Kate Art

2012-02-14T13:57:00.001-08:00

Quick doodle of my babbaloo for Valentine's day.

Fangtooth!

2011-06-24T14:50:00.000-07:00

Here is the (Copyrighted Kabam 2011) fangtooth. I like him.

The best and worst part about actually having your concept art go directly up on Facebook is reading uncensored user feedback. I would say that most people don't really care either way what the art looks like, or they say nice things, - but sometimes they get really, really angry if they don't like it. Some of my favorite recent comments "Why are you charging money for this ugly piece of s***" And "Looks like a toddler drew it." I would like to meet this toddler.

Play the game here.

Granite Ogre

2011-06-24T14:46:00.000-07:00

Here are some sketches and an image of our "granite ogre" troop. This Copyrighted by Kabam 2011 Granite Ogre.

Curses!

2011-06-24T14:36:00.000-07:00

Here's some stuff from our "curses" feature.

2011-06-24T14:26:00.000-07:00

Here's some battle report art - I think from... August 2010 maybe?
(Copyright DoA/Kabam 2010)

2011-06-24T14:24:00.000-07:00

Here are some sketches for the Amazon.

DoA Art-a-rama

2011-06-24T14:07:00.000-07:00

Primus Character designs - first two are the first round, painted in May 2010, during our initial developmoent sprint, which was insanely rushed. The third guy is a little more human - probably a little too human for the race but hey, I like his face.

Amazon Character Designs - the first and third are from the initial development sprint, and the one in the middle a few months later.

Play the game heeahh (all images belong to and are copyrighted by Kabam. Not me. Definitely not you.)

So, I haven't posted anything in - surprise, since about the time I became pregnant. It's too much work for a lazy person such as myself to cope with the many, many inconveniences of pregnancy, manage an art team through an acquisition and period of insane growth, AND take the extra time to upload things to a blog. (while still eating and cleaning myself) But now that my due date has come and gone (yes, still pregnant) and I have nothing to do but sit around and wait for my whole life to change, I bring you approx. one year of selected art from DoA. I'm hoping to be able to make more personal stuff in the next few months until I go back to work - I suspect that will depend on what KIND of baby I get. If I get the screamy, yelly kind, probably not.

happy halloween!

2010-10-22T16:29:00.000-07:00

There Dragons Be!

2010-10-09T15:04:00.000-07:00

Excuse me for a moment. All IMAGES IN THIS POST ARE COPYRIGHT WONDHERHILL 2010. You can't repost them or use them.

Finally, finally. The game, the endless game has launched. It's not over, but at least now other human beings can see it. During these last few months I have fulfilled a dream - a dream in which I was an artist who drew armor clad videogame characters and dragons. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a secret dork.

Also, as lead, I had to design the look of the UI. I kept hoping that a magic fairy in the form of a UI artist might appear out of nowhere and do it for me. Unfortunately, we don't have any of those, so I had to crack at it myself. I think it looks okay... but it was my first time so I'm sure in a year I'll find it embarrassing.
You can check out the UI and spend hours and hours waiting for things to finish building over on facebook here.
Thanks to all the Whill artists for your awesome animation, art, feedback, ideas and hard work!
Thanks especially to Rosie, the other concept artist on this project. You're the best!

If you'd like to see more, check back later. I'll post more art in the coming days.

TIny Windows

2010-10-04T13:04:00.000-07:00

I am so done with this one. Millions of tiny windows are not good for my brain. Next stop, APE!

Underwater Tower

2010-09-09T08:23:00.001-07:00

Here's my next piece in the series. It was basically an excuse to draw submersibles.

Even more pencil

2010-09-04T14:21:00.000-07:00

Here's the next installment for my series. I haven't settled on a name for it yet, but I'll be showing them all together and selling prints at the Alternative Press Expo in SF in october. I'm working like crazy trying to get them done!

Hopefully I'll be able to post some of my new professional work too. But, as usual, the game is taking forever!

more pencil

2010-07-24T13:41:00.001-07:00

For the last couple of months, Rosie and I have been cranking away on a project for WonderHill that has required most of our time, even on the weekends. We're very close to launch, so I can't post anything yet. In the meantime, I have squeaked out a couple of drawings. This one I drew on the plane to Vancouver.

More to come in a couple of weeks. Get ready for something different!

Fairy Rescue BGs

2010-03-26T10:01:00.000-07:00

More backgrounds (that are copyright WonderHill 2010 all rights reserved.) These are from another game I art directed, Fairy Rescue, (playable on facebook here. Warning. ADDICTIVE.) It makes me feel better to post these since I totally overestimated the amount of space that would be visible in the game, so all those flowers got cut out.

Harmony Mahjong BGs

2010-03-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

These are of course totally Copyright WonderHill 2010, all rights reserved.

Yay! I have permission to post these too - these are for Harmony Mahjong, a facebook game I art directed.
Click here to play!

Enchanted Gardens BGs

2010-03-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

*copyright 2010 WonderHill All rights reserved
Here's enchanted gardens on Facebook!

March is almost over and I haven't posted anything! Here are some backgrounds from enchanted gardens.

Pencils W.I.P.

2010-02-07T10:07:00.001-08:00

I'm still working on this one. It's almost there.

Anybody remember pencils?

2010-02-07T09:35:00.000-08:00

Some time in December, I realized that I miss pencils. I decided to make a series of drawings painstakingly rendered, millimeter by millimeter, with a 2B mechanical pencil.

Nerd-ish Nite

2010-02-07T09:18:00.000-08:00

Last night I gave a talk at Nerd-type-Nite - an event where bay area nerds talk to other nerds about what they do for a living. I mentioned a couple of things that people wanted to know more about. Specifically, the tablet I work on (digitally) is called a cintiq. This is NOT affiliated with www.nerdnite.com, which I don't think I would qualify for anyway since I am so intimidatingly cool.

http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.php?gclid=CJ2C58je4J8CFRFbagodHWj7Ww - You can find more about it here.
and the nifty color tool to which i referred can be downloaded somwhere around here for free.
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/
Also, if you want to paint at home, Artrage is great, and at 80 dollars, totally cheap.
http://www.artrage.com/

Purrcasso!

2009-11-02T14:01:00.000-08:00

This is my submission, for the Purrcasso Charity Art Auction benefitting the Berkeley Humane society. I'll be updating this post later with a frame - free image. It will be for sale on Saturday! For more information,
http://purrcasso.wordpress.com/posts/ Go here!

real paint - TYE 2

2009-10-25T11:58:00.000-07:00

I figured I should actually post this since I actually made an attempt to paint it with real live paint. I had to use an old set of gouache I had from years ago which has long since dried out. I'm not sure I totally love this piece now, but I tried.

WIP - new technique

2009-10-25T11:56:00.000-07:00

I'm trying some new painting techniques. This is a quick sketch I did yesterday that I think I'll keep working on - maybe make it into something.

Doodle Sunday

2009-08-16T17:41:00.000-07:00

With the husband out of town at an ultimate tournament, I had plenty of time to doodle gross-looking things, thereby ensuring that I felt at least slightly productive.

New background!

2009-08-05T15:19:00.000-07:00

Aaah, bricks. Bricks bricks bricks bricks bricks. And... more grass!!! I think I spend more time painting grass than anyone.

self portrait # 7778

2009-08-05T12:42:00.000-07:00

Aaaah yes. The self portrait. One of the advantages of the virtual world is that it provides many opportunities for profile pictures - and therefore, a socially sanctioned reason to draw self portraits.

2009-07-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

I find there's often a sort of magic that happens in a sketch that's really hard to translate into vector art, no matter how hard I try. I just had to post this mermaid I drew last week, before it was vectorized.

Work Stuff!

2009-07-14T12:34:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of backgrounds I made for our lovely app Greenspot. Coming to Facebook soon!

Terrible Yellow Eyes Unfinished

2009-07-14T12:24:00.000-07:00

This is another piece I made for TYE that I was going to paint but never did, and I'm okay with that. It's the alley behind my apartment.

2009-06-28T11:21:00.000-07:00

This is the kind of stuff I do at work. These are some color studies I did for a WonderHill header. We ended up going in a different direction... more of a happy town than an esoteric hill.

Welcome to the welcoming land.

2009-06-28T11:20:00.000-07:00

This is WonderHill - the 'happy town' direction we settled on.

uncomfortable sketchiness

2009-06-27T14:56:00.000-07:00

You might notice that all of my characters look sad or uncomfortable. I think this is because all day at work, I draw cute, happy, unquestioning animals and landscapes. I need an outlet for the dark side.
I was looking at depression era photography when I drew this woman.

2009-06-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

This is my contribution to Terrible Yellow Eyes, a site created by Cory Godbey, to celebrate Maurice Sendak and his book Where the Wild Things Are. I really appreciate the opportunity this gives me to show him how important his work has been in my life.
http://www.terribleyelloweyes.com/