Joe Madureira (Main Artist Research)

Artist Research Major Project #2 

Joe Madureira 

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Joe Madureira is a Comic book artist that worked for Comic companies including Marvel comics.  Moreover, he is also popular for working on the AAA video game franchise ''Darksiders 1 & 2''.  

He is also currently working on a game inspired by JRPG ''Japanese Role Playing games'' called Battle Chasers in a company called Airship Syndicate.

I found about Joe Madureira when I was looking at art books in the DMU library and I stumbled upon his art book "The Art of Darksiders 2" but unfortunately after having it for a little amount of time, I returned it back and I never saw it again.  It seems some other student took it and did not return it back till now.

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Airship Syndicate                       Battle Chasers

Here you can see the logo of the game studio that is making the game Battle Chasers.  I chose this specific concept art for the game because Joe managed to show all the characters of the game in a wonderful composition where he put the main heroes to the left while the monsters on the right side to show that they are fighting against each other.


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Although I have other things that I am inspired by to make my major project '' The Horror Farm'',  Joe's artwork and concept art is my main inspiration.  I managed to find Joe on the internet while I was doing research for my first term major project and I got really inspired by his work since his artwork is unique.  I think his artwork is unique because the way he draws the monsters and characters feels and looks different from other artwork I have seen in my whole days of researching other artists.

The first artwork ''Devil Hunter'' is one of the things that inspired me to add to my horror farm a grim reaper or a hunter with a crossbow character design since it will be a nice addition to my horror farm world. My main inspiration to this character is the mask because it looks a bit like a skull and the hoodie that he wears since grim reapers also wear hoodie capes.  I am still thinking of making a character design between these 2 ideas.



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I got inspired from this concept art since it is horror like with its colours so  I think I will be heavily inspired by Joe's concept art for my major project the Horror Farm.

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 These  are more artworks done by Joe using different media for further inspiration for my project.  The reason I chose Joe as my artists research is because of his unique style by mixing the western art style with the Japanese and Asian art style.  It is unique since you can't find many artists having their own style and doing what Joe does.  He inspires me too since I am aiming to become a character designer in the future for games or animation series.





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I researched more for Joe's artwork and I managed to find this artwork which I think is my current favourite since it has unusual face designs that will help me out in creating my hunter and scarecrow character designs! In the end I think I will add both the hunter and the grim reaper to the horror farm because I think they are both great ideas for this project.