Mega Man

This is a little doodle just before bed.
*yaaaawwn*

....zzzzzZzzZz.....

Happy Halloween!

This was for a little "Thank You" I made for a very helpful customer service rep. I altered it for today's festivities.

Thank you Teresa...

...where ever you are....

:)

SURF Soup

I made this as "Thank You" for Donna Kay Lau who gave a talk at Mt. SAC recently about the animation industry.

Find out about her ocean saving cause at https://www.facebook.com/surfsoup

Aloha!

Vive La France

I feel like I have art attention deficit disorder, A.A.D.D., if you will (but you wont and you shouldn't because it sounds stupid!). Anyways, I can't seem to stay focused on any one project! I did this for fun, but half way through it I thought it would look waaaay cooler if I vectored it. So, I'll probably re-do it in illustrator.

Then the vector version I have in mind may also look cool on a t-shirt.

Anyways, this was from a sketch I did while I was in France.

The sketch was inspired by a very cliche lookin' french girl when I was out 'n about in Paris. The writing was my attempt at journaling while on the trip.

....But then I realized how lame journaling is so I stopped a few days later.

Writing on the Wall

And this painting means that I have completed my work load for Cal State Fullerton for a B.F.A. in Animation/Entertainment Arts.
I just have to physically hand it in--in about 4ish hours.
(but that is just semantics)

I guess I also should mention that is a historical narrative assignment on the cave paintings in France.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night...

...Take these broken wings and learn to fly

This painting was inspired by "Blackbird" from The Beatles
Looks like my paintings are coming along as scheduled...

But I'm behind schedule on my animation.

Uh oh.

Revisting an Older Post

Something I forgot to mention in my last post--I had said something about that drawing being a culmination of many of the concepts and skills I have been learning in school, but I left out one of the most important things: the process!

As a young artist I always wondered:
And as much as I still find myself asking that kind of question (because every artist has their own process), some answers just end up being the definitive:

Simple shapes.
Figure construction.
Working in layers.

I was first taught these concepts in life drawing. And still hear it all the time from professors and professionals. It's fundamental knowledge, but for some reason it only really started sinking in towards the end of my college career. And of course I am still working on it like I do with the rest of my craft.
Life is filled with so much learning...

Revisiting an Older Drawing

What's this? New, completed, and colored artwork? How dare I do such a thing! I would almost be impressed with myself if this wasn't school related. But the assignment was to take an old drawing from class and recreate it in a personal work. If you remember, this is based off a quick sketch I posted last month.

I attempted to do somethings that I have been wanting to do (mostly based off some stuff I have been seeing on the internet). And I had some fun doing it.

This piece isn't perfect (the line work is unrefined and the brush-work boarder looks too mechanical for my tastes) but it is nothing I can't address at a later time (oh digital work--how convenient you are). But I feel as though it is a culmination of my time in art school: life drawing, anatomy, design, composition, photoshop, illustrator, and, the newest friend of mine, tvpaint.

Also, becoming more fond of my TabletPC (probably because it is working a lot better and getting comfortable with it too). So don't be surprised to be seeing more work like this one from me (but you will be allowed to be surprised for seeing finished work--because that is the real shocker).

From the Lost Reaches of the Digital World

This was the attraction poster I did for the ImagiNations competition. We had it blown up real big for our presentation.

And here I thought this was lost forever! Luckily it wasn't hard drive failure, it was only operating system failure. I don't know what other goodies are saved on that hard drive, don't really have the time to sort through it..

Looking at it now, I feel the stamp is up too high. But that's all done with. This Summer's memories just makes me... smile.

Here is the color thumbnail I did for it:
As you can see, the final stayed pretty close to the concept.