MK9 Concepts

It's been a long time since I posted and the MK fans out there have been asking to see some of the concept art that I did for MK9.

I was only asked to do a few and with some very specific direction, but I also took the liberty of presenting a few concepts more to suit my own taste, hoping they would want to take the game in that direction.

The first three concepts I did (Reptile, Johnny Cage and Cryax) I had no interaction with the team and are the ones in which I branched out on my own.

I had just rolled off of another project and moved right to MK9 and these were the first pieces I showed to the guys. The first version of Cryax had a face that Ed Boon pointed out to look like Howard the Duck (he was right it did have the shape of Howard the Duck) so I changed that, but that was all I changed.

The next three I did (Milena, Sub Zero & Nightwolf) were directed by the team to look like what they did in MK2. I think they all turned out pretty good, but I was a little disappointed with what I did with Sub-Zero, he was always my fav of the MK characters and I think I could have iterated on him a few more times.

These were the last images I did for Midway Games before I left. I do have a bunch of earlier concepts from different MK pitches that have never seen the light of day. I will post them when the time is right I suppose...

If you have never seen my MK Redesigns and you would like to, you can see them here:

http://vincentproceart.blogspot.com/2009/09/here-are-never-before-seen-mortal.html

http://vincentproceart.blogspot.com/2010/03/hello-folks-i-promised-that-i-would-try.html

I will be trying to catch up with posting work from the past year & half, as well as new art from D & D, Magic the Gathering, Concept art from Phosphor Games, Awakened and new pages & sketches from my Kiki and Motorgirl Comic in the coming weeks, so keep a look out!

You can also check out my FB pages to see additional work:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vincent-Proce-Studios-Inc/104563609581400

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kiki-Motorgirl/112114055542310

and my website

http://www.vincentproce.com/

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This weekend marks my first artist alley comicon at C2E2 in Chicago. My location is at table R12 in the alley. I have a lot of new art at the con as prints for sale including Mortal Kombat , D & D and a few of my new Magic the Gathering cards.
Also, I made an exclusive 8 page comic that I poured my soul into for five days. I hadn’t done a comic in a long time and it felt great to get back to the basics of just a pencil and a Sharpie. No polish, no Photoshop and no reference…it was liberating. Below are a few of the pieces that I did exclusively for the con including the cover of Kiki and Motorgirl. If you happen to be in Chicago this weekend stop by and say hello, it’s at McCormick Place.
~enjoy

Hello folks, I promised that I would try and complete the other five characters from the original
Mortal Kombat when I found some time and yesterday I did. Here is Sub Zero how I envision him. I haven’t worked out much of his back story other than that he was a part of the Way of the Frost Dragon, an honorable secret society of warriors that were direct enemies with the ninja organization Scorpion was a part of before he was killed by Shang Tsung (disguised as Sub Zero).

Over time I will try and draw the rest of them.

Sub Zero was always my favorite character to play with.

I will have a table in the artists alley at the C2E2 (comic con) in Chicago April 16-18 2010 and have all of my art there for purchase. Come and check it out.

updated the size

This is a piece I did as a pencil work first for a fan on the back of a Magic the Gathering card. I am posting the penciled card and then what I was inspired to color.

Hello, my last post was almost 2 months ago already. Unfortunately I haven't really had any time to work on too much more personal work because I have (fortunately!) been getting fairly regular freelance work.
The art I am posting is from the first wave of concept art done for Magic the Gatherings Zendikar release. I did a bunch of concepts for the 2010 releases that I will eventually post here. Below are only the concepts I was doing for the neo vampires. The direction was to make them less monstrous but still keep them in the natural world. The chosen direction was more tribal then what I have posted (which to me is a bit more Egyptian) but you can still see some of the below art influenced in the cards (none of which are posted because I didn't paint any vampire cards). I was pretty happy with what I ended up with even though it wasn't really used.
The art at the bottom of this post was the art that I did on site which had to be done very quickly because we had to concept a lot of stuff out in the two short weeks I was at the main offices.
Thanks for looking.

A recent speed painting I did in December. I have been super into the sci-fi work of John Harris recently and I wanted to do a peice in that style. I know it isn't as clear/simple as something Mr. Harris would do but I think its pretty good all the same. The theme is that of a short story I wrote about the builders of the space elevators that I believe we should be building...

Here are some recent speed paintingsI did, just messing around on my new rigg.

Apocalypse glass