Quicksilver characters re-design

It's fun sometimes to go back and re-draw a character you designed... when you go back to something you haven't worked on for a while, you'll have new insight into the ideas you had for the character.  Here are the 4 main characters for a game I worked on quite a while ago, Quicksilver: Infinite Story.

Leowin more or less looks the same though hehe... Here's what the artwork I made for the game looked like:

Oh how far I've come. xD

Animation backgrounds

I've been helping out my friend, Ashley Armstrong, on her animation thesis, "Swan Song".  Here are some backgrounds I helped her color.

Also, check out the trailer!  It's gonna be awesome :D
http://vimeo.com/58810970

Fairies

These are some fairy designs I came up with for my portfolio... will be adding color soon.

The romance

I have quite a large backlog of stuff to post but here's a piece I drew for the romantic in us all :)

Business card 2013

This is the business card I designed for myself this year!  I painted the cloud landscape from some reference pictures I took of the sky near my house a few months ago.  I love huge clouds in a blue sky!  If I see clouds I like, I can't help taking pictures of them (even while driving whoops...).

I'm a waterbender

I like firebending the most but all the tests have me as a waterbender... so here's me as a waterbender :)

 

 

Also, my boyfriend as an airbender hehe; I think there would be airbenders around that are not living at the temples, right?

Stuff!

Long time no see! I get too caught up with finishing pieces to post them... but here are some illustrations I did recently.

If Zuko and Katara switched elements...


I'm really into Japanese power rangers recently!

Sketchbook pages...

Here we have images from a Taylor Swift song, Pride and Prejudice characters, and just getting the feel of the Korra characters. :) Perhaps I draw Korra a little too cutesy hehe... The last one is a concept for Joan of Arc but that silhouette needs some work.

Oldish figure drawings...

These are probably from about 2 months ago... also some stray head drawings thrown in for good measure.

Asian style illustrations

The last two days, I've been studying another style of illustration that I see in a lot of Asian/chinese historical games and on the covers of Chinese books. This is one of the results.

Head studies

Some studies of drawing Asian people... I should be getting more practice considering my family consists of them. :p Girl in the center was drawn without reference.

Oldie

Hah... this is a colored pencil drawing I did back in high school. I named it "Yellow-haired Geisha", but she is dressed nothing like a geisha.

New Portfolio pages

Just some recent portfolio pages I've made.

Red Engine Character Design Class Fall 2011

I totally forgot about these! Last fall I took character design at Red Engine Studios (in shady, shady LA) and these were some of the works I did. I learned a lot of digital painting techniques in that class!

Aquarius in-progress

Two in-progress images... first one was right after I slapped on the Color layer. Second one was after working on it for a while. Man, why are clouds always harder than they seem? ><

Quicksilver: Infinite Story

This is not super recent but I worked on the opening animation for this game a year ago and they seem to have updated the audio a bit so it's quite spiffy, in my opinion. :) The scenes I worked on specifically are:
- man on stage with machine speaking in front of crowd
- four main characters fighting in the middle of a crowd of monsters in the moonlight
- four main characters looking out from the windows of a silver train
- four main characters standing/posing on the back of the train in the sunset

Quicksilver Opening Theme from Teddy Diefenbach on Vimeo.

Aquarius sketch

My obsession with Dean Cornwell is unmistakable... also I find this character looks like me. Yet I am Taurus! Part of a horoscope illustration project I'm working on.

Also this posting frequency is insane!!!! How long can I keep it up??

Entry for Darkness II Contest

This was my entry for the Darkness II Contest on Deviantart. I always want to enter those contests but I usually fail due to the usual suspects (time/procrastination/busy/etc...). But not this time...! The prompt was to use the storyboard provided and draw the 3 panels it describes. Read more here.

Elf and dragon

Illustration-type stuff. Recently, I've been painting in black and white and then throwing a Color layer over that to figure out my overall color scheme. Then I make another layer and fix up any other issues. This method really helps me figure out lighting before I start getting confused by color and I also feel a lot more organized in general. I picked up this method at Red Engine Studios~

In-progress character studies

Trying to get some character design in my portfolio... still rough sketches.