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!!!!

At last, they are done!

Here are the rest of the dunk team illustrations. These were definitely a challenge. But I like how they turned out. So no more basketball pictures for a while. I promise.

Also, I'm done with all of my general classes except for math. I'm SUPER excited! Now if any one knows how to get through math classes faster let me know. I'm dying to get these done.

I have more free time now so I might be posting more stuff. Enjoy!

Dunk Team # 2

Here are some more Verve Sol Patrol dunk team illustrations. I focused more on the gesture and action of what they were doing. I sketched them over and over until they seemed right. This makes for a much easier time painting them. And it’s seems to take less time. These are really fun to do.

Hopefully I will have more done by the weekend.

Dunk Team

This is the first of several images I'm doing for the Suns: Verve Sol Patrol. I would love some feedback on what's working and what's not. More to come.

Jazz Van Update

I'm excited to share these images with everyone. They show the outcome of the new Jazz Van wrap featuring my art work of Bear. Everything else that's not the Bear was done by Vision International. I really like how it turned out. It was a lot of fun to work with the Jazz and Vision International. I hope to see it in person some time. Thanks guys!

Now I have to get off the Internet and draw.

Digital Figure Drawing

This is my first attempt at digital figure drawing. It was done in 45 min in corel painter. Jenny while she watches a movie.

Jazz New Logo

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Utah Jazz have changed their logo back to the jazz note and updated their colors as well. I think it looks a lot better than their last several logos.
I was recently commissioned to update some of the illustrations I had done for them in the past. It also gave me an opportunity to touch up some things that I wanted to fix on some of them.
So, next time you are at a Jazz game, look for these pictures of the Jazz Bear. They are also going to be on Bear’s Van. I’m pretty excited that they would want to put these on their van and drive everywhere. Thanks Bear!
Oh! And, on a side note, I’ve finally updated my phone to a Motorola Droid X. I hope there is some kind of doodling or drawing app for it. I’m pretty excited about it.