Saturday, January 30, 2010

One Hour Film Studies

Recently I had the chance to speak with a wonderful artist by the name of Jeff Turley. Lately I have been at a stand still with my work. Mostly due to my work schedule and life in general. I have still been sketching and doing random stuff, but nothing to brag about. Mr. Turley introduced me to film studies. I know it may seem like a simple concept and I punched myself in the face for not discovering it earlier, but it is a wonderful new way to explore composition, color, temperature, values, proportion and all other components of what makes a good piece.
Each of the studies that I painted, were completed in exactly one hour. By deticating this amount of time to one piece allows you to focus on more than the main subject, but rather every component that makes up the scene. From the far background blurry images, to the middle ground images and then the foreground images. Every component begins to become just shapes and color blocks. I didn't focus on the small details until I had completed the majority of the piece.
From the bottom to the top, I was able to see a progression in each of the pieces. But I am going to continue to do these studies.

Enjoy!











Thursday, January 21, 2010

G'day Hosers! Pt.3 WIP


Started working on this piece again this morning.
It took the back burner for a little while, and it was bothering me, so I got fired up and began to tackle it.
Trying to arrange the pieces in the most eye pleasing way possible.
I have a few other projects that I need to work on for Valentines day and St. Patrick's day. Got a book I'm illustrating too.
I'm gonna do some T-shirts for St.Patrick's day. I'll post the images and if anyone wants one, I'll ship em out!

Enjoy!!!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Luigi Portrait Study


I've been experimenting with a few new illustration techniques that I have derived from a few of my favorite artists. It seems to make coloring a little more easy and efficient.
I took the initial sketch I did of Luigi and started off with the whole Dick in a box gag. But upon further examination, I saw more. Luigi had a serious look on his face. It looked as though he didn't want that box covering up his balls. So I decided to take it out and render him alone. In a serious, painterly manner.
I think it turned out well. I'll probably print this one out and hang it up for a while.

Enjoy!!!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wanna Give You Somethin' That's Been On My Mind!


I was at work yesterday, and just before I left, I came up with this funny idea for a new drawing. So I scribbled it out on a piece of scrap paper, so I wouldn't forget it, and ran home with it. Here's what I came up with.... I thought it was pretty funny, but it's wearing off, so enjoy!
By the way.... I'm with COCO!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Puppy Characture


I was so disappointed with my last coloring job, I decided to start painting a characture of my youngest puppy, Ava. She's about 8 months old now, but she's pretty crazy, and she will kill you. My oldest, Dafney, is pretty laid back in comparison. But she is a big barrel azz and kicks lil' Ava's azz sometimes. I didn't paint Dafney this time because she has a lot of different colors, kind of like a tiger. Ava is pretty cute, because she is so little, like a miniature Pitbull.
I threw this one together pretty quickly in Painter, about 15 minutes, with the smeary palette knife and oil brush. Painted from memory, with no reference.

Enjoy!

Mobbin' In My Old School!


Anyone who knows anything about me, knows I love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Especially Raphael. I used to spend countless hours drawing them in my notebooks at school. I think I drew this one back in fourth grade. I was bored and decided to step back and get down to the basics of painting. I attempted to interpret the lines of the muscles that I drew. Being that I was so young, I had no sense of anatomy or proportion. I just drew what I wanted. I had fun doing it too. While I was painting this piece, I tried to keep my values down and tried to interpret the lighting the best I could in a short period of time.
I didn't set out to create a masterpiece, I just felt like scribbling out some color as fast as possible.
Drawn with pencil on lined paper. Colored entirely in Painter X.

Enjoy everyone!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A little Old School Appetizer to hold you over



While I'm working on my current piece, I think it would be nice to throw up some of my old stuff. These are a few illustrations from one of my comics. The Brain Monkey and Steve Urkle's Head.

Enjoy!