Thursday, July 2, 2009

Seems strange making a posting that isn't Agent Orange related!!!
I recently did these dino character designs for a friend of mine, Liem Nguyen. I'll fill you more in about what the project is as it goes along, but basically... it's a video game!!! Very fun stuff.

In other news... I saw the new Transformers movie, which I have to admit, I was VERY excited to see (which I'm sure comes at no surprise to you all, seeing it is all about robots!) First of all, let me say that the action, amount of robot screen time, battles, and even story were pretty awesome.
But sadly, the movie failed tremendously due to it's high level of rude humor and sexual content.
Twas a sad day indeed for ol' Rawlsy. Definitely NOT for kids. (or adults trying to keep their minds clean for that matter!)

38 comments:

sergio kechu said...

great work!!!
I really like it

you are in my favourites

kechu

PD: do you have comics publicated?
where can I get it?

Adam Temple said...

Nice looking designs man! I saw Trans 2 aswell, and I generally liked it, but there were almost one too many spinny Micheal Bay shots for me - I started to get queezy.

Danica Brine said...

Sweet looking dinos Rawls ! Thanks for the comment.

Simon Scales said...

Hey Rawls...nice dinosaurs!!

andreas schuster said...

SPINOSAURUS!

i also wanted to see the big robot movie but all the reviews and the talk about the failed humor made me go into "maybe not!" mode.

bay seems to have a great way in missing the right tone.

Draw Monkey said...

Oh dinos. You bring me back to my youth. Who didn't love dinos back in the day? Who I ask?

Sweet desings RAWLS. I love your linework.

I haven't seen Transformers either and, really, I don't think I will. The first one was fun, but I haven't heard anything but "lots of action" as a compliment to the new one soooooo, not for me.

Scott Forbes said...

Nice work Rawls!
And it was a terrible film.

Jordie Bellaire said...

Proud to say I did NOT attend Transformers and that I love your Spinosaurus. These are great drawings, who doesn't love dinosaurs?

crylic said...

Yowza, these dinos are awesome, Rawlsy! Lovin' the pallete as usual, beautiful stuff, gotta kinda retro feel to them.

Yeah me and Marshall roomed for about 2 years, he had bottom bunk :P

EL Gato Negro said...

the raptor is my fave but they all pretty kick ass, and yes Transformers disappointed me in all kind of ways..

tokyobanana said...

all my Bg are made on flash

Marco Bucci said...

very cool, dude! Really fun cavemen.

Kevin Asmus said...

These are great man! The cave men crack me up!

Awesome work.

Ill be sure to keep up with this blog.

Louise Smythe said...

i had a scary dream about dinosaurs last night! still love 'em though - and i love your work so much!

RAWLS said...

Thanks SO much everyone!! Glad you like em! (I think everyone loves dinosaurs!)

Mike Boldt said...

Fantastic Dinos!
Triceratops still is and I think always will be a fav.

I completely agree with you about Transformers too. Fantastic potential squandered on throwing in way too many un-necessaries.

Keep on Rockin it!

-Mike

Marcelo Vignali said...

These would make really cool stickers.

robi pena said...

Superbe illus, fantastic Dinos!! Sure it will be an amazing video game my friend!! :-))

Mike Lee said...

Sweet stuff man!

Chrispy said...

YO! You are a BEAST! And i forgot to let you know that i check your stuff prior to my sketching, VERY inspirational, and FREEING! I love it, MORE!

abhishek singh said...

a video game sounds fun!!
great designs toooo:)

ALESSANDRO BONI said...

your work is amazing!

GhettoFab said...

now games???? youre every where!!!

heheh these are great!! Will have to give more info when you can

Giuseppe Ferrario said...

Love the character disign and the color. You rock, my friend!

Tapan Gandhi said...

who doesn't love dinosaurs?! my favourites are the raptor and the spinosaurus :)

Shoki said...

The cave man is really rad, love the dinosaurs too!

Alina Chau said...

These designs are looking great!! Dinos rock!

Gabriele Pasqualino said...

really cool chara/creature work here :D keep it up
p.s. linked you ;)

Ivan Oviedo said...

Hi Darren,

Tanks for compliments for MOONWALK.
I love seeing their work.

alexandre said...

Nice solid designs Darren.

cdeboda said...

Sorry to hear about the TF movie. My childhood was all about the TF G1 toons :P Still haven't seen this 2nd live action flick tho.

Nice prehistoric "stickers" btw too.

Kyle Marshall said...

nice work with the dino colors

Daniel Duche said...

Son muy interesantes tus trabajos. Me gusta mucho tu estilo y linea.
Saludos!!!

Mr.Breadcrumbs said...

i like, really cool.

sami in chains said...

Great illustrations Rawls!

RAWLS said...

Thanks a ton everyone!!!

FENTON said...

love your style man!!

Christian Robinson said...

These Dinosaurs are AWESOME!!! I especially like the T-rex, the way you designed it's head is very similar to the shape of my head when my hair is short : )