You know I would have segued into my http://www.studiowhite.com/ if it weren't for some problems with my new Adobe Creative Suite 3. Since Illustrator didn't load at all, I'm stuck until Teusday to find out how to resolve the issue. I was on the right track to getting it done too... 
Anyway, here's the last of the sketches...you'll soon see more detailed Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer video game work in the next few weeks at my other site.
Back again for another installment of Blue-sky sketches from a long ago project called the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Now mind you, I never really got to draw the FF...which was unfortunate. I'd doodle them here and there in the corners of pages hoping for that shot...but nay.
I was going to say, this is probably the closest I'll ever come to drawing the FF for any big company but I don't think thumb-sized figures count. The one thing I can guarantee though, is I got paid well beyond comic rates to do what I did. It' s not all that bad really. I would have just been one of waaaaay many who've done due diligence on Marvel's first family.
Come to think of it...I'd still love a crack at them. Hell, at some point and I don't know when I'm hoping to set my sights on such an endeavor. Still though, too much of my own stuff to get through before I even entertain the idea.
This underground lair stuff is very much Terrax, but don't ask me why. I remember loving the character a long time ago...I think around the time John Byrne was drawing the book. Anyway, I had hoped they would have used him in the film, but from what I hear they did not. Then again, I didn't hear anything good about the films.
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Here's more of that Tibetan influenced section of the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer video game. What's interesting is I'm writing a project that has many of these types of non-sequitur cultural influences. Somehow I think what I come up with will make a lot more sense to me that with the Fantastic Four. 
These are supposed to be stone heads reminscent of Terrax. As if his cosmic culture had infused with Tibetan culture. I don't know...whatever, it was cool to work on.
Sadly I couldn't get the technology down. It was a mix of Minority Report design and like stuff from the first Hulk movie. I didn't really get it...and had little time to turn it around. Oh well, can't win them all.
As I said before many of these sketches will be revealed in their final phase at www.studiowhite.com .
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A few years ago I had the good fortune to work on the Fantastic Four video game, Rise of the Silver Surfer...or something to that effect.
It was fun doing concepts but I really didn't quite understand the story behind the game. It had this weird Tibetan overtone to it for one of the areas. I think Terrax had something to do with that area...though I did work on a variety of areas so it's hard to say.
I'm not even sure how the game turned out. I think it did okay. Though I never got a contributor copy. :(
At any rate...these are the early Blue-Sky roughs that I do when I first get a project. After this initial gut phase I get my first round of direction. I'll be sharing more in the next couple of days. Also, I'll be putting finishing touches on my commercial site, http://www.studiowhite.com/ where you'll see some of the same drawings carried much further than here.
I found this sketch page on the back of another sketch page of website designs. Which by the way is what I'm in the process of doing at the moment. I've got one almost finished and will soon embark on the second.
This past weekend was the Emerald City Comicon. It's a nice little show that keeps getting bigger. I met a lot of nice people, a couple of strange ones and I got to say "hello" to some old acquaintances. I sketched and sold merchandise the whole time and came out of it with a little bit of cash.
So I'm plodding ahead into a new direction and style. Of course it's for a story that is only partly written but I at least hope they culminate to a point of some finish. This inherently will be the closest thing to my "natural" style I suppose, as I really look to no one else but my mind and hand and the natural world around me. It's hard to say if I'll actually get a good handle on it where I'm comfortable with it. I mean, something that comes naturally has always caused me to run away. 
In the meantime, I'll be working on my websites and bringing those online here by the end of the month.
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