Summer Plein Aires: Round 01...
(I think I need to stretch my palette... )

06: Mexico City Restaurant, Alameda & San Jose


05: 10th & Mission


04: Palo Alto - Cantor Art Center


03: SF - North Beach, near Coit Tower


02: SJSU - statues/grassy knoll


01: 4th & Taylor: Foster's Freeze

Projects to Finish...
for Jorinda & Joringel


grayscale edit




Just finished up my first semester back at SJSU for my master's. It was a great experience, especially taking JP Balmet's visual development class. He did a great job, gave us challenging projects, and was extremely generous with his advice and knowledge. These are images of my final submissions for the semester. Not 100% finished, by far but pretty clear where its going. These are environments created for the Grimm's Fairy Tale Jorinda & Joringel. Summer is here...

Plein Aire New Round...

03: Windmill GG Park, SF

02: Back to Nature - Kelly Park

01: Blame It On The Rain...

Not an homage to the Milli Vanilli song, I did this painting indoors from the 6th floor of the MLK Library. It was rainy on Friday so I chose to go for something indoors. I'm trying to go faster, so I 'm going for a simpler approach. Back to basics, I should know this by now...

What a Crock...
Time for some new stuff...

Final Characters (First Pass...)

Color & Lighting (especially) needs some tweaking. To be cont. this summer...

Fan Boat Driver (color comps)

"Gunner" Character


Fan Boat


For our current Viz Dev Project, something totally different... Fan-Boat Racers. This is what I've got so far. Basically: Fan-Boat racers driven by anthropomorphic animals native to the Florida Everglades, our choice. My animals: American Alligator: junk collectors. This is my boat & my driver (one of two characters). The progress thus far. More to come...

Plain Erring... in San Jose
04: Basile @ Bascom

03: Sunol @ Auzerais

Wasn't really feeling this one after I started: No real interesting shapes, colors were kinda blah... Well, that was my one shot this week. haha

02: Stockton @ Taylor

01 : Alviso Marina

Plein Aire paints - for Mr. JP Balmet's class... Sad that he has to assign this for me to go out and do it. For that though, I am grateful...

3rd Pass. That's it for now...

Time to move on, for now. Hope to see with fresh eyes, get some feedback in order to polish up and finalize. But the project is over for now.
2nd Pass

New Work, finally.
Color Lay-In...


Very, Very Rough Interior: Before Tightening of Line & Value...



basic layout before paint & texture

How Do You Paint An Old Man?

Practice for a project I am currently working on...


The Long Form #2: S-BUX...

FIG DRW SSN


From 02/19 SHM Figure Drawing Session: Model - Jesse. A break from homework... Thank you Otman for feedback.

Project no. 2: MASK MAKER & MASK SHOP
Character, Exterior & Interior Design
Ideatons - 2nd Pass

Ideations - 1st Pass







Viz Dev project 2, mask maker & shop located in bustling Market place circa 1940s French occupied Morrocco. Hustling as we speak on Ideation refinement...

The Mask Maker...

This oughta be inneresting: our next project is to design a Mask Maker & his shop, hidden in among the market stalls of 1940s Marrakech. These are just some first pass ideation...

New Work: WATERFALL SPIRIT


or "Coulda Been Worse..."
Aspects of Process:


This semester I am taking JP Balmet's Viz Dev class. This is part of our first completed project, I think the top image, the "moment piece" was the more successful part of the project. I would consider it a first pass towards finish as I would like to clarify shapes etc. I'm pretty happy with the energy.

I had more trouble with the character design, and would really like to know how to get it right. Well, its our first official character design assignment and look forward to JP's feedback. Include is the some process aspects for both the character & moment piece.

Also, I am enjoying the class: its tough, fun and its a trip being back in school. More to come...

Break Time: MLK LIbrary, San Jose

(SQUINT)

From Reference. Used a square brush. Very fun. This was my last post for the Cold Paint blog

Pixelated Ritz



Just trying a square brush in photoshop. Worked pretty well for a low-rez image. Just for fun...

SELF-PORTRAIT MANIA!!! For Cold Paint...
1hr 30mn Digital Self-Portrait

Right Ear is really jacked up (for starters), I'll fix it soon.


25 Minute Self-Portrait

Digital painting by me, nose by The Jackson Family surgeon.
For Cold Paint