Evan Dahm

Apr 22

Vattu preview stuff

Some of the more legible development stuff concerning part 3 of Vattu, which is starting on April 30. More to come this week.

Mar 5

Catchlight

Character work for a little scifi project which looks like I could actually make happen. Sort of reworking bits of a previous proto-project, concept art for which is buried somewhere in this tumblr.

Two different versions of the same character. I guess I really like that nose shape lately, too.

Mar 4

Kabuto!

I’m one of 151 artists participating in Pokémon Battle Royale, and this is my Kabuto. Kind of fun to draw a dude I’ve never used in the game and haven’t really thought about in years. I had a lot of fun doing that pixel border thing.

Feb 28

exquisitebeast:

Seventeen. Pushing it further and weirder: its baleen-trough mouth hangs lower to skim the surface of the water, and the front and back limbs are becoming more like fins… I like the idea of a creature becoming amphibious in the air and the water, so maybe it’s going in that direction a bit!

haven’t been pushing the contrast far enough but I think I did a good job on this one

Feb 23

Flowery aliens

This is one of a few images that will show up in my Benign Kingdom art book that have never been published online anywhere! 24 hours remain on the Benign Kingdom Kickstarter, if you’d like to support it and get the books at a discount! Thanks everyone for your support so far; this thing has gone better than we could have hoped!!

This is an alien design for one of several embryonic science fiction ideas in my head. They communicate with their petals in a complex adapted threat display.

Feb 16

Subway people again

I am trying to draw more extracurricular stuff but basically all of my efforts lately are going into this and this. Anyway here are some people I have drawn on the subway.

Feb 13

exquisitebeast:

THIRTEEN! As we go along it’s getting harder and harder to come up with directions to push this thing each time, but I am really happy with this one! The wings are huge and the body is smaller and skinnier. Basically I tried to push it towards spending more of its life in the air, and less on the ground: its back legs are now simple grasping claws with little articulation, and its mouth has become sort of like a pelican’s beak to get fish out of water. What do you think?

Jan 25

Benign Kingdom

The Kickstarter just launched for BENIGN KINGDOM, a publishing project I’m starting with fellow webcomics artists Yuko Ota, Becky Dreistadt, and KC Green. Four art books (the cover of mine above), one hardcover collecting the set, and the foundation of something that could be really big and exciting.

More details over here!

Jan 19

More idle scifi character design

I had an idea for something about a person who has some weird interdimensional parasite take over her body bit by bit. Have a very clear idea in my head of what her arm is supposed to look like, and couldn’t quite get it right on paper…

Jan 18

Vattu promo

One of a few new postcards I am getting printed! Need to make more of an effort to represent and brand Vattu as its own thing. And the first book is a while away from being printed, but I kind of like something like this as the cover, without text: just her in a big indistinct field of grass.

Hey I would love it if you’d read it.