Boop.

Quickie.

The PRESS START: NINTENDO CHARITY AUCTION is live now. I did this Slippy Toad painting for it! Buy some stuff! It's for a good cause and stuff.

https://www.doodlebender.com/auctions/press-start-nintendo-charity-gallery/items

Zero Hour

Making some progress on my Zero Hour project. These are some designs for the garden.

Every night before I fall asleep...

I can't wait for the next season of Game of Thrones to start!

King Robb

I just watched all of Game of Thrones this week. I know I’m late to the party, but WTF. I’m upset. I did this sketch between episode 8 and 9 of Season 3. So… f*ck me, right?

Lokalhelt!

This is a recent freelance job I did for a bank in Norway. 

They needed a poster for a contest where they reward a local hero. They wanted to include average looking people, holding hands together and the original idea was to have the Helgelandsbridge and Stetind mountain(local landmarks) printed on their sweaters with the Northern Lights in the background.

They mentioned Indiana Jones as style reference, so naturally I looked up some Drew Struzan and took some ideas for a few early roughs. This project had a very quick turnaround, so I used a lot of layers, so I could reuse drawings and move things around easily. 

I didn't think putting the landmarks on their sweaters would read clearly, but I did a few versions like that regardless. It's important to always do what the client asks, whether you think it's a good idea or not, because you may not understand their motives entirely. If you have a better idea, show them that in other versions, but always make sure you meet their requirements first. My former professors, Courtney Granner and Bunny Carter, would rake us over the coals anytime someone decided to ignore assignment guidelines, for this reason. Literally. They had a coal pit. 

Here is a few of the early roughs (including the color rough): 

Again, I had to meet a quick deadline, so I didn't have time to shoot my own reference (or fly to Norway). Instead, I took images off the internet and Frankenstein'd them together the best I could. 

With that, I drew a rough line drawing on top and blocked in the colors.

I got a few notes, such as widening the age gap between characters and changing some of them out of the sweaters (which they originally asked for), as well as adding a bit of diversity.

A little this, little that, and alllll done.

When I was already pretty far along, they mentioned they needed a widescreen version as well as a facebook banner. O_O

Thankfully, I'm very anal about keeping organized layers because another former professor, Thomas Esmeralda, said that one day, this would save my life. And it did.

I was able to move some layers, clean up the edges, little slap and tickle, and boom. All done. 

Very fun project!

The Modern Gent

I did this for an upcoming project I'm starting with friends. Lots of things to come!

Practice!

Busy City

I'm just practicing painting everyday right now, trying to get better. Got a lot of mileage from this one. If I were to do this over again, I would have planned out the focal points more, I think as it is, it's a bit flat. 

(critiques are always more than welcome!)

This is hopefully the first of daily paintings, starting today...

Maya's Notebook

Almost forgot about this stuff! This is concept work for one of my last projects in BFA, a few months back, based on the book, “Maya’s Notebook.”

This was an earlier version of the main character, Maya.

Here is the final design of Maya at three different stages of the story...

 I hadn't had much experience drawing cars, so I tried to tackle this design. My big mistake was that I tried to ride the line between realistic and stylized, so I ended up with just a poorly drawn car.

Here are a few story moments...

Study. 9Aug13.

20 min. color study.

A little bit of a tacky photo reference choice, but so what? Huh?? What about it??  Just let me do what I want! (I chose it for the bounce light, okay?)

Study

A quick study of a photo. I tried painting in one layer using a more 'Sargeant' approach, which I've always struggled with, because I get impatient. I'll try to do a lot more this summer.

Quickie before class....

Meowth - Rare Candy Gallery

Done for the "Rare Candy" gallery show/charity, that will open May 3rd, in downtown San Jose.

https://www.facebook.com/events/355490451219846/358589147576643/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

I think a tumblr with all the art will be released when the show opens, but it's an awesome concept a couple of my classmates came up with, where a 151 different artists each got a different Pokemon to paint however they choose. 

I was assigned Meowth. I didn't watch Pokemon as a kid, so I didn't know any sweet Pokemon jokes to make, so I made my guy kickin' back, smokin' a cig for some reason. Rough day of Pokemon-ing, I guess.. 

This was the first watercolor I've done in a long time, and I had a blast! I'll definitely be doing more this summer.  

City of the Beasts

This is a group project I worked on for the book, City of the Beasts, by Isabel Allende.

Wishing Well

Finally have some time to post work!

 This was a really fun project called the "Wishing Well". We were given a country of origin (I was given the Netherlands) and the basic story of a child who discovers an ancient wishing well, where a creature hides. One of the funnest projects I've ever had, and while it's maybe not my best work, I learned a huge amount, and made a big leap forward.

Drive

Some film studies from one of my favorite movies, Drive. I feel like I learn a lot from doing these.

Where you want to be.

Having fun with stylized stuff...

"To and From."