30 Days - Work

I meant to post images of my submissions a long time ago. The problem was that I got really busy and I forgot all about it. So here are the things I've done so far. I didn't get anything up until the sixth day due to our move.

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...and that's it. I missed day 30 due to beers getting in my way. All in all I like the kooky things I did for this and I could feel myself getting more and more comfortable with my ever developing working process.

30 DAYS APRIL 2008

30 DAYS APRIL 2008

I've had the good fortune to be able to participate in my friend Keith's 30 Days project. I participated in the 2006 one. Unfortunately for me this one began as was going through my hellish move. So, dear readers, you won't see my name pop up until day six. I will be posting the things that I have done for 30 days on this blog also. So keep that RSS feed locked!

Moving cont'd.

Well I've finished moving into our new house. But man, I was so sore yesterday that I could barely walk, at times it felt like there were tiny explosions going on in my body. All of my drawing materials, including my computer, are all buried in various places, so it'll be a while before I can get anything up unless it's my pencil sketches.

Cables

When the singularity comes, I'm gonna get rid of all my cables.

Moving

I'm in the transitional phase of moving into a new home. Pretty exciting and depressing at the same time. It's only depressing because I'll be out of my comfort zone, in respect to having a dedicated work space, for a while until everything can settle back into place. My trusty powerbook and boombox will serve me well over the next few days, like R2D2 and C3PO.

Keith Ikeda-Barry's '30 Days' thing will be starting on the 1st, which also happens to be my dad's birthday. I want to get him that book "The God Machine". It's about the history of helicopters. Pretty brilliant.

Satyr's head

Continuing the odyssey which is painting in PS. I was gonna name this "Black Moses" after the misinterpretation of Exodus 34:29-35, that fostered the depiction of Moses with horns. Unfortunately I had already given him Spock ears so I just said screw it and painted.

More fun with Photoshop

I'm starting to get the "feel" and texture I want out of PS. Here is a doodle I did last night just before bedtime.

Eva 01 modeling_abdomen banding

Eva 01 modeling_adding the spine

Eva 01 modeling

It's 5am and I'm sitting here working on my Eva. I haven't posted any 3D stuff that I do because I'm still a bit wet behind the ears at it. I thought I should post my progress on this newest project though, just to have a visual record.

Modeling spheres

I'm doing some modeling exercises right now as part of my continuing process of mastering PS. Here are some spheres. The first one shows the full light (diffuse color), half-light (transition), shadow (form shadow), and reflected light as clearly delineated regions in order to help me clearly see my topology. The next version is the same sphere only that the regions are now blended to create a more 3-dimensional feel.

Tonal study

This is a tonal study I did based off of a Resident Evil poster featuring the lovely Milla Jovovich, just a random google image search for faces. After desaturating the image I created a nine tone grayscale (not including pure white) and then used those tones for the initial blocking. Then I just putzed and putzed till I thought I should stop. Not a horrible end result, but I think I coulda taken more time to get her facial proportions right in the rough sketch, which I took all of 10 minutes to do.

Weekly Challenge_02

Well the weekly challenge theme this week was "A boy and his dog" after the Harlan Ellison story of the same name. We could interpret it as loosely as we liked. Unfortunately I didn't get very far at all, as you can see.

Still Life_orange

I just got back from seeing Satoshi Kon's 'Paprika'. What an amazing film. After a bit you forget your watching an animated movie. It's so overwhelming.

Here is another still life. An orange. Rendering an orange is difficult I discovered for two reasons. One is obvious, the texture. Even after you've modeled the form decently you have to do all the little "hatching" to make the surface read as an orange. Otherwise it just looks like a balloon. The second difficulty is the color. Orange is so powerful that it was hard for me to see the red-oranges in the shadows and the subtle pinks in the reflected light. A great challenge if you want to really force yourself to see.

Still Life_blue plate

I've started doing studies to improve my PS painting process. Right now I'm participating in a painting thread on conceptart.org. The whole point is observation and efficiency in execution. I did this little toy ceramic plate that was sitting on my desk. I will be doing more still lifes in the future.

Sewer Scene

This is from a photoshop painting I did last month. After I got finished with it, I thought it would be cool to make a scene out of it in Flash. So far, I've only roughed in the pacing.

Jun-Ichi Fujikawa

Hahaha. It appears that Jun-Ichi Fujikawa was working on the same theme as Scott and I were at the same time. Take a look at his site for the month of February 08. Man, that dude is bad.

Count Vito

While I'm here posting stuff, here is a thing I did in Photoshop about a month ago.

Weekly Challenge_01

My good friend Scott and I have begun a weekly drawing challenge wherein one of us comes up with a theme for the week and we post the results on Sunday. The first one was my idea, an armoured warrior battling hordes, fairly cliche but it's about the process and the education. The research was lots of fun for me on this one. I now have a morgue chock full of different types of armour. This also got me back to painting in photoshop, where I'm still struggling to get the look I want to my painting style. So hopefully this all means that I will be contributing more regularly to this blog now, at least once a week. Unfortunately my family and I got really sick just as I started working on this project so I didn't get as far as I would've liked. Still, it's all about the process and the education.

ILLUSTRATION ART

ILLUSTRATION ART

Like the title says. A great collection of Illustration through the ages with aesthetic and compositional commentary. Nice.

Naruto

Ok, it's not really Naruto. I've just named it that. I did this while on vacation in Albuquerque. It began simply as a gesture exercise and then my wife's little cousin suggested I make him Naruto. It was a good suggestion because it made me color the thing, which makes this, coincidentally, the first real full color gesture animation I've done in Flash. Thanks Josh.

Gut Kick

This is a little ditty I cooked up after reading about Ryo-Chimo animating someone kicking another person in the gut. Kinda looks rotoscoped huh? It ain't.

Claudio Acciari

claudio acciari

An Italian who has a really wicked grasp of a variety of styles and wears his 70's era anime influence on his sleeve. Bravo, what an inspiration.

Studio Aaameriques

studioaaameriques.com
Wonderful wonderful stuff.

tropical toxic

tropical toxic

The amazing work of Tomer Hanuka.

Recent work

It seems that this blog page has become little more than a bookmark organizer for some of the coolest other artists out there and less about ME. Well here are some things that I've done recently to show that I am actually doing something other than looking at other peoples coolness. Enjoy.

Chris Wahl Illustration Blog

Chris Wahl Illustration Blog

Really good illustrator here. His caricatures are hilarious.

LOU ROMANO

LOU ROMANO

Really beautiful color studies. The first time I'd ever seen Lou Romano's work was in the "Art of the Incredibles" book. This man's got a way with color.

Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Reviews and Articles

Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Reviews and Articles

I wouldn't call myself a mechanical pencil fanatic but I am VERY particular about what I'll draw with when it comes to these beasts. This blog is fantastic in that, well basically he is truly a fanatic and reviews em all.

::: The Art of Steven E. Gordon ::: Animation Art :::

::: The Art of Steven E. Gordon ::: Animation Art :::

I've never been a fan of American superhero stuff but Steve E. Gordon is such a consummate artist that one just has to just shut up and learn. Fantastic site design also.

Keith Thompson Art

Keith Thompson Art

This dude is sick.

Assault walker

One more step into the world of photoshop painting. This is an assault walker that I did. It's approximate height is 5'5" (the fictional robot, not the PS file). The kind of thing you may run into in the future should you be involved in any antiwar protests, uprisings, etc. against the present power structure.

*UPDATE*

I've just recently purchased a book called "50 Robots To Draw & Paint" by Keith Thompson. It's funny because my comment of how this robot would be used to quell protester activities is similar to one of the robots in this book. I did not use any reference when I made this robot. But if you want a great book on how to draw robots you should immediately go and get the Thompson book. He is a bad ass!

Cartoon Modern

Cartoon Modern

The official blog for the wonderful coffee table book of the same name. If you dig that crazy UPA 50's style animation stuff you besta get over there.

Easter Grass Madness

I've just got done sweeping up easter grass. You know the stuff, the green translucent plastic stuff that is sold every year around this time to pad easter baskets. My daughter had a helluva time last night throwing this crap all around the living room. As I was sweeping it up I began to get really angry. How is it still legal to make something so horrible for the planet? Think about it. Easter grass is the equivalent of shredded plastic trash bags and not necessarily the biodegradable kind. I found the bag that this stuff came from in the kitchen. It came from the department store chain Target (courtesy of grandma), imported from China and has nowhere on the bag that it is environmentally friendly. This shit is heinous! How much of it is made, bought, sold, and trashed each year? It boggles the mind. Now that global warming is being taken seriously perhaps global pollution will start to be as well. There should be serious restrictions on the production and sale of trash like easter grass. Hell if it was more expensive and more conscientiously made then maybe it could be justified as something to adorn easter baskets. But maybe the whole wastefulness is part of the easter holiday. How many colored eggs end up in the trash because kids realize that they look better than they taste? I like boiled eggs by the way but I remember as a kid how gipped I felt when I cracked open one of those festive looking things only to find a mundane boiled egg, with a green yolk to boot (my parents , like most people weren't aware that you must immerse hot boiled eggs in ice water to cool them so that the yolk doesn't turn green). I hope we all start to wake up to the stupid things we are doing to the earth.

Tom Bancroft

Tom Bancroft

Just got this guys book on character design.

Bakemono

An animatic done in flash. Not for anything in particular, just trying some things out. If someone knows how I can get the sound to turn on or off I'd appreciate the tip.

a thousand artless miseries.

a thousand artless miseries.

Ross Campbell, great great stuff. His girls are like snapshots. I could swear I've seen some of them at the coffee shop.

UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

Another animator's blog that's chock full o' goodness.