Paint!

This is a watercolor from the day kyle took me out on Saguaro Lake... it is now hanging at his desk at work.




This painting is from the Jesse James trail up in Prescott, AZ. Megan took me on an amazing hike through the mountains and I will be doing many paintings from what I saw there. This is not finished...




An experiment with color, lots and lots of color.



My first watercolor painting, this is the view from my front porch. Used prismacolor pencils and winston waters.

Recent hubbubs

Some recent stuff.

-Painting the dragones sketch in oils for my sci fi class!

-Second is an in-class study during my anatomy class. Spent about 2 hours on it.

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In class study

2.5 hour study in my anatomy class. First digi figure study and digi rocks, thanks eugene for the lighting.

New piece

Going to be painting this guy in oils.... :)

Anatomy studio

Here is a 2 day oil study from my anatomy studio. Literally just put down the brush so it is still wet in this photo.

Moon beast update

here are some comp studies for my next oil painting for my sci-fi class... rar!

Current commission piece

I have been commissioned to work on a very large(to me) oil painting of a southern forest scene. Here are some of the progress shots thus far however I am only 1/4 of the way in.

Snow Kingdom

Here is something I did about a month ago. It is a paintover of one of my older pieces that I was never happy with, settled on this snowy fortress. I spy... a polar bear!

Sketchbook update...

Haven't posted many sketches lately... decided to take some photos, not scans, of my sketches. The quality is choppy but had to get some in to paint over nonetheless.

Oil Painting and Sculpture

Here are a couple update snapshots. Here is the oil painting I started about a week ago, very near finished.

Also, I am making a skull/muscle sculpture to study the human head for my anatomy 2 class. It very fun and is helping me learn past alot of the proportion problems of the head.

Anti-gravity redone

I posted my antigravity sketch over at wolfpack... this is the same one with a little more time put into it. I realized how overly saturated my blues were and it killed the depth of it. Hope you like!

New painting...

Here are some thumbs and a final sketch for the new oil painting i am doing... the theme for the class painting was "alien landscape" and i pushed it towards an antigravity planet. although there must be gravity if there is atmosphere which i sketched in but hey, its alien!

I think i got a bit carried away on this. After some time i decided to relate it to the wolfpack sketch theme anti-gravity, i swear it wasn't planned haha.

Ancient Warrior...man

Here is one I have been thinking about for a while, finally got around to it haha.

Yes he looks old, but his magic canteen provides him with fluids of immortality and strength!! booyah!

Spent about 2 hours on it this afternoon.

Recent work

A recent commission piece... a 2 piece painting actually.

Pushed the movement, mood and texture on it to create a story..

wippeee!

this ones for you babe. happy holidays!

it begins...

so here are a couple of personal works, but expect alotttt more stuff in the near future. trying to round out my portfolio for graduation in May so I am gettin busy. enjoy these latest...

last week o class....!!!

here is a little sketch of the maintenance details of the CAT 320. Following this week should be a huge update of this project and some others.

CAT ER PILLAR

just didn't want you to forget that im still rockin away on this guy... the model is well under way along with most of the 2d work. here is the most up to date pshop render of the little bugger!

YARRRRG FINISHED!

Here is the finish... enjoy!


Here is my newest oil painting, still a work in progress... yarg!

some sketches for my next painting...

2 heads... one body... muahahaha

some new stuff for my new personal project(s)...

some soldier sketches, i will explain my new project when i get a chance.

Swat Bot

update....changed it once again

Quick one before bed

Wanted to paint a robot layin down the law, this is what happened... rarrrr!

Einstein update!

So here are some shots of my first oil painting, Einstein!! Enjoy, and there is me with it for scale :)

Ortho Refinements

Here are the refined orthos to this point. Its probably hard to see the difference, but look close :).

Orthos for my CAT Design

Here is ortho round 1. To be refined before the end of this week... Im very happy with where this is goingggg...

Update!!

Had some free time for once! Went back and worked into this one a bit. Enjoy!

Cat Update

A couple of new ones for my cat project...

Update on Einstein

Here is my last color study for the einstein painting. Currently transferring it to 24x36 and prepping for oil! can't wait...

New updates...

here is some stuff from my heavy equipment studio. the einstein page is a study for a very large oil painting i will be working on. enjoy!

Excavator

ID time! expect alot of these, robots, figures and architecture stuff. enjoy!

Experiment... Ninja Turtle bot

... Been experimenting with my style lately, trying to find the most efficient process of concept generation that is comfortable and consistent for me... he is my first go of my idea.

Edit: fished around with it more, especially the texture...

back to the story....

so trying to get back to the story, i have alot of characters to get to designing, this weekend is going to be a good chance for me to get to them i hope. enjoy this one! still working on getting that happy feel haha...

edit: did a little bit of color adjustment

fishing....!

Publish Post
using some reference for colors on this one... learning, thinking about giving painter a try tomorrow!!! spent about 1 hour on this.

trying for happy...hmm i need to study

mineral hoarding

inspired by some of our current struggles for oil and diminishing materials, this city is surviving off of some blue light emitting mineral. Check out the floating pent houses haha.

update

sooo things have been slowing down on my project but today i made a breakthrough on the story... things are changing alot, i will give details soon but this is going to be the main character. he is a scientist from the future... yes the future and he has a pet, its looking to be a robot but im not so sure yet.

ok basically the new story is something like a sci-fi bill and ted's excellent adventure! woohoo, and this scientist is the "bill and ted" of my story, and instead of a history final the scientist needs the help of the greatest ancients to save the world from the big bad dood.

im shooting to have everything finished before i head back to ohio, so that means less then a month. ooo. enjoy the future updates...

Viking Samurai... warrior haha

So jumping around between characters to get initial ideas out. I need to scan everything but here are a couple of sketches for another one of the characters. the bottom pencil sketch is a last samurai study, and the paint sketch was something that looked alot cooler in my head but its not finished yet...

Color color....color!

so something clicked tonight. realized i have been working far too hard on colors and remembered something i learned from good old ryan church(DVD not real life...unfortunately)

the way he goes from "lightless" scene to "pouring the light on" as he puts it is really a trick of the program... along with a little bit of color theory which is what clicked tonight when i was checking out thom tenery's blog... it took two masters(probably more actually) to make me realize how important changes in color temperature and hue our in space. as well as local colors of objects...

so i quickly went back and applied my new and past knowledge to this piece to see what would happen... restarted from black and white and got to this color finish in about 25 minutes. im not sure i pulled it off haha, but i think im on the right track. i would love to explain further if anyone would like to hear/read, plus it would probably help myself to clear things up.

Apache Cafe

Found an awesome place to go do figure drawing here in atlanta. Apache cafe... every monday has models, loud music, artist's work and cheap booze. $5 cover, im in...!

Here are a couple of the sketches I did, realized how rusty I am with figures now...

Tried to post these last night but blogger was being a turd... time for some more movie studies

Last Samurai

If I become a drawing teacher some day I will make watching movies homework. Seriously I got about 5 minutes into the movie and realized what I have been missing all along...

Movies are perfect reference/studies for:
-figures/poses/badass fight references :)
-lighting
-composition
-scale

...hmm. looking over my movie collection and realizing I have a wealth of work ahead of me...!

and yes thats tom cruise haha

update- finished

finished the snow study sketch. totally reworked the colors and the structures. enjoy!



sketch of a snow establishment... south pole. inspired by the study from my last post. i wanted this scale to be massive, check out the figure and horse in bottom right

South pole!

Did a quick study, bout 35 minutes from photo reference.

A little more...

update: im going to call this finished for now...



Put in a little more extra time into this when i got home tonight. Ended up making an interesting night scene as well with the complimentary colors.

story wip

here is a wip for my story, one of their stops...

Couple of quick doodles before bed

meandering to find time right now

Anatomy Studies

beginning a quick anatomy overview... maybe i will call it a short tribute to Eugene Clark and his great teaching methods! this one actually fills my whole sketchbook page, the biggest drawing i have done in it in a while haha... can you find the cookie crumb?

mech pencil...

so decided to pick up a mechanical pencil today, i thank my design director at work for recommending it. its been a while but i did begin on a mechanical pencil. i think i'm back, and never leaving again... wow, here are a couple of doodles from my free time today, the stuff from work i couldnt post up but should be some more stuff up later tonight.

Slowly but surely...

Been busy lately with a great 4th of july weekend. its time though for me to get back to my project.

Here is one of the visions i have been seeing, used photo reference on this one. a work in progress for sure, excited to do more but must get to bed...

...experimenting

did a quick paint over of part of one of the sketches i liked.

I am the Warrior!

So here are some sketches for the first character, and also the leader.
He is from the predynastic/paleo era. Neanderthal...
-he is wisest, oldest, and most light hearted of the bunch. like the gandalf.
no name yet....

Here is a quick rundown of my initial ideas for the story... meant to be merely a portfolio piece at the time. any thoughts would help...

Modern day to near future:
5 heroes/warriors from different eras in the world's history, including the future

-brought together by a higher power to find out and stop the force that is destroying the world...
-this project will cover their journey through different lands, creature encounters and people/allies they meet along the way
-hell yeah!

New story

Been busy the last few days in coming up with a new project for myself. will be beginning sketchwork for it tonight and will include some of the details! really excited to get this going though...!

Revised soldier

click on it, went back and tightened up some stuff.

23

This is a sketchover of an older one i had done. Beginning to spend more and more time detailing these and liking the results. Spent about 6 hours on this on, that includes the old sketch.

number 22

So continuing to push textures and brush controls. finding some neat stuff, also using some multiply and color dodge layer properties to find colors.

21

Ok time for bed!

20

Experimenting with this rock brush. i am really loving it, gives a cool texture. Been studying the amazing work of sparth. trying to understand his texture and diverse method of painting. enjoy!

19

a quick one today using some new brushes

18

a quick sketch this morning

revised hobo soldier

went back and tightened up the hobo soldier a bit. enjoy

#17

Decided to do a very fast one before bed. Painted overtop of one of my old sketches. about 25 minutes on this

#16

Really really quick one before I hit the hay.

#15

Pushing texture and depth. This one was about 2 hours.

#14

Ok last 1 before I hit the hay... any feedback on this would be extremely helpful

#13

Having fun with making ridiculous textures... its nice having the brushes do all the work for you.

#12

Was doing some sketching at the park today, and saw this bum with a massive backpack on that was scouring through the trashcans... this idea sprang from that.

#11

A quick one for this morning. Going to try and push myself away from sci-fi as much as possible for a bit...

10

here is a quick one for tonight... was a fun one. i may go and tighten it up later

Numero #9

Well someone had to find it eventually......

#8 Gesture...

Have been doing alot of ID line drawing at work, a nice deviation from the paintings, and vice versa :). This one just kind of came out, I like it.

#7

Here is a quick one before I get to bed... about 45min from reference

Revisions

I went back and reworked into these two robots. Basically did a quick tighten up job on each. Tried to increase the amount of depth by adding detail and contrast to things in the foreground while leaving the background loose. Also added some extra feet strength on the the Dino Bot...

#6 Dino Bot

So I painted over an old sketch of mine and ended up with this dinosaur looking robot. Matt since you asked for a process I provided it...enjoy!

#5 Gehry Study

Did this quick Frank Gehry Architecture study. About 1 hour this afternoon. Going to do some sketches later with a similar color palette

Revision

I did some quick revisions to this one, added a bit more atmospheric perspective and some lighting indication. Also gave myself a shirt... eh. Some bugs in there too now. Also decided it worked better compositionally when it was flipped. More to come later tonight!

#4 Swamp

I started this as a sketch inspired by one of Sammy's over at CA.org. Decided to add a figure and it really resembles me, on steroids I think.

#3

Was running today and in Atlanta it seems as if every tree is revolting against the man made elements around them...really cool I say. So I decided to do a sketch and try to emulate a feeling of trees attacking, very very slowly haha.

#2

Going to be doing some forest/tree studies for a bit from reference. Thing is, no reference on this one... uhh

Fetch me a beer! #1

He is Duff Bot...the Brewery Bot
I keep working back into this one, no more!

Already off to a bad start on the 1 a days. No excuses... Going to make up for it this weekend!

Today begins my SUMMER 1 a Day

This is a sketch I did for the WolfpackInk weekly sketch "Kingdom". Was very fun to do. Enjoy!

Also, stay tuned for daily updates!

Mortal Kombat!

Did this one for my weekly over at Wolfpack Ink. Inspired by the past level designs where there are multiple tiers to fall down and eventually the death at the bottom of course...

Gorilla Bot...!!

Another robot for the series...

Ok one more before bed

Mountain Hyena

A quick painting before I get to bed. This is a robot in a series that I am doing...

After watching some redbull AirRacing

Decided to do this sketch after seeing some redbull air racing.... This is Redbull Venice

Fun brushes

experimented around tonight using some new brushes I made. Always lookin for fast ways to create texture and fun shapes.

Recent sketches

dump truck study

A quick study in class today

Red Knight

Oil Rig Study in class today

Sketchbook

Here a couple of recent pages out of my sketchbook. The top one is a page of ideation for king Kupa from Mario... one angry lizard man!

Film Noir Sketch

Here is my finished sketch for Film Noir Project. Black and white is fun, I am thinking about coloring this one at some point...possibly...

squeezed out 1 more

another quick study for the afternoon

afternoon study

going to start doing some painting from reference for a bit. studying material indication and lighting conditions. fun stuff!

Ambush

Finally decided to scan some of my doodles

A quick sketch I did yesterday after pen sketching a couple of tanks at work.

So it begins....

Glad to finally be a blogger! Here are some Peter Pan sketches to get started out...

Peter Pan- Pirate Long Tom (Cannon) Concept









Peter Pan- Long Tom Concepts















Peter Pan-Pirate Cove









Peter Pan-Indian Tribe Dwelling