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9" x 12", oil on canvas boardFive hours. Trying out a method of painting directly a la Morgan Weistling in which you start from one feature, resolve it to a finish, and use that as the standard to go...
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9" x 12", oil on canvas boardFour hours. I normally don't sign my paintings, but this one turned out well, so...
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10" Super Sculpey maquette painted in PhotoshopI discovered this guy under my bed plotting dastardly schemes and amassing an army of dust bunnies.
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Here are a couple of paintings done for Kevin Chen's Character Design 2 class at Concept Design Academy. The project was to design different races for a fantasy role-playing game. These two are set in...
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El Matador State Beach, Malibu, CAEl Matador State Beach, Malibu, CAThis past weekend I had the pleasure of attending a workshop with Dreamworks Animation artist Mike Hernandez. He lectured extensively...
View ArticleBreaking off is misery
I began this doodle at a sketch group session last night and finished it a few minutes ago. As you might have guessed, I've been looking at Jana Schirmer and Benjamin's paintings a lot lately. Those...
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I'm still alive and I'm still drawing. Most of my doodles are on newsprint or in a sketchbook, which I'm too busy to photograph these days. However, I'd like to keep the cobwebs off this page and sweep...
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Eaton Canyon, 4" x 6", Gouache and WatercolorI went for a hike with my buddy Vahe today to go plein air painting at Eaton Canyon. Spent a couple of hours painting this scene in the shade while gnats...
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Lauren, PhotoshopIt was really fun to paint this digitally, because if you understand how to read the RGB sliders in Photoshop, you can mix colors in seconds flat. It would have taken me two to three...
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Monkey Island RedesignI finished a wonderful class over at Red Engine Studios last Sunday: Sketching for Environment with John Park and Mark Castanon. Seven out of its eight weeks were devoted to...
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One of my favorite television series as a kid was The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I recently picked up an R2 DVD set of the show and it holds up remarkably well. Someday I'll take a trip to see Mayan...
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Here's a quick two-hour study from life that I spent another couple of hours at home cleaning up.
View ArticleForays in Style and Color
I'm gonna dust off the old blog. Here are a few pieces I've done for a visual development course I'm taking at Concept Design Academy. I'm having a lot of fun in the class. The first two are style...
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A two-hour study done in my friend Jason Scheier's Introduction to Digital Painting class at Concept Design Academy. This was really fun because we had so many white objects (Asaro head, skeleton,...
View ArticleShaylin'tria, Revisted
I took a character design class two years ago in which we were asked to design different races for an imaginary MMORPG. I never really liked the final execution of my elf concept, so I went ahead and...
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