Doombo

This beast is a hybrid between an elephant and the mythical lamassu. I was planning to draw twin creatures - as the shedu and lamassu were always pictured together as a grisly pair. I chose a more up-to-date empire than the Assyrian, so I thought an elephant with stars and an ass with stripes would fit fine for demonic monsters. It started out as a quick pencil sketch then I started to experiment with brushes and textures. I like the result so I decided to post it, though its sibling still awaits to be drawn.

Bossman

I did this just for fun in a few hours: an oriental style ink drawing of an authority figure. He could be a soothsayer or an emperor, a holy person or just a thug- he radiates power and certitude. The kind of person I wouldn't much like in real life...

On Stage: Hairbanger

Second post for the On Stage series: the hair metal guy. He is narcissistic, a bit feminine, a poser and a wannabe wild one. Anyway, I am a bit thankful for these people: if rock and metal music hadn't been so awfully shitty in the 70's and 80's, we wouldn't have punk music now...

Bloodsucker

I had an idea of making a film, a homage to the best vampire horror movie ever made. In this version the roles are switched. The old and gullible count would have been stripped of all his possessions by a young and devious real estate agent. I was planning a stop motion capture animation, with CG rendered finish. I couldn't raise funds for it, so after the pre-production the project halted.

The Urban Yeti

I have a project in progress about imaginary wildlife in the city. It would be a series of 3D animation composed on shot footage. The shots should be recorded with hand-held cameras and the participants kept unaware that they are being filmed - like a wildlife documentary. Each episode would present one absurd, cute and funny critter. The first one is the shy and secretive Urban Yeti. This guy would run around in the streets, always hiding, scavenge dustbins and happily hump everything, that can't run away from him- stray dogs, statues, parking cars, bystanders. For he doesn't know what his spouse should be like, he hits on anything that appears suitable for mating...

Matte paint by Gergely Piroska

Epic Storyboard

This is a storyboard we did in a rush. It was designed for an online, real-time, fantasy strategy game. I wrote the script, drew the panels, my colleague did the colors and we put together a presentation- all within a few days. And of course this wasn't even the first version! We are still waiting for the client's response. I changed the name of the characters to protect the innocent, i.e.: to avoid copyright issues.
Colors by Gergely Piroska.

Rhino's Skin

This was a university project led and moderated by Zsolt Richly: choose a fable and create characters and backgrounds and define the style of animation for it. As a little kid I loved Rudyard Kipling's tales very much, so I chose "How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin" from his "Just so stories". My target audience was pre-schoolers, so I went with a colored pencil style. You can read and/or listen to the story here.

Rough sketches with felt tip marker pen: