So cold!

I 'shopped a friend's face to look a little more white walker. Twas fun. Would do again.

WINTER IS COMING

Drawtimes sketch!

Sword in the stone..r? Drawn with the draw crew this Saturday!

Needs more flowers probably. May go back and shop this someday!

The Sword!

A quick sketch with black and white pencil crayon on toned paper.

Fishes

Fish with a top hat? Don't mind if I do! Messing around with 
toned paper and white pencil crayon. More to come...

I was recently hired to create a tattoo design. Here are some of the ideas I came up with which we went through and eventually narrowed down.

In the end this was the final design. It was lots of fun working on a tattoo and definitely make me want to get another done! 

Must Sketch MOAR!

Yeah just a quick Satyr! \m/

Flutag poster commission!

I had a lot of fun painting this scooby-doo poster. Zoinks! Don't

know what Flutag is? Neither did I! Apparently it's an international

competition (hosted by red bull) where participants build a glider out of whatever

 and throw it off a cliff to see how far it'll go. Crazy!

They're going to use this poster as part of a submission to actually

enter the competition! Hope they get in!

Matte Painting

Matte painting I quickly threw together for a profile card. Three divisions show

three steps. ONE, TWO, DRAGON! \m/

UV Maps n Lego n Stuff

Behold a Lego cowboy with colour! I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at this. It's supposed to be Cullen Bohannon from the TV show "Hell On Wheels". This is based on a Lego assignment from my first semester.

2nd Adventure! Lego up!

Waving hello as this Lego is willed into existence!

Textures and UVs coming up soon! Going to give this fella some personality...

and a hat?! 

1st Adventure into Maya! Fallout Bracer?

!Super stoked about creating this Fallout bracer Pip-boy thing. I learned a ton. Onwards!

Some in-class work

Storyboard exercise. In groups we had to take panels given to us and make up a sequence and story for them. Most groups chose to do a scary/thriller type story. One group chose to make it a love story. My group chose to make it a commercial for a hair product named "Luscious Locks". Many laughs were had.

Second exercise is to create a story from a static image or painting. Here is what I came up with.

Old sports car in perspective!

Last assignment before the end of the semester. We had to choose a car (I chose an old 1930's sports car), find its 2D design plans and make those 2D plans into 3D two point perspective. I had a lot of fun making this actually! I'm getting a lot more familiarized with Adobe Illustrator and it brings me back to old times in high school when we built structures in AutoCAD.

Here is my final illustration and the car's 2D plans used to create it are below.

Ancient Temple in Perspective

Here is an assignment where we had to make an ancient temple in perspective and illustrate it with line work only. I chose to make the temple with 3 point perspective and give it a serpent theme.

Starting with a floor plan the temple is crafted into something 3D using a perspective grid.

Then it's put into an illustration below.

Card Art!

Had to make an illustration for a game card as a last assignment in my Visual Dynamics course so I chose to make a World of Warcraft themed card. The card features two Orcs who represted the Horde faction. I learned a lot about lighting and colour on this piece however I still feel its lacking a bit in the composition and refinement!

Bog Creature!

This is what I made for a bog creature after a few weeks of refinement! Tried my best at making it an interesting composition and I learned a lot about lighting and shadow with this piece. Again, I had a lot of fun painting it and pretty happy with the result. Don't ask me what it is! Aha.

SPACE RACE - A modified board game!

For our Media Art class we had to take the board game "Candyland" (played that a TON when I was a kid) and re design all the art so it was a completely different theme. The subject matter was completely up to us so I chose to make it a space/sci-fi theme!

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I had a lot of fun making all the assets. Below you can see the box art, game board, game cards and game pieces!

Summer Illustration Magazine Cover

Had to create a magazine cover where the theme was summer time. The lands are currently covered in snow! It is cold and not very inspiring. I immediately thought of what I don't have and that is warm sun and tasty barbecue! That's some pretty simple subject matter. Anyways, I think more than anything else I just wanted to paint something in the style of J.C. Leyendecker whose art I find incredibly inspiring. In that respect I think that I was only semi successful. I got some good feed back and I realize that if I want to make this more J.C. I have to have more dynamic clothes (folds and drama!) as well as even more brush strokes! 

In the end I had a good time painting this. There will definitely be more Leyendecker studies in the future.

Portrait!

Portrait for my visual dynamics class to study value, light and colour! Thanks to my wonderful girlfriend for letting me put her face to pixels and then on the internet! 'Aint she purdy?

Purple Bats!

Yup it happened. Just a quick exercise exploring the dodge and burn tools in photoshop. Drawing is pretty wicked and its by Frank Miller! Please don't be too offended! haha.