Concept painting for a brawler type character. Painted in photoshop.
An exercise in perspective that turned into a commision piece for a character request from a friend. While the basic character details were given to me, the overall design was imagined by me.
Landscape colour study, 1 hr. From photograph. Original Image is from Gravity Falls.
Concept idea for syn studio Environment Design class
-Casey Jones: Zombie Hunter- A painting done for a Gameartisans 2D mini challenge called Toon Up, in which we had to take a cartoon character from an existing series and reimagine them. I wound up choosing Casey Jones from TMNT and decided to depict him as a zombie hunter! Photoshop CS5
-Soul to Keep- A concept piece done to test a redesign of one of my older characters, Azrael. Photoshop CS5
-Azrael; Character Sheet- Character iterations for Azrael's redesign. Here, I played around with a variety of ideas in order to push his design as far as I could. Photoshop CS5 and pencil
Commission based piece for the villain of a Sci-fi graphic novel. Character concept belongs to Joe Steventon. Character Design by me.
Concept Art for an upcoming short film I am working on called Wings.
-The Face Snatcher; Character Sheet- Character iterations done to work out the details for a character called the Face Snatcher. Photochop CS5 and pencil
Figure Drawings, April 2014
Figure Drawings, Feb 2013
-Balloon Travel- Speed painting, 1h. Paint Tool Sai.
-Shadowy Encounter- Speed Painting, 1.5h Paint Tool Sai.
-Gerry the Gravedigger; Character Sheet 1- A character designed as part of a school project. Photoshop CS5
-Gerry the Gravedigger; Character Sheet 2- A character designed as part of a school project. Action/Emotion poses Photoshop CS5
-Zombie- A zombie character inspired by the Plants VS. Zombies series. Photoshop CS5
-Arty; Character Design- A personal exercise where I redesigned D'Artagnan, the main character of the Three Musketeer's series, as a goofy little kid. Paint Tool SAI
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Various sketches, paintings and concepts done for the sheer heck of it :)

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Melissa Borsellino
2D Artist for Hire Montreal, Canada