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.

Having fun with stylized stuff...

"To and From."

The Dark Knight Rises

I'm obsessed with The Dark Knight Rises right now, so I had to do some fan art..

Cafe Milano

 This started as a master study of a painting by one of my favorite contemporary artists, Chris Turnham (http://christurnham.tumblr.com/), which inspired the plant and the overall lighting. I was having so much fun with it, that I kept adding more, and then I changed it completely. I started referencing this photo I found on Tumblr...

Then it kept growing from there...

Had a lot of fun with this one. The composition isn't the best, but I kind of like this one, if only because I learned so much from it.

Some early test renders of a model I've been working on, of Black Adam. Pain in the ass, trying to get renders out of Zbrush.

These are from art51 modeling, I think spring '11. Not a big fan of modeling. 

Winchester. Pew pew!

113B

These are from Art113B, I had with John Clapp. That class completely changed the way I paint. 

For this project we had to chose a story and paint a background for it. I chose Tom Sawyer. Looking back at this, I hate the composition. I wish I could retake this class, knowing what I know now, but I guess you're kind of always going to feel that way about anything, as you get older and learn more, right?

We then had to repaint the same scene in the style of another artist we picked at random. I was given Dr. Seuss...

Egg.

I try my best to do daily paintings... it's more like weekly. Bi-weekly? 

Just screwing around with this one. I love pinups, so I thought I'd play around with the style. 

I still kind of like this one. This was one of my first PS paintings.

I was testing myself to see how fast I could pull out a painting. This was done in about a half hour... and it's awful. I get to caught up in layers and effects and what not. I like to think I've gotten better since this painting. 

The background is miserable....

What the hell is going on in this? I don't know what he's doing, he looks more like he's stealing than giving presents. 

Here are some older photoshop paintings/renderings. These were all copied from photographs in my early stages of learning how to paint in photoshop. I learned a lot from these but I'd like to learn to paint with fewer strokes -- I noodle too much:/

This was from an old black and white photograph of Audrey Hepburn. Not sure why I went with yellow on the jacket.

I tried to play with style a little on this one, but ended up rendering much more than I intended. 

I chose this photograph just because I wanted to play with the lighting/color. I don't really remember, but I think the image was from an old Playboy from the 70s or something. 

 These are from art112a with John Clapp in spring '09, which was the first class I took in the AI program(oops). That class blew my mind, and literally changed my life, because I suddenly knew what I wanted to do when I grow up.
A few blind/semi-blind drawings and and some of my earliest figure drawings. Such a fun class.

Here are some comics I did in that class, as well..

Probably my favorite one I did...

 Didn't really pull this one off. You can't quite see it, but the punchline is that the nerd is holding dolls of the two characters in the first panels. Get it? Maybe not... should have worked this one out more.