EL Macho logo

Following a quick cartoon character illustration I recently sketched in Photoshop of a Mexican Wrestler called 'El Macho'. I decided to develop the character further by designing his logo in the form of a brightly coloured Wrestlers belt using a bespoke typeface designed by yours truly. The finished character design can found on my website:
damianjonesdesign.artworkfolio.com 

A Monsters Tail

Had an idea for a childrens book cover the other day... just need to come up with a story now!

ThunderCats - Ho!

Managed to find time to conclude the  Panthro character design, my intention is to work on Liono next - stay tuned folks...
Photoshop.

The Incredible Hulk

Sticking to the plan of developing my skills in ZBrush, here's a character sculpt of everyone's favourite superhero 'The Incredible Hulk'. The aim was to capture the characteristics of the 2D comic illustrations in 3D without becoming too photo realistic.
ZBrush & Photoshop

Big Ears

I've had time this week to add the finishing touches to Big Ears by designing the skin graphics and colouring.

Big Ears (WIP)

More ZBrush practice, inspired by a freakish little trophy dog I saw today.

ThunderCats - continued...

Before I start the paint work 3 ZBrush variations of Panthro sculpt. I've purposely ignored the super fine detailing like skin pores and creases, my focus is on the shape and form for this study.

ThunderCats - Ho!

Hadn't designed a character in some time and really needed to get some hours under my belt with ZBrush, I decided to redesign Panthro form the 90s animated TV series ThunderCats. Here are my initial Photoshop sketches, reference and ZBrush sculpt.

Lasso Painting No.5

Apple announces new store to open in Covent Garden

Left hanging

A photograph a good friend of mine recently took at the Fiona Banner exhibition in the Tate Britain inspired me to paint this image. As a starting point I came up with a typical scenario of our 'hero' pilot being locked in a deadly air combat finale with the stories 'villain'. In brief, the back story of our hero's aggressive and reckless nature has unintentionally cost the life of his wingman during an ill-fated combat mission. The guilt and anger he feels for the loss of his wingman has become evident through his own irresponsibleness towards his life - he looses his faith. The hero eventually overcomes and defeats the enemy force only for his fighter to sustain heavy damage in the process. Loosing altitude and descending towards the ground our hero attempts to eject but a systems malfunction occurs trapping him in the cockpit, the only option left is to reverse thrust and deploy the braking parachutes. Preparing for impact he crashes through the roof of a church only to be saved by the planes parachutes becoming entangled amongst roof joists, stopping the jet just inches away from a certain death. His faith is restored.