Cretaceous Isle

Dueling Death

   Hey so another development piece for this project. So I have talked about I am not sure what kind of art style I want to go with for this story, whether I should go ahead with the traditional layout or just stick with the digital one. I keep hoping to get an opinion on that but it hasn't happened yet =C. Oh well, so I thought I would make a side by side piece to get a more direct comparison. So above is fully colored pencil coloring (its been treated with a solvent to smooth it out and I inked the line work but otherwise nothing but color pencils were used on it) version and the one below is done with my usual Photoshop method. So I thought I'd release it and see what people think. I hope to start developing pages for this story in March and shooting for launching it sometime in April. I guess we'll see if that ends up working out.

Solar vs Galvin

Toyarohco’s Amber Eye

This as well as lots of other things will be made available on my Etsy. I have big plans for January and 2020 as a whole. Call it a new years resolution I guess XD You can find my Etsy here if you're interested: :https://www.etsy.com/shop/PMJamesStudio…

Hey so here are some more 3d printed models I made. These custom models of Eeveelutions, created, posed, printed and painted by me. These four are of course the classic Original Eevees and all of them are depicted with some variation of an attack: Surf for Vaporeon, Thunderbolt for Jolteon and Fire Blast for Flareon (Eevee was made before I settled on the attack concept, so he's just sort of running, I guess it could be quick attack maybe?). I plan to do the other Eeveelutions as well as some other Pokemon too. These guys were pretty good practice for color pallets and scenery work. I enjoyed making them and hope you guys like them.

The Psychic dragon that is one of the most prominent character in my DnD game sessions.

Solar in Toxic Forest

    Hey everybody, so here's a piece that may be familiar, this was a concept I did a long time ago when Tyler was first introduced and it was referenced during solar's apology as well. I have been wanting to do these kinds of promotional images and general artwork based on my comics for a while now, so here's an example of what that might be. This could also be seen as sort of a draw this again kind of thing too. I will likely do more like that as well. Been a while since we've seen Tyler there and I think this piece should have more meaning to it to now that Tyler's Goodbye and Solar's Apology have been released as well. Not much else to say but I think a quote would be appropriate: "He's my nephew but I love him like a son."~ Solar

https://www.deviantart.com/pm-james/journal/Commission-808165614

Hey everybody, so here's an overdue piece, the promotional and title page for Solarshadow Chapter 3. The title has yet to be revealed as I wanted to wait until this was done to do that. Save or Kill. This piece shows off the new artstyle I've been developing for a while now and we also get to see pretty much every character in it to boot. There's also a few other things being shown off here. Like before with these, I wanted to come up with a promo poster that would sum up the chapter, show off what it's about, etc without necessarily spoiling the actual events of it. One exception can be seen at the bottom, the reveal of Bayonet. Wont say to much about that for now. I hope you guys like it and are looking forward to the chapter too. Should start  back up in a couple weeks.

   Another 3d print, this is the prelude to a much grander project, this being the T.rex sculpture. This particular piece was originally done as a test print as I wanted to make sure this design would work before I attempt the second test, which will be a full body print at around the same scale. If that is successful, I will move on to the sculpture, which is currently planned to be a full body sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus that is larger than the printer itself, the exact dimensions I have yet to figure out but this piece is about 6 inches long roughly, I expect the fully body piece to be around 1 foot and the sculpture to be around 2 feet long, plus base. If everything works out as expected this will be the most ambitious project I've ever worked on.    I feel pretty good about the paint job on this guy, I have some issues with the mold itself, I recently got a product that is supposed to help with that, that isn't shown here unfortunately as I got it after painting these two but I have a third one of these busts I plan to use it on and see how it works. Hopefully that will take a lot of the issues I do still have with it. I hope you guys like this and are excited to see the sculpture, I will be painting the third T.rex bust black, as shown here there is currently one that is brown and one that is green (I may show more of the green T.rex bust if people want to see it but for now I just am focusing on the brown one mainly). I will make the third one black and show that one as well and than I will put up a poll and find out which of the three people like the best and paint the smaller full body sculpt that color and if that looks good, I will make the larger one that color as well.

Hey everybody, another 3d printed model, this being the Vaporeon one. I've been working a lot with the 3D printer as I am planning to sell things in a local store as well as offer them on Etsi too. For now though I am learning the craft, I feel like I've gotten a lot better at it and will be able to make professional quality stuff pretty soon. Vaporeon here was a very different approach for me, usually I focus more on the character themself, for him I focused more on the scenery around him, in this case Vaporeon riding a wave. This resulted in Vaporoen himself being a relatively small figurine, he's probably about half the size Eevee was, with him and the wave together being slightly larger than Eevee was. I experimented with some new techniques, new paints and other things and I am very happy how it came together. There's a few things I'm not happy with but for the most part I think he turned out nice. Hope you guys like him too. Like mentioned, I have made several other things too, so I will be showing them as well, some Pokemon and some not. I also plan to complete the Eevee family, doing Joltoen next, through Sylveon and ending with a shiny Eevee (who will be a unique sculpt from the other one).

Here's a set of drawings I did while trying to get a character design for Toy here. I want him to have a recognizable look and features but him mantaining his animal attributes is very important for the story and character as a whole, so I wanted to come up with something that would allow him to emote and express well without getting to human like, avoiding stuff like Simba's human like eye brows, stuff like that and I think I found it. I am pretty happy with this set of designs for him and I think I'll go with it. This piece also shows a concept I plan to use for inner thoughts, which is shown in the middle. I want to be able to have inner monologues be an option but I want their to be a clear indication that is happening in a stylized way, so this is what I am consider doing, basically the panel will go black and white with the characters eyes and highlights being colored in a specific color for that character. In Toy's case, that will be yellow. This is my first attempt at capturing that and I am happy with it, I'll play around with the other characters as well and see how they look too.

Hey everybody, so I had hoped to get a very special project done today but I decided to work on it some more and will shoot for releasing that on Friday. In the meantime, I went ahead and finished this piece, I've been pretty down recently, so I decided to try to work on something uplifting to try to help with that. I went with this piece here, this piece depicts Shadow bouncing around against a morning sun and I think it helped a lot. The piece utilized a lot of warm colors and high contrast that I think looks pretty nice. I am happy how it came together at the very least. I also tried to do backgrounds differently here, I am not sure if I like this better or not but I think it's worth exploring more. Anyway, I hope you guys like it and will be happy with the next project. Once that is done, comics should follow it too.

   So one more piece utilizing the new stuff, this one being a lot more ambitious than the previous and I am very happy how the piece came together. We have the Red Gyarados going on a rampage, wanted to do a piece like this that had a ton of environmental effects to it for a long time now and I can say everything I sought out to achieve was achieved and I am happy how Gyarados itself turned out, been wanting to do a Gyarados picture for a while too. Went ahead and signed it too, I want to start putting my signature on pretty much everything I do. I have one last poject to show you guys before comics return, that being the second of the special projects. I hope you guys like it as well!

Hey everybody, sorry for the delays, I've been dealing with some sad stuff I'd rather not go into, family matters mainly. Here's a piece though, been watching a lot of art videos recently, several techniques, tips, and so forth and this piece tries out several of them ranging from techniques, brushes, color theory stuff, composition stuff, thumbnail work, etc, just all sorts of things. It is a first try for several things, so don't know how I did but I can say I am pretty happy how this piece came together and I think I'll continue experimenting with them, practicing with the ones I liked to get them looking better, tweaking the ones I don't to fit my style better, etc. As far as what's going here and why Mewtwo? Uhh... I like Mewtwo, that's about it XD Hope you guys like it too and more will start coming out soon too.