An Apple a Day... drawing

Here's something I'm working on right now. Its the saying "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away", but I wanted it to look like an old horror poster. Its not great, but I'm just trying to start producing work again. Hopefully I'll knock it out in illustrator this weekend.

Christmas Card

This is a christmas card that I have created for my dad. I used a different textures and then colored over it.

Talking Cat / Dancing Pumpkins

This is my first lip sync... sadly not a character, but it was a great opportunity to learn how to move a mouth with dialogue convincingly. I was given a cat head and I manipulated / painted the mouth positions with photoshop. :-)



Click these pumpkins to see my first animated card...

To Glory!

Man, I've been really geeking out lately. I'm contemplating making this a part of a much more realized battle scene (I'll probably regret saying that).

AIGA Cleveland - The room listens to Art Chantry

Link to/of the Past, colorized

Blogger desaturates the JPGs quite a bit (for reasons that are beyond me), so check out the full image on my own website.

STUPID GUY!

Dino's and More dino's

Link to/of the Past

Reading GameSpite's take on Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in their newest Quarterly got me reminiscing on the feeling I used to get from playing the game when I was a wee lad. It was colorful and adventurous, with a feeling of a little grit, like everything was eroded by sand, wind, and time.

Yes, I get weird feelings while playing games.

So getting that feeling made me want to explore creating my ideal interpretation of Link. This isn't quite there, as there's something about how it is in my head that I can't get on paper. This would also definitely need coloring to really get my idea across, but for now, I thought I'd share this sketch in the meantime.

Twi'lek Jedi

Details here.

Downtown Scooter!

hey hey!! so some water color and ink/ ink washes. not to sure about the Korean... it was far away and i was straining to see. i hope i didnt write anything to bad. if it dosnt say anything thats fine with me! eh, some of the angles are off but whateve.

Don't fly too close to the sun!!!!!!

My work was still going with the greek theme this month. So I went with a more playful style.

Eli & Amos Circumnavigate the Globe

I wrote a bit about this here, but I'll drop some technical specifics on your asses here. I'm like the anti-Duncan: he just let's the work speak for itself. :P

I rarely ever use the same process from one illustration to the next. This was done in Photoshop alone, my only brush being the hard-edged airbrush. Most shapes are on their own layers, with their textures on unique layers as well, masked by the shape layers. So... lots of layers. I wouldn't do it this way again. Vector paths are far more versatile and would have actually saved time here, and most viewers won't be able to tell that each element has its own texture.

Artemis

My work has a prompt this month which the theme that greek myths. I didn't Artemis to try night lighting and to try and work more with the mesh tool with more compacted grandets.

quick sketch in Japan

Hey folks! Sweet park while i was in Japan. took a few min to sketch a bridge.

Shat Happens

Circumnavigate the Globe

I think this is done now, though I'm hesitant to call it so. I'd like your guys' feedback before I put this (and several other things) on my own website—what do you think, anything that bugs you about this?

scenery, people, and espresso!

heres some random quick sketches from the 'ol sketchbook.
ENJOY!

i had the best mocha frap at this kenya espresso i've ever had!!!

ok, the "korean dating" is an ad, they come up on everything, and i'm to lazy to crop it.

at the park

Heres a kids attempt at the same thing i was doing, but it ended up turning into an evil robot! HAHAHA, i love kids!


and heres mine. i havnt drawn, or used water colors in a long while... but it was fun and i'll be doing a lot more, so soon i'll be awesome!!!

Business Cards

What does anyone think? Crits, please!

watcha doin?

Space

Icecream Back

Remeber with I posted that little storying and did all those sketches will it been a while since I worked on the because I wasn't sure how I wanted to color it in. But here the first image that I have done for it. I trying to get better at the mesh tool in illustrator. To I figure why not try it on this.

Night Music

Ok, sooo I've not post anything in a LONG time. My apologies. I havn't really been painting in a while, but here's something I was working on. I'll try to finish it up this week, but here it is so far.

Ink + Figure Dump

Aaaa yeah

Well I was trying to do something different. Then what I normally do.

New theme piece

like last month my work is giving us art themes. This month this Is V-Day good or bad.

Oil Painting (under painting) NEW

Here we go again...Im trying another portrait. So far it's going ok...not sure where im at with it at this point. But I do have some plans for it. Stay tuned for updates for it.

Day 3

Well day 3 has come and is now going...only one more day to go. I am seriously relearning a lot just by painting. And im starting to see like a painter once again. Feels good. One more day with this one and then i'll call it quits and start something new.
Any who...enjoy and as always comments and crits are welcome.

V-day

Step two

Well here's my "Day Two" work... all I have left to do is some glazing and minor touch ups.
:)

Oil Painting

I've been hankering to do some oil painting again, mainly portraits. I've been drawing from the Fairburn Figure System books (which by the way are AMAZING, if you can find them) This is some dude that's featured in one of the face books. So far this is just an under-painting and im looking forward to (hopefully) finishing this tomorrow.
I'm also relearning lots by watching the Shawn Barber DVD which has some amazing tips...check it out if your able.
Well it's getting late and tomorrow's going to be a big day at work, so im gonna hit the hay soon.
Laters.

Sketchbook Fun

Hey all,
Here are some recent pages from my sketchbook. I recently purchaced a Pentel pocket brush pen that Duncan showed me. This thing is fricken amazing! I love it a lot and bacicly i always have it with me now. Some of these pages are the result of me carrying it with me everywhere. Enjoy