Gladys

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

Anybody want to trade some art?

The Lion

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

Old Lady Sketch

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

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

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

Underwear Beasty

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

Wee Space Man

Small pen and ink drawing done today. Happy Monday.

Google Doodle

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

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

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

Wolverine Quick Paint

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent update on the octopus.

Octo WIP progress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.