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A month or so ago I figured I needed a new ID pic so I banged this out. Yay, dynamic lighting!

Goalie Mask - Finished Product

Don McClelland at www.macmasks.com finished painting/airbrushing my goalie mask design onto my brother's mask and he did one heck of a sweet job. I am quite impressed. It's so rare that the final product in a creative process looks just like you saw it in your head. Check it out:

He was nice enough to send along some process shots as well:

 

And the back piece:

 *EDIT* - Don just sent me photos of the mask with clear coat applied and the straps and grill put on:

Air Guitar

My buddy does Air Guitar and asked me to whip up an image for him.

These were the initial sketches:

And the pencils:

And the (digital) inks:

And a quick color mock-up:

I enjoyed this... may try to do more digital inks in the future.

Goalie Mask - Final

So I went back to the drawing board after a friend gave me a good critique on the previous design. We agreed it still wasn't looking "Asian" enough.

Here is the final:

  

This is to give a sense what it would look like from the front. Also the horns wrapping around back onto the little piece the straps connect to (that's the Bluenose):

 

And here are the lines for the final:

 

Also, I've got my hands on an old airbrush and I'm going to see if it works and test out how feasible it would be to try to paint masks myself. We shall see...

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Lillian and Glenn

Present for two coworkers who are retiring. Trusty #2 on Bristol while watching football yesterday.

Eowyn and the Nazgul

Drawing I started months and ago and then got sidetracked. Debating whether or not to bring it to final.

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Goalie Mask - Designs Redux

A while ago, I designed my brother's goalie mask:

Which ended being put on to the mask like so:

However, the mask died recently so my brother has asked me to do a new design for his new mask. I wanted to push the Chinese dragon idea further. Thinking similar to the old Any Moog Bruins mask, but basing it off the Chinese dragons you see on the streets on Chinese New Year. My initial sketch was this:

However, I didn't like this. Seemed to Meso-American to me. I think because of it being so geometric and lacking any roundness? Took another stab:

I liked this better. So this will be a good jumping off point. I'll post the final on here when I've reached that point.