What`s fun/difficulty about designing concept?

Hope this scene helps to show his personality, yeah, he is not brave one.

Seeing many concept artists combine African culture into design(especially Starwars), I myself come to want to learn thier culture too. I think one of the reason that many people enjoy drawing concept stuff is because of this process, learning things in nature, things that surround us.

The task is really change real things into something new, based on concept/ideas. The trouble that I have is that I`m really bad at research skills, but I`m trying to improve this skill by drawing real things as much as I can before drawing concept stuff.

Side-kick is rock!

When I was much younger, I used to identify myself with main character, like, Luke or Indy or whoever in the movie or novel. But after got older, I noticed that I tend to identify myself more with side-kick or sometimes even bad guy.

The reason would be 2 things, one thing is that I feel that I`m not main character in the reallife, doing so many stupid things :( The other reason is that I experienced many feelings, and noticed that there are many aspects and personalities in me,

Anyway, I wanted to design side-kick character for sci-fi or fantasy. He lives in desert planet, and supposed to be dangerous species, but he himself is quite stupid and always eating somethins that are easy to catch.

I`m gonna paint one more and put him in one scene.

ps. I`m currently making 3D art work with this design(http://mikio3d.blogspot.com/)(08/08/08)

It`s not his fault!

I always felt that Minotauros and Frankenstein have something in common. It is not their fault that they got born like that, you know. It was their father or scientist`s fault.

Anyway, since He is a mixture between human and bull/gaur, I think his body is supposed to be more messed up. So, here it is. The armor that he is wearing is chinese armor.

first post!

Hope these guys won`t walk around my country in the future.