Welcome to my portfolio. I love character design! My favorite thing is to mix opposites and play with paradox. Mixing two disparate ideas and bringing them to life in character form is what I thrive at doing.
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Alice is back from Wonderland, and I don't think she'll ever be the same! I consider this to be my masterpiece, it was fun to draw, and I love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! I wanted her to have an innocence about her, but a broken one, not a lost one. I attempted to mix the innocence and cuteness with the madness. Just like Wonderland itself, beautiful but insane.
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The companion piece to Alice. I wanted to capture anger and rage with this one, while still holding on to the heart motif. I also wanted her to be pointy and dangerous, I even fashioned the hair to be reminiscent of horns. A sort of juxtaposition of the ideal of the heart and the reality of the Queen.
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The Cheshire Cat is already insane, but I wanted to put my own mad spin on him. The way he appears and disappears makes me think of a snake's stealth, so I elongated the cat's body to a serpentine figure. Then I pushed his most prominent figures past the edge of propriety, his eyes and teeth. I'm truly satisfied with how unsettling it is.
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This mysterious pale figure with glowing green eyes beckons you to join her. I got ambitious with this one and the foreshortened hand! I wanted an air of elegance and mystery, should you go with her? Does adventure wait for you, or something less pleasant?
When thinking about the composition I thought "what if she is reaching out of a painting?" Years ago, my dad made out-of-frame photoshop edits, and I thought of that effect and said yes, that will add to the atmosphere I'm trying to create here!
The only real question is, will you join her?
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The Jolly Jester is an exercise in balaning paradox. The tattered left balanced against the new right, the stripes against the polka dots, the knife against the game, the beauty against the beast, and the humor against the horror.
The cards in her hand are the Aces and Eights of the black suits, that's known as "the dead man's hand." It was the hand Wild Bill Hickock had when he was killed.
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I wanted to play with perspective with this one. And eyes, I had been drawing crazy eyes for a week, and this was the final result. Throw in some selective blurring, chromatic aberration, and special lighting and you get this. A young woman who is waaay too excited to become a butcher. Or a really bad relationship.
I was going to add blood spatter to the knife, but I thought the time before any violence hold more suspense than right after it.
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This character started out when I was doing some gesture/life drawings and didn’t want to draw a head or face so I thought it was funny to draw a big eyeball instead. Eventually the eyeball got wings. And after drawing her a few times I named her ‘Candi’ (that’s Candy with and i [eye] – get it? It’s a pun, and she’s also ‘Eye Candy’) Sometimes I draw her with the back wings and sometimes not. I thought Candi would be perfect for a Halloween piece. So enjoy some Halloween Candi from JW608!
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This started with a pun. Somewhere online someone had mentioned a nekomancer. (Neko - Japanese for cat and necromancer - a practitioner of the dark arts). I found the pun amusing and so I made my own version. Though instead of a necromancer, she is just an undead cat girl.
My favorite parts are the ears sewn onto the hood, the bell, and hte stuffed mouse.
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