Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The road to getting work is bettering yourself...






Been up to a bit of sketching practice. Adapting a different technique to my drawings. It's been working well for me. Pretty soon I've gotta check out some covers of things from Marvel, DC, etc to help with my coloring a bit but for now I want to make sure that continuing to use this style will benefit me. Need to look out for the new Indiana Jones movie!!

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Murder in International Waters

Man! What is it with crazy dreams.

SO this one...is deep and gorey, so if your kinda not into thinks Silent Hill or WW2 esk... Don't read on.







" New World Order Murderers- By: Christopher Taylor"

So, this dream starts off in todays or future time period. For some reason, all the governments of the world united and decided that the worlds problems are due to those races of people that bother them. All inequalities of the world must be eliminated so that we all can live in peace. These "New World Order" leaders then constructed a massive ship as big as a continent. When mass construction on the ship was finished, it sailed across the entire world, and collected races of the world that the New World Order decided upon to board this ship. Blacks, Jews, Canadians (America had decided to invade Canada and expand their country) Mexicans, and many more. When the ship was filled, it sailed to the most abandoned point of the world, furthest distance from every continent, a new point of international waters where everything was free. Who ran the boat, made the law and as we all wondered where we were (yea....I was on the ship also. Du'h) suddenly, the power was cut. Lights went off and the ship was pitch black. We could barely make out what was in front of us. Suddenly, we saw this glowing light. It was the shine of three men's eyes. The men that appear above. They were sick with insanity and murder bleeding from their face. It didn't stop there. In fact, they didn't stop for a moment. Their sick murder bent appearance became a reality as right in front of our faces, they began to kill everyone and anyone in their way. We all ran, ran and just tried to escape these blood thirsty murderers path. I remember hiding out with someone that became a friend with on that ship. But...the hiding didn't last. The three men burst into the room and the guy I was hiding with got scared and tried to escape, but the giant blade wielding murderer pinned his body up against the wall. The man with the chainsaw then forced the blade into his mouth and activated the saw, and then the one with the crowbar just started breaking off his fingers, toes, hand, feet, and then what ever else would break out. They just completely decapitated the poor guy. And I had no choice but to end up running off myself. And I was their next target. I guess this was the point where I started realizing the dream was a dream. I put myself in a room, threw off my coat and just started getting pissed off at what was happening. I kicked open one of the doors and it ended up hitting one of those murderers. I then realized, "I can fight!" (This is a astounding realization as most these dreams people just keep running away) and prepared myself to take on all three. As they all charged into the room, I woke up...

Saturday, April 5, 2008

~The World Ends with You~

" Cowboy Sketch : By Christopher Taylor "

~The World Ends with You~ Contest Entry [TAMARA] : By Christopher Taylor


So, today I entered the DEVIANTART/SQUAREENIX contest for their new game " The World Ends with You". The rules were a bit...unclear, but I decided that my first entry will be a human character shooting towards a Main Character or joins up with Main Characters. Her name is Tamara, and with the whole feel of the game (KH meets Urban stylistic world) I thought a black girl with give the character and the world some flavor!! I also did some work on my Character List and created the C O W B O Y. I'm happy that at least they came out to how I imagined them. That one of my hardest task, to think up of something and then to draw it like I want it.

More details can be seen here:

http://news.deviantart.com/article/45697/

Friday, April 4, 2008

Bilder Tausch!

- Samurai Sketch : By Christopher Taylor -

- Pirate Sketch : By Christopher Taylor -
- Witch Sketch : By Christopher Taylor -
- Dragon Rider Sketch : By Christopher Taylor -
- Dragon Rider : By Christopher Taylor -


So, a friend of mine, James, very stylistic artist, and myself have decided to do a collab-trade series. We've decided upon 3 type of characters to draw. Our picks were -S A M U R A I- , - P I R A T E- and a -W I T C H-. The first trade starts with the samurai. We both draw our character, then trade so that the other person can color that person's character. Thing is, because of recent job fiascos, I've been a bit upset and wanted to take my mind off it for a bit. So, I went ahead and decided to create some more character from it. The first being a dragon rider, but there are more to come. So, here are the sketches for the trade, and the one I finished myself. Enjoy!

RESUME

Christopher R. Taylor - Illustration and Comics

Email: glennsworldcomicz@gmail.com

Web Galleries: Portfolio Site

Deviantart Gallery

SKETCHFro! Blog and Illustrations

College:

The Art Institute of Philadelphia/ The Art Institute of Phoenix July 2002 - September 2005

Major: Media Arts & Animation Degree: Bachelor of Arts for Media Arts & Animation

Graduated with Honors

Professional Qualifications:

Computer Skills: Flash (Good), Photoshop (Very Good), Premiere (Good), After Effects (Good), 3D Studio Max (Good), Maya (Good), Microsoft Office (Good)

Customer Service Skills: Good audible voice along with clear and proper grammar pronunciation, friendly, inviting, able to handle various situations as well as stressful encounters with customers.

Freelance Project History:

Games:

2009

Pierre-Yves Lapointe Brisson- Pixel Characters for Browser Game

Description: Created villain and hero characters for a browser game. Designed characters on paper, then re-created pixel characters in Photoshop. Pixel sheets were created there and then animated by using FLASH.

Steven First- Texture Edits for Model

Description: Client had created textures for models that needed fixing. Readjusted texture and designs to fit the models. Editing was done in Photoshop.

Windmill Games- Sven- Concept Art for Online MMORPG

Description: Designed characters, starting clothing, Mafia clothing, villains and main city for studios use to develop 3D models of the concepts. Sketched characters, penciled, inked and then colored in photoshop.

2008

Gameforge Studios GmbH- Internet Advertisement Banners

Position: Designer

Description: Created a set of 7 web banners for one of the studio’s popular game series using stock imagery and FLASH to help arrange and design.

Contact: krohn@gameforge.de

Illustration and Design:

2010

DORMWORLD – Storyboards for short animation

Description: Created 8 page, 4 panel storyboards for use for a short animation. Drew pages and then scanned into Photoshop for final edits and text matching.

2009

Mark Krasovicki- Russian Training Manual Comic

Description: Created a 55 page Comic detailing the tasks of a Waiter/Waitress at the Temple Bar in Russia. Drew comic with pencil, then scanned into Photoshop for inking and editing. Added Russian text and word bubbles afterwards.

James Kershaw – 2 Mascot Designs

Description: Designed and Created 2 mascots based off of clients descriptions. Drawn, edited and colored in Photoshop.

Ron Brouwers – Professional Gaming Logo

Description: Created 2 logos for a professional gaming group for RTS games. Designed logo on paper, then scanned final work into Photoshop for coloring and editing. Lettering was applied through Illustrator and edits in Photoshop.

Pierre-Yves Lapointe Brisson – End Smoking Mascot

Description: Created a personal mascot for a quit smoking campaign. Designed, illustrated and colored in Photoshop.

Channel M- Princess Lucinda Short Comic

Description: Created short 10 page black and white comic for use by Channel M for their ongoing Heroine, Princess Lucinda. Created rough sketches and full illustrated pages digitally through Photoshop.

Antoine Dillard - Website - Hardcore Animation

Description: Redesigned and coded website using Flash. Designed, illustrated and coded complete layout for website. Can be seen at www.hardcoreanimation.net.

Patrick Sessoms - 8 Paged Pitch Package with Cover

Description: Created a 8 page comic with cover for a pitch package. Drew pages with pencil, inks added and then scanned pages into Photoshop for retouching and adding letters and bubbles.

Kristopher Waddell - 5 Paged Pitch Package

Description: Added colors and set mood to illustrators inked paged for a 5 paged pitch comic. Coloring was done in Photoshop.

James Ives - Wedding Illustration

Description: Created Illustration based upon the Client and his wife for use on their wedding invitations. Drawing was created from photo reference, then brought into Photoshop to finish line-work, and color.

Alex - Console Dealer- Mascot Design

Description: Client wanted Mascots to help advertise their website for games. Designed sketches from descriptions, then made final line-art and colors in Photoshop.

Pinup Illustrations- Sexy Nuns

Description: Designed 2 illustrations for use in a collection of "Sexy Nun" drawings and illustrations to be sold. Sketched, then digitally inked and grayscale colored in Photoshop.

Curtis Lawson - History of Comics - Day of Comics Museum comic

Description: Created 2 pages in my style for used in a collected anthology comic of various artist about the history of comic books.

COZMIC- Tattoo design

Description: Design a memorable tattoo design from popular game Character Mario for the client. Sketches made, then pencil work and inked before brought into photoshop for color.

Marc Dahlem- Cartoon Book Project- Zeusinger

Description: Created illustrations to go along with a Germany Humor book to be pitched to publishers. Designed characters, sketched, penciled and inked illustrations before brought into Photoshop for final edits.

Celtic Minstrel- Web-comic- Trillium School of the Art

Description: Weekly web-comic for Drunkduck.com. Created characters from clients description and sketch and pencil pages for the web-comic weekly. Drawn then colors pages. Edits made in Photoshop.

Anthro-Furry Character- Action Illustration B&W

Description: Designed the clients character for use in story/website. Sketched, penciled and then greyscale colored in Photoshop.

Zach - Black and White Character Illustration- Collection Website

Description: Commissioned to draw clients character in my own style for presentation on a collection website gallery. Sketched, penciled and inked the illustration before final edits were created in Photoshop.

2008

Tone Chambers- Dr. Dre Illustration for Inspired Music CD

Description: Illustrated a cover for the design of Music inspired by the music artist Dr. Dre. Illustration was drawn, and then imported to Photoshop for color.

Yann Lülfz – Logo for local Member Group

Description: Design and created logo for use of a Members group. Logo will be used for stickers, advertisements and other assorted material for use in the group. Designed fully in Photoshop.

Will Beatman- Flash Animation for Website/ Spinning Record on Projector

Description: Created a short, repeating flash animation for use on a new website called “VIBE & SYNC”. The projector and spinning reel were to match the logo for the site in colors. Transferred logo into Flash and designed 2 projectors for the client to choose from. Once one was chosen, I animated the spinning film reel and movie reel onto it and added the logo of the site to the record.

Alessandra Davola- Fairy Tale Illustration

Description: Created an illustration based on a description for personal collection.

Drew the rough draft, then penciled the image for scanning and colored on the computer.

Cory de la Guardia- Zuda Comics Contest/Pitch Entry- Minimum Wage

Position: Pencilist/ Inker/ Colorist & Lettering

Description: Created an 8 Screen Pitch entry to Zuda Comics for Cory de la Guardia’s Minimum Wage. Designed characters from reference photos, rough pages, pencils and inks, then scanned into PC for Color and Lettering layout.

Greg Wilkinson- Mascot for Website www.staticprogress.com

Position: Mascot Designer-Graphic Design

Description: Designed a Mascot for used on music web space from a design the client had originally created. Mascot was drawn, colored and optimized for use on the web.

Todd Guilmette- CD Album Booklet Artwork

Position: Graphic Designer for Album Book

Description: Designed Music CD album artwork for the client’s second music cd. Booklet included Visible Cover and back cover containing the client’s personal character. Style Matched main character into a created BG from description, inked then scanned into PC for color editing. Client ended up not using in the final product, however services were paid for.

White Eye Studio-Lawrence White- Colorist for Comics

Position: Flatter and Colorist

Description: Flatted and added color detail to comics being published by the Indie Comic label White Eye Studio. Preview of Comic can be seen here http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/

Cotton Snourth- Maglenda’s Errand Girls-Manga Comic Pitch

Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color Grayscale & Lettering

Description: Created a 6 page pitch comic for Louis Badalament’s Maglenda’s Errand Girls. Created Character Designs, layout pages, penciled and inked pages, then scanned into the PC

Mark Krasovickis- Sample Colored Comic for Website

Position: Pencilist/Inker/ Color & Lettering

Description: Created a 5 page sample comic in color with cover for use for a freelancing Comic artist web space. Comic will be seen as an example of what the website is set out to do, which can be seen here www.craftycomics.com .

Sebastian Blasiak- Kidslab- Character Designs and Illustration

Position: Character Designer- Illustrator

Description: Created and Designed Characters for use in an Educational Project about water aimed for Children aged 7-9. Characters were then set in a illustration that would be used for the final presentation of the project.

Broken Souls Press-Short Story Comic- Donald Black

Position: Pencilist/Inker/Toner/Layout & Lettering

Description: Based of a story from a writer under BSP label, Curtis Lawson gave me the script to fully illustrate 10 comic pages to be used in an Anthology devoted to Horror stories as well as a magazine for horror comics.

Brian McKee- Book Cover

Position: Illustrator/ Cover Design

Description: Designed cover for book of short stories entitled “At the Gates of Heaven and other Short Stories” and for “Krishna in the Park- Selections from the diary of Carol Sheaves”. Books can be seen here: http://stores.lulu.com/raydude

Christopher Rama Rao- www.LoveandBetrayal.com Web-comic

Position: Concept Artist/ Pencils/ Inker/ Colorist

Description: Work on comic panels for online comic. Design Characters and backgrounds while applying them to script that was provided. A panel every week.

2007

Rob Giorgio- 360ep, Inc

Position: Illustrator

Description: Worked on two projects within the company and designed characters for use on t-shirts and websites.

Antoine Dillard- Hardcore Animation.net (Website)

Position: Web Designer

Description: Designed and created interactive website for display at Hardcore Animation.net. Website designed and created in Flash.

Mark Tioxon- Getting Girls the Anime Way (Book and website)

Position: Concept Artist/ Lead Artist

Description: Designed and created the cover image for the book in use of sales. Also will be used as graphics for the website.

Mangamix Studios- Team MAXIMUM

Position: Illustrator

Description: Redesign characters for use in a poster to advertise for their comic. Designed poster for production and distribution for promotion purposes.

Arizona Independent Animation Project

Position: Concept Artist/Lead Artist

Description: Designed characters within one of the studio’s main animation projects. Also designed promotions and album covers for distribution at Conventions.

2006

Sean Allan: Music DJ

Position: Album cover designer

Description: Designed an album cover for his next music collection album.

Willow Cottage Studios

Position: Lead Artist

Description: Character Design for lead character in production. In process of working on Storyboards for script.

Project: Bladeslinger

Description: 8 Paged pitch comic for Ken Faggio. Created Character Design, penciled and inked pages, toned and texted pages.

B-Boy Bunker.com

Position: Character Artist

Description: Have drawn various characters for use on web space on BBoyBunker.com.

2005

Glen L. Down Elementary School Festival

Position: Caricature Artist

Description: As the day progressed, I was hired to draw paying customer’s

portraits in my style of art.

Awards:

2 publication pieces in DOT, DOT, DOT magazine 2001-2002

Best of Show: Phoenix Anime Convention

Awarded for digital Artwork: A man and his Gun

Books and Publications:

Künstler und andere Nervensägen : Written by Dr. Michael Dahlem

Link to page: http://www.michaeldahlem.de/

Final Hour : Various Artist and Writers

Link to page: http://www.whiteeyestudios.com/our-comics/final-hour/

Mysterious Visions: Volume 3: The Essex- Story by: Curtis Lawson, Illustrations by: Christopher Taylor

-Link to page: http://www.dimestoredistro.com/mysteriousvisionsafterhours3-p-1033.html

Manga/comic: NEO|ARK Volume one

Link to page: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=555055

Endless Journeys: Book of published photographers work published.

My work: “The Falconer” ISBN: 0-7951-5247-7