Screenhog.com


	Welcome to Screenhog.com! In the past, I've tried to make websites that look cool to showcase my stuff, but I've come across one irrefutable fact. I am not a webpage designer. However, I do like drawing stuff and animating stuff and games and music. So, I'm stuffing it all onto one page. We'll see what happens.


	Il Soapbox
	A weblog in comic strip form.

Jellyfish In Armour

Random one-panel gags. (Newest at top)


	I make games with Adobe Flash. Although my main passion is on the artistic side, games are a very fun side hobby, with which I have had mixed results. I plan to post games and game concepts here, mainly single-player puzzle/word games, since those are the puzzles that I enjoy the most (and if I make games that I won't play, who will?). Catch 22 This game is a work in progress... it has the potential to be an interesting game if I can figure out a proper system of increasing difficulty during play, but for right now, it's a pretty boring game without much replay value.

Here are some random samplings from my sketchbooks. This will mostly contain drawings that were either done purely for fun, or were part of larger ideas that never made it past the planning phase. (Click on the thumbnails for a larger image.)

Scott McCloud mentioned a neat idea for creating characters in page 73 of his book "Making Comics". He described starting with a well-known theme or group of things, like chess pieces or the four seasons, and creating characters out of them in whatever direction you choose. Here are some of my attempts at that:

I highly recommend his book, by the way.

I had an idea for an animation starring a frilled lizard trying to get from his home in the desert to a beautiful oasis. Frilled lizards are not animated very frequently, but I think they have a lot of comic potential.

A slightly older version of Gau, from Final Fantasy 6. I generally try to draw my own characters and concepts, rather than copying from other people's work, but after finishing the game, I started imagining his backstory based on elements of the game, and had to try sketching him out.

Concept art for a card game idea I have called "Prop Ninjas". I usually draw from left to right, and top to bottom, so you can see the progression of the ninjas as I kept refining the style.

When I started drawing this one, I was actually intending it to look like a hybrid elephant creature crossed with something else, as though it were the boss battle of some RPG. However, after the rough art was done, it looked too much like a plain old elephant (albeit a very grumpy one), so that's what I went with.

I have no desire to ever actually meet an elephant like this.

Have some questions? Maybe you can find the answer in the FAQ! (I highly doubt it.)

Catch 22