Another lip balm label preview, Nixie Tears will be blue raspberry flavored.
Bill Sanchez is a MAGNIFICENT teacher (that I was lucky enough to study under while at the academy) and an even better artist. I am SO STOKED to see he has a tumblr, you guys have no idea!!
Chris Lutes writes:
Bill Sanchez is a legendary drawing and illustration instructor from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He studied and taught with famed illustrator Barbara Bradley and worked as a commercial illustrator and storyboard artist all through the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Since most of his output was storyboards not much of it saw the light of day so he has remained relatively unknown outside of the classroom. A book of his art is in the works but until then he has a Tumblr so people outside the Academy get to see some of his beautiful drawings and rough color studies.
Jean Giraud, or perhaps more widely known as Moebius in this country, was an extremely large influence on my art. I first became aware of him through the Panzer Dragoon series, which remains one my my favorite series to date in large part to the incredibly unique aesthetic that has yet to be matched by other games.
Elysion Age looks the way it does because of him and his art. The mancers and the airships especially were done with his work in mind.
I was very sorry to hear that he passed.
There has been so much beautiful tribute work done, and I wanted to contribute to that. I went with Rin, because of the massive impact that Moebius ended up having on Elysion Age. It just felt right, I guess.
Here’s a few of the thumbnails I did for the cover to issue 1 of Gatekeeper. I don’t usually like posting my thumbnails, as you can see they are nearly incoherent, haha! But I want to get better about posting all the stages of my work, even the not so pretty ones.
I ended up going with the one in the corner all on it’s own (the only digital one), and the cover is complete. I’m going to hold off on posting it for now, though. I need to finish up the logo and then Justin and I can send off the pitch! So exciting! :D
