KoA's arts and such :>

KoA · June 20, 2009, 01:32:46 AM

Hello! I stumbled onto this site completely by accident whilst perusing the internet looking for a complete spritesheet of Rugal Bernstein. (Still have not found one, if any of you would be happening to know of one, do let me know!)

Well after some lurking, I figure this place might be a nice lil home for me. Now, I know next to nothing about Mugen and I hope that won't lead to me being chased out. I'm just a visual arts dude who travels the interwebs honing his skills and living life.

Well down to the nitty gritty of this here topic: I do handdrawn and pixel work and try to find a healthy balance of the two. At the moment, I'm trying to focus a little more on my spriting so there we have it. :>

I suppose I will start off with the actual art first. Since I've been doing this for years, I will just go chronologically so you ll won't jump at me for a random bad sketch which was from 5 years back, haha.

Now I will warn you all right now, a good majority of my drawings are pokemon related. I've been an avid pokemon fan most my life so naturally it has influenced me somewhat when drawing. If this is a problem, you may leave and I will not think less of you.

Let's start with some of my good non-colored art first.

Art

I did this piece many years ago after finishing up Resident Evil 4. I felt like it would be fun to make a monster that has no point to it whatsoever, then made it a messy rotten corpse.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/Haunting.png

This next one is what I felt Pirateman from Megaman and Bass would look like in Navi form as PirateMan.EXE. Doesn't it just make you jolly as a roger?
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/piratemanexeth3.png

Another one of my favorite video game series is Castlevania. I was developing my own CV fangame last year, but ditched it because I am too ambitious. Anywho, the Hero was Julia Belmont, daughter of Julius:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/Julia_Concept_001.png

One of the bosses for the game was Charybdis, which is a monster from the Odyssey and was the sister to Scylla, who made an appearance as a boss in Symphony of the Night. Warning, the following image contains boobages:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/spit_image.php.png

Next is a joke piece made in Commemoration to Portrait of Ruin and its many female monsters:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/womenofpor.png

My most realistic picture, a skull. I looked at like 7 reference pics to get this as accurately as possible. I think it came out decent:

These next few are the result of hormones getting the best of someone entering a new relationship. I like the pictures, but now that it's over, I feel silly for drawing them.

They even come with corny expressions:

"This heart has seen its share of troubles in the past, but it still shines as pure as the morning sun. It is now and forever in good hands"

"You will never be alone, as I watch you from above. Pain will never come your way, as I will suffer it for you instead. Your feet will never grow weary, as I will carry you across the world."

Now we move onto the pokemon sketches.

Chansey, my first coloring job (and it shows):
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/chanseyf.png

Milotic colored:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/miloticlarge.png

Lapras colored:

Revenankh colored:

My Cockatrice inspired Fire/Grass design:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/fireded.png

The Basilisk Raptor Poison/Ground type colored:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/Raptilisk.png

The Toxic Wolfhorse colored:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/pestilence.png

My design for a Water/Fight CaP 6. It's based off of a merman and tessenjutsu, the art of fighting with fans:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/Mertessen-size.png

MUNCHLAAAAX! A gift for a friend of mine I love.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/munchlaxcopy.png

A panda:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/pander-1.png

A Normal/Fight type I made based off a Gorilla, named Hibabango. No relevance to CaP:

A colored portrait of someone dear to my heart:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/ashley.png
Reference picture for above:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/l_6fa66e50530adf2a3bd3606f59dc3d96.jpg

---At this point, I switched over to a new CG style, which I use to this day and am quite comfortable with.---

It's for CaP 7's Ghost/Steel type. I designed it around the Vassago enemies from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/vassagosmall.png

Larger version:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/vassagolarge.png

Mamoswine:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/Mamoswinecopy.png

Luvdisc, the most worthless pokemon. I designed an evolution for it, haha:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/luvdiscsevo.png

I'm not god with cute pics. This is Shaymin:
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9494/shaymicopyex1.png

Starmie:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/starmie.png

An actual non-pokemon work of art. I drew a close friend of mine to see how well this style does with people, and it came out great.

Another nonpokemon art. A man commissioned me to make a business card for his funeral home. Got paid for it.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/cardcopy.png

One of my favorite pieces. This is my artistic rendering of the final boss from Ys 2; Darm. I love everything about this piece:

Continuing the same trend as the above piece. This one I call "The Martyr". It symbolizes the willingness to suffer pain and grin it off:

Larger version:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1702/martyrcopy.png

Back to pokemon.

I drew a caricature of Smogon's site owner. He's nicknamed bear due to his unruly beard:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly%20Recent%20to%20New%20Art/chaossmall.png

Smogon's CaP 8 was an Electric/Dragon type, so here was my design along with several supporting works of art:

Original version with red color scheme
Slight redesign with bolt eyebrows and yellow-black coloring.
Fullsized version of the final design
And my favorite work of art yet, a battle scene between this guy and MegaSeadramon, my favorite Digimon:

Thumbnail to full-sized image:

A new trend I got into was redesigning existing pokemon into different types. For example:
Steel/ Fire Charizard. My favorite of the bunch and totally badass
Water/Dragon Kyogre
Ground Kyogre
Water Groudon. Kinda sucks

And my last colored work of art so far, Megaman X in woman form. I call her MegaWoman XX, ohohohoh:

And with that, we move onto my spritework.

Sprites

Well, I've been spriting since '05, and most of my pieces are EXE or Pokemon styled, haha. Let's move onto my EXE pieces first.

First is my Navi, Railman.EXE. I originally designed him as Chargeman in Navi form, but then EXE6 came out with a horrid version of him instead so I redesigned him and made this:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/RailsheetUpdate.png

Railman's partner, (and secret lover) Jazz.Exe:

My first sprite ever. This is a virus named Turtispear. Hah look at it be silly:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/turtisheet.png

Second sprite. A virus named WizIce:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/WizIcevirus.gif

A virus based off of the Bomb-Ombs:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Bomb-OmbSheet.gif

This is a Rosey virus. Was made for a project that never got off the ground, so to speak:

One of my last EXE sprites I ever made. These virus sets are named Skulleton. There's some thick Castlevania influence with these guys:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Skulleton1.png
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Skulleton2.png
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Skulleton3.png

My last EXE sprites. These are the Bandit viruses and one of my personal favorites:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Ninja_Rogue.png
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Ninja_Bandit.png
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Sprites/My%20Sprites/Ninja_Assassin.png

Well the most recent trend for the last year was pokemon sprites for me. You already know about Smoon's Create-A-Pokemon project and I've been contributing sprites to all of the CaP projects. In fact, two of my sprites have went on to become the winning ones.

The very first CaP was Syclant, an Ice/Bug sweeper. The design chosen was another user's but my sprite proved to be the winner.

Complete sheet here:

The next CaP was a Ghost/Fight type. My design was chosen and so was my sprite, meet Revenankh:

Complete sheet:

CaP 3 was a bit of an upset for me, as neither my design nor my sprites won. But still, I made some nifty sprites for it. Meet Pyroak:

Now I missed CaPs 4 and 5 because I had to attend to life, but I was back for CaP 6. Once again, me sprites lost. Oh well, here be Arghonaut:

CaP 7's winning desgn was based off of "Spirited Away" and I rather liked the design. Here were my sprites for Kitsunoh:

CaP 8 just recently happened and it was an Electric/Dragon type named Cyclohm. My sprites weren't great:

As of recently, I've been into Castlevania spriting. Specifically, the style used in Symphony of the Night and the DS games. My first step into the series is a small one, a new skeleton sprite. I'm tired of seeing the SoTN ones everywhere, aren't you?

These sprites don't really belong in any category and are kinda random:

Eregion R: A Giant boss in a Megaman X fangame I put on hold:

Crunch Piranha: Another boss from the same game:

A entry for a contest. Basically we had to develop a "steampunk chimaera". In this contest, that's defined as combining animals with elements of machinery. I combined a snake and a scorpion:

AAAaaaand that's all for now. I'm currently doing a mockup for a Fighting game featuring Sigma from Megaman X as the protagonist and that was kinda why I ventured here, as Rugal's sprites woulda made a nice reference.

In any case, I hope my work isn't so horrid for you guys and you don't chase me off. ;o

Hopefully my art thread draws some looky-loos in. Haha

GT · June 20, 2009, 01:35:47 AM

Holy shit. Thats a big ass gallery.

Anyway, the first three look like great boss concepts.
Everything else is really great too.

^ That is just fucking awesome.

KoA · June 20, 2009, 01:41:58 AM

Oh yeah sorry about that, I didn't intend on looking like an overeager beaver when I dumped my entire gallery like that, haha.

Glad you like some of my work though.

Iced · June 20, 2009, 01:42:18 AM

some of those look pretty good, if you are any good at animating you should give a shot to make some full sheets

Saturno · June 20, 2009, 03:00:05 AM

You've got talent man. I like yor work

Titiln · June 20, 2009, 03:13:52 AM

this is all pretty amazing

JustNoPoint · June 20, 2009, 03:17:33 AM

Your cell shading is flawless!

KoA · June 20, 2009, 03:20:31 AM

Thanks for the kind words (and welcoming) guys!

Well since this is a mugen based forum, I suppose I should tip my hat in your guys' direction and start doing fighting styled sprites. I figure a perfect candidate would be my favorite Sigma.

Jed · June 20, 2009, 03:26:38 AM

all I got to say godamn that's a big set of sprites and art then again mine is just as big

oh well good work I like the dragons you made nice

ARCoolguy · June 20, 2009, 08:20:59 AM

Wow it all looks so great

c00p · June 20, 2009, 08:33:18 AM

great stuff all around

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so cute

Gaptooth INC. · June 21, 2009, 12:45:34 PM

Wow, I relyy like your portfolio. They are really good.

KoA · June 22, 2009, 11:17:51 PM

Thanks for the kind words guys. I've a couple old sketches I forgot about I'll show off as well.

First is my most realistic picture, a skull. I looked at like 7 reference pics to get this as accurately as possible. I think it came out decent:

These next few are the result of hormones getting the best of someone entering a new relationship. I like the pictures, but now that it's over, I feel silly for drawing them.

They even come with corny expressions:

"This heart has seen its share of troubles in the past, but it still shines as pure as the morning sun. It is now and forever in good hands"

"You will never be alone, as I watch you from above. Pain will never come your way, as I will suffer it for you instead. Your feet will never grow weary, as I will carry you across the world."

I'll go ahead and merge these into my opening post.

c00p · June 23, 2009, 01:23:15 AM

those hands need several fixes

CookDaXapper · June 23, 2009, 01:31:31 AM

really nice. keep up the good work. don't be lazy like yours truly. PEACE.

KoA · July 09, 2009, 09:57:13 PM

Ah, forgot all about this topic. I have been super swamped at work and haven't had time to breathe.

All I have to show is a new sprite and a few sketches, though I haven't uploaded the sketches yet.

And a simple animation to get myself back in the groove of spriting poses:

Esan · July 10, 2009, 12:35:34 AM

I like this one. Reminds me of good ol' Pokemon. *nolstalgic sigh*

KoA · July 10, 2009, 07:33:28 AM

Haha, I decided to try out something new with my drawing style. Since I'm proficient enough with it, I figured I can try to emulate the CG style used in the WindWaker. I think I emulated i well enough, but I'll let you guys be the judge.

I started with something simple like the Wallmaster. Eventually I'll move my way up to Bokoblins and Dark Nuts.

And I have pure sketches as well. I feel like some of my more technical works are produced with traditional media and I don't think they are able to be transferred over digitally while keeping their essence.

I drew all these while I was supposed to be taking notes. Be sure to click the thumbnails to view the full sized images!

The first is my interpretation of an elderly sage disguised as an owl. I chose a Barn Owl or the design because they are one of the creepiest birds out there and something about them just calls to me.

The second one is just some dragon I sketched. I wanted to try out texturing and shading so it came to be.

The third one is the most chilling. I just made like a zombie alien parasite bursting through the host body, casing it to be destroyed and contorted in the process.

CaseyAmazing AwesomeGuy · July 10, 2009, 09:46:20 AM

holy shit! you're incredible.

kakkoii superhero · July 10, 2009, 02:07:46 PM

very nice works, and looks very RPG ish

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