Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Re-tale

A zine in light of the"The New Guy"

Sunday, November 14, 2010

A meeting with HR



Sunday, November 7, 2010

Sharp Cheddar

Produced by Devin Chicas and me. "Sharp Cheddar" is a satire on human relationships.

Coupons




Thursday, October 28, 2010

Headwind final cover

Friday, October 22, 2010

Book Cover: HEADWIND





"HEADWIND" Cover designs:
Devin Chicas & James Connors

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Anthropasia #12 "Consolidation"



The earlier theme of organisms and encasing structures has been transforming. Through exploring and developing these entities they have become much more environmental and biological. As though these scenes may portray the microcosm within the earlier figures.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Anthropasia #11

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Anthropasia #10

Anthropasia #9

Friday, May 14, 2010

Art featured in Baltimores "City Paper" for MICA's 2010 Commencement Exhibition.

2010 SENIOR COMMENCEMENT EXHIBITION
FEATURED IN BALTIMORE'S
CITY PAPER

Friday May 14, 2010

Featured my "EXAMINER INSTALLING DOME"


Link to Article

Woohoo !!!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

"Layer Cake" Senior Illustration Exhibition


My Illustration class displaying their best work. Standing next to my "Exist" Illustration.

Monday, May 3, 2010

ManDuck & BoyBear



Created by James Connors and Dan Ellis
Animated by James Connors.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Monday, April 5, 2010

Anthropasia, three additions

Hello. These are two additions to the "Anthropasia" series. This series was heavily influenced by microorganisms and archetypal formations.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Year 3384, Feeder Farm

These "Feeder Farms" are installations where Examiners constrain and harvest energy from Feeders.
For more a detailed explanation. look below under "Year, 3384" posts

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Anthropasia series

This is a series of 5 that I submitted to 3x3. I feel very happy about this and will continue developing it

Thanks for looking!



Monday, March 22, 2010

"Friendship In Season" nominated by the Creative Alliance!


Hello! Here is a ad from the Creative Alliance. Devin Chicas and I produced "Friendship In Season" and submitted it to the Creative Alliance Video Bake-Off contest. A still-image from our animation was picked to be on the ad! April 9th is the screening and voting!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Year, 3384 Concept Art

Hello everyone. These four images are concept art diagrams for my Senior thesis, a sci-fi story entitled "Year, 3384." In a earlier post under "Concepts" is the background story and a more detailed description. These diagrams will be printed as large posters for my final presentation this May. Thanks for viewing!!

Click to enlarge.

Falling Serum



Sunday, March 7, 2010

Robafrog, Concept work.

Robafrog lives in a polluted swamp owned by para-military Agri-business empire. his gene mutation's made him huge and slightly intimidating while his Agri-business lords put him to use as a guard by installing mechanized legs for agility.








Thursday, March 4, 2010

Take A Knee


Sunday, February 28, 2010

"Norse god of Fishing"

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Year 3384, Examiner Installing a Dome

Hello! Here is a digital painting of a Examiner installing a Dome. This is the first of three environment paintings I'll be making for my senior thesis concept art.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Friendship in Season

Please excuse the quality
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"Exist"

Hey there, this a illustration mock up I made for my friend's band. Thanks for looking!

Friday, January 15, 2010

stalin ad bustung

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Aliens with human characteristics

Hello here is some concept work i've worked on this week. I chose to draw aliens with human expressions and they evolved into very humanoid figures.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Year, 3384 helmet design

This is a comparison of settlers helmets from original condition to 170 years later.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Helmet colors



Hello, here I have chosen one of the three "Pre-colonial" helmet designs to be futher developed in three color concepts. It is important that the helmet reflects over 150 years of use and resembles what a modern utility helmet would look like.


Hello again! I have just completed some helmet concept sketches for my senior thesis entitled "Year, 3384." The helmet designs are for the human colonists engaged in dangerous work, specifically the engineers and hunters. I imagind that some of the settlers held on to the multi-used headgear since colonization, bruised and beaten they would be prized and reserved for seniors. The remaining helmets would have been made from scratch, such as welded scrap metal, and heard leather from feeders.

Settlement concepts

Hello! I hope everyone had a good holidays. In this stage of my senior thesis "Year, 3384" I am drawing concept sketches of human settlements. The humans colonized this planet 170 years ago and survived for 50 years with the aid of machines to survive. For the last 120 years they have been on their own. When brainstorming how their settlements would look like and operate I researched indigenous tribal villages and what materials they use(d). Since the humans depend on hunting the large "Feeders" for food they also construct shelters out of feeder remains. Above I've drawn 19 thumbnail sketches exploring this idea.

Character design, mascots

Reinvent a pre-1980 mascot for current marketability.
"Mr. Wonderful's Surprise " was a cereal created in the mid-70's by general mills. I really enjoy the original characters completely spontaneous clothing (not to mention the para-scope hat). not to mention the awkward potential for sexual innuendo (Creamy vanilla filled puff balls), why does he have to hold two? Its not hard to see why this wouldn't be acceptable for kids now or in the 70's. I took a prevalent Willy Wonka, lucky charm aesthetic and tried to adapt his unique clothing to the character. Composing him not to look to realistic to be creepy for parents or kids, and just plain ecstatic about cereal was a good challenge.

Capture the Dachshunds personality and illustrated it as a ad for various magazines only using the companies name "Mason."
This project was very rewarding as I had not used digital painting over my pencil mark in some time. I have not experimented with text, and found this very suiting. Mason, a dog brought into our class to sketch had a dashing and very curious character and seeing him stand up really captured that behavior.