Still Alive…

Youngling and Terentatek (Unofficial Fan Art for Star Wars), Original Artwork by Brandon A. Miltgen, 2014

We’re still out here… floating around. My co-workers and I, the ones of us who used to be regulars on this site for our challenges, have been busy with, well, life of course. Since there haven’t been any posts for awhile, I thought I’d give a shout-out about my latest, a gift for my son. Happy Friday! We’re not dead… we’ve just been… actively elsewhere…

Give a click on those profile pics on the side to see more of what we’ve been up to 🙂

Under Fire

Feb25

Under Fire (Unofficial Fan Art), by Brandon A. Miltgen, 2014

This one was tricky for me. Once I’d stared at those lines and saw a super hero in there, I knew it would be a Captain America fan art piece. The trouble came ultimately with meshing an invented physique with reference and fitting it all to Joe’s line constraints (the hands and face are from reference of me; but the rest of him is obviously very stylized). It was a very fun exercise conceptually and very worth doing. But I think I’d be a little more careful in the setup phase if I could go back and do it all over again 😉 Happy Tuesday, Illustration Timers!

Here’s a look at Joe’s challenge lines overlaid on my drawing efforts.

Glass Peacock

Dec10

There’s a track on Savage Sister‘s self-titled album called Glass Peacock. The title of the song (as well as their awesome sound) inspired me to make this piece. But as I delved further into creating it, I found some deeper meaning. If you head on over to my personal blog, Drawing Faith (click here), you can read about the fuller symbolism of it and see the process that went into making the artwork (I threw down a color variant there for it as well). Below is a link to the song for all you art appreciators who dig listening while looking:

Star Wars Challenge Recap

Oct11

Well, finally they are all done. Our Star Wars portraits of each other are complete. And they look great! We have quite a few jedi, some sith lords and even an ewok. To tell you the truth we all had alot of fun with these.

Take a look at all the hard work that went into these. 😉

Brandon’s portrait of Terry

McCoy’s Portrait of Joe

My (A. Adelle) portrait of Brandon

Jesica’s portrait of me (A. Adelle)

Terry’s portrait of McCoy

Joe’s portrait of Jessica

Savage Sister

Oct4

Brando here with some more fan art, this time for a musical group I’ve been digging. Here at the ‘Zone we have a lot of different talents hanging out in-house. Our newest edition happens to play bass in a band called Savage Sister. After sampling their sounds, my wife and I immediately bought their album last weekend. They classify their sound as “dream pop/shoegaze/dreamwave” and I have to say it’s some sweet sound. You should check them out. Their mascot is an unassuming girl with a war bonnet and goggles (shown below). I took her and passed her through the Brandon-filter as a tribute. Hope you like it, Savage Sister 🙂

http://savagesister.bandcamp.com/