Initial Concept Drawings

[Brendan Noir]

Hello everyone. I am new here and finally decided to show some of my artwork to the world. These are characters I am trying to develop for a video game(hopefully) or possibly a comic.


http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/elephantgrey.jpg



http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/rabbit.jpg

[jilted_one]

Very interesting pics man.

[Brendan Noir]

thanks man

i have about 10 more characters/drawings

[Zafio]

Hello Brendan, very nice characters! :btu: Is it traditional media ?

Originally posted by Brendan Noir

i have about 10 more characters/drawings

Post more then! (if possible) x)

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by Jull
Hello Brendan, very nice characters! :btu: Is it traditional media ?



Post more then! (if possible) x)


Thanks Jull!

It is pencil then photoshop is used for color overlays. I will post more right now.

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by Jull




Post more then! (if possible) x)



http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/1.jpg

http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/2.jpg

http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/3.jpg

http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/4.jpg

http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/5.jpg

http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/6.jpg

http://www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/7.jpg

[Zafio]

They are all very nice, will fit nicely either in a game or comic x) Will the game be in 3d?

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by Jull
Will the game be in 3d?


I hope so

[Kambei]

Nice style and design..

I especially like the way you deal with certain colors.
I really like the bat for the translucency .. and the top figure with green rimmed belly.. The color play works for me..

This would be kick ass in 3d..

[JoShuA]

your style is very tim burton-esque. very nice.

[Brendan Noir]

Wow, thanks guys. I didnt expect this nice of a response. I am trying to learn Maya so I can create these in a 3D setting.

[House Hatke]

I like the bat a lot. The kid in the bug-tank is very clever!

Ben
www.househatke.com (http://www.househatke.com)

[Yaseck]

Welcome!
You've got very interesting ideas and your skills are also great! I wish You luck.

[Yaseck]

And I see: You LIKE blood...

[Lunch_Box]

your rabit looks a lot like the one from "Donnie Darko" (it's a movie)

great job keep up the good work.

[Chewbacca]

wow that pumpkin one is off the hook, this kind of stuff reminds me of nightmare of christmas which scared the shit out off me when i was a kid.... actually i was 15...

[Molly]

- Brendan Noir - these are great! There's a nightmare-ish quality about them, with cute thrown in for good measure.
look forward to seeing some more....

Mollyx

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by Yaseck
And I see: You LIKE blood...


haha i love that blood.

[the good war]

excellent your stuff really sticks out
in a good way of course
viva le RESISTANCE


never mind what is said after this point
games that tend to dwell on holloween are usually to dark and therefore a become depressing and a chore to play if i made a game with charactors like yours i would try to make the levels colorful

[DanSTC]

Great cartooning all-around. Have you ever considered illustrating children's books?

[Red_Rook]

Originally posted by DanSTC
Great cartooning all-around. Have you ever considered illustrating children's books?

If he did he would probably scare the shit out of them :rolleyes: Jus kidding, I really like them, they really do scare me though (zombie pig) =)

-Rook

[Schwoassamoasda]

whow i just love the style and themes! did you play some silent hill?

[S51]

These have a very wild, almost "Nightmare Before Christmas"-ish feel to them. Very cool.

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by Schwoassamoasda
whow i just love the style and themes! did you play some silent hill?


i never did

[|SaRcAsM|]

Very interesting style. Love the whole sense of paralell universe feel to it.

Some of the peg-legged characters bare a resemblance to a Sammy´s character that were done a while ago in a Media Colring Book. And I mean it in a good way. :)

Peace! :chug:

Sarc

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by |SaRcAsM|
Very interesting style. Love the whole sense of paralell universe feel to it.

Some of the peg-legged characters bare a resemblance to a Sammy´s character that were done a while ago in a Media Colring Book. And I mean it in a good way. :)

Peace! :chug:

Sarc


Do you know where I can find that stuff? I'd like to see it

[My3blka]

I like them all, which is rare in a large post. They all have a perfect blend of freakiness and humanity. as someone said earlier, a nightmarish quality. very nice.

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by My3blka
I like them all, which is rare in a large post. They all have a perfect blend of freakiness and humanity. as someone said earlier, a nightmarish quality. very nice.


Jeez oh man thanks! I didnt expect such great feedback. Now if I could just create a storyline

[Avatar]

Ok, I don't know if I should be spooked or to laugh my theet off! Great job, very special art!

[Shadowkiller]

Great job man

[|SaRcAsM|]

Well m8 the thread i was saying is this one:

*New Media Coloring Book* (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11580&perpage=30&highlight=HONK&pagenumber=3)

Thats the page of the character i was talking about, but the whole thread is highly recommended, 5 stars rating. Enjoy.

Peace!:chug:

Sarc

[DanSTC]

Originally posted by Red_Rook


If he did he would probably scare the shit out of them :rolleyes: Jus kidding, I really like them, they really do scare me though (zombie pig) =)

-Rook

Hey now, I didn't say what age the child. Stuff like this would be great for 10 year olds, I know that. (Or for the more freaky stuff, 12-13 or so.) Heck, I loved Tim Burton when I was that age.

[DanSTC]

Originally posted by Brendan Noir



i never did

Both really great games with some awesome creature design, although I don't think I'd really compare your cutesey gothic style to their psychological surrealist horror style.

Case in point, this page with stuff from Silent Hill 2: http://www.felixmcli.org/sh2-lostmem-cre.html

Also, this stuff from the more recent Silent Hill 3: http://www.felixmcli.org/sh3-lostmem-cre.html

The games play out like a combination between Jacob's ladder, Twin Peaks, and Hellraiser. (3's a little closer to Hellraiser than a David Lynch flick though.) And while the creature designs are excellent, I personally love the environments far more.

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by DanSTC


Both really great games with some awesome creature design, although I don't think I'd really compare your cutesey gothic style to their psychological surrealist horror style.

Case in point, this page with stuff from Silent Hill 2: http://www.felixmcli.org/sh2-lostmem-cre.html

Also, this stuff from the more recent Silent Hill 3: http://www.felixmcli.org/sh3-lostmem-cre.html

The games play out like a combination between Jacob's ladder, Twin Peaks, and Hellraiser. (3's a little closer to Hellraiser than a David Lynch flick though.) And while the creature designs are excellent, I personally love the environments far more.


wow, those are awesome. i dont typically play games like that as i am partial to games that are lighthearted in nature a la Ratchet & Clank and Abe's Odyssey. I think I have finally come up with a storyline for this though and am working on environment sketches as we speak. Then I have to tackle Maya

[behemot5]

it's :evilbat: "pretty" :evilbat: ... i like it a lot

[DanSTC]

Originally posted by Brendan Noir



wow, those are awesome. i dont typically play games like that as i am partial to games that are lighthearted in nature a la Ratchet & Clank and Abe's Odyssey. I think I have finally come up with a storyline for this though and am working on environment sketches as we speak. Then I have to tackle Maya

But you do seem to have a thing for Donnie Darko, though. (Silent Hill 3 reminds me a little of DD, to that end.)

PS. For what I was talking about with environments, check this out: http://www.felixmcli.org/sh3-lostmem-pics.html

The game series has excellent real-world environments filled with decay and grime...but then when the world "shifts" to the "otherworld"...a world of nightmarish delusions brought to life (a convention of the Silent Hill series) everythng decays as though it were a thousand years old and is smeared with dried blood, used hospital equipment clutters the passageways, occult symbols appear on the walls, horribly mutilated human bodies rearranged into grotesque "artwork" appear, and random moments of pure surrealist insanity crop up. One of my personal favorite weird environments in SH3 is while walking down a corridor, there's a section of the wall that's a giant black glass cube, like an aquarium tank filled with ink. Shining your flashlight inside it, you can see things moving behind the "glass" but cannot properly make them out. There appears to be no reason for the giant cube to be there except to disturb the player...and there's all sorts of things like that in the Silent Hill series.

[foofoo]

your drawings reminds me of a sparstic comic, Lenoire. if i got the title correct. The art is also morbid and spooky... jus wondering if u have heard of tat comic. Nice works anyway, unique in style....

[chadrm17]

I like your style alot. Let us know when you create more...

[pstraub]

damn...thease are great...fun fun style...keep it up!

[Flint]

Wicked! Fave is the penguin thing. Cool style.

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by DanSTC


But you do seem to have a thing for Donnie Darko, though. (Silent Hill 3 reminds me a little of DD, to that end.)

PS. For what I was talking about with environments, check this out: http://www.felixmcli.org/sh3-lostmem-pics.html

The game series has excellent real-world environments filled with decay and grime...but then when the world "shifts" to the "otherworld"...a world of nightmarish delusions brought to life (a convention of the Silent Hill series) everythng decays as though it were a thousand years old and is smeared with dried blood, used hospital equipment clutters the passageways, occult symbols appear on the walls, horribly mutilated human bodies rearranged into grotesque "artwork" appear, and random moments of pure surrealist insanity crop up.

I think I will rent Donnie Darko tonight and see what everyone is talking about. I will also rent SH3 as I have never seen that either. Maybe they will help


foofoo: I am familiar with Lenore. I had an older project I did that ended up looking TOO much like a Lenore comic so I tossed that style and re-invented myself. I appreciate the compliment though: to even be compaared to the likes of Dirge and Vasquez is awesome.

[c0g]

Cool, very cool.

[molested_cow]

Very nice!!! They all fit into one theme. However they do remind me of this Japanese animation that you may be interested to look at. The name is Cannon Fodder.

[sandgrain]

i would totally love to get that bat tattooed on me somewheres.. do you have a high-res line-drawing you could email me so I could make it happen? i will be doing the tattoo myself, so photos will be soon available after I get the free-time to do such a task. That bat 0wnz me. Thanks!!

-Ben sg@shuteye.org

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by sandgrain
i would totally love to get that bat tattooed on me somewheres.. do you have a high-res line-drawing you could email me so I could make it happen? i will be doing the tattoo myself, so photos will be soon available after I get the free-time to do such a task. That bat 0wnz me. Thanks!!

-Ben sg@shuteye.org


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[fever_tr]

last one looks like pikachu

[sandgrain]

thanks again! i was also wondering if you had a collection online of your art.. would love to see more!

-ben

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by sandgrain
thanks again! i was also wondering if you had a collection online of your art.. would love to see more!

-ben


I am working on a site right now. I want it to be "just right"

[Brendan Noir]

Hello again-

I finally put up my site. Its not 100% yet but i am almost there. Check it out at:

www.americanwerewolves.com/brendanonly/home.html

this is the temporary address.

enjoy

[Flint]

hell ya. Very nice. I love the bats on the frame. Nice lookin site

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by Flint
hell ya. Very nice. I love the bats on the frame. Nice lookin site

Would you call it "spooky"?

[pogonip]

very good style !! :chug:

[Brendan Noir]

Originally posted by pogonip
very good style !! :chug:


do you have to look at my site with lights on cuz its so scary? hahahaha jokes. thanks for the compliment