Lily: Character Sheet

I've been cranking out character sheets for some of my favorite original characters from several different stories I keep on my back burner. This is Lily, from a story that still has a long way to go, but I think she's a really fun character. I want to have her in my portfolio

Grinnat The Jerk

This is the villain from a comic project I'm working on. He's not particularly tough but he's a real jerk.

Science For Princesses

Oh I almost forgot!

I made this paper doll a few weeks ago as an illustration to accompany an article about gender stereotypes in the scientific community. The paper doll actually works, too. The article includes a high resolution file you can print out to cut out the shapes, and dress your own scientist! The illustration appeared in June, but I've had other things on my mind and forgot to tell you about it. Whoops!
You can read the article on the Story Collider Magazine's website. The article is called "Science For Princesses."

Concept Art: Skycastle Moebius

A bit of concept art for you. Things in space always have such a utilitarian appearance. All geometric shapes and exposed piping. Bo-o-o-o-oring. Buildings on Earth have been made with fancy details all over their facades for centuries. Why doesn't anyone ever put relief sculpture on a fuselage?

I was looking through the works of Jean Giraud, known by the pen name  "Moebius" in the sci fi world, and I was inspired to design this city in space. The residential central dome houses roughly the population of New York City, though majority of the business is done in the head. Life support is all housed in the nude at the ventral end of the station, but of course since the designers valued form over function, there are numerous bottlenecks and design flaws. It really isn't very efficient, but boy is life there lavish.

Digital Painting: Forest Hut

I haven't done a lot of digital painting in my career, I want to try it out. This is just a hut, it's not specifically for anything. It was fun. Critiques are welcome, email me at joe@joewierenga.com

Character sketches: Teen mysteries

Progress on the character design. I like her being nerdy but I can't decide if she needs to be more "leading lady"

Emissary of the King

It's been a while since I've posted anything so I thought I'd show you all a page of concept sketches I've been doing for one of my projects. This is the main character of a cartoon pitch I'm putting together. She's sort of a nerdy girl who fights dragons with science, you know, that type of character. 

I'm trying to settle on an outfit for her. I don't want this project to involve costume changes, I want it to be more icon-based. Just one outfit, and maybe one coat she puts over it when she's in cold weather. But I haven't even settled on a name for her yet. That's kind of an important thing to have in the pitch bible. Hrmm.