It's Cold!!!

This is a cartoon I created for the UVU Review. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Cartoon # 2

This is another cartoon I did for the UVU Review. The theme was Thanksgiving. I'm having a lot of fun doing these cartoons. Enjoy!

Best of INKtober

Last month I took on a challenge called INKtober. The challenge was to create a picture in ink everyday in October. These are the best of my INKtober drawings. Enjoy!

Editorial cartoon #1

My first editorial cartoon. This is currently in the school newspaper (UVU Review) this week. Check it out. The topic was parking at UVU. Enjoy!

Mighty Mascots

This is another promotional piece for the Mascot Bowl held every September in Lehi, Utah (click on the link to learn more about it). There was a quick turnaround time for this one. I finished it in 2 and half days. I'm excited on how it turned out with such a short time to complete it in. I used Corel Painter X and wacom tablet. These are really fun to do.

Now back to homework. Thanks for looking at my blog.

A sense of adventure

Last semester I was assigned to do 100 sketches in my sketchbook. The sketch above was maybe the sixth or seventh sketch of an elephant doing different tasks. It had a good response from people. So I thought I would paint it. I had some helpful feedback from some excellent artists during the process (Thanks Rani Bean and Heather Michelle Owens). Enjoy!

Bad hair day

This was for a weekly sketch challenge. The theme was "bad hair day". 

The ugly habit of smoking doesn’t care about you.

This is my submission for the deviantART Make Ugly contest. Don't smoke!

fantasy landscape digital painting

This is my fantasy landscape assignment for Don Seegmiller's digital painting class. I took a Sci-fi direction.

Battle Damage

This is one version of the the alien head that I'm doing for an assignment for Don Seegmiller's summer digital painting class. It's a very fun class. 

I hope to see this alien in a bar somewhere in the universe.

Always in motion is the future

Now that Lucasfilm has been purchased by the Walt Disney Company, new Star Wars movies will probably continue well into the future. I'm hoping they turn out to be entertaining.

I thought it would be fun to see what a one sheet poster might look like for the new movie with the orignal cast at their current ages. So I put this epic poster together using current images of the cast.

 I read somewhere that the story for the new movie will focus on Luke Skywalker being the "Obi-wan" type character passing his knowledge to a new female protagonist. I think it sounds like an interesting story.

Now that this is posted I'll want to come back and look how off I was compared to the actual poster. It should be fun.

Edit* This has been featured on ScreenRants Geek Picks

Brains

This is a sample of a recent commission it did. The request was to make him look like the walking dead. Very fun to do! Enjoy!

Acrylic final

This is my final for the acrylic class I took this semester at UVU. I REALLY enjoyed this last painting because it was not a head or face. The reference is from here. I am a big fan of Ryan Church's art, so I thought it would be challenging to see if I could paint something of his in acrylic. 

End of the semester! Hooray!

Thanks for stopping by.

Drawing for Illustration

I've been taking some illustration classes this semester at UVU, and they've been a lot of FUN. These are some of my assignments for the Drawing for Illustration class. I thought this class was very helpful, and I even learned some new principles of perspective drawing. The number one thing I learned from this class was to keep deadlines. It was challenging to keep up with the assignments.

one-point perspective drawing of a maze

two-point perspective castle

Fantasy Landscape

Frog Prince (character design)

The semester is almost over, and I'm pretty excited for the summer semester. I'm taking a digital painting class. So, that'll be fun.

Thanks for looking.

He lost his stuffing

A painting I did today for my sister-in-law for her birthday. Maybe I'll do some more of these Wizard of Oz characters in the future. This was fun.

And in other news I was recently accepted in to the UVU illustration BFA program. I'm pretty excited about it. :D

I'm also excited for the semester to be over. :D

First sketch of March

I'm just on a Doug Chiang thing right now. It's so fun doing these free form gray marker sketches. The fun part is going back over it with the black fine pen to figure out what the form is going to be.

This, I would say is some sort of public works transport. The huge guns in front are there to deal with the out of control cat problem in this society. :)

Creature Design Workshop

I have to geek out for a minute. I went to a creature design workshop with Terryl Whitlatch today. It was sponsored by the UVU Illustration club. It was awesome! 

She talked about many aspects of creature design. One of the things she talked about was looking at LOTS of references of real animals. She said once you understand the anatomy of real animals then you can start designing your own creatures. 

So this is my study from the reference using prismacolor markers. 

 and then this is my attempt at creature design. She made it look a lot easier than it is. This is my tiger/shark. 

It was the best $5 I've spent. I have to thank the Illustration Club for putting this together. 

And on a side note, she was kind enough to sign my The Art of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. This book in my opinion is rad. It's one of my favorite books to look at for inspiration (plus, it Star Wars). 

Now, I will get off my nerd box. Thanks.

I found my notes from this. So I thought I would post them here. They are not great. here they are:

Notes for the Terryl Whitlatch creature design lecture.

• ·      Love and appreciate animals. After that, you can draw them really well.
• ·      She does a lot of lateral orthographic. She calls them Di Vinci’s
• ·      She does a lot of narrative illustrations
• ·      She uses copics markers for some of her sketching
• ·      When you are doing concept art imagine your self as that creature
• ·      Doug Chiang is the nicest person she’s ever meet
• ·      If you want to work for the movies, you have to know the basics of drawing.
• ·      She’s working with Jack Horner currently as a paleo-reconstructionist.

Notes for the Terryl Whitlatch creature design works shop.

• Creature design is hard work
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• Do lots Quick thumbnails before starting your actual drawing
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• Look at References LOTs of references

Animal Drawing, Anatomy and Action for Artists by Charles R Knight

An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists By Wilhelm Ellenberger

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WebZ/FETCH?sessionid=01-56441-963037018&recno=1&next=html/nfbrief.html&bad=error/badfetch.html&entitytoprecno=1&entitycurrecno=1&resultset=2&numrecs=12&format=B&fmtclass=gallery&entityScanReferral=FALSE

Elliot gold finger

http://books.google.com/books?id=Clre5l9lqyUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Princeton field guide to Dinosaurs

Animals real and imagined by Terryl Whitlatch

• If you want to design a fast animal: look at the horse or the gray hound. They are running machines
• Use Warm and cool gray copics markers 
• Pencil sketch on tracing paper over your original design to show muscles and bones.

Sketchbook Rhino

30% cool gray Prismacolor first, then a Zebra ballpoint pen on after. And then I go back over it with darker values. I'm practicing the techniques described in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanika-How-Create-Science-Fiction/dp/1600610234

Doug Chiang is AWESOME!

Oh! I have a blog

So, school started up again. Thats why I havent posted in while. I'm finally taking some awesome art classes. One of them is  an acrylic painting class and I'm very much enjoying it! Above are a couple examples of how the assignments are turning out. Painting 4-6x8 paintings a week is enjoyable. I've never used acrylic paints before so it's challenging.

And then some sketchbook goodness. Enjoy! 

I'm really loving the prismacolor gray value markers. Enjoy!