Vote Derezzed!

Tron: Legacy © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The winner is... #5! And also #6. Wait... WHAT?! How can two images win? Well, I am changing the rules. I thank everyone for voting, and I will be inking AND coloring image #5 of Quorra. BUT, I am also going to ink and color image #6 of Sam Flynn as well. I decided to take the winner of the contest and the runner up image and combine them into one piece, and ink and color that. I most likely will be throwing in a light cycle and/or some kind of background to the finished piece as well!

I thank you all who voted, and I can't wait to get started on the finished piece. I will keep you updated! Thanks everyone!

CjB

PS- I am back on DCU Online. We all got the game at work, and I am playing on the PS3! I tweaked my character just a little bit, but his name is still Zaidin! You can find me on the servers "Birthright" and "The Killing Joke". If you play, befriend me! See you online!


DC Online Beta Character Zaidin
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The Masssive Tron Vote!

Tron: Legacy © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Here they are! All 6 of my Tron pin-ups. To the right side of my Blog, you will see a poll where you can vote for the drawing you would like me to do as a Full Color finished piece. The number next to the image corresponds to the numbers in the poll.

The poll will end 12am on Wednesday, January 19th.

Can't wait to see which one wins out! They all look kinda cool together, no?

CjB

The Five Days of Quorra V

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil


So here it is, the LAST Quorra pin-up! This was actually my third attempt at Quorra, and probably my favorite. It's a more subdued, classic standing super hero pose, and yet a very elegant one. It's a little less stylized then the other ones, and more so then I usually draw, but I think that's why it works so well. Sometimes it best to just be a little more realistic in your anatomy to make a character stand out as a real person. A little bit more boring then the others, maybe, but I think the finished pencils really make her pop and give her an sense of weight.

Below is the initial line drawing. No changes on this one, I just went right to finished pencils.

So that's it! That's the last one. Later on today I will post them all side by side with numbers one through five, and post a poll right on the Blog to the right of my page, and you can decide which one you like best, and which ever one wins, I will do in full pen and ink and color!

The poll will end, let's say... Tuesday, January 18th at 10am!

Can't wait!

Hope you enjoyed this character study, and that if you haven't already, go check out Tron: Legacy movie!

One last note on these before I sign off. One of the best things I got from this, was that if you draw one character lots of times, you really get the feel for that character, and you can draw them in any pose or angle. That's REALLY important, especially when you need to be consistent on the look and mannerisms of who you are drawing. I know that's one thing animators do so well, like Disney artists and the like. I know that if you asked me, I can now draw Quorra at any time, without any reference! Cool beans.

CjB

PS- Is it me, or does Quorra (Olivia Wilde) look a LOT like Catherine Zeta Jones? Look it up, you'll see what I mean! LOL

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The Five Days of Quorra IV

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Day four of the Five Days of Quorra! Here is today's pin-up of Olivia Wilde as Quorra in Tron! More of a profile shot on this one. This piece was actually the second drawing I did of the five.

Below are the line work drawings I did for the piece, and much like the previous pin-up from yesterday, I redrew her arm. I couldn't decide if I wanted it down or up. For this one, it just worked much better going up to her head, both in composition and coolness factor.

I hope you like it. Only one more to go. Tune in tomorrow for the last of my five Quorra drawings. I will also post a poll where you can vote on which Quorra you would like me to do as a finished piece!

Until then,

CjB

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The Five Days of Quorra III

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

For the third day of Quorra pin-ups, I have a little bit more of an action shot. This was actually the first one I sketched out, out of all five of the Quorra pieces this week. I remember I had started drawing this one, but it wasn't sexy enough, or so I thought. That's how the ball started rolling on having so many pin-ups of this one chatacter. I was trying to draw a REALLY red hot image of her ala J Scott Campbell. NOT as easy as he makes it look, let me freakin' TELL ya! But, I wound up going back to this one and finishing it, because I actually like the pose and twist of her body a lot.

Below is two different versions of the sketch that I did for this one, because I originally had her left am up in the air, holding her disc. I went back in before the finished drawing and changed her arm to be down by her side more. I just think it worked better as a composition.

Again, let me know what you think, and I hope you like yet another Quorra pic! Two more to go, then you can vote on which one you want me to do up in inks and colors! Maybe I'll even add in a light cycle behind her and a sweet Tron-like background!

CjB

PS- Mass Effect 2 for PS3 doesn't come out until Tuesday, January 18th! Ugh, got all excited for nothing yesterday. Now I need the 18th to hurry on up and get here already!

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Quorra From Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The Five Days of Quorra II

Quorra from Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

This is day two of the five day Quorra pin-up week, image number two! Tune in tomorrow for image number three!

Very similar to the first one, just kinda zoomed out a bit on her. I think with these first two, I made her lean a little too much. With the female figure, I always want to capture that nice curve in their spine, give them a J Scott Campbell kind of look. Sometimes I wind up over-exaggerating that too much, though, so I have to be careful. It's a fine line between being dynamic with a pose, and just breaking the characters back, losing all sense of reality of a character. One thing I do love about the character is her hair. Had a TON of fun drawing her hair in each of these.

They get better as the week goes on, by-the-way! Saved the best ones for later in the week. Although, I want you to decide in the poll on Friday, which one of the five you want me to do in ink and color!

See you tomorrow with more Quorra! TRON RULES!

CjB

PS- MASS EFFECT 2 for PS3 comes out TODAY! Oh YEAH! Thank God for left over Christmas Gift Cards, LOL!

The Five Days of Quorra!

Quorra from Tron © Walt Disney Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

So, I told you more Tron pics were coming! I have drawn five (yes, FIVE) pin-up's of the super hot character of Quorra from Tron. I don't know why I drew five of them, but it was a great exercise in trying to hone my skills on the female form if anything. Also, I started to just have a lot of fun drawing the character. Tron was AWESOME!

Each of the pin-ups are all a classic hero-like poses, so I gotta try like a crazy action shot with her after these five.

Starting today, I will release one a day until Friday. On Friday I will put up a poll on the Blog, and you can vote which one you would like me to do as a finished inked and colored piece! It'll be fun!

So today is the first pin-up of Quorra, of the five. I hope you like it. Tune in tomorrow for pin-up number two!

CjB

Corey Goes to the Movies Part II

Tron Legacy © Walt Disney Pictures

By Corey Breen
Pencil & Photoshop

Much like Avatar December 2009, Tron was flat out AWESOME! I'm not a huge fan of the original, cause I didn't really grow up on that. I had seen it, forgot how and when, but it was no where near Star Wars to me growing up. Heck, I didn't really get into Star Wars until Return of the Jedi. So Tron was nothing special to me. I have co-workers and ex co-workers who are all about the original, but to me it was just something I missed out on.

But I was PSYCHED to see this movie! An it did not disappoint me! My wife actually really liked it to. There is just too many things to write about why I liked it, so I'll just make one tiny criticism of the movie, which is more just me nit-picking then anything else. I just wish there was a little bit more of a hero's journey for Sam. Most of the movie was just flat out super cool visuals and action scenes, but at the end, I wanted more of an epic final battle scene. I think that really would have brought it all to a nice crescendo. It had cool heroes and cool villains, and although I really LOVED the ending, I wish there was a huge spectacular fight scene instead of the aerial battle. Don't get me wrong, I thought the aerial battle was super awesome, but after it, I wish Sam would have had to fight "Rinzler" hand to hand again.

It's like they built up the villains so much that it was inevitable that they would clash at the end, and one would be the victor, but that just didn't really happen. It happened with Flynn and Clu, true, but not with Sam and Rinzler. It would have been so MUCH better if Rinzler's actions came to fruition in a fight with Sam before the showdown with Clu happened.

In action movies, when you introduce such bad a$ villains, then you would hope it all comes down to an all out brawl between them in the end. I just felt that was kinda a missed opportunity for the film. The best example of this is in the Princess Bride, where wait the whole fim for Inigo Montoya to face the six-fingered man, and when he finally does, it's an epic battle! I wanted that between Sam and Rinzler. Maybe in the sequel!

Despite that, I thought the movie ROCKED all kinds of AWESOME! I saw it in IMAX 3D, and I highly recommend it. Much like Avatar, I think this movie will have long reaching sci-fi standing, and I know I will enjoy watching it over and over and over again. Expect to see a lot more drawings of it in the future from me.

CjB

Corey Goes to the Movies Part I

Black Swan © Fox Searchlight
By Corey Breen
Pencil

I'm a big fan of Darren Aronofsky, especially The Fountain and also Requiem for a Dream and he doesn't disappoint in The Black Swan. Just love the look and feel of this film. He always does a great job of capturing an eerie, dark side of life and questions about the human condition. The Fountain was such an AMAZING film, that I think a lot of people missed, so if you haven't seen it, please do yourself a favor and go out and rent it, or even buy it, because it is such a great film that will stay with you and make you think for LONG after it's over. I still refer to that film whenever I think about the meaning of life and religion and that film really makes you feel like the answers are really on the tip of our minds.

The Black Swan is more about one person's personality and how someone tries to reach for perfect in life, yet it's such a fine line between living and crossing the line, and how powerful the mind really is. So again, Aronofsky is just so amazing at getting those feelings and ideas out in his films, that they are such a marvel to watch and think about long after they are over. Those are some of the best films in my eyes, the ones that really go so much deeper then the surface. Such a good film, so check it out.

Hope you enjoy the pic, too!

CjB

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

How to Train Your Dragon © Dreamworks, Inc.
By Corey Breen
Pencil & Photshop

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

All my best to you and yours, and let's hope for a wonderful, prosperous, and most of all, joyful

2011

Corey Breen

DC Online Beta

DC Online Beta Character Zaidin
By Corey Breen
Pencil

DC Online Beta Character Zaidin
By Corey Breen

DC Online Beta Character Zaidin
By Corey Breen

DC Online Beta Character Zaidin
By Corey Breen

So...

I can't even tell you how EXCITED I was just a couple of weeks ago because I got invited by work to join the DC Online PS3 game early, in their Beta testing phase. The game does not come out until January 11th, 2011. It took a while to get it up and running, but once I did, it reminded me a lot of Final Fantasy XI Online, which to this day I regret having canceled my subscription. So take it from me, this is a game you WANT to play if you liked FFXI Online!

I spent a LOT of time creating my character, because that is the most important part of a Massive Multi-Player Online Game (MMOG) to me. I came up with an AWESOME name, Zidian, and then choose his "mentor" to be none other then Batman himself (who else?)!

I gave him a techy outfit, and Batman's awesome spiked gloves! Then I changed his colors to be black and white. I love this outfit, and even though in-game you upgrade and change outfits (which I love), this first outfit is really the one I like the most, and would draw him in, as I did above! The in-game photos above are some of the costume changes he has gone through already in the game! I LOVE his mutton chops the best, by-the-way! LOL

Now that I am currently at level 8, the game is really getting cool because Zaidin is getting a lot more powerful. It is a very hard game though, to my surprise! Right now I'm really having a difficult time beating the Scarecrow! I want to make friends with some people online to try and help me complete the mission, but I don't even know if that is allowed on this mission. I think the game would be a little better if I was able to form parties like FFXI Online. I actually have NO IDEA how to befriend people, so they have to make that clearer.

Otherwise, I like the game a LOT, obviously, and I hope to continue to play, despite a $15 a month subscription starting a month after purchase.

I do love my character though, so if you are playing the Beta, send me a note in game, or if you know how to friend me, do and fill me IN on how to do that! Again, like FFXI Online, I wish they had a place you can go that has a registered developer that can answer your questions.

In the meantime, I will be right back as I try to figure out how to make friends in-game, and beat the Scarecrow! Think I get to go to Metropolis after this Gotham mission! AWESOME!

See you Online,

Corey

I'll Give YOU a War on Christmas!

Santa The Barbarian
By Corey Breen
Photoshop & Illustrator

Santa The Barbarian
By Corey Breen
Pencil & Illustrator

Santa The Barbarian
By Corey Breen
Pencil

HO HO HO! Merry Christmas!

I kinda banged this out just in time for Christmas, and I'm glad I did! I LOVE doing Christmas Cards. Every year in the media they claim this "War on Christmas", and that kinda stuck in my head, so I had this idea of Santa "mad as hell, and not gonna take it anymore", and fighting back to get Christmas back to where it was, whatever that means.

So here is Santa, the Barbarian, with sword and axe in hand, ready to defend Christmas! My wife thinks I'm disturbed! I just think I like to draw super-heroes and like my friend, John said, "Santa rules! lol Especially when he carries a BIG sword!" Could not have said it better myself!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Hope you get a TON of comics, video games and movie to enjoy and inspire! And I hope you get the chance to spend it all with love ones, friends, and family, because THAT is what it's all about to me!

Corey Breen

Dr. Who Commission

Dr.Who Commission
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Here is a commissioned sketch of Dr. Who for a customer who bought my Twenty-Ten - Art of Book, right here on the Blog!

Be sure to buy yours TODAY, and let me know who you want me to draw for you, and one of these original drawings could be YOURS!

Big thanks to John, for this one, a Dr. Who sketch, a character he has really gotten me into. John is a HUGE Dr. Who fan, and I've gone to him numerous times to try and improve my knowledge of the show and it's history. He's better then Wikipedia!

Thanks, John, I've been wanting to draw this character since I began watching the show, and I was really glad that I was able to draw him exclusively for you!

CjB

More Creator Owned Work

SaricH © Corey Breen
Pencil

Efron © Corey Breen
Pencil

Here are two more drawings, one of SaricH, and one of Efron, both creator owned characters.

I actually started drawing the SaricH one at NYCC, but didn't finish it until now. I drew the Efron drawing last year, but here it is posted for the first time, since I introduced him last post.

Let me know what you think of both characters!

Corey

Last of the Con!

Efron from Sunburn © Corey Breen
Pencil

NYCC Exclusive Drawings
By Corey Breen

Above is the second exclusive drawing I did at New York Comic Con. The first was the TMNT drawing as posted earlier this week, that you can see side by side with this second one. This one is a creator owned character I came up about 2 years ago, named Efron, from an idea for a book called Sunburn.

I really like this elf-like character I created, and I hope I'm able to do something with him sooner rather then later. Since most of my time will be devoted to bringing the SaricH Graphic Novel to life throughout this year, I won't have too much time to devote to other ideas such as Efron and Sunburn. Maybe I'll make him the focus of next years NYCC, and make him the cover character to next year's Art of Corey Breen book. I like that idea, so we shall see.

Well, I think that about wraps up the NYCC completely on my end. Again, I had such a great time, I meet so many great people and fans and contacts, that I am still floored by the positivity and great responses to my work! I can't wait to do it again next year, and I look forward to this year being my best as far as getting my work out there to the public, and getting a lot of work publish!

Wish me luck,

CjB