One Year Later!

A lot has happened in the past year, but between freelancing, working at WayForward, getting my live game stream up, and personal art projects, time just flew on by. I've updated my other tabs, under Published Works and Portfolio.

I try to be as frequent as possible on my other social media pages, so definitely drop on by there:
Facebook Page: The Art of Sasha Palacio
Twitter: SashaMPalacio

November November...

Lots of freakin things happening in November... gahh... but anyway, keep an eye out for somethings in particular!

"Angels and Demons" Art Wall at The Hive Gallery Nov. 9th

729 S Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90014

I'm curating this months PixelDrip Gallery wall at The Hive Gallery next month, so drop by between Nov. 9th to Nov. 30th. Some dates to definitely drop by are the opening weekend, Nov. 9th, and Nov. 14th for Downtown Art Walk. If I have the chance I'll have some demon/angel sketches up, but you'll definitely be seeing my Jezebeth, Demoness of Seduction piece up.

"Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" at Agit Gallery by PixelDrip Gallery Nov. 16th

3974 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020

I'm co-curating with, but more of an assistant to, Zero Blank, who has been steering this epic show to greatness. A lot of amazing artist and myself will be displaying artwork themed after Tentacles, octopus and squid alike. Check out the Facebook Event page or even the PixelDrip Gallery page for it and hope to see you there! Are you an artist interested in participating too? Email Zero at deathpopart@gmail.com or Sasha Palacio, me, at sashampalacio@gmail.com and make sure to put “Tentacle Art Show” as the subject =)

Art life!

I'm still on a few freelance art projects, so art updates have been few and far between... but I hope to have some stuff to upload, with permission, in the next month. Otherwise here are some sketches I've done for a upcoming book, one on which I co-worked on with Diego Paz, Mark Anthony Tierno's Maldene Vol. 1. Needless to say, we're working on the next volume =P

Lamia Dance Scene sketch

Dwingale, a female elf character sketch

Maldene Vol. 1 Cover

On a side, more geeky/nerdy, note... I'm picking up my beloved PlayStation 4 on my birthday Nov. 15th, and no lie, will most likely be playing the heck out of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Which I hope is a great redemption to Assassin's Creed III... that game had so much freakin' potential. Still a huge fan of the series though, and Ezio Auditore da Firenze =D

"I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" Documentary and WayForward's "Shantae: Half-Genie Hero"

"I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" Documentary

So remember that awesome art show tribute for The Legend of Korra that Mark Batalla and I co-curated with PixelDrip Gallery back in March of this year? Well the "I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" Documentary is finished and up for the world to see! Plus plenty of attendees filmed their experiences too! Special thanks to Andulka Wilkes and Evan Koehne with their great filming and editing skills, making it look awesome and professional, but Dormilón for adding great music too!

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

If you haven't heard already, WayForward, the company that brought you DuckTales: Remastered, A Boy and His Blob, and of course the Shantae series, started up a Kickstarter to raise funds for their next 2D Animated game Shantae: Half-Genie Hero! And if you're new to the Shantae series or always loved her but never had a chance to try the games, come out to Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles, CA for a sweet Game Night 16! Play and celebrate the Shantae series, hang out with WayForward peeps, and help fund the Kickstarter if you'd like! Free to attend but full of awesome!

Geek Pop Podcast

Just yesterday my old college buddies and friends invited me on as a guest to their great podcast: Geek Pop! They're fairly new but going 8 episodes strong already! If you have an hour and a half of time to listen, check it out! Geek Pop Episode 8! Check out their Facebook page and previous episodes, popping your weekly geek =P

"Beer is Art" The Coaster Show and "Garden of Your Mind" PBS Tribute Show

This weekend is going to be riddled with great art, and if you're in the L.A. area be sure to stop by either of these two events!

"Beer is Art: The Coaster Show" by La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 6th, 8-11pm

"Garden of Your Mind" PBS Tribute Show by PixelDrip Gallery & The Hive Gallery, Opening Reception: Saturday Sept. 7th, 8-11pm

While your at The Hive Gallery, check out PixelDrip Gallery's "The Hive Wall: WRESTLEMANIA" in the back. PixelDrip Artist illustrate various Wrestling inspired art.

DuckTales: Remastered

What's this!? A blog update within a month of the last one!? I sure like to prove myself wrong...

Well, as I've stated in previous updates I had the pleasure of working on DuckTales: Remastered with the amazing Animation team. The game was released on PSN, PC/Steam, and Wii U eShop Aug. 13th. It will then follow onto the Xbox Live for Summer Of Arcade Sep. 11th. It's been getting a range of reviews from love-it to hate-it, but I'm happy to hear almost everyone loves how it looks! WayForward put a lot of love and care into this game and from a a diverse team of DuckTales fans and avid gamers. I also updated my Published Works page as well.

I finished some new art for an upcoming art show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery called "Beer is Art" Sep. 6th. The series is numbered 1-4 and called "Hint of Red"

In other news, PixelDrip Gallery has a lineup of upcoming shows and 2 of which I'm co-curating. Just for you're pleasure, look out for the PBS Tribute Show "In the Garden of your Mind" with The Hive Gallery Sep. 7th and within the same month the Hive Wall we rent at the back of the gallery is Wrestling Themed and curated my Mark Batalla. As the months follow, I'll update on the new shows, but definitely check out the PixelDrip site on all that!

That's it for now, thanks for reading again!

Where do I even start...

I'm terrible with updating this blog, but that does not mean I'm absent online. In fact those that follow my Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter have followed me and my arty adventures. I apologize with those tat solely follow my Blogger, but I've come to the decision of at least updating every once and a while here with only big news. It's kinda what I've been doing, but I can at least be a little more thorough.

"I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" A Legend of Korra Tribute

Was a huge success! A great turn out and Micheal DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were kind enough, with their busy schedule, to make it out and meet the fans. They even helped judge the Cosplay Contest. I'll update with a more in-depth follow-up when the documentary id finished, but don't hesitate to Google/Tumblr search everyones great photos and videos.

Here's my finished piece I did for the show:

Kya and Katara: First Water Bending Lesson

And here are a few more pieces I done over the last few months. For more sketches and work-in-progress pictures, just visit my Facebook/Tumblr or click on the links in the titles.

You Deserved Better, An Elizabeth Tribute

Cat Girls: Cyber Cat, Fashion Kitty, and Nya!

I was interviewed by LAWeekly for the Anime Explode!! art show at Agit Gallery. That's where my CatGirls debuted! Check it out here: Not Your Typical Anime Art Show

I've also been crazy busy with my career, working on such titles as DuckTales: Remastered and Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon because I DON'T KNOW! As soon as they're both released, I can publish the art I did in both. I did update my resume and Published Works tab, so check it out =)

For the upcoming weeks to DuckTales: Remastered's release, Capcom has been uploading a Duckumentary every 2 weeks =P I've been seen in two so far, but keep an eye out for more! DuckTales - Background Duckumentary! DuckTales: Remastered - Art Design Duckumentary

I also had the pleasure of being interviewed by ComicsBulletin's Jose San Mateo on his segment, Profiling Proessionals and was a guest on Sage of Truth's podcast A Word With The Sage

Well that's the brunt of it for now, thank you all for watching and reading!

Postponed "I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!"

MARCH 23RD-24TH!

The show has been postponed due to holiday delay, but a lot of crazy awesome stuff has been going on and crazy cool additions to the show! Fans have to be there, otherwise they'll regret it forever! =P Seriously though...

Ticketing and Funding is still up and will be available at the show, but no free stuff with door tickets sales...

http://pixeldripgallery.com/tlok/

Oh and as I find submitted pieces on tumblr, I'll reblog them on my Tumblr =) And if you're interested in submitting, Deadline for New Artists is February 28th. Just email pixeldripgallery@gmail.com

~Sasha Palacio

"I'm The Art Show Deal With It!" A Legend of Korra Tribute

Wow... not like I haven't updated in 3 months or anything... but I have been quite busy.

Last time on Dragon Ball Z... err I mean Sasha's blog, I talked about the Legend of Korra Tribute I'm co-curating through PixelDrip Gallery. Well is still on its way and speeding up since the show date is this coming January!Not to mention working and trying to get my own piece done for the show...

"I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" A Legend of Korra Tribute

Ticketing and Funding have opened up for "I'm The Art Show, Deal With It!" A Legend of Korra Tribute, and you can get great stuff for helping us fund the show and free admission tickets are included if you want to attend! Otherwise you can either just buy at the door the day of the show, but you won't get cool SWAG... Oh and here's a video of me asking for your help yo!

I did have a moment to sketch one idea of my piece. It will be older Katara and her young daughter Kya waterbending together, as Katara teaches her. (It's a very rough sketch...)

"Mother and Daughter"

The artist roster for the show is growing and getting more refined by the minute, so expect an ever updating list! We are super excited about the show and can't wait to see all the wonderful art, music, and overall great fandom in one venue!

Oh and another update, I had the opportunity to collaborate and work on the last Nintendo Power cover, featuring Shantae and the Pirate's Curse by Wayforward!

Ordering for the Maldene book I collaborated on the cover of is up a running! Check it out!Well that's it for now, but I hope to be more active on here, otherwise you can follow my Facebook Fan Page for more frequent Twitter, Instagram, and status updates! Thank you!

"I'm the Art Show, Deal With It!" Legend of Korra Tribute

My recent absence was the result of getting a full-time job at WayForward Technologies as an Animator/Clean-Up Artist, working on a upcoming game! Which I can't say a thing about it yet! But I have great and exciting yet stressfully awesome news!

Open Call for Art Submission!

"I'm the Art Show, Deal With It!"

I'm co-curating "I'm the Art Show, Deal With It!" The Legend of Korra Tribute. A 2-day experience every Avatar fan is going to love! I'm a huge HUGE "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "The Legend of Korra" fan, and surround myself with fan's/artist's tumblr feeds, stalking Brian Konietzko's/Micheal Dimartino's pages, and deviantart favorites of amazing fanart, cosplays, and crafts relating to these perfect shows. More news to come soon about contributing artist, activities, contests, music, merchandise and lots lots more! Keep an eye out for the ever helpful Kickstarter campaign in the following few days and help us get this ever incredible show rolling!

I will be making a piece for the show, so expect regular updates on my Facebook page and recaps on my blog!!! Oh and started a tumblr a while back but haven't posted yet! I mainly use it to stalk said pages I mentioned earlier =P And I'm a new member of Twitter, @SashaMPalacio, ... I now will update you all everytime I breathe... maybe...

In the mean time... I drew some stuff =P

Sasha the Destroyer - A personal fan-character spoofing Trigun's character names

Drink N' Draw girly sketch

Sasha Creed - Connor, My upcoming new self-portrait, Assassin's Creed style with my new hair cut and color and as Connor from ACIII

Also, if you're attending Comikaze this weekend, look out for the PixelDrip Gallery booth for more "Community" fanart from our last show The "Six Seasons and a Movie" Art Show, and more video game, nerdy, geeky great art! I will, most likely, be dressing up! Cheaply as possible since I can't sew to save my life, but still having loads of fun!

"Maldene" by Mark Anthony Tierno

Published by "The Vault of Knowledge "

I worked on a book cover! I collaborated with my fiancé, Diego Paz, on an epic fantasy novel Maldene. Written by Mark Anthony Tierno, a great author and long-time family friend, the world of Maldene will capture the adventurous soul in an amazing story with great memorable characters on an epic journey. Mark is re-releasing the book and self-publishing it under his own company, "The Vault of Knowledge". I primarily worked on the graphic design, and the Publisher's logo, but I did have a hand in the golden castle and horse riding characters in the cover. Diego made all of the amazing background and the ever fearful Miro's evil gazing eyes, the main antagonist of this daring tale!

Maldene Cover

When I get the link and more info on it's release and pre-order, I'll post it immediately!

Six Seasons and a Movie Art Show! Update Part 1

If you build it, they will come!

Not only was the Kickstarter Project was a big success, but the extra support has helped us make this show one to remember for decades!

The days we have been waiting for are: June 23rd-24th 2012

The show is completely free and has tons of activities to do, stuff to get, free booze for 21+, and of course ART! A loads of amazing art too!

Check out the PixelDrip Gallery Facebook Event page for more info and be sure to hit attend!

Six Seasons and a Movie Art Show

Also, I've been quite busy lately with art projects, but expect an update soon for the upcoming show piece and a book cover re-design for the epic fantasy novel Maldene

Kickstarting an Art Show and an Amazing Journey

So recently a phenomenon has taken the web, a concept which allows people to literally help dreams come true, a movement rallying the masses to conjure up a lost hope for success. What is this miracle I speak of? It is known as Kickstarter, a website that allows fans to fund projects to once promised games, art shows, a person's success and more.

PixelDrip Gallery has started their own Kickstarter in hopes to fund our next big art show: "Six Seasons and a Movie" Art Show and met their goal in well under a week! Even though we met our goal, donations are still welcome seeing as you can still get prizes for various amounts funded. Not to mention you continue to help us make the show even better!

Recently I've been utterly obsessed and in love with thatgamecompany's game Journey. An artistically gorgeous and audibly amazing experience every person, gamer or not, should play. My one dream is to create a game similar to their games or, most desirably, work for thatgamecompany. In lieu of their inspiration on me, I created a quick fanart, and let it be known, this won't be it's last! By the way, Journey's soundtrack, by the musical genuis Austin Wintory, is now out on both iTunes and the Playstation Network. 18 incredible songs for $4.99!!!

Well I couldn't find paint, canvas, brushes, not even my sketchbook... So I stole my fiance's Samsung Galaxy tablet for a moment and created this Journey(Facebook Page) inspired piece while listening to the game's emotional music. Thank you thatgamecompany(Facebook Page) for the amazing game!

And I'd like to mention, I was drawing off of memory as I listened to the soundtrack, so some details will be off. By the way, the symbol was of my first Journey companion the first time I finished the game =] I remembered it was the shape of a heart.

I was given the opportunity to showcase my art on ArtLA. ArtLA is a highly effective advertising website, as well as a key platform service connecting artists around the globe with galleries, dealers, art advisors, collectors, curators and museum directors. You have to be excepted by it's owners to show on their website, and I made the cut! I'm still updating my page, so drop by in a day or less, but here's it is:

http://www.artla.com/sashapalacio

In my next blog I'll be revealing another Kickstarted project for the game we started for the Global Game Jam. I spoke about Rhea a couple of blog entries ago, created by my team Infinity 8. I'll also have some updates on current art venturs such as the "Six Seasons and a Movie" Art Show, Blizzard's Diablo III Art Contest, and more! Thank you yet again for reading and so long until next post!

Progress of Design

I recently found an old folder of all my Concept Design Academy art and figured it would be cool to share. It shows the thought process I took to design each character and creature. Thanks again Kevin Chen and Jerad S.Marantz!

Creature Design, going out my comfort zone =)


Werewolves: Werewolves have been designed and redesigned for ages, and most follow a standard design. I wanted to keep the iconic look but with a twist. This project was definitely out of my comfort zone when it came to drawing, but since I absolutely love horror/thriller films, this was close to my heart.

Silhouette Thumbnails

Reference Collage

Favorite silhouette shapes

Refined and rendered design

Touched-up favorites

Aliens:  Who can say they were never influenced by H.R. Giger's Alien designs? Who I tell ya?! Well, when asked to design scary and creepy alien designs I definitely wanted to give a unique approach but keep to the familiar designs that have already established fear in the populous! I wanted to also keep design to real creatures, especially underwater monsters!

Alien Silhouette Thumbnails 

Favorite alien silhouette 1 refined

Favorite alien silhouette 2 refined

Favorite alien silhouette 3 refined

My personal favorite rendered out and touched-up

Fantasy Beings: I enjoy fantasy creatures, for example Pan's Labyrinth, Legend, and Willow, but I also wanted to give a creepy feel to them.

Fantasy Beings Silhouette Thumbnails

My favorite 3 thumbs

Rendering

My favorites rendered and refined

Character Design, comfortable, but still pushing it =P

Clockwork Thieves and Stowaway: I knew right away I wanted to go with a Steam-Punk theme, preferably cartoony, but as I went through the design process I pushed my style to a simplistic form.

Style Study

Facial Study

Initial Design

Refined Cartoony 1

Refined Cartoony 2

Re-refined Cartoony, and character cut

Design Touch-up

Tonal Range

Never finished this one to it's fullest, but I'm still happy with the results.

Labyrinthian Goblins: When asked to design goblins for the world of Labyrinth I jumped with joy, it was definitely something new, but since the world has already been developed, all I had to do was keep to the style. We played mainly with shape design, and started to refine from there.

Mass Goblin Quick Design

Pick favorite 3 and start to solidify shape

Design touch-up and size change

Quick color drop and further render

I've been working on a lot of contract art, so much of the work I'm doing is confidential, but believe me, if I could post it, I would! Thanks for reading =D