shepherd sketch

Rough concept done in ball point pen and quickly potatoshop colored.

Avatar after

I recently finished re-watching "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and I've been immensely enjoying the new show, "Legend of Korra".

I've been wanting to make a gift dedicated to my old time friends and I thought the original "Team Avatar" but grown up would make a nice picture. Obviously, some designs are using the Korra designs but made a couple years younger, and other characters we haven't seen older so I made things up. I hope you guys like it!

To: Christine, Kevin, and Ann
From:  Eric

Prisoner by choice

For a long time I wanted to do an illustration on this topic. There are many ways it could have been portrayed but here's what I ended up with. I hope you like it and that it can speak to you in some way!

gamer face

Yeah there's lots wrong with this drawing but hey, I'm rusty and I just need to get drawing!

My characters Shane and Jeff playing an enthralling bout of SSFII on snes. Don't try to talk to them now... they're in the zone.

doodle 050312

pieces from tonight's doodle session
listening to Michael Nyman's, "A Wild And Distant Shore", on repeat because of the awesome "Go Right" video.

from android phone

blue ribbon bird

my roommate has been playing Dragon Age II so I felt inspired to draw fantasy stuff.

the Lateness Dragon

... this is what I have to deal with sometimes.

classic car robo

it was during one of those starting to wake up but still dreaming moments... I wanted to draw something like this.



I especially wanted to draw this one- but the robo turned out pretty different than what I imagined. I still like the result though. Now that's outta the way. haha.

a unit

It's Monday and these guys are going to work...

beating up things and scrolling sideways.

rainy monday

splash!

cats are hard to draw!

TENANTS pg 47...

I must post this even though it's a single page update.
Let's try again. Let's push forward again.
Past pages on my deviantart: here!

nonconceptart!

Here's a new blog that I will be posting on with mostly collabs and random sketches. I do posts like that here, but that blog is with two of my pals, Cef and Pav! I'll keep this blog for more of my personal stuff such as this pic here!

nonconceptart.blogspot.com

Peace!

dual spike head man

The night started with drawing two hand poses because I really need to work on hands a lot more, but I detoured to filling the page with Robins of varying full body action poses because I also need to practice more gestures and less portraits (my go-to when lacking other inspiration), and then I started to try Batman but this strange bowing pose came out and was rather frustrating so the head shots returned to end things on a less stressful note. Bottom left corner is my own Bruce, gal in the hat is a Pamela Isley, and the rest are straight forward... well, there's that weird lady which started out as a Selena variant (hey maybe she's in disguise?) but it just looks like an older evil Mathilda from "Leon". Still so much to practice, yep yep... so superheroes can help me out since I won't have to worry about designing or complex clothing so much... just focus on gesture and retain some resemblance to the heroes for fun... like my "Robins" turned out to be a pack of spikey haired wannabes... Tim would destroy them.

for bryan

To my buddy Bryan, who is a Deadpool fan, and just happens to be the source of some of the influence for my character Jeff... just a few things here and there. :)

s'wonderful... marvelous.

I would like to state that I've seen all 5 "Dirty Harry" movies (marvelous), a free time goal which started when I first moved to Chicago around September, and was inevitably prolonged till about early this month when I finished the last ones (oh Happy New Year ya). In between that time I've also seen "Unforgiven", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "Pale Rider", "The Rookie", and rewatched "Gran Torino". Some of them showed during a Thanksgiving weekend marathon called, "Feastwood". Indeed. I beat "Read Dead Revolver" during the Christmas holidays while all this was still running through my head during a return trip back to the east coast. Early on in my move to the Windy City, I also watched all the "Lethal Weapons". As for comics, I've been collecting some Darwyn Cooke, Will Eisner, and still continuing my following of Jeff Smith. Somewhere in this collection of entertainment, storytelling, and genres are the things that may help me with "Tenants"...which took a huge blow after the end of November from a busy life. I've begun writing to try and channel my thoughts on "Tenants" when I can. My older bro got me "The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the changing face of comics" DVD which is cool and inspiring, and the "The Contract with God Trilogy" which I asked for, after the recommendation of a "Tenants" commenter (thank you both!). Until I can really gather myself, I won't be uploading new pages, sad to say. I accomplished my early goals, completing a chapter in pencil and never missing an update. Once it hit ink though, I slowly felt the story slipping away from me as I had to continually force my mind back into the project once every other week (due to life schedule changes and the medium and quality change) but only getting one page out at a time which was way too slow. It wasn't healthy for the story. So I will pick up from where I left off and try to get more done but without posting. I know those kinds of words are often the nails in the coffin, I'm not denying it. All I can do is keep persisting and insisting that I get time to work on my own thing, no matter how busy I get, and if all I can do is type out dialogue for now, I'll do what I can.

Despite all I've taken in, you would think I'd be shooting out Callahan sketches or something but my goal of less fanarts, more originals is still with me.


-Eric

Below: warm up beginning late in the night. Process has only begun. I will go out in the 18-feels-like-6 air for something to drink and keep me going.
Above: Drawing from the top of my head, while his likeness is still relatively fresh from last night's viewing of "American in Paris" (s'wonderful).

as of late

I was reluctant to post new colored art ever since being annoyed at how picasa makes pictures ugly (I could go through a roundabout way and use a photobucket account but rather not), and also have still been thinking that my blog is now very redundant to my Deviantart, but I'll post these up any how. I know some people try the "I'll post stuff on my blog that's not on DA" technique but I don't think it does too well. These are a few of the two last things I drew that are not secrets...

as of late, a large percentage of my art is all art that cannot be shown, from stuff at work, to various projects done at home, and it's been some cool and fun stuff. Sorry for the tease, but just can't show it. So, when I do sit down to work on my own thing, I either work on "Tenants", or try to get another speed paint done, and I hope that can keep my own personal art fire going too. You can check them out on my Deviantart of course.

These two artworks were submissions to chiustream! The snowing pic won me a sketch from Coro, for his topic "homeless fighter"! :D The one with the woman was for the Tim Sale contest with the theme "loneliness", but he didn't get to see it since I did not get enough peer votes to make top 3. Win some and lose some... ya?

bayonetta contest entry

Hi guys, I entered sega's "bayonetta re-envisioned" contest and it works on a voting system. If you like mine please vote for me in the poll at the bottom of the page:

link

vote "eric huang" :). Thanks in advance for any help to come!
Hope you like this piece.

contests

Going back to late 2007, these are artworks I created for contests. I think these are all the contests I entered actually from then till now. The top image is my Darkstalkers Tribute book entry which made it in!
The bottom image was for a contest on Deviantart that won me my first ever subscription to DA. In between are entries that didn't win but were still fun to make and take part in.
When I look at these entries, I see an affirmation of the fact that I am constantly growing and experimenting in my art and use of style. In some entries I was more paying homage to the styles I admire (while always adding myself in there) and in others it's more of a reflection of my style development at the time.

I don't really do contests all that much, but there's something about putting oneself out there, on the line, showing what you can do with the given amount of time, waiting to see if you've made it far- that is really awesome. Seeing other entries produced for the same contest is also always a treat and constantly challenges you to do your best. Best of all, getting feedback from peers and the judges is exciting. I'm thinking of entering another one soon just to keep myself sharp.

p.s.- I've never said it before, but it seems like picasa, the image account for us blogspot users, is messing with the image quality. Unfortunately a lot of my artwork here is dampened in quality (by ALOT!). Well, you guys can always venture over to my DA account to get the best view. cheers.

tough

and some old sketches here

Lil descriptions can be found at deviantart, sorry too tired (lazy...) to copy and paste em here. But what I can do here is actually blog! Things have been really busy these days. First I moved from NY to NJ. It was a smooth move but now I'm house-locked. No way to get around. I'm sorta thinking of getting a bycicle...hmmm. Anyways, for a while now I've been working on multiple projects, lots of stuff to do and so little time. At heart, I know to be very greatful to have work at this time, but mentally I start turning into a zombie... and that's no good! So I gotta keep my own thing going. On my deviantart, I started a webcomic. Despite all the "Moth" stuff I draw, I'm doing a comic called "Tenants" first... it's just in pencil and loose to help me get used to making a story publically, regularly updating at least 1 page a week usually on saturday. It's going well so far, check it out and lemme know what ya think too, I'd appreciate it.

I just found this duo band "Matt & Kim" and I really like their music. Very upbeat and fun. I just want to get up and jump around and play on my keyboard too. Somebody wanna join me and jam? It's ok, I don't have any experience there either. It's not too late to start! ohh, and speaking of music, I recently began making songs on the comp again.

What else... well nothing can beat the nice nature all around me now, and family is here which is great, but I have definitely been missing NY and my friends there a lot.

Time for some shut eye, night!