it's a boy!!!

Well here is my comic offspring. His name is D'Sild Ah Fax, or "Phantom Bane" in english. His parents are Mystique and Azreal. This means he is Nightcrawler's full brother. He resembles his father and resides with him in hell. Same abilities as his mother and brother. Shapeshift and teleport.

Concept: Swamp People

April 2011 Concept: Swamp People

Southern rednecks are often called swamp people by many. Be it the simple happy redneck country jamboree band member or something more menacing. The concept here is to do a character that reigns from the southern outback swamp lands. Given the colorful stereotypes and the location of many of the oddities of humanity hide, this should be interesting.

-Meatmonkey

Killing with the colors of the wind...

A little different than what I had in mind, but I ended up using the original concept for something else so here she is. Windblade? or Kills-like-Wind? whatever.

Punch out!

Not the strongest or fastest fighter, but John "slinky" Smith has amazing range in the ring due to his rubber-like bones. Colored version soon!!

Pika-Chew!!!!!!

Regular and Zombie versions. The digitals of these are coming out pretty sick and I should have them up on my blog soon. I did 5 in total, but this is my favorite. Enjoy.

Color version added.

Raising Spirit

A loose interpretation of "raising spirits" but it is true to the concept. Miles away from where I started but it works and I dig it...

Sin Weapon Concepts

Here are two of my designs for the Sin Weapons concepts: the top one is Wrath and the second one is Gluttony. I did one of these for each sin but I am saving them for something else. Leave comments and crits.

Ziggy & Big Boy

Name: Ziggy

Country: Spain

Description: Lean fighter that distracts and confuses his opponents with wide array of attacks.

Name: BIG boy

Country: Poland

Description: Simple fighter with a great deal of fortitude and that is defensive until angered.

Wow, I did not realize how old these sketches actually were until I busted them out. Well, here were my Punch Out theme characters. If I recall I tried to mimic the style of the last Wii game that came out, but I kinda want to redo them but doubt I will find the time. Enjoy.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Egyptian Portrait

March 2011 Concept: Egyptian Portrait

Develop a portrait of Egyptian motif, but it does not have to be from the classic time period. Design a portrait from an old, futuristic, or fantasy styled Egyptian character. Lots of strange animal masks and theological elements from the mythology can be brought into play on these designs.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Tactical Arms

February 2011 Concept: Tactical Arms

Equipment of any time era or any degree of technology. Tactical arms is equipment that greatly help you defeat your enemies, but does not have to directly kill them. Be it smoke bombs, stun weapons, or some other strange device the options are widely open. Include a small description of its purpose if you can.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Road Warrior

January 2011 Concept: Road Warrior

How movie pitches begin with... in a futuristic post apocalyptic world our hero roams the roads of a once proud civilization? Well here we are getting ready to design such a hero (or Villain) for such a scenario. Design a character that is hardened badass that wanders the wastes and survives regardless of how broken the world has become.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Ninja

December 2010 Concept: Ninja

Everyone favorite backflipping, pajama wearing, ultra assassins - Ninja. What needs to be said, no required gimmicks, Ninja are just cool enough they do not need any. Design away!

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Astronaut

November 2010 Concept: Astronaut

To go boldly where no one has gone before, we are to design explorers of that great unknown outer space. Of course who of us to say that outer space is the final frontier? So design a futuristic explorer of some lonely great expanse that challenges our travelers. This will be a great opportunity to design a futuristic planet landscape for the explorer as well.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Evil Disney

October 2010 Concept: Evil Disney

"Im the mascot of an evil corporation!" -Bart Simpson.

Take an existing Disney character be it good or evil in nature, then twist them into the evil creature that they should be. The design can be done in Disney cartoon style or completed twisted to your own style but the idea is change any Disney character and make it evil... take a good character make it evil, take a evil character and make it eviler.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Treant

September 2010 Concept: Treant

Treants... you know those walking man tree things. The concept for this month is Treants of any kind or variation, be it the classical Lord of the Rings type or some futuristic mad scientist hybrid man walker the idea is up to you. Perhaps it is armed or wields magic of some kind, but design a Treant to terrorize or protect the world.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Cyborg

August 2010 Concept: Cyborg

Part Flesh; Part Machine. Be it the terminator, Bionic Man, or some other classic movie Cyborg the concept this month is cyborgs. This can be military, industrial, commercial or some other type of cyborg. We are not just restricted to human form as well, because we all know that mad scientist have many out the box ideas. Lots of room to play with concepts here!

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Great Lighthouse

July 2010 Concept: Great Lighthouse

The Lighthouse warned ships of deadly rocks or were the guiding light for ships stuck at sea in a storm. The Great Lighthouse is reference to ancient Lighthouses which were not easily accomplished as they were today. The concept is to sketch any "Great" Lighthouse from past, present, or Future.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Comic Offspring

June 2010 Concept: Comic Offspring

Below will be a pair of lists of 10 comic characters, draw the concept if two comic characters had a child. You are more than welcome to use any character you can think of, but the list will be provided for those who wish to use it for sparking ideas. Be sure to list which parent characters you have chosen and maybe even a small story about their abilities.

-Meatmonkey

Male:

1. Wolverine

2. Thor

3. Hulk

4. Human Torch

5. Nightcrawler

6. Ghost Rider

7. Redskull

8. Venom

9. Blade

10. Cloak

Female:

1. Storm

2. Wasp

3. Warbird (Ms. Marvel)

4. Polaris

5. Mystique

6. Phoenix

7. Dazzler

8. Psylocke

9. Scarlet Witch

10. Dagger

Concept: Indian Warrior

May 2010 Concept: Indian Warrior

The noble native warrior, crazed "Injun" bandit or some other redskin fighter that you may think of. The concept for this one is a western warrior from one of the native american tribes that have graced many movies. A lot of opportunity to play with costume designs, weapons and warpaint, but ultimately we all want it to look cool.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Punch Out

April 2010 Concept: Punch Out

Most of us have played the old video game classic Punch Out! If you have not, you have not fully lived. You can however redeem yourselves by posting some concepts for boxers for the "next" Punch Out game. These characters are usually cartoon in nature and are fun light hearted in their designs. Enjoy!

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Zombie Pokemon

March 2010 Concept: Zombie Pokemon

The return of the Sktech-Night blog begins with the concept of doing the dead coming back. More specifically.... Zomebie Pokemon! Though we already have one dead raising concept, they are so cool they get two!

You may notice a bunch a wrong dated Concept titles now... ignore it. We are of course are welcomed to do previous entries or not. We way we want to kick this concept blog off and get some kick ass art done!

-Meatmonkey

Tank!

Ok, I know this is a weak post, but I felt I should post SOMETHING, since I haven't yet.

Here's a little doodle I did after reading the tank challenge and seeing Ron's model.
The idea is of a small, remotely opreated tank. It operates with a modified L7 105mm cannon with a suppressor to help conceal its location, and an FN MAG as its secondary weapon.

Tank Concepts

So here is my "sketch" versions of the tank concept assignment. I at first had trouble getting into this, but after re-visiting the topic, I finally got something that I like. It's not these. These however, are something that my kids helped me develop. The top is a hover tank design and the bottom is a drill tank.

Concept: Sin Weapons

February 2010 Concept: Sin Weapons

Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Sloth , Vanity, and Wrath.
The concept of this one will be to design the seven deadly sins as weapons. We can choose to focus on doing many weapon designs of a single sin or do a few weapons for each sin. Its really up to you all, but I am betting this is one we will get carried away with once we get started.
When posting our designs lets try to keep it to fewer images. We can always adjust the canvas size or make the image bigger to make up for fewer weapon sheets. At least no more than a weapon sheet for each Sin at most. (7 Sheets)
Our target finish date is December 15th.

The futuristic tank concept was a nightmare for us all I see. We will move back towards figures, but first let us try some item designs before then. We all missed the Raising the Spirits deadline on Gnomon as well. But you can still post it here for your fellow artist approval!
-Meatmonkey

Boogie Redux

Boogie man part 4 or 5. I really struggled with this one. Filed under done, and moving on...

Tank Model

I cheated and I feel bad about it. I really wanted to draw the tank originally and only planned on doing a perspective study in maya. Then one thing led to another and this happened, guys who commit date rape probably say the same thing. Either way since I got carried away with the perspective study I will finish it sooner or later as a model and update this post.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Raising the Spirits

January 2010 Concept: Raising the Spirits

Another concept from the Gnomon boards, this one being "Raising the Spirits". The spirit raising is implied to be of supernatural origins, but do not let that railway you in your concepts. Look forward to seeing all your work, and hopefully we will be more on time with this one than our tank concepts. Gnomon deadline is December 1st and can be posted at
http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Best of luck all!
-Meatmonkey

Concept: Futuristic Tank

December 2009 Concept: Futuristic Tank

An armored weapon of the future be of human, alien or other origins. The tank can be the traditional treaded behemoth with a teeth filled with armaments. Perhaps a tank of the distant future that hovers quickly with energy weaponry destroying all in its path. Giving difference in genres and technology levels will give us each many options for a concept thats probably out of many of our comfort zones. Good luck, our target date is November 16th.

It seems we are all having trouble with the Boogeyman concept and hopefully we all make great progress soon. Remember its never too late to post any of the past concepts, so lets not give up if we do not make a deadline.

-Meatmonkey

Soulless Portrait

Since I had no ideas for the Evil Children concept, I just took a creepy kid off the internet and practiced a digital painting for a sitting. Nothing special I did, just a straight forward painting. I think I really need to start doing more of these though, they will help me in the long run.

-Meatmonkey

FireHound

I set him in temple scene, as if he is guarding, patrolling the walkways. It came out a little different than how I imagined it. I pictured his skin to be more or less glowing, and he would have a light fire aura of some sort but he just came out looking like he is on fire. I'm still happy in the way it came out.

This one is working in progress. I was planning on adding tall dry grass all around the field and have him in full color. The evil kid is holding a dead cat if you can't make it out.

Asher

Not really a sketch per say but here is my take on a "fire" elemental or an Asher as I am refering to him. Check out my blog to get the story and meet his friends. I invite you all to read his/their background, pick a country and draw one up. Think, WMD via elemental creature. Or not.

Concept: The Boogeyman

November 2009 Concept: The Boogey Man

Another concept from the Gnomon boards. From under the bed, out of the closet, and the old man down the street offering you candy. This one will probably be a challenge to us, and lets hope we get some good results. Feel free to post early to get feedback, and polish up your results for the Gnomon contest at
http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
Otherwise our target date is November 1st.

-Meatmonkey

Ice Guardian

The Ice Guardian, a lesser ice elemental creature that is roughly human size. They form in shard like layers that are brittle and constant in the state of sharpening. They are fairly quick, come usually in small numbers, and have a tendency to shatter shards in the area when struck or killed.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Elemental Creature

October 2009 Concept: Elemental Creature

An elemental creature of any form of energy from the realms of fantasy. Choices include but are not limited to; Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and so on. Concept a creature of pure energy or a creature heavily tied to a form of energy in some way. The challenge here will be to keep an interesting creature with features that can still be tied to its element without making just a puddle of water or some lame ass campfire monster. Target date, October 15th.

For those of us who have not yet posted the previous concept, there is no harm in posting late. We should not try to fall to far behind though. Yes, I need to get to work too.
-Meatmonkey.

You are the ant...

Hey tell what you think, not sure if I should post it at Gnomon.

Concept: Evil Children

September 2009 Concept: Evil Children

Here we go. Every two weeks (roughly) we will be adding up a concept here for all to sketch, post, and comment on. We can title our posts whatever we wish, but be sure to keep the label the same as the Concept for organizational purposes. For example, label this piece(s) "Evil Children". The size is up to you, but keep them as .jpeg and low rez, you can always link to your own blog sites for high rez ones as well. I find anything around 600-800 (72 dpi) pixels in the largest dimension is more than good enough. If you do multiple pieces on a single concept, feel free to include them in the posts. Just keep them all in a single post.

Our target date, October 1st.

This concept comes directly from Gnomon boards. So if you wish to polish up your concepts, consider entering the image contest at http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1

-Meatmonkey