Group Project : The BFG
(Big Friendly Giant)





Works - From top to bottom:
Moment Piece: Sophie meets the B.F.G.
The BFG.'s Workshop w/ Dream Chamber
Dream Jars, Dream Stone Grinder, & Stove
Characters: Mr. Tibbs & The Queen
The Footmen

For Final Project in Viz Dev on Roald Dahl's The BFG. This final project was a group project where each of us was assigned a spefic moment piece, environment, and characters. This is some of my finished Development work for the project. It was a really great experience, with some really, really talented individuals.

Group Members:
Gus Corrales
Paul Nguyen
Chantrelle Pryor &
Me

Plein Aire: The Return... Fall 2009
Acrylic
04: SJSU (demo) (limited palette)

03: Penetencia Creek Trail Park (complimentary base colors)

02: Guadalupe Gardens (limited palette)

01: Penetencia Creek Trail (grayscale)

Weekly Assignments: Art 118 Storyboarding

#6: Trick or Treat

#5 : "The Button"


#4 : "Shrunken Idoll"


#3 : "The Magician"


#2 : "Dog & Squirrel"


#1 : "First Day of School"

Short Film Project Visual Development with Raquel Coelho:
Finals for BERIMBAU

Stuff I'm Working On...

Sketches for BERIMBAU...

Summer Digital Speed Paints...
(School begins in 1 month)

01: Self Portrait from Pic.
Pushed a little, using some Photoshop Painting tricks/tips.

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...