The Art of Gabriel Olson

Dr Paul

2012-01-21T00:38:00.000-08:00

Just getting a little sketching in before bed tonight.

Silent Film

2011-10-27T00:42:00.000-07:00

A doodle of my teacher on the corner of my paper while taking notes during my Silent Film Class at the U.

Scary Crow

2011-10-25T22:53:00.000-07:00

Yet another scarecrow with a pumpkin head.

Jacky Lantern

2011-10-24T23:16:00.000-07:00

Been drawing a lot of scare crows as of late. Doodled this Jacky Lantern during a meeting today and put some ink on it while getting the twinners ready for bed. Halloween is the funnest drawing time of the year.

Cyborg Painting

2011-10-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

For my work blog. Topic Cyborg.

Conference Doodles

2011-10-03T09:37:00.000-07:00

A page of doodles while watching General Conference on Sunday.

Airplane Sketches

2011-10-02T21:14:00.000-07:00

A page doodles from a recent flight with the family. Drawn with a baby in one arm and a ball point pen in the other. The twins were kind enough to let me draw while they napped, or the were busy kicking my pen and giggling.

cybuddy

2011-09-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

A drawing from my bedtime drawing session last night. Made for the "cyborg" theme on my work art blog.

baby color

2011-09-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

Digital sketch from this evening keep the blog from stagnating.

Link

2011-09-16T20:53:00.000-07:00

This was for a long past topic on my work art blog. Not quite finished, but there are more topics to tackle so I thought I would post it up where it's at and move on.

lil haz

2011-08-27T00:26:00.000-07:00

Started this a while ago and it got put on the back burner. Came back to it tonight after getting the little ones to bed. Now to decide if I should sculpt in the folds and wrinkles or model them in. hmpf. Concept by Joe Olson.

zbrush Cosby

2011-07-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

Worked on this 3d caricature of Bill over a couple of lunches at work. I think this is as far as I'll take it. Must move on.

Free Drawerings at the Park

2011-07-04T12:06:00.000-07:00

This past Saturday morning the wife, kids and I spent a couple hours chilling at Liberty Park on a blanket. I brought a little cardboard sign that read "free caricatures" and they were selling like hot cakes. It was a seriously a fun way to spend Saturday morning, and we met a lot of great people. I got a kick out of it when people would ask me if that is what I did for a living. Yes, I give away free caricatures for a living. :)

My main reason for doing this is just to improve my speed and line quality. But, it is fun, I feel a lot more comfortable every time I go.

Speed Model

2011-05-14T00:16:00.000-07:00

Speed model for fun this evening. The Companion Cube.

Saladmanders

2011-04-02T18:17:00.000-07:00

Some doodles of Saladmanders, I've been having fun drawing saladmanders lately as the topic of the sketch blog at work is "newts". And yes, I know how to spell saladmanders.

color break

2011-02-20T18:41:00.000-08:00

#4

2011-01-05T00:24:00.000-08:00

First day of work for 2011 today. It was somewhat lengthy, but extremely good. So far this year is alright by me! Here is a page of doodles to go along with it.

#3

2011-01-03T19:49:00.000-08:00

One of the sketches that I made during a work meeting several weeks ago. Kinda thought it was fun.

JP

2011-01-02T17:51:00.000-08:00

Hey look! I am two for two in 2011. I like to draw people during church. Typically I like to keep it discreet as some people like what I draw and some don't. I thought this one turned out fun.

Happy New Year

2011-01-01T18:07:00.000-08:00

2010 has been a fantastic year and I am really looking forward to seeing what 2011 has in store. One of my goals for 2011 is more art posts on my blog. And unlike last year I plan on following through with it.

New Years weekend has been great so far, a chance to recharge my batteries, spend some time with my wife and family, work on some personal 3d art, and make this quick little digital doodle. More posts to come. Happy New Year every booty!

Something New

2010-11-08T14:00:00.000-08:00

Started up a personal project to keep up on my modeling chops. Here is a little bit of it, updates to follow. Based on this concept by Joe Olson.

Mr Baldy

2010-10-21T12:50:00.000-07:00

Some more watercolor sketching.

Scarf Man

2010-10-19T17:01:00.000-07:00

I bought a little set of water colors a while back and have not used them nearly as much as I hoped that I would. I made this small scale water color in an effort to break them out and get back into putting a little color into my sketching.

Juan Turntable

2010-05-19T10:55:00.000-07:00

Just to keep my blog updated. Here is a turntable of my Army of Juan character. I have been pretty busy lately and think I am going to call the sculpt done and move on to making the game resolution version, baking out, normals and making textures. Eventually I want to make an old Mexican village environment that he can call home.

Dr. Ronald Chevalier Lunch Study

2010-04-27T15:07:00.000-07:00

Today's lunch study at work. Looking forward to more of these.

More Fish

2010-03-11T15:46:00.000-08:00

It may be obvious from the fish posts, but I am eager to do some fishing this summer after things slow down at work.

Fish

2010-02-22T18:57:00.001-08:00

Have had fish on the brain lately.

024 Sup with Jauny

2010-01-28T21:40:00.000-08:00

Been working some pretty long days at work lately and really wanted to get something 3d posted. So I spent a little time tonight prepping Juan's subtools in zbrush. Hoping to spend the weekend getting his sculpt complete and begin on his low poly mesh. So, you should see some big changes in Juan this weekend.

022 hippo

2010-01-26T21:49:00.001-08:00

trying to keep them daily

021 more elephants

2010-01-25T22:26:00.000-08:00

020 Sawyer

2010-01-24T22:35:00.000-08:00

019 Rhino dude

2010-01-22T14:34:00.001-08:00

018 Rhino

2010-01-21T23:12:00.000-08:00

017 Elephant Studies

2010-01-20T21:45:00.000-08:00

Taking a break from lost characters today as I am feeling a little poopy after getting off work. Here are some elephant studies I drew during down time at work today. Also I am double posting these on a new work sketch blog AVA SKETCH

016 Anna Lucia

2010-01-19T23:28:00.000-08:00

We are on the tale end of season two as Cat and I continue our crusade to re-watch the whole series before the premiere. So I figured I had better get a quick sketch in of Anna as I don't believe she is going to be with us much longer.

015 Hurley

2010-01-19T00:12:00.000-08:00

Scribbled out a Hurley while working on season two watching season two of Lost this evening.

014 Lost

2010-01-17T19:23:00.000-08:00

Anybody looking forward to the final season? The wife and I are attempting to re-watch all the episodes before it starts. Good stuff indeed.

13

2010-01-17T00:52:00.000-08:00

A sketch during dinner this evening.

12 Figure Friday

2010-01-15T23:42:00.000-08:00

Been a while since I've made it to the work figure drawing sessions on Fridays due to crunch time. Not going to use that excuse anymore. So expect to see more Figure Fridays in the blogging mix.

11

2010-01-14T22:28:00.001-08:00

10

2010-01-13T23:17:00.000-08:00

09 Bag Head

2010-01-12T22:12:00.000-08:00

#8 Church Doodle

2010-01-11T23:20:00.000-08:00

A recent church doodle. Sunday school teachers make the best models.

#7 Juan WIP

2010-01-10T22:00:00.000-08:00

It's been a nice restful relaxing Sunday. Has it been a week of posts already? Spent a healthy portion of the day re watching some Lost in preparation for the premiere coming up soon.

So nothing really new to post except for a little progress on Juan in all his Lambert glory.

#6 alchemy

2010-01-09T23:14:00.000-08:00

Saturdays never last long enough.

I just fired up the latest release of Alchemy tonight while taking a break from modeling. My wife looked over my shoulder and said "It just looks like a Rorschach test." And indeed it does. Though a bit uncomfortable at first I can see it's strength in creating fresh concepts and breaking out of the proverbial box.

I must investigate this programs further.

Not sure what this blob of digital ink is all about, but they are fun and quick to make.

#5 Serious Steam Punk

2010-01-09T01:21:00.000-08:00

Quick doodle tonight based on an idea my cousin Joe came up with at lunch today.

#4 Juan

2010-01-07T23:44:00.000-08:00

Another good, long, and busy day making games. Could only squeeze in just a couple minutes today to push some vertices around on Juan's face.

Day 3

2010-01-06T23:35:00.001-08:00

From the corner of my sketch book. It was another long day at work. The crunch time continues.

Day 2

2010-01-06T00:07:00.000-08:00

I am on a roll.

#1 Army of Juan

2010-01-04T23:23:00.000-08:00

With the new year I have been debating the possibility of making a new years resolution. Most resoluations last a max of 45 days, or that is what I heard on the radio this morning at least. I have decided to try to make an art post every day. I typically sketch a few pages a day, so theoretically it should not be that difficult to at least can something in. I look forward to seeing where this goes, or how long it lasts.

Tonight I am posting a character model that I have been dinking around with here and there while i have a few minutes at work. His name is Juan and he packs a mean punch.

Santa

2009-11-19T23:36:00.000-08:00

Yet another Holiday painting. Tonights doodle.

Holiday Elf

2009-11-19T03:27:00.000-08:00

Twilight

2009-11-17T21:32:00.000-08:00

Word around the campfire is that they are releasing yet another film about those wacky super sparkling vampire-like people.

Fighting Lion

2009-11-08T23:33:00.001-08:00

A digital lion study from this weekend

Female 3D Study

2009-10-26T21:38:00.000-07:00

A recent Female Anatomy study created in the third dimension using only Maya. I really enjoyed creating the hair.

drawing and giveaway

2009-10-13T00:19:00.000-07:00

For those of you who are not aware, my wife has a fantastic baking blog where she is far more popular with her baking and writing, than I am with my art on this blog.

However, this week the two blogs have collided as she is giving away a framed and signed 8 x 10 print of my Frankie painting. Head on over to her blog to find out the details www.fahrenheit350.blogspot.com.

Below is a doodle from my sketch book that was the start of the Frankie painting.

I got some good feed back from my Cousin Joe this past week on adjusting the background of my Sisters Who Spook painting, and thought I would post the revision as well. Enjoy.

Oh, also my sister in law Pam is giving a signed and framed 5x7 print of this as well if you are interested you should hop on over for a chance to win.

Frankie

2009-10-09T00:52:00.000-07:00

Halloween is fast approaching. So here yet again is another holiday themed painting for your approval and consideration. It is the Frankenstein Monster, in case you weren't able to tell.

Sisters Who Spook

2009-09-30T20:59:00.000-07:00

It would seem I am getting into the Halloween spirit. I had a lot of fun painting up these lovely sister witches.

Figure Drawing Friday

2009-09-25T22:30:00.000-07:00

This weeks effort at the Friday life drawing session at work.

More fun with watercolor

2009-09-16T19:26:00.000-07:00

Fun.

Trailer Faery

2009-09-13T02:23:00.000-07:00

Still having a lot of fun with the new water color set. Hope ya'll digs.

Fun with Water Color

2009-09-11T21:32:00.000-07:00

Today on my lunch hour I took a little venture to the art store and picked up a small portable set of water color paints. On top of that I picked up this little water color brush that holds water in the handle, you squeeze it and water comes out the brush end. This may be old technology to some of you but to me it was pretty darned cool. So portable! Needless to say I am pretty excited about it. This is my first little painting/doodle with the new set.

sketch book

2009-09-09T21:04:00.000-07:00

Busy busy long day. Here is a sketch.

Sketchy Monster

2009-09-08T20:30:00.001-07:00

Todays sketch book offering.

Milton

2009-09-07T18:53:00.000-07:00

My In Laws rolled in to town yesterday from out of state. While visiting with them a made a doodle of my father in law Milton. I had a spare moment today amidst the Labor day festivities so I sloppily added some color to it.

Festival Sketch

2009-09-05T23:59:00.000-07:00

A sketch while listening to a story teller at the Timpanogos Story Telling Festival today. I hope you don't mind that I only drew one of his legs and one of his arms. They are there, you just can't see them because they are lined up perfectly behind their counter parts.

Gladys

2009-09-04T21:44:00.000-07:00

Pen and ink artist trading card. With a bit'o colored pencil for good measure.

Anybody want to trade some art?

The Lion

2009-09-04T00:05:00.000-07:00

This evening's digital painting, it's s'posed to be a lion.

Old Lady Sketch

2009-09-02T22:24:00.000-07:00

Sketching every day is not the problem with posting every day. It is being willing to show sketches that I am not very excited about.

Muffin Bottom

2009-09-01T21:10:00.000-07:00

Sorry to disappoint the Durante with yet another sketch post. I am thinking I will post something everyday and see how long it lasts. I,ve been inspired to post daily art by Mel Milton's Blog.

Jerry Jeritol

2009-08-31T22:03:00.000-07:00

A recent pen and ink art card. 3d work coming soon.

Underwear Beasty

2009-08-25T10:14:00.000-07:00

Pen and Ink. What is cooler than a furry monster with horns, wings, and underwear???

Wee Space Man

2009-08-17T22:56:00.001-07:00

Small pen and ink drawing done today. Happy Monday.

Google Doodle

2009-08-14T19:30:00.000-07:00

A sketch doodle I made today from some random dude's image off the internetz. Added some marker to it just for funz.

Brown Sketch Book

2009-08-13T19:47:00.000-07:00

This is a random sketch I made today in my brown paper sketch book. I have a lot of fun with this under used sketch book that I purchased from Art Media for $1. I like to use black ink pens, and high light with a white gel pen.

Six Arm Fez

2009-08-12T22:00:00.001-07:00

Who doesn't like to draw six armed snake men who wear a fez? Not me!

Wolverine Quick Paint

2009-08-10T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hey ya'll. Took a few minutes this evening to make a digital quick sketch of everybody's favorite Canadian.

This was just meant as a quick doodle, but I think I may return to it for some refining and polish.

If only we all had Logan's universal health care we could run around town all willy nilly slicing each others limbs off with our adamantium blades, with out any fear of a trip to the E.R.

Sketch Book

2009-08-03T22:34:00.001-07:00

A doodle in my sketch book from a couple of days ago. Trying to make sketch posts a more daily type experience on this blog of mine.

Flying Salmon

2009-07-28T22:39:00.000-07:00

I've always wanted to paint a salmon flying over some fruit trees. I can now check that one off my bucket list.

Space Hippy

2009-07-23T20:49:00.000-07:00

I am thinking about adding some color to this drawing and posting it on the Avalanche Art Blog, where the theme at the moment is "Space Man".

Wrinkles

2009-06-11T00:20:00.001-07:00

Getting ready to move has been keeping me really busy this past week. Today was no exception with lots and lots of running around town. I made sure I had an hour to sit down and draw in photo shop before I conked out tonight. This lovely lady is a scan of a drawing I made in church a while back. I decided to make it into a wrinkle drawing practice.

On To Something New

2009-06-09T14:08:00.000-07:00

I am excited to announce that early last week I accepted an intern position at Avalanche Studios in Salt lake City where I will be working on video games for Disney.

In approximately 8 days we will be loading a moving van and driving to our new home in American Fork, Utah.

I've been busy planning, packing, and saying goodbye to all my friends in Portland. I am really going to miss P-town, after living here for the past several years it has really grown on me and I consider it home.

On to the next adventure!

Wippy WIP

2009-05-31T01:37:00.000-07:00

In my spare time I have been working on a female model and I thought I would make some renders to show my progress on my blog. Eventually she will be fully clothed and posed. I have decided on this project to only use Maya for the modeling and detail as a way to practice techniques in good edge flow modeling. Still a lot of refinement to go.

I'm glad I took the time to make some renders as it has pointed me to some areas that really need some refinement in the modeling. I've set the body modeling on hold while I've been working on some of the clothing that she will be wearing. I should have an update on that pretty soon here. If anybody might be interested in seeing any of the wire frames I would be happy to post some as well.

ELROD

2009-05-29T11:41:00.000-07:00

Last night I was finally able to attend one of the PAGDIG (Portland Game Developer Interest Group) meetings here in Portland. This one happened to be held at my alma mater the Art Institute of Portland.

A Gentleman by the name of Corvus Elrod (Man Bytes Blog) was speaking, and I of course had my sketch book in hand as I listened to his presentation and life experience regarding the ins and outs of networking. A large focus of his speaking was aimed at blogging and the networking available through that medium. His, being a story teller I can easily see how blogging would be an effective method of displaying his talents. Of course this rings double true for us in the visual arts as well.

So when I got home last night I decided to make some art to blog. So here is my representation of Elrod from last night. I was playing again with the method of using color pencil and swiping it with an alcohol swab to get some nice texture and blending. This time I swiped it a couple of times, once after the initial black pencil drawing, and again after the color block in. I then grabbed some white liquid tempura and painted in some highlights and brightened it up. Finishing it off with a black ink pen.

Monkey Boy

2009-05-28T15:05:00.001-07:00

An art card I made last night. Trying to experiment a little with a technique I saw a while back on a gnomon DVD. I started with a blank card and a black color pencil and scribbled about till some forms started to appear.

I thought maybe some crazy alien nutso beastly thing would start to come about. But nope, just Monkey Boy. After I got some forms sketched in I took some alcohol swabs and smeared the pencil all over, then touched up with eraser, color pencil, more black pencil, and some ink.

Octopus

2009-03-23T13:51:00.001-07:00

Recent update on the octopus.

Octo WIP progress

2009-03-17T00:55:00.001-07:00

Haven't posted in a few so I thought this would be a good little update to keep things fresh.

This Octopus WIP has been sitting on the back burner for a while, been uber busy with work lately. During some spare time over the past couple of days I added a toss away rig to the tentacles and posed him up a little bit. The tentacles still need tweaking and cleaning up and they are probably about twice as long as I would have preferred them. When things slow down I will finish texturing and posing him.

All Done

2009-03-02T19:36:00.000-08:00

Got a little busy. But I submitted in time. Good fun, good practice. I went through and deleted all the progress posts. Kind of redundant I think. You can go HERE to check out all the entry's from the 3dTotal forum, including my entry.

General thumbnails

2009-02-23T16:50:00.000-08:00

A few quick little thumbnail sketches to get me started on my model. I probably should do more of these but I am eager to get started as there is only a little less than a week left in the competition. I am leaning towards #1... or 2 or 7. What do you think?

Speed Sculpt

2009-02-20T18:42:00.000-08:00

Once again it is time for the Dominance War. They are having a mini challenge this year before the main event. The theme is "War General Portraits" I just found out about it this morning. Tomorrow I plan on working on the concept for my 3D General's portrait.

With this and the epic portion of the Dominance war fast approaching there should be many frequent blog posts to come.

To warm up today I made a speed sculpt using one of the three required base meshes for the competition. This is not the direction I plan on going with the challenge, just a mindless sculpt to get myself ready for it.

Goofy Face

2009-02-18T16:46:00.001-08:00

A digital sketch today made for fun. Started from a Bic pen doodle that was in the margin of some paper sitting on my art desk. I'm posting it in an effort to keep things fresh on the blog.

Cowboy Western

2009-02-17T10:40:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was a fun day. A good friend of mine is taking a film class through the city and one of his class assignments was to shoot a television show for cable access. He decided that it would be fun to film a cooking program starring my wife (he is a big fan of her baked sweets, as am I) So they came over with all of their video equipment and we spent the day shooting a cooking show. It was a blast!

During the shoot I busted out the pencils and markers and made this art card.

Palin redo

2009-02-13T23:59:00.000-08:00

Something old again. I spent a couple hours this evening giving my Sarah Palin portrait a bit of a face lift. I'm feeling some improvement since the original painting of her during the November election. Of course I could do more to it, but the election is long over and it is time to move on to other things. Happy Friday everyone!

What about McCain?

2009-02-11T13:15:00.001-08:00

Wasn't sure if I wanted to re-post this, but I made a few minor changes to him after receiving some good critiques on the old one. Mainly I added flesh tones and shading color to the face in an effort to make him less muddy and to add some life to him. I am going to call him finished for now and move on to other things.

Zombie tastic

2009-02-06T00:58:00.000-08:00

Okay time to resurrect the incredibly short lived Friday promise. And what better way to do so than with the undead? Pen and Ink zombie art card.

shoes

2009-01-08T23:31:00.000-08:00

I was testing some renders from a character that I recently finished modeling and thought that I may as well post something. I will post full renders of the character soon, but for now you can enjoy the shoes.

Octo WIP

2009-01-04T02:41:00.001-08:00

So I found some time a little while back to finish modeling the Octopus, (concept by Joe O.). I tossed on some flat shaders to see how he would look with a little color. I am excited that a friend of mine Chris Lawrence has agreed to rig him, I look forward to seeing him come to life. I will of course keep you updated as he progresses.

The Friday Promise

2009-01-02T22:50:00.000-08:00

It has come to my attention that I have been severely neglecting my little art blog. I have been very busy making art, just not busy posting it. My promise for the new year is that I will make a post every Friday at the least. In the next couple weeks I should be flooding the blog with the stuff I have been busy working on lately.

Here is a random 20 minute Photoshop doodle I made tonight to take a break from 3D for a little while.

John McCain

2008-11-04T16:04:00.001-08:00

I wanted to get this one finished before the election was over. I knocked it out this morning amidst all the other junk I was doing. So it was a little rushed. Now it is time to watch the election results and see who will be crowned the new king of America!

OBAMA PAINT

2008-11-02T00:24:00.000-07:00

Well. I thought I should finish this painting up before the election is over. I wanted to get McCain painted as well. I will have to knock John out on Monday. I hope you all approve this message!