the second blog of robin chyo

EDIT: I actually meant to post this yesterday, but I was having problems with my blog.

It’s really a shame, since I felt really good about posting this many consecutive updates..but I’m going to have to take a brief break from producing/updating artwork for the blog. Right now I’m trying to complete an image for Sijun’s Challege and at the same time I’m going to be flying out to California this Sunday for my friend’s wedding and to visit my friends and family. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to update during the trip, but don’t hold your breath! I’ll be returning on September 8th. I’ll do my best to have something prepared by then!

So the concept art team was fortunate enough to receive some time off from work the past few days. It’s been a great opportunity for me to work on some stuff I’ve been wanting to get my hands on. I also got to catch a few dozen z’s. I’m a nap machine if I don’t have any deadlines to worry about.

I do feel a bit guilty about not going out to draw this past week. Well, I did, but not as many times as I had originally hoped on. But anyways, I got to go sketching with my lead concept artist, Armand Dacuba and our recent new-hire, Mitchell Mohrhauser (with his girlfriend, too). It’s always fun sketching with these guys. They’re very passionate about their art and we always end up talking about different artists and games that inspire us. There’s really nothing better than drawing at a Borders bookstore with your comrades. Okay, that’s enough babble-speak from me.

Here’s some of the drawings I did today. I’m going to try to take the character from the first scan to completion. She is sort of an extrapolated version of one of the witches from last night’s entry. Every so often I like doing something whimsical and cute. :-p

Character design sketch

Character portraits

Small hand VS. Crudely drawn giant cell phone…pillow? 

I was originally going to make a garage with a bunch of ships and bots in there, but I guess I had a last minute change of heart. Maybe some other time. Till then, you’re stuck with another spaceship :-p