Kevin T. Chin's Art Journal

Holiday Card 2009 and The Chinbot Process Blog

2009-11-09T00:28:00.000-08:00

It's that time of the year again and I wanted to share with you my holiday card. This year I actually printed my card as physical postcards to send to my friends in the industry and family. It was certainly a learning experience and glad to see that printing access has become cheaper and cheaper since I left college. Overnightprints did a great job I have to say, I caught them during a postcard sale too. If someone didn't get a postcard by now I probably didn't know you're address, sorry. Lemme know if you want me to send you one. I've also created another blog dealing with all the illustration process so please check it out for a in-depth look at how I created this piece. Happy holidays everyone...

http://chinbot.blogspot.com/

New Carbonmade, Iphone app and some wallpapers!

2009-11-02T00:37:00.000-08:00

Well, we've survived the zombie apocalypse, reached the safe room and its back to work. And what a great way to start the day by checking out my new updated carbonmade site. I'd love to hear your thoughts and definitely please let your art director friends know too because I'm looking!

http://kevinchin.carbonmade.com

Oh and for you Iphone/ipod touch users, please check out this game app that I did some illustration work for. I did the title screen and the hi-score/ level up screens. Definitely pick up the lite version to see the art and demo the game!

Ink Balloons Lite version

...and don't forget to pick up a wallpaper for the kiddies before you leave. Please let me know if you like them or what other art pieces would be great for wallpapers, I'd love to hear. Have a great day everyone!

You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning...

2009-10-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

Batman designs

2009-10-05T12:27:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, its been a month since the last post. Been working through some things but here is some brand spanking new art inspired by the new Batman game that recently came out. It's so good that its got me excited and making pieces for the sequel for it! Here are a few images from the first pass character designs and an environment I worked on. Going to start on second pass details for the characters.

Business cards and sketches and turtles

2009-09-04T13:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, its been a while so I thought I'd update the blog. During the summer I was busy doing some freelance which was awesome but now its back to sending resumes and portfolios. So yeah thats what I'm doing mostly these days. It's been almost one year since things hit rock bottom both relationship and employment-wise, I know everyones been having a rough time with the latter though.

Anywho, here's some recent sketches, some from the ashcan book I was planning on making. Oh, and picture of the new business cards I ordered at overnightprints.com. They do a good job, all you need to do is upload your files and they do the printing, genius!

Update of sorts

2009-08-10T14:33:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone, just updating the artblog with some Project Henshin stuff and random sketches. I'm working on an ashcan saddle stitched sketchbook for a local comic convention coming up this fall. Also thinking about doing character sketches at the con of whatever characters, superheroes, anime or even your personal mmo characters. Anything's cool. Also thinking of selling prints as well but I'm not sure which images to sell. Any recommendations are from you all are appreciated.

Oh and yes, its my rendition of the gold ranger gasp not gold ranger. My homage to my favorite design from back in the day. I had a fanboy jump on my ass for calling something power ranger like but not looking like a cardboard box robot. So, its a thin line to say ranger i guess, transforming-superhero-mechanical-suit-people! My version he isn't a hero either...yet. So go figure.

From the hidden archives

2009-07-29T21:06:00.001-07:00

Some old things I dug up from my hard drive from pre-fun park days. Jeff, Miguel, and I cranked out some amazing things back then. This is some of the work that never made it, I still think they could have turned into something, it was really fun.

Another tease

2009-07-21T23:32:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, here's another desktop look at what I have on my plate for my personal project. Lately the freelance has been happily rolling in finally and well bills will get paid so that makes me a happy boy. Things are getting closer and closer to a big thread of Henshin art!

Project Henshin Unit-02 and Megazord designs

2009-07-07T00:53:00.000-07:00

Another update, this time the leading female suit design and the big one. The Henshin Megazord.

2009-07-05T12:54:00.000-07:00

Reposting this message for my friend Jason and his soon to be wife Kam to spread his message, so please check it out.

"Hi everyone,

I’m excited to announce that my fiancé Kam and I are releasing a Dollar Campaign to raise money towards the cure of the disease HIBM. As some as you may already know my fiancé Kam is afflicted with HIBM, which is a progressive muscle wasting disease which can lead to total disability within 10-15 years. We both work very hard for the non-profit organization ARM (http://www.hibm.org/arm/index.php) which is dedicated to curing this debilitating disease.

With ARM we have created this dollar campaign with the hopes of raising 1 million dollars to enable human therapeutic trials to fight HIBM. We are asking for two things: First, go to WEBSITE (http://www.hibm.org/arm/dollar:home) to donate $1. Second, send this email on to all your friends and family.

In the Internet age, reaching one million people in that amount of time is surely do-able. If you are interested in becoming a bigger influence in this campaign, host your own dollar collecting campaign in your community, church, workplace, among your friends and family and donate what you've collected as one donation. Or you can post this story and image on your own blog and Facebook page. The more people we can reach increases the awareness of HIBM.

HIBM (Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy) is a progressive and debilitating muscle-wasting disorder caused by a gene defect. It touches those between the ages of 20 and 40 and, although progression is slow, it typically leads to total disability within 10-15 years. Studies suggest that HIBM may be easier to cure than many other disorders or diseases, the only limiting factor is funds.

Thank you for your support,

Jason Hazelroth"

Preview for next week

2009-07-04T15:35:00.000-07:00

Here's a sneak peak at some things I'm doing for Project Henshin that should be done by this week. Fun things. Working through the holiday weekend because well I gotta keep hoping one day I'll get struck by employment, but its lunch time. Taking a break.

Warcraft "Fan Art"

2009-06-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

Enjoy, I had a blast working on it.

Fantasy Armor Designs

2009-05-21T20:31:00.000-07:00

A brief detour from Project Henshin, I wanted to do some armor designs for my portfolio. Plate mail, leather/fur, and cloth designs. >.> It's not like I played a Paladin/Rogue/Mage before...ever...in an MMO game...from that awesome company. OK I did.

How many are there? Lets kill em all!

2009-05-08T13:12:00.001-07:00

There always seems to be a plentiful amount of cronies or goons to fight in tokusatsu sentai shows for sure. My concept would be zombie astronauts and civilians, or rather bits and pieces put together after the alien invasion. I wanted something scary and leathal to civilians but fun for the rangers to battle and not exert too much effort, they are of course just mindless zombies. They also extend their apendages like Mr. Fantastic somewhat and almost turn into a massive wave of darkness at some points of the story flooding the rangers in epic battleness. Also, i could help but make murloc sounds while working on them lol. The big boy up there is more of a tank version patroling down the streets reigning terror and processing up more bodies for assimilation. And I reworked the hangar bay shaft scene to show the goons infiltrating it.

Some environments WIP and 3d sketches

2009-05-01T16:25:00.000-07:00

Here are some environments I've been working on using the process of blocking in objects and shapes with Google sketch-up and painting over. I'm still getting used to it. I'm open to critiques and advice when it comes to the environments or ideas on my personal project. Puttys, more enemy commanders and Series-2 rangers are coming up. I'm trying to switch back and forth between the needed environments and the characters that I enjoy working on.

Still here

2009-04-28T14:41:00.000-07:00

Still here, still working on personal project, still job hunting, unemployment's run out i believe. I went to the Street Fighter Nucleus gallery show this last Saturday and met up with many friends and artists there. One of which i talked to about the industry and how were all in tight spots these days and to keep the faith. It's been almost 8 months since the lay off and the job posts have just started to come around but I have been sending for a long time. On some days cant help but think about the dark things but yes, keeping faith and hope in myself has become a valuable attribute lately.

More to come.

Mecha-Zord hangar bay using Sketch-up

2009-04-22T13:21:00.001-07:00

I thought I'd try to use Sketch-up for my environments and It turned out well I think. You really cant tell but it helped get past the perspective mental roadblock I usually get when working out rooms and environments, I think I could get used to Sketch Up. Anyways, here's another piece for my Project Henshin, a decommissioned Mecha-Zord hangar bay. yeah, thats just a preview of whats to come baby.

Project Henshin has begun!

2009-04-20T00:48:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post these pieces up from my Darker tokusatsu project. I wanted to start with something that sets the tone of what i wanted. Imran helped me out with bringing that feeling or emotion home right off the bat so I did a painting setting the mood and where the story begins. The soldiers of the future failing and dying, their leader the valiant Henshin Red-01 stands alone with his comrades dead who knows where battling other evil forces, armor broken and unarmed from his mono-fiber plasma katana. Perhaps facing his final enemy with no backup and energy running low in his Plasma Polymer Alloy power suit. This is the tone, dark and death, but there's hope. This is the end of those poor soldiers but it marks a new beginning where new heroes will appear but the world has changed blah blah blah, have i got ya?

Ok sorry, that was just me thinking outloud lol. Well, you get where I'm going and hopefully you enjoy it because I certainly enjoyed thinking and creating more content for this project. Most of those sketches are work in progress.

Just a tease

2009-04-18T17:12:00.000-07:00

Just a tease of whats to come next week, this weekend I'm having some crazy fun coming up with some ideas for Project Henshin. Wait till you see the mech battle. I'll post the suit designs fully when I get a chance to paint them. I've got a few portfolios to get ready for some studios and that take precedence, at least i think. How have everyone been?

Small update and some environments

2009-04-12T20:42:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, some more samples and some updates and touch ups on previous ones. Added an alien planet environment and command room where the main characters hangout i guess. Still working on the suit and helmet designs, those will be up this week for sure after I start sending out portfolios to companies first with this new work I have. Wish me luck.

Project Henshin: Bio-EX 06

2009-04-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

Some more samples I was working on this week. Part of my personal project for a more serious and darker tokusatsu style franchise. Very much inspired by designs from Keita Amemiya. This one is a bit video-gamey with the "weak spots", I'm playing a bit too much RE5 and Dead Space maybe lol. But yeah, it would be a boss character for the good guys to battle. Designs for the good guys are still to come, the suits designs are very important for the project and I'm going through a lot of itterations (dare i say...variations). Environments and Suit designs are on the list though so, more to come!

Also, apologies to all the comment posters in old posts, I never got any notifications that there were comments. Especially on the Garo artbooks.

"Warning: In case of Civil Defense Sirens..."

2009-04-06T02:19:00.000-07:00

Giant robots vs Monsters...oh yes. Not only a fan of sentai but kaiju as well! The sketch designs may be used as offspring of the larger monster ala American Godzilla or Cloverfield. More on this to comeand maybe some more fun stuff! Stay tuned...

I like Super Sentai

2009-03-09T00:20:00.000-07:00

Things have gotten pretty busy here. Freelance and contract work. Still looking for that full time gig. After my time is done at Technicolor I'll be on the hunt again. Hopefully more places will be open to looking for concept artist by then.

Some Sentai fan art in celebration to watching their new series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. I'm kinda excited and I would love to be hired to design one of their shows one day. Kind of a dream of mine.

career update

2009-02-26T23:05:00.000-08:00

I just started my 1 month contract gig at Technicolor Interactive Wednesday. I'm excited and the project is pretty neat and am interested to see the end result. I've met some really cool people working with Scott Seeto, Yoriko, and Jeff are pretty awesome. I posted a mix of digital sketch and a traditional gouache painting from hangin out at the beach.

And I come back to you now...at the turn of the tide

2009-01-26T18:14:00.000-08:00

My apologies to everyone. It has been a very long time but its time I fully returned to the passions that made me happy before my ex-girlfriend. Making badass art. Not quite my new years resolution but yeah something like that, anything to help me move on from my losses last year.

Some news on different fronts. I've decided to open myself up to doing commissions for people's Warcraft or DnD characters or fan art for their favorite shows. If you are interested please email me and I'll send you my commission info. I'll also be making a post soon on my deviantart as well about it so hit me up there as well.

Here is a piece i did for the CGchallenge Steampunk Myth though I missed the deadline because of many happening in RL. Also added some new figure drawing images.