon. Both of their images came out great and I didn't realize until the end that we were all representing CGTALK.

more stories

This one is for a Shakespeare story called A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's for an assignment given by Sam Weber in my fashion illustration class.

Here's the finished piece for the Watersnake image I posted earlier. Lemme know what you guys think. This took waayy too long.

Big Huge Games - Art Open House

Big Huge Games will be having its semi-annual ART OPEN HOUSE this Thursday, April 10th from 5-8pm. There’ll be lots of food along with Big Huge artists demoing game creation techniques. Artists will also be on hand for student portfolio review and feedback. Big Huge is rapidly expanding with multiple projects underway for the Xbox 360, Playstation3 and Wii gaming platforms. We have more challenging and exciting work than we can handle and are on the lookout for talented and motivated students interested in paid summer internships.

There are a limited number of spaces for portfolio review. To reserve a timeslot please contact Jessica Hara at jhara(at)bighugegames.com

Space for the event is limited. If you plan to attend we kindly ask that you notify us at RSVP@bighugegames.com.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Driving directions from downtown Baltimore...

Rough Sketch

I decided to sketch my next character using the blue Col-Erase pencil since I have been using digital for as long as I can remember. It's nice to go back and forth every once in awhile. But will start painting in this guy very soon here and will start tweaking several areas. Can't wait to color this dude. Cheers!

-Kenji

Quickie sketch before bed. Been checking out some Ashley Wood tonight. Undead is the best race in WOW!