I'm thankful for Rocks.

This is something that I've been working on for a while now. I think I'm done with it. I was experimenting with painting rocks and this is what I have come up with. I thought about putting something else in the background like a spaceship or structure but nothing looked good.

On a side note I'm a couple weeks away from being done with my generals. I can't wait until I no longer have a math class!!! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bill Perkins color class

A couple of months ago, I took a three day color boot camp taught by Bill Perkins. This workshop focused on color theory, which I really need to know more about. It was an awesome and frustrating experience for me. The workshop involved oil painting live models in differing lighting situations. Since this was my first time using oils it was very frustrating. But, overall I thought it was an excellent experience. These are the paintings that I produced during the whole boot camp. They were all done in 40 minutes each. Plus, I met some awesome artists who were also taking the boot camp. I'd like to take it again when it comes around. Thanks to Dave and Tyler for letting me know about this.

Smashing Heads!!!

Ah ha! I updated my blog! This is some recent artwork I did for the upcoming Mascotbowl charity event. I thought it turned out quite well. It was fun to do. Doing this was like taking a breath of fresh air. I haven’t done anything digital for a while. I have been spending the majority of my time finishing general classes. It’s getting pretty exciting because I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. By the end of the year I will be done. This means I can finally move on to art related classes\schools! Hooray!

Updated.

Here is the autograph poster that they used for the event.

Guy at Work

I like to sketch at work! Sometimes these sketches sit in my sketchbook for a long time before I realize that they need some color. I did this sketch about a year ago. This is someone I used to work with. No! It's not Harry Potter. That's what I thought at first too. He would wear this scarf at ALL times!! Even in the summer! I swear he looked just like this.

This was fun to do but I still need to know how to paint greasy hair textures.

3D Class Project

I took a class on 3D Studio Max this last semester. This is my first time learning anything in 3D. It was a very fun class. We spent the majority of the class focused on modeling and texturing. And maybe two or three classes on animation. I created a lot of different things in the class, but this is the only one I'm satisfied with.

It's a breakfast scene. After eating the bacon, eggs, and toast, lower your cholesterol with a bowl of Cheerios.

Conference Painting

Hooray! A value study of a relative.

I did this while listening to prophets talk. The only brush I used was the captured bristle brush.

CD cover process

This is the process I used to make a CD cover for my cousin Bret Slack. He's been working on a jazz music album and wanted me to create the art work for it.

I started with a rough sketch of the gesture in painter. This was only after I sketched some ideas in my sketch book to get the idea right.

Then, on a new layer I quickly drew in the environment and the phonograph. I used some basic photo references for the phonograph and the skeleton to get the details right.

Then, I used another layer to fill the whole picture to appear much darker. And I experimented with the glow brush to see what the lighting should look like. The direction was sort of a night club in the 1920's.

I wasn't really digging the glow brush idea. So, I desaturated everything and put most of the values in. And I rendered out a lot of the skeleton and background.

Then, I finished up with putting the color back in, but not as saturated. I also put in smoke effects and the feather in the fedora. Then, I applied some texture to give a used effect to everything.

Because of school and other projects this CD cover took way longer than I expected. Also, while doing this project my painter application somehow reset itself, and I lost all of my custom settings and brushes!!! Which was kind of frustrating! So, remember to always back up everything!

On a side note: After I remade all of my brushes and set all of my custom palettes, this started showing up after opening files:

I hate this... whatever this is!!!!!!! After I click on any painter or photoshop file this shows up. So, I click on OK. And the loading-into-memory sign comes up for about a second and then this same warning comes up. And it just goes in this cycle until I finally just force quite the application! If anybody knows what this is, I would love to know so I can turn it off!!!!