The Friday Promise

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

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

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!

OBAMA WIP

Started working out the tones on my Obama Painting. I am hoping to get him all done and painted on Monday so I can get started on McCain.

Octopus WIP

I thought I would post a WIP of a current personal project I am working on in an effort to keep myself posting on my blog. The concept comes from my talented cousin Joe, and it has been a lot of fun to model thus far. Updates to come soon.

SARAH PALIN

Having fun with my political paintings. Not sure which should be up next Obama or McCain. They both have very interesting faces.

Joe Biden

I was sketching during the VEEP debate on Thursday and decided to scan one in and do a little digital painting. Perhaps I will do some more of these political figures. Enjoy.

Andrew Ryan

I've been crazy busy with work lately and have had very little time for personal projects. Here is a model of Andrew Ryan from Bioshock that I am working on. Had a little time today to sculpt on him. I will keep you updated on his progress.

Potato Nose

Made this a couple of weeks ago. Thought I would toss it up for kicks. Marker and color pencil on the handy baseball size smooth Bristol paper.

Angry Mullet

CAMPFIRE FAIRY

My wife and I packed up the camping gear and headed for the mountains this past weekend with the idea of beating the heat.

Of course on our way there we had a tire blow out on the free-way and didn't end up getting to the campsite until all the good spots had already been taken. We did find a spot to camp off the beaten bath, only it was not well shaded and the heat ended up beating us.

In between hiking with the dogs, and swatting flies and mosquitoes I was able to do some drawing in my sketchbook, as well as this little art card while I was there.

Another Bobert?

Marker and Color Pencil. Another Sunday school doodle.

FIFTY NIFTY

A recent commission for a nice couple in Portland who were looking for an interesting way to say happy birthday to their daughter in law.

When I met with them to discuss the project I happened to bring along some of my illustrations to show them. I then had to assure them that their drawing would not be "weird" or "scary."

Crabtooth

Small format. Ink and Color Pencil.

Progress on the old man

Been wicked busy working on my demo reel for the upcoming graduation. Here is the current progress on my old man model. I faked some particles effects with some alphas and some cylinders. It looks like a little whirl wind when it is animated. Still need to do a little more work on his textures and spec maps and then I think she will be ready to render.

Old man Low-poly

Thought I would update some of the progress on the old plant shaman I am working on. Was able to get some of the leaf alphas working today, and some of the base textures. Still a lot of texture work to go on this. I am happy with the way it is rolling along

Tonight I plan on setting up a basic rig for posing so I can get a couple of render tests done tomorrow as well as more work on the texture maps and unifying the color scheme. With his staff weapon he should end up around 6k tris when complete.

Blobby

An ink and color pencil card I just finished doodling.

The old man

Been working on the old man lately. I've got the low-poly mesh all done along with the normal mapping. Did some tests with painting the diffuse in zbrush and baking them in maya today, and figured out my method for doing so. I am pretty excited to finally see this fellow all finished. Here is a quick zbrush render of the few minutes I was able to spend on his head this evening.

Funky Bird

I decided that it might be fun to post more stuff from my sketch books. Happily I just filled another sketch book during the lecture of my American Politics class this morning. Here is what ended up on the last page. I also decided to break out the red colored pencils today!

CRUNCHY

Alright here is another small format artwork. Ink and color pencil. His name is Crunchy.

Plant head

Hello to anybody who might be visiting! Once again it has been a while since I have posted. I've been really busy working on 3d projects, my website, and homework for my non art related classes in preparation for my graduation in June (rapidly approaching!)
I thought I would post an art card I made this morning. I have been drawing a lot of people with plants growing out of them lately. My mind must still be a little bit stuck in the game that I helped make for my senior project. It involved plant zombies. He is colored with ink and prisma color markers and pencils.

John Lennon Revisited

I recently came back to a project that I began in my advanced modeling class. No, it is not Harry Plopper! It's Mr John Yoko Lennon. I added the lonely hearts club uniform and worked on his hair a bit. More detail and textures are on the way.

balloons

Thought I should post something today. These are a couple of models I am working for a student short 3d animation called balloons. I am posting the concept work as well which was drawn by Ryan Stark, another student here at the Art Institute.

Old Man WIP

Been quite busy lately. This is something I have been working on a little bit for the dominancewar. He will eventually be an old warrior type shaman dude. Today I had a little time to work on his head. I plan on adding the clothing, and ornamentations later. I dig zbrush.

Finished Skulls

I'm very satisfied with the way this turned out. I think it might be the best lowpoly model I have made to date. When I get back from GDC I think I will make a little rotation video of it.

Skull WIP

Haven't posted in a little bit so I thought I would post my progress on this weeks assignment in my low poly modeling class. I was hesitant at first but I am enjoying using 3ds Max a lot more than I thought I would. Though I still like Maya better.

I decided to practice some techniques I want to use for the Dominance War. So I started with a zsphere in zbrush to model my high poly skull and then brought it in 3ds to retop and bake the normals and AO. Here is the result so far. Now I need to continue texturing and add a little grime. Should be finished in the morning. The skull is 492 tris.

CHURCH DRAWING

A picture of the teacher in Sunday school. I added some marker and color pencil for color. 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

Swamp Shrimp

So I just finished this model for a low poly competition over at 3dtotal.com. I didn't realize that the end of the competition was in GMT time until too late. So I was about 4 hours late getting it finished. Any-who, I think I will still work on it later on, but thought that I would post some of my finished renders here as well. The last images was my concept design.

Tree House in Color

Think these turned out pretty well. Really enjoyed the process.

Tonals

Would like to have spent more time on these tonal studies before I went into color, but deadlines and time did not permit. So here they are. And now I am on to do some color studies.

Tree house Sketches

Here are the sketches that I decided to proceed with. Now on to the tonal drawings! After all of my sketching I decided to go back to one of the early sketches I had done of a little house on a windblown tree hanging over a cliff. I then decided that it would work better as an out house.

Here is the establishing shot.

The medium shot.
And the close up shot.

Tree House WIP

In my concept class we are doing tree house designs. The assignment is to bring to bring 3 shots to finished paintings. An establishing shot, a medium shot, and a close up shot of the tree house. I thought it would be fun to blog my progression. These are a slew of initial thumbnails and sketches I did. If you click on it you can see a larger version I think.

TERMITES

Haven't posting anything since before Thanksgiving. Sheesh! My parents come up to celebrate thanksgiving with Catherine and I. And while they were here I came down with the flu. Good times. I am feeling a little better now and thought I would through up some art. I made this before Thanksgiving. Hope everybody had a good one!

Blue Devil

This mornings contribution to my art blog.