Treacherous Journey

Sometimes verticals can be fun :]

Automaton makin station.

Cleaned up the inking a little and added color for Mood :0

More Experimentation for my Sandman project. These are quite moodier than most of my pieces. This is inside the laboratory of Professor Spalanzani, who would have succumbed to the hands of Nathaniel had it not been for the noise he made.

What Color = Insanity?

Continuing with Hoffman's Sandman theme, except in a less stylized 3 dimensional composition. In this scene Nathaniel is seeing for the first time that the love of his life is an automaton and even worse she's being dismantled by the scientist who made her. Here I included a B/W layout along with one of my color keys. More to come later as I flesh out this painting.

You got to read this story if you haven't already, they don't get much crazier than this!

The Sandman

Been a looong time..

Nathaniel's mother planted the seed of his insanity with the story of the Sandman. He became obsessed with the man who would throw sand in the eyes of naughty children who wouldn't go to sleep and night. Their eyes would then fall out and he'd feed them to his children. This Illustration is based off of E.T.A. Hoffman's Sandman

Breaks Over

Well My favorite time of the year is over, and now its back to work. But as you can see here, my buddy Paul Bunyan hasn't even opened his presents yet. Santa sent a whole lot of gifts his way because Paul produced a lot O' Christmas trees this year! Can't wait to paint this one!

More story telling

Just practicing some more storytelling. Something I feel Art Center is not quite emphasized enough in class, but a much needed skill. Needless to say this piece was definitely influenced by Pixar's Cars. Speed is the name of the game lately as I feel it is one of the necessary components to keeping the creative juices flowing.

Happy Thanksgiving to all

Just wanted to get a post out to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Been drawing a lot of cars lately. I watched some of Cars and got inspired, it all works in with my anthropomorphic portfolio I'm building. 

Anyway happy Thanksgiving, I for one can't wait to watch Charlie Brown episodes. One of my favorite things to do at this time of year!

Disney!

R/C cars don't pay attention to the rules of the road, because their just too cool. This in turn startles the old geezers.

For those I haven't had the chance to talk to lately, I just been recently hired on at Disney Publishing as a freelance artist. I'm sooooo excited, so much incredible work all over the walls, kinda scary realizing how much talent there is out there. Now I just got to figure out how I'm gonna finish the Term!

Anthropomorphisms

Just practicing story telling through drawing.

Urbanite Entertainment W.I.P.

This is a thumb for my next layout. It was done by combining drawings in a collage to give me the perspective and somewhat of a lighting scheme. This post is going to show the work for this composition form start to finish. Still a ways to go as more character's and objects are being added but the overall story and layout are established. Now the only thing that sucks is after working on fun stuff like this I have to get back to Tuesdays homework. Geeez!

Reminiscing

This is a portrait of me and some friends when I got my first Radio controlled car. It made me the coolest kid on the block, because not only was it my car, I actually had to build this thing! Can you see the utter joy in my eyes, there's even a little bit of dribble.

An old Piece finally done

A story well worth illustrating, the great escape of Harriet Tubman way back in the year 1849. The original thumbs and background didn't really take that long, it was positioning Harriet against the tree that did. In order to turn this project in on time I put a very stiff looking Harriet in the original, some of my classmates at Art Center would probably remember that. The original post is way back early in my blog if anyone wants to compare. Anyway it finally as done as its going to get, please let me know what you think.

Some Stylized Botanicals

For these sketches I imagined myself in a rain forest. 

Quick and Dirty Asian Boathouse Color Study

Continuing my Asian garden theme, but because I'm in school right now I just had time to do a warm and cool color study in Photoshop. I miss guauche and you could say I don't enjoy painting on the computer half as much but its kinda fun to do quick stuff like this. The third drawing is a variation of the Boathouse, I took out the railing because I thought it got too busy.

Comic Stuff

This is actually a class assignment that basically is a story that we can't use words. I was inspired while looking at the work of Dan DeCarlo comic extraordinaire. I used FW inks on BFK Reeves paper to give it that retro look. 

Vacation in Sonoma County

There's been a lack of updates on my site because my wife and I are on vacation and we're having lots of fun. Here's a couple of photos I took. The first was taken with the camera's timer, of course. The second is a series of photos I constructed into a panorama. When I get back home I'm going to start putting together another blog for my reference photography. More on that later, as I'll be posting some plein aire paintings that I've done while on vacation along with more large photos.

Asian Garden Sketch

Here is a paint-sketch of an asian garden with some shape and design elements based on Eyvind Earle's style of painting.

Rock Studies

These are rock studies for the next piece I'm working on. I've been looking at the work of Eyvinde Earle, and the visual development for Open Season, witch was influenced heavily by his work. I'll be drawing a lot of these before I start drawing the finished piece witch is a Chinese garden with an outhouse in it. 

Oz Revisited

This is a work in progress of work that I started a while ago based on the Wizard of Oz. This was done in guauche using a technique called badger brushing, witch allows the artist blend more easily blend water-based paints. The work of Thomas Hart Benton was my inspiration. More on this later.

So Done with this project

I am now more than ready to move on to the next project. In this final version I actually did paint the characters on acetate but I tightened them up in Photoshop.