Pretty Serious

For almost a year now I've been working with this fantastic entrepreneur who started her own cosmetic company called Pretty Serious, in Australia.  It all began by doing a header for her B movie review blog, B Movie Chicks, which then lead to me doing pinups for her different lines of products.

Creating her logo design is what lead to the girl painting her nails that I've been using on my blog and website.  I also helped design the packaging for the products.

Hello World!

This one is based on computer lingo.  I've always been an Apple girl, so I've never witnessed a Blue Screen of Death but I'm sure the colour is nicer than the situation.  See the colours HERE.

In The Night

This on is based on an old SNES game, which I never played, but I recognized the character design.  See the line HERE.

Monster Mash

Ok, this one I really enjoyed doing.  Anything kind of monster related and my eyes and ears perk up.  You can probably guess who each of the little, soon to be blended, monsters are based on.  See the colours HERE.

Emma Louise

Last and more definitely not least is the charity driven colour.  To celebrate a friend's birthday, she got to design her own colour with the profits of the sale of this colour going to her favourite charity.  It's a limited edition too!  Read more about it HERE.

It's been a pleasure working with Pretty Serious these past few months.  Me being in Canada and her being in Australia hasn't hampered our work.  It just bends my mind a bit thinking she's replying to my emails from the future because of the time difference.

Pizza!

Been drawing a lot of pizza and pizza related things lately.  For some reason I wanted to give this one a quick Photoshop colour.  Not surprisingly to me, I am not craving pizza now.

Fishman

Guess who this is based on?

It's an unused icon for a slots game I'm currently working on.  I just couldn't get it quite right enough for the boss to like so he got left out.

Chubby Cars

These were test sketches for a new slots game.  Luckily another idea was picked to I didn't have to draw any more.  I don't like drawing cars.  Even super chubby cartoon ones.  Have I mentioned I don't like perspective either?  Cars have a lot of it.  I was planning on tweaking the heck out of them if they ever got to the colouring stage.  I do kind of like my little classic cadillac though.

Anyone want a cowgirl?

The person who commissioned me to create her has had their plans delayed and now they don't want her anymore.  The day came where they said they would have things "taken care of" (which I took to mean "paid off") but, nope.  Luckily I got paid for the sketch.  They seemed very excited once they saw the coloured versions, even gave some input to change some things which I did but now it looks like I'm out the final payment and the cowgirl is now mine.

So I'm going to offer her as a 8"x14" print (just the full body version, see it below) for $20, including shipping.  Just email me (via the Commissions page) or comment here and we'll trade info.

Another Slots Game

I thought I'd post another one of the slots games I've done this past year.  It's called Piggy Wiggy Riches so I'll give you 2 guesses as to what the theme is.  I have distinct memories of coming up with the look of this game, because I got the theme a few days before my braces went on last year.  So while I was laying back getting these suckers glued on my teeth I busied my mind by mentally sketching out what things would look like.

And a few animated symbols:

I was really happy with that fox being petted.

Paint your nails, ladies!

Some commission work I did a little while ago is now LIVE!  So I'm happy to point you towards Pretty Serious Cosmetics where two of my ladies are being used for a new line of nail polish. 

This one is an unchosen sketch that I really liked so I coloured it up for myself.

Farmer's Market

I did this one for a group I've been working with for a while.  They wanted a rooster and a hen for the restrooms at their farmer's market, plus some edibles for signs.  Similarly, I did some artwork for a website by one of the groups members that involves home cooking and canning, called Relish Yo' Mama.

Bath City Roller Girls

Here's a logo image I did for, you guessed it, the Bath City Roller Girls roller derby team.  Whoo!

Jeweltastic

These are some unused gems from work.  I'm not really a natural when it comes to this shiny sort of thing.  I have to do a Google image search to see how everyone else does it then stare at all the examples for a few hours thinking "Holy Heck!  How'd they do that!" before attempting to colour my own.  This is also my first attempt at using Google SketchUp, the free version.  It took about a day to figure out the basics and even then I would break into a sweat with the extreme desire to reach into my computer screen and rotate the damned shape with my bare hands!

Showing Off

I got permission to show off what I've done for work!  I didn't want to get into trouble by showing images that I shouldn't be so I haven't posted anything, ever, I've done for work.  So this is what I mainly do for a living:  SLOTS!  

This is the latest one I've finished called "Galaxy Cafe".  The title is animated, parts of the background are animated, all of the icons are animated and here a few of my favourites:

For each game I also have to create 2 Bonus Game which you get to by fulfilling certain gameplay requirements, like having a certain icon show up or having a group of icons all line up in the same row.  For this game, one is called Burger Buck! where you pick burgers on a grill to earn credits.  The robot is animated flinging his arms around excitedly when you win something.  The fries also boil in the frier.

The second Bonus Game is called "Cosmic Desserts".  You pick one dessert from each row to win credits.  The jello changes colours, the pudding rolls back and forth in the bowl, the pie opens up to show a pair of winking eyes and a lots more goes on too.

There's a Mystery UFO that sometimes shows up to change an icon so you can win.  I'm really happy with how it turned out!  This is the kind of gif I send to the programmers so they know how this are supposed to look.  Click on it to see it animate.

This is just a fraction of what I created for this particular game.  I'm planning on posting more of my work soon.