Nick Daniel's Concept Art Blog

Various Illustrations by Request

2010-04-03T23:19:31Z

For the last two weeks I've periodically offered to draw whatever I was asked to on my comic's blog. The results are a mix of the 70-Seas's cast doing various funny things, and the random machinations of my audience.

Dudikov wanted to see a shark fight a bear gladiator style.

Wtachi requested Nikol pelting Grin with candy.

Jeremy asked to see Serra in a crows nest with a squid there.

Jason thought it was high time that the Sisters of Impetus discovered electricity.

And finally I decided to do a second one for Jeremy with the Lapakian creation myth.

IkaTaii wanted to see girls kissing, cutely.

Joooon asked for mobster cats, I gave him yakuza cats.

Tawa wanted Lewk to fight a dragon, unfortunately Lewk's a coward.

Watachi wanted a whole Lagish orchestra, that's a LOT to draw, so he's only getting 1 instrument at a time.

J_Hodgie requested a geek commanding a robot to destroy a city.

Jeremy wanted a man gardening underwater.

I tried to get Hilde to make out with a girl for Cyber Skull, it didn't work out.

Bergasm wanted a "Lagend Grim Reaper Child" I know what those words me, but not in that configuration.

Dudikov wanted to see how Serra would lose her eye in a fake story that didn't even happen.

I'll be doing more of this in the future, so keep an eye on the 70-Seas blog or follow me on twitter to find out when.

Carol's Regret

2010-03-19T01:57:04Z

For Carol that ring is a reminder of everything that's gone wrong in her life.

She'd get rid of it, but her finger's gotten too big

Rover

2009-11-20T23:38:30Z

Sick of traditional 'natural' animals veternarian Dr. Moeron employed the awesome power of vivisection to create whole new strains of life.

How he made a cat without an anus we have no idea.

Senka Toon Concepts 2

2009-11-16T17:28:49Z

More concepts for Senka.

Senka Toon Concepts

2009-11-13T20:56:20Z

I'm working on retooling the design of the hero of the puzzle platformer I'm working on.

His only defining characteristic is that he can hop between dimensions so I have a lot of leeway to operate with.

The Metal Lands

2009-11-12T20:59:20Z

Statues of this sort are quite common in the Metal Lands where its denizens have mastered the art of sculpting rock in its molten form.

What's truly extraordinary about this image is that the sun is peaking out of the clouds. That almost never happens there.

Slides 2

2009-11-10T07:00:51Z

Last week I posted some illustrations I made for my brother's GDC slide show. That was only half of the things I came up with, here's the rest.

Early Implementation

Lots of Options

Good Practices

Immediate Feedback

Genre Conventions

Just an Explosion

Nico vs. The Chicken

2009-11-07T01:46:51Z

This is Nico from my buddy Lars's webcomic North World. She beats up monsters for a living.

That's a giant chicken by the way, Nico is normal human sized.

Slides 1

2009-11-06T03:46:40Z

Recently I made some illustrations for a presentation my brother plans on giving at GDC (Game Developers Conference). They're meant to illustrate some aspects of interface design.

Intuitiveness vs. Abstraction

Lack of Control

Control Confusion

Even More Control Confusion

p5ych @ 2009-11-02T21:56:00

2009-11-03T04:07:18Z

The dungeon of Kuraga is said to be 100 floors deep. It is said that the monsters of each sub-basement are more horrifying than the last.

This however should probably be taken with a grain of salt since no mortal has ever passed sub-basement 2.

p5ych @ 2009-10-30T15:17:00

2009-10-30T20:20:37Z

Derdaberg army engineers never had much appreciation for camouflage.

Fortunately for them Ettagrad engineers never quite mastered directed aviation.

Nina Roberts Portrait

2009-10-29T23:00:38Z

I don't really have any more to say about her, I just wanted to try drawing the face of an African woman.

Nina Roberts

2009-10-29T05:00:08Z

The name is probably an alias, but a mercenary going by Nina Roberts has been popping up in conflicts across Africa and South Asia.

She's been reported KIA half a dozen times, but it doesn't seem to have taken.

Brute De Sode

2009-10-28T02:51:08Z

Dr. De Sode had a short but memorable career robbing banks throughout Empire City and making everyone feel generally uncomfortable.

One look at his henchmen will give you a pretty good idea why.

p5ych @ 2009-10-26T23:25:00

2009-10-27T05:25:51Z

A bit of refinement on some earlier pics of mine.

I had to relearn how to draw clouds a couple times while making this.

Temple of the Green Lion

2009-10-23T02:51:25Z

Skeptics of eastern religions should take note of Nepal's Temple of the Green Lion. Which in spite of having no custodial staff, no locks, and being located right in the center of a slum retains an untoched heaps of treasures both ancient and modern.

Why it's a certifiable miracle.

As you might guess I've been playing a lot of Uncharted 2 lately.

p5ych @ 2009-10-20T00:20:00

2009-10-20T05:22:48Z

Speculators had assumed that this hotel would drive tourism in the area.

Unfortunately funding ran out before any roads could be put in place.

Spider Tree

2009-10-16T17:43:56Z

Our excavation of Atlantis continues, it seems like hardly a week goes by without us discovering something both amazing and perplexing.

This weekend with the coming of the equinox the trees took to replanting themselves.

Wirebot

2009-10-16T04:43:48Z

Recently analysts began looking into a defect in the X7-77SVN that would cause this unit to fly into an uncontrollable rampage during routine maintenance.

Said analysts succeeded in replicating the bug. As a result there are now several openings in the analysis department.

Edward Mutiny

2009-10-15T00:16:05Z

The mutiny clan has a short but distinguished history of crime and vice.

As a liar, a thief, and a one time murderer Edward here is the closest the clan has ever come to respectability.

p5ych @ 2009-10-13T18:52:00

2009-10-13T23:57:10Z

Shifter's an XBLA game I'm working on, in it you shift dimensions.

So now it's possible to have a fire level and an ice level, in the same level!

Mutant Hare

2009-10-12T23:58:52Z

The fellas over in the Orion division recently cooked up this little worm, it mutates it's host and turns it into a blood thirsty killing machine.

So far it only works on a particular breed of hare, but they seem confident that they'll have it working on rats and badgers by the end of the next fiscal quarter.

p5ych @ 2009-10-09T21:13:00

2009-10-10T05:44:04Z

Caraway beach is a fun in the sun for the whole family.

Conveniently located in the center of the Atlantic Ocean.

Samantha Redhook

2009-10-09T05:12:01Z

In the future equal opportunity legislation will ensure that women will not be excluded from space marine combat operations.

However skimpy body armor will be required.

p5ych @ 2009-10-08T00:02:00

2009-10-08T05:06:11Z

Before they left the aliens were kind enough to drop off a gift.

A gift which just so happened to vaporize most of Detroit.