Some outdoor painting I've started up. Hope to gain a keener eye at painting & determining subtle shifts in color & light. Pretty fun, but only so much pollen one can tolerate. More to come..? I hope so.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Monday, August 04, 2008
The Marvel Way #2: Spider-Surfer
#2 in my exercises from How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way. Still learning in several ways how to go about this right. Number of things I am hoping to get out of this from economy, neatness, referencing, line weight, composition, figure drawing, etc, etc. Gotta start somewhere. I'm enjoying myself, trying to see where I can improve. Its difficult, but I hope to go a lot further with these exercises. Next up: a multi-page story. This is my last one pager for a while.
#2 in my exercises from How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way. Still learning in several ways how to go about this right. Number of things I am hoping to get out of this from economy, neatness, referencing, line weight, composition, figure drawing, etc, etc. Gotta start somewhere. I'm enjoying myself, trying to see where I can improve. Its difficult, but I hope to go a lot further with these exercises. Next up: a multi-page story. This is my last one pager for a while.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
"Draw Your Own Comic-Book Page..."
I needed to crank this out. Still have this burning desire to draw comics one day. One can talk and talk about wanting to do something, but unless you do, its just talk. Well, here's hoping this is the start of something. I took one of the exercises from Stan Lee & John Buscema's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way." Tried to do it as blind as I could (they offer up examples), and was surprised how different mine was. Anyhow, probably a crappy comic book page by industry standards, but its a start...
I needed to crank this out. Still have this burning desire to draw comics one day. One can talk and talk about wanting to do something, but unless you do, its just talk. Well, here's hoping this is the start of something. I took one of the exercises from Stan Lee & John Buscema's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way." Tried to do it as blind as I could (they offer up examples), and was surprised how different mine was. Anyhow, probably a crappy comic book page by industry standards, but its a start...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The Adventures Of...
So this is what Jaime encouraged me to do. A little one page comic, total stream of consciousness. A bit of a story foundation in mind... Originally started as maybe Robin's first night on patrol with the big B. Could possibly subtitle this "Try to Keep Up." I'd been a lot bummed lately regarding art and my output. It hadn't been fun for a while. Comics were the reason that I got into art in the first place. Thanks Jaime for the suggestion, hopefully there will be more of this to come. :)
So this is what Jaime encouraged me to do. A little one page comic, total stream of consciousness. A bit of a story foundation in mind... Originally started as maybe Robin's first night on patrol with the big B. Could possibly subtitle this "Try to Keep Up." I'd been a lot bummed lately regarding art and my output. It hadn't been fun for a while. Comics were the reason that I got into art in the first place. Thanks Jaime for the suggestion, hopefully there will be more of this to come. :)
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Coming Soon...
Something I am working on. Thanks to Jaime for the idea. Pure instinct trying not to overthink it. Hopefully will be done soon.
Something I am working on. Thanks to Jaime for the idea. Pure instinct trying not to overthink it. Hopefully will be done soon.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Landscape Studies...
Pacheco State Park off Pacheco Pass (HWY 152). Went hiking with one of my best friends Ben. Awesome time, hardly anyone else was out there. Got to do some sketching (promised my classes). Always see the exit on my way to visit the folks in Bakersfield. Highly recommended. Ben's a saint for his patience, came this close to a rattlesnake... very distinct sounds they do make.
Pacheco State Park off Pacheco Pass (HWY 152). Went hiking with one of my best friends Ben. Awesome time, hardly anyone else was out there. Got to do some sketching (promised my classes). Always see the exit on my way to visit the folks in Bakersfield. Highly recommended. Ben's a saint for his patience, came this close to a rattlesnake... very distinct sounds they do make.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
CARS!
Inspired by Pixar's CARS I did some vehicle studies. In my ongoing quest to one day work on backgrounds and props for animation, I've decided to do some quick paints/studies of cars. I wanted to push the form and make them more stylized as I went. Also trying to describe the reflected surfaces in a simplified way. Its rewarding work, different from the organic shapes of people/drapery, but Iike it all the same. This is the first round.
Inspired by Pixar's CARS I did some vehicle studies. In my ongoing quest to one day work on backgrounds and props for animation, I've decided to do some quick paints/studies of cars. I wanted to push the form and make them more stylized as I went. Also trying to describe the reflected surfaces in a simplified way. Its rewarding work, different from the organic shapes of people/drapery, but Iike it all the same. This is the first round.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Friday, December 15, 2006
The PAWN SHOP... in stages
Working on this viz dev/layout piece for a pawn shop has been quite a task, but a fun learning experience. Here are the preliminary comp and rough lay-ins. Now that I've cleaned it up, I see that I need to apply some editing. I'm gonna subtitle this, "A Phased Withdrawal."
Preliminary Compositions for PAWN SHOP Project
I worked out these rough preliminary comps and the design kind of emerged by accident. For some reason, I really liked them or "responded" to them. I've been trying to develop a better sense of composition, as well as value, in order to make my work better. This work is preliminary work towards a more developed layout of a pawn shop. More (hopefully) soon.
Working on this viz dev/layout piece for a pawn shop has been quite a task, but a fun learning experience. Here are the preliminary comp and rough lay-ins. Now that I've cleaned it up, I see that I need to apply some editing. I'm gonna subtitle this, "A Phased Withdrawal."
Preliminary Compositions for PAWN SHOP Project
I worked out these rough preliminary comps and the design kind of emerged by accident. For some reason, I really liked them or "responded" to them. I've been trying to develop a better sense of composition, as well as value, in order to make my work better. This work is preliminary work towards a more developed layout of a pawn shop. More (hopefully) soon.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Character Design Visual Development:
WOMEN WITHOUT BONES by Steve Martin
These drawings are characters from our final project in my BFA senior seminar class. They are visual development pieces depicting members of a mysterious & fascinating tribe of women in the Amazon. This work is loosely based on an odd short story by Steve Martin (yes, the famous one), from a collection of his, handed out by our teachers. The work is done all in pencil with some touching up in Photoshop. I was pleased with the results, but of course they could be developed further.
WOMEN WITHOUT BONES by Steve Martin
These drawings are characters from our final project in my BFA senior seminar class. They are visual development pieces depicting members of a mysterious & fascinating tribe of women in the Amazon. This work is loosely based on an odd short story by Steve Martin (yes, the famous one), from a collection of his, handed out by our teachers. The work is done all in pencil with some touching up in Photoshop. I was pleased with the results, but of course they could be developed further.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Layout: John Steinbeck's FLIGHT
A Layout for John Steinbeck's "Flight." This layout was created for our Steinbeck viz-dev project. It is from a scene we created as a group. The scene was one that was expanded on from the original story. Our scene imagines what happened to Pepé Torres when he traveled to Monterey on a fateful errand. The scene results in a murder. My layout is meant to depict the Coastal shanty town created by the fisherman of the early cannaries of Monterey. Pepé intends to spend the night at Mrs. Rodriguez' house which serves as a boarding house to some of the men.
A Layout for John Steinbeck's "Flight." This layout was created for our Steinbeck viz-dev project. It is from a scene we created as a group. The scene was one that was expanded on from the original story. Our scene imagines what happened to Pepé Torres when he traveled to Monterey on a fateful errand. The scene results in a murder. My layout is meant to depict the Coastal shanty town created by the fisherman of the early cannaries of Monterey. Pepé intends to spend the night at Mrs. Rodriguez' house which serves as a boarding house to some of the men.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
This image is a beat for a visual development project on John Steinbeck's "Flight" (short story). Teams of 4-5 were assembled to decide on the 5 important beats to the story. I worked with 3 classmates and was assigned the 4th beat, which I'm showcasing. In this beat, Pepé, the protagonist, loses his horse by a gunshot. This is an important turning point in the story because it leads to his ultimate demise. Soon, Pepé will be stripped of all his posessions and will fend off the elements and his enemies.
Below the image are my original thumbnails for my suggestions for the beats. The thumbnail for the more developed image is in the middle column, top row.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
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