The Art and Design of Morgen Sellier

Finally finished one of my most time-intensive environments (so far) for my portfolio. The linework was done back in the summer, but I've been trying to get the color down for the past week. Lots of learning was done on this one, mostly in the 'learning to play with contrast' department. I've found I really like working with warm colors.

I've been working on playing around with color for my portfolio. This is an environment drawing that I did with pen during California and then scanned in to color with Photoshop. It's not done yet, but I'm liking how it's coming out so far. Here's a screenshot of it open in Photoshop.

Unfinished sketch, toying around with a half-baked concept: A supermodel gains radioactive powers that start eating her up from the inside. It's probably post-apocalyptic. 

Playing around with Core's head design.

I'm toying around with the idea of revamping my old war-fae, Core... As characters go, he's a pretty interesting one, but his design is in a definite rut. Currently, this is what he looks like: I dreamt him up back in freshman year, and it kinda shows. While there are parts of the design that I do like--the multiple eyes, the lil' hands--he's just too... pretty. War's an ugly thing. It's chaotic and violent and messy. With that in mind, I started playing around with some new ideations for him: You'll notice hints of centipede and AK-47 in there. I'm hoping to get over my revulsion of the centipedes enough that I can look at them for more than a few seconds in order to get a better reference.  Stay tuned as I try to wrestle Core's design into submission.

For the purposes of developing some comic pages (some of the colleges I'm applying to wanted an example of sequential art), I took out an older character and dusted him off, plopping him into a new storyline. Here are the first two pages of that comic. Time willing, I'll finish the other four and add some shading and color.

As of right now, here's the updated pages for the Mass Effect expansion pack. In the coming week or so, I intend to add on a few more environments and--I believe the word is keyframes?--to help give a better scope to the world of Camp Scrubby.

I fiddled with the base's design and floorplan a little bit, and here's the result: