Zee Brush, "Edgar"

I'm currently still teaching myself Z Brush, a program in my humble opinion is probably the most awesome creative platform since I discovered MS Paint as a kid in the 90's. Ok that may be a stretch but back in 1994 MS Paint was the greatest.

Meet Edgar, yes I know most of what I've been creating has been a tad nightmarish and grim but stick around, it's all part of a far cooler bigger thing. Loosely based on Audrey 2 from 'Little Shop of Horrors" and the piranha plants from Mario Bros I wanted to make a cool venus fly trap monster. So using multiple component shapes for the head (sphere), flower (cone), soil (sphere), pot (cylinder)  and root (cylinder) coming out the side are all separate 'sub tools' that can be worked on independent of the others.

Here's a close up, I wanted to make the whole man eating plant concept more plant like especially when it came to the teeth as in different versions the teeth have always appeared more animal I wanted to make them seem more like thorns. 

I'm working on making the pot look more beaten up and giving way to the plant slowly beginning to escape, I also like the character of it.

Fire Flower Mario

Mario powering up, or what happens after a spicy meat-a-ball burrito.

I did this one just for me every now and then I'll have a bit of extra time to draw something just for the Hell of it and so along came Mario. I remember playing this back during the late 80's over at my younger brother's best friend's place (he was the first, if not only kid we knew who had a nintendo at the time) and we were instantaneously hooked on the adventures of the pixelated plumber and his mission to rescue a captured princess. Of the power ups he could attain the ability to throw bouncing fireballs at oncoming enemies was matched only by the invincibility star in awesomeness.

As a child of the 80's this game was pretty much the defining watershed of awesomeness for an entire generation.

The sight of this wonderful shimmering jewel of a flower rising up out of a question mark box was always a welcome sight.