Some Stuff and Things...

2011-12-05T20:59:00.000-08:00

What I think a tiger shark would look like if it continued to evolve. Mudbox. Done half heartedly while watching monday night football.

2011-12-03T20:38:00.001-08:00

WIP of a the depraved demon character Ive been working on. Im still in the process of posing him and I will be adding more props, chains, some clothing etc once Im done. Getting close to final render.

Uncle Creepy Dynamesh sketch

2011-12-03T20:15:00.001-08:00

Just before Halloween I started this Uncle Creepy sketch done with the new Zbrush dynamesh system. Most of this is done from one single sphere. Very cool way to sculpt. Most likely a WIP forever.

Soul Reaper Scythe

2011-10-03T11:07:00.000-07:00

This is the Soul Reaper. The weapon of the depraved demon. I built the base mesh in Maya, did UV work in headus and sculpted in mudbox. Painting in mudbox and photoshop. Im currently putting it together in maya with normals, and displacement and all that fun stuff. I will post that as soon as I am finished.

2011-09-15T06:36:00.000-07:00

Here is the lo-rez base mesh I built for the depraved creature. I made him a little higher polycount to start so I would not have to subdivide him so many times in Mudbox to get to the detail I wanted for him.

Got alot going on at the moment now that I have moved to Texas. I will try to post more WIP stuff everyweek to show what Im working on.

depraved color

2011-08-31T13:48:00.000-07:00

Im close to finishing this guys sculpt. Need to add some chains, and a few props. Started his base coat. Its not fleshy enough just yet, I still have a ways to go. But this is another WIP that got strangled by the move. This guy is priority to finish once I get up and running in Texas.

Water buffalo

2011-08-31T13:12:00.000-07:00

A WIP of something I started after I got laid off. Now with the move in full swing I have no time to work on him. He has a lot more armor and props built in Maya i just didnt bring them all into mudbox just yet.

aliens falling from skies on cowboys

2011-08-08T02:01:00.000-07:00

Ive been watching Falling Skies on TNT and I also saw Cowboys and Aliens this weekend as well.

Ive had aliens on the brain so I took a hour break to sketch this guy out real quick like in Mudbox. I just wanted to get the alien menace out of my skull, so in an effort to purge the images in my head I made my own version of some kind of gray, with a weird neck for some reason.

Depraved WIP

2011-08-03T13:21:00.000-07:00

Here is an update on the depraved demon. I finally built him as a zsphere model, and did some basic forming in Zbrush. Once I got a shape I liked I retopolgized him in Topogun. Took him into Mudbox and started sculpting. Accessories are built in Maya. Close to finishing the sculpt then onto painting him.

hard surface sci fi helmet

2011-07-01T10:03:00.000-07:00

Here is an attempt to do hard surfaces in mudbox. All I had in mind was to do a odd shaped helmet and this is what I came out with. Zbrush is still the king compared to mudbox in this area, but it was fun to get in there and try to make hard surfaces without all the fancy tools of zbrush.

I think I'm going to take this into topogun and retopologize the individual armor pieces and make it all nice and cool in Maya. After that I will probably finish an entire suit of armor in the same fashion.

Muddy 2012 Old Guy

2011-06-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

Well I finally got the new computer up and running. Got my software, backed-up files and all my fun stuff back in place. Work, for me at least, has slowed down and Im not so exhausted anymore when I get home, so I was able to start sculpting again.

Trying out the newest version of mudbox. Did a bunch of sculpts that will never see the light of day as I tried and tested the newest version. Not alot of new features that are amazing or anything, but the way it sculpts and how it handles files is greatly improved from what I can tell.

Here is the first sculpt I did in Mudbox in a long time. I spent a couple hours total on this guy. Quick sculpt and a quick paint. Still A WIP as I want to finish his painting and there are a few things to work on in the sculpt.

lack of posts

2011-02-28T08:35:00.001-08:00

Sorry for the lack of posts. Ive been super busy at work and personal life has been busy as well. Being a Dad can consume a whole weekend in a blink of an eye.

beside sthat Ive been having major computer problems. Trying to solve them has eaten away at my art time. Now the debate is wether to salvage my computer and try to upgrade what I can or do I need to get a whole new one, which I cannot afford.

Anyway as soon as I have new stuff I will update the blog

K-

Cube head details update

2011-02-17T08:47:00.000-08:00

So I got into cube head and started to add some details. Skin pores and some wrinkles, and I fleshed out some areas around the eyes and mouth. I still want to add some more details and then paint him. Last night I spent about an hour painting him and though it looked pretty cool I really didnt feel the color scheme fit him so Im going ot repaint him with a different scheme.

I think although I want to do 100 sculpts, I will still have nights that I drop back to push a speed sculpt a little further and even take several of them to finish. This weekend I plan to redo the Depraved as I have a few sketchesI have done that I'm liking his look more. I want to do a full finished sculpt of him, posed, with weapon and painted.

Sculpts #010 cube head and Bug Eyes sculpt #011

2011-02-16T09:13:00.000-08:00

A couple of sculpts from the last few nights. The first one I did last night. I wasnt feeling so well so I spent about an hour on him before I crashed. I may get into him some more and detail him out. Ihave tons of quick sculpts but nothing detailed or painted.

The second I did Monday night. I lost a ton detail when I had to drop back and make UVs for him. I wanted to color him, but i had failed to do the UVs on the base mesh. I dropped back in headus and laid out the UVs. When I brought that mesh into Mudbox to transfer the detail it gave a bunch of strange deformations and a loss of detail that I had to fix. Nothing to crazy on the deformation side but in the process of cleaning him up I lost even more detail. I was quite bummed but its nothing I cant get back if I just sit down again on him for 20 minutes.

Well, lesson learned. Always do UVs on a low level base mesh or just do them before you start sculpting.

depraved demon update

2011-02-14T09:24:00.000-08:00

Well heres an update to the depraved character Im working on as well. I cut the legs off, and I need to do some concept work to figure out what I want to do with the legs. I did do a rebuild of him but I really hated the look of the legs. So for now he is cut right in half until I figure it out.
This is going to be a slow project that I work on over the next several weeks.Im also designing an all new weapon that will still have the captured soul elements to it.

The Goon Sculpt #009

2011-02-14T09:05:00.000-08:00

Spent about an hour on this. Ive always been a big fan of Eric Powell's The Goon. So I did a quick fan sculpt.

I just wanted to ge the shapes right, but I dont feel all too successful, but Im not terribly upset because I only put an hour into this guy. I wanted to see if I could make the hat and head all out of one piece of geo.

Well, I can, but I probably shouldnt. I think Im going to do this again sometime later and make it two pieces.

I think the profile shapes are right but the translation from 2D to 3D on the side and front didnt come out as well. One of these days soon Im gonna redo this, just ike all the 1000 other things I have that are half finished.

Thin Alien sculpt #008

2011-02-14T08:43:00.000-08:00

A quick sculpt I made last night. Started as a quick Mudbox demo for a friend, pulled out some shapes and forms in about 10 minutes. I had no intention of keeping it, but later I liked the way it was going so I put another hour or so into it.

Garthim head #007

2011-02-11T09:47:00.001-08:00

Some of the guys at work wanted to do some fan art sculpts of the dark crystal. There were alot of great designs for the film, and probably the best "muppet" movie ever made.
Before I could get in on it several of the characters were already called by other artists, so I settled for the Garthim. Massive hermit crab creatures created as warriors to destroy the Gelflings.
] I remember how big and imposing they were when I first saw the film. I always thought they were so freaking cool. So I decided to do a bust of the Garthim, mostly because I dont want to sculpt all the legs those things have. One cool thing is they have one arm that ends in a crab-like claw and another that ends in two fingered talons.
Well I started with the head. The smallest part of its body. The design on the Henson muppet was pretty simplistic so I added to it a bit to improve the design a bit. I guess in the end this will be more like my take on the garthim rather than true fan art.

100 sculpts

2011-02-10T08:56:00.000-08:00

No I have not given up on the 100 sculpts. I have not forgoten either.
I had some major symetry issues in the hands of the depraved charater and Ive been working on a way to solve it. I think what I will have to do is retopologize the character and almost completely restart the sculpt. I have spent nights going back and forth between, Mudbox, Zbrush, Maya and Topogun and nothing seems to work right when I transfer details to the adjusted mesh. So it isnt any wasted time because Ive have learned a hell of alot that last few nights. Unfortunately the solution may be to fix the symetry on a low level version of the model and begin the sculpting process anew. Hopefully I can get through that tonight.

Scythe #006 WIP

2011-02-09T08:45:00.000-08:00

experimented last night with my newly created vector displacement maps.
I did a test on the scythe which taught me alot. I need to push the forms of the faces a little bit more before I make them into vector maps. The scythe model is a stand in did in maya. I modeled it quickly and ugly, and I would like to remodel it with better edge flow. But this is the Idea im going for. I also realized I need to make more of a variety of faces.

Faces of reaped souls #005

2011-02-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

Well, Friday night I was so exhausted from a long week I crashed fairly early and never even turned my home computers on. Sometimes a body just needs the rest.

Saturday after some beach time with the family I spent the day getting Mudwalker, a plugin for mudbox that allows it to send and recieve models quickly to other programs like Zbrush, headus topogun, maya etc. I had some symetry issues with the depraved sculpts hands. Ive decided that I would like to take that sculpt to full final, with pose, color, the works. So I was using mudwalker to help me use the smartresym option in zbrush. After many hours of testing I think I have a solution to my problem. unfortunately by the time I figure it out I really didnt have time to sculpt.

So on to the faces here. The depraved is going to have a weapon. A massive scythe which I did some quick concept work on and I will post it tommorrow.(I forgot to scan it from my sketch book). This scythe will have the souls of the reaped embedded in the blade, so instead of sculpting them I decided to make a few faces on planes that I can turn into vectors and just stamp them on in the end and touch up the detail.

Anyway I think I need to adjust either the 1st or 2nd one to make it look like a different individual rather than just a different expression. Whats fun about these it that they are quick and easy, and after doing a few ve really started to get a better understanding of sculpting a face out of plane and getting the shapes pulled out correctly.

Sculpt 004 Depraved

2011-02-04T09:01:00.000-08:00

So here is the fourth sculpt this week in mudbox. Had a few difficulties trying to figure out the best way to distort proportions on the base mesh. Had some problems with the fingers the most. The joint tool was giving me hell but this is probably the best solution.

I spent about an hour and a half on this depraved creature and I like the direction its going so I will most likely take him to finish and possibly pose him over the weekend.

I probably could have gotten farther but I really need to learn to turn off the idiot box. Its too easy to getting sucked into that damn thing. Especially after a long day of work and I just want my mind to shut down, the TV is perfect to make me temporarily stoopid. But I guess with the Packers (my 2nd team behind the Chargers) being in the super bowl, I will be firmly planted in front of that thing on sunday. Sigh.... Im weak.

Sculpt 003 Alien bust

2011-02-03T08:47:00.001-08:00

I had to work on some actual work stuff at home last night. By the time I was finished it was already 10:15. I decided to start a sculpt and see how far I could get. At 11:38 I called it a night and kicked out a few quick renders.

So here is sculpt #003 from last night. Probably around 1 hour and 15 minutes to get this guy done.

I tried to work as effeciently and smart as possible. I just started pulling the Mudbox base head into new shapes and this is what emerged from it. Some Alien dude (or female who knows these days what sex these damn aliens are) with a really funky mouth and head shape. Its alot of fun to start sculpting without a starting Idea and just finding out what kind of crap is floating around in the cess-pool I call my brain.

sculpt 002 of 100 "The Neck"

2011-02-03T08:40:00.000-08:00

Ive decided after doing old One Eye, that he was the first of 100 sculpts Im going to try do in 100 days.

So here is number two, done two nights ago. I had a very difficult time with him. I made a quick base mesh in Zbrush out of zspheres and brought it into Mudbox to sculpt.

Mudbox hates zsphere base meshes. I had such a hard time controlling my brushes and getting the mesh to do what I wanted it to. Lesson learned. If I build anymore base meshes in Zbrush I will rtopologize it first. My best guess is that Mudbox just didnt like the way the zspheres lay out the topology, being all funky and strange edge loops. So retopology or just building the base in Maya to begin with are the most likely solutions.

Overall this was a little over two hours and Im very disappointed in the progress due to lack of control. Well learn and move on.

Old One Eye

2011-02-01T08:59:00.000-08:00

Wanted to do something a bit more styized than I normally do. I was looking at some Joe Mad art and started to sculpt this guy. 2 hours of work in mudbox. Probably could have pushed the hair areas a little more but i got tired and decided to call it a night.

Another Demon

2011-02-01T08:57:00.000-08:00

Done in photoshop during some down time at work.

Most likely a WIP forever.

Screamer

2011-01-31T09:25:00.000-08:00

Ive been so busy with work Ive ben neglecting this blog. But i have a ton of stuff to put on it over the next few weeks. In the mean time heres a recent Mudbox sculpt I did.

A 4-5 hour sculpt I did over the weekend. Spent another hour and a half paiting him.

Nostril Demon

2010-08-04T10:33:00.001-07:00

A 2 hour quick sculpt I did in Mudbox while the baby and Mommy were sleeping.
A demon with no eyes, but lots of noses to sniff out prey.

HAS sea creature challenge

2010-07-23T12:30:00.001-07:00

A WIP of a sea creature for a sculpting challenge at work. Still need to add a few limbs and finish out the sculpt.

the Innsmouth look

2010-06-25T19:18:00.000-07:00

"Some of 'em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, starry eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain't quite right. Rough and scabby, and the sides of the necks are all shriveled or creased up. Get bald, too, very young."
-H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow over Innsmouth

Here's a work in progress of "the Innsmouth Look". My first work in Mudbox, a program similar to Zbrush, not as powerful of a program overall but much easier to use so far.

Horus WIP

2010-04-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

Here is a WIP of Horus. I still have a long way to go on him and Im working on him slowly. spent the last few weeks working on his UVs.

troll color

2010-04-16T00:53:00.000-07:00

heres a quick polypainted color version of the troll.

Troll bust

2010-04-14T10:19:00.001-07:00

Troll bust. WIP

skull sketch

2010-04-14T10:01:00.000-07:00

An Alien/Demon skull I sculpted while waiting for dinner on Easter. Probably around 3 hours of work. made from a poly cube.

Orc bust

2010-01-27T20:02:00.000-08:00

An Orc bust I did a few nights back in Zbrush 3.5. Just messing around with how far I could push a featureless cube.
his teeth and gum's were made from separate geometry.

Centaur creecher

2010-01-27T19:52:00.000-08:00

I got the new Zbrush 3.5 program. The best part is the new zsphere 2 features. They work to build a quick poly model much better and intuitive then the previous version. this guy was done from start to finish in Zbrush 3.5. Posed him using transpose master and practiced building his wrist bands and chest rig from extractions within Zbrush. He was another experiment. Im not sure what he is but I wanted him to have strange features and recognizable ones as well. Hard and organic surfaces intermingled in his form. Another extremely fun project.

Zbrush Sketch

2010-01-27T19:47:00.001-08:00

This was a sketch I did in Zbrush 3.1. I did it to see how fast I could come up with a character in zbrush. This took me two hours. He has a full body which I built using zspheres but I only detailed him from the chest up and then I only really concentrated on the face.
I had quite a bit of fun with this guy, and Im starting to get a greater understanding of the Zbrush program.

Da Bug or experiments in zbrush

2010-01-27T19:40:00.000-08:00

A bug warrior Imade using zspheres in Zbrush 3.1. I fixed a few problems in Maya at a low poly level and then took him into Zbrush to detail. This is my first use of zbrush its a very cool program. The gun mount was made in maya.

Hurakan part 3

2009-10-18T11:48:00.000-07:00

Well I got caught up with work and had to miss the Hurakan part 2 challenge. I did a few of the exercises but I wasnt able to get anything turned in on time. Like part 2, Ive been busy with work, some freelance, getting my portfolio up to par, and battling a terrible case of golfers elbow. I dont even golf for crying out loud....anyway off to part 3.

Part 3 is a detailed drawing of the god Hurakan, and some compositional book covers.

I designed Hurakan, to be almost one with his armor, that way the Maya who see him try to emulate his look with decorative clothing and armor. Wanting to be like their god, they dress like him. He also has a staff (which I think needs way more design, its just a pole for now) which is tipped with a hurricane like vortex from which he can call forth storms to destroy us all.

The book cover compositions are very rough. I wanted to have a storm raging around him and off to the left which will be on the side and back of the book. I will refine these a bit over the next few days, I did about 10 rough penciled covers and scanned in the three best to put in a little value in photoshop. The values are wrong for now, they are mostly just to get my idea across to start. Besides that, I needed to get this submitted before the deadline.

Thanks for looking

Hurakan art challenge

2009-09-19T23:26:00.000-07:00

Character silhouettes for another http://artorder.blogspot.com/ art challenge. This one is a 5 part contest starting with simple shapes and from there developing the character all the way to a final illustration.
It involves a Mayan god called Hurakan, the storm god, and one of the creators of the human race. Apparently his name means "one-leg", and I thought that that was an intersesting attribute to design around. Does he only have one leg? Who knows, but I figure that if he did appear on the material plane to a mortal, whatever form he took would be understood as one legged. So I thought this was a challenging aspect to design. I suppose its easier to design a character with two legs, but to make a one legged character functional is different.

I did about 20 silhouettes but the contest only calls for 3-5 so I chose the ones I thought were the most appealing and interesting.

Designing a god is always cool because the character is a god, almost anything can go. I envision him as a amalgam of human and animal, with lots of feathers and armor that is similar to Mayan clothing and jewelry. How human I make him remains to seen.

Stay tuned for more and thanks for looking.

Owlbears revisited

2009-09-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone, sorry long time no update. Ive been busy relearning the Maya 3D program the last few months and going nuts building models and rigging them. Ill be posting some of that stuff soon.

Anyway this is for a online contest for wizards of the coast, which is due in 20 minutes and I found out about and started this contest on thursday. Between full time construction, freelance and this, Im just happy I got it done.

Anyway the contest was to re-imagine a classic D&D creature called an owl bear, which essentially was a bear with the head of an owl. My re-imagining was more along the lines of a dog like creature with shades of Mothman thrown in. Anyway enjoy.

The Owlbear Revisited

The origins of the Owlbear are shrouded in mystery. First reports of the beast were described as the union of an owl and bear. Though Owlbears are of neither species and are more closely relate to canids. They have massive yellow eyes similar to an owls and a bony beak like snout with sharp jagged teeth protruding from their jaws. They tend to be about the size of a bear and are roguhly 10 to 12 feet in height when they rear up in battle. Males are covered in a thick bristly, coarse fur and have wicked talon like claws on their forepaws. They also have a flap of furry skin that extends from the forearms to the small area of the rear. It is rumored that they use this when jumping to glide for a short distance when pouncing on prey.

Males tend to be more brightly patterned than females, probably for use in attracting a mate, and also have a mane like collar around their necks and heads.

Less colorful females are naturally thinner, do not sport a mane and tend to have a thinner fur but tend to be larger than their male counterparts.

Owlbears have live births in litters of 2-3 pups, contrasting against the myth of Owlbear eggs, which sell in shops to the unwary and uninformed for vast profits . All pups are usually white for the first few months after birth, at which point they begin to change to the more characteristic colors of adult furs.

another creep

2009-05-06T22:39:00.000-07:00

Just a quick photoshop sketch I did tonight, spent about 1 hour and 45 min on it. I just wanted to do something moody and with different lighting. Something fun.

Self portrait Final

2009-04-16T19:25:00.000-07:00

So, I finished the self portrait, and I was completely stoked on how it came out. I bought some Matte finish prismacolor fixative and sprayed it with a light coat to help protect the drawing. I left it outside to dry in the garage, and when I came back the image had a white, waxy film on it that totally destroyed all the value. I was SOOOOO bummed. Especially on the shirt area, because that was where the film seemed to do the most damage.
Ive never had fixative leave a film like this before, so Im not sure if maybe it was the brand (Which I had never used before).
If you look good you can see where I was scratching off the film.
Oh well, just means I should start something new!!!!

Self Portrait update II

2009-04-13T12:06:00.000-07:00

Heres the latest update on the self portrait. I need to finish the shirt area and the hair, and Ill probably do a little bit of noodling in the face area just to tighten things up a bit more, and maybe push back the shadow side of the face a bit more. Once I do all that Ill be done.

If you are looking at this I would love folks to leave comments.
Thank you much!

Also I promise the final scan will be adjusted very nice to more accurately portray the values, this came out a little dark once posted.

Demon Thingy

2009-04-11T12:19:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,
Posting a recent creature sketch I worked on. Roughly a couple of hours of work. Maybe Ill finish it some day. Been busy with freelance, just finished up a couple of projects and Im currently working on a game for Iphone. Also working a oil painting which is going to be auctioned off a kaelepulu school (where my niece attends) to help buy supplies and pay teachers and what have you.

Ill post that soon as well.
Aloha

Self portrait progress

2009-04-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

Well this is a slow developing drawing. Ive been busy as hell getting stuff done for my freelance work that my personal stuff took a back seat. Anyway I have been working on this again the last week. Ive usually put a couple hours in every night the last week. Still got a ways to go as the whole Carl Dobsky "Filling in the dots" theory takes a while.
Ill put another update soon as I continue to noodle away at this thing.
Aloha for now

Self Portrait

2009-02-26T12:27:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the long period between posts. I picked up a few freelance gigs, nothing I can live off of just yet but its a start. Anyway I cant post anything Ive done for those projects yet so in the mean time, Im working on a self portrait.
Im going to post it through out the different steps of the drawing. This is the initial layout of the drawing.
Im just finishing up focusing on the shapes and proportions and I started to add in a little value. Graphite on 11x 14 smooth Bristol .
Ill post a mid point version and a final version in the next few weeks as I finish it up.

Thanks for looking.

Ds Colors! Wolf

2009-01-11T17:49:00.000-08:00

Ive been rereading, or I should say re-listening to the audio books of the George R.R. Martin series A Song of Ice and Fire. The greatest Fantasy series ever in my humble opinion. Anyway there are a bunch of dire wolves in the stories so I decided to paint this the other morning while watching the first half of the Ravens and Titans game. Took me about 1 and 1/2 hours to complete.
Thought it came out looking pretty cool for a DS painting.

Nintendo DS Sketches

2009-01-04T09:31:00.000-08:00

Ive been messing around with my Nintendo DS program Colors! Its such a great little program. Its like having Photoshop lite wherever I go. I'm starting to get a hang of the controls and the way the brushes work. Anyway heres a few DS art works.

Dan's yearly snowboard

2008-12-24T19:14:00.000-08:00

This is a snowboard design I did for a client/friend of mine. Every year my buddy Dan (Pictured) gets a new custom snowboard. This is the second year Ive done his snowboard design for him and this year the result was pretty cool.
Dan says that everyone who sees it says its the "sickest" snowboard design they have seen. So Im pretty stoked about that.
Dan told me he wanted the see, hear, speak no evil theme. After a few sketches I asked him to let me do something darker than he wanted and he let me run with it. I did a bunch of sketches he picked his favorite three and this was the result.
Im ready to do next years board already... Hopefully I can make it up this year and get into the snow myself.

Ride hard Dan, Ride hard!

Ps- see that picture behind Dano's head? That's some art I did my last year at the academy of art, he liked it so much he had me frame it and bought it from me. If I can find a copy of it I'll post it later.

And the world came crashing down...

2008-12-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

Well, its been a crazy last few months. I lost my job, my girlfriend, my cool apartment, got denied unemployment and had to pack all my junk and move it to my friends house to store for a while. After that my dog got hit by my car and... wait... that sounds suspiciously like a country song.
Anyway, long story short I basically moved back to Hawaii for the next few months to work for my Father to keep my bills paid. Now that I got my head on straight again I'll get the updates up for the current stuff I'm working on. Sorry for the long delay.
I don't really have a dog or a car by the way, but the rest of that stuff is true.
Happy holidays and here's to a bright new year.

Starbucks Mermaid

2008-10-12T10:43:00.000-07:00

Went to do some sketching with my buddies Nate and Sean on thursday. We went to a starbucks to hang out. We decided to all draw our own take on the Starbucks Mermaid. Why does the starbucks logo have a mermaid? Why does she have two tails in the logo? Do mermaids drink alot of coffee?
I think its some kind of conspiracy!!!

45 min sketch. Aloha

Up the stairs

2008-10-12T01:14:00.000-07:00

I spent way too long on this one and in the end I'm not totally happy with the result, but I am happy that I got through it. I changed the area at the top of the stairs about four times until I finally settled for the curtains.
The point is that I finished another piece, and even though I got completely frustrated with this and wanted to scrap it, I decided to push through it. Anyway hope you all like it. Aloha

Snowy pass

2008-10-05T15:52:00.001-07:00

Did this one Friday night. Took a little over 4 hours. I had a ton of fun doing this one and really got into a groove, the hours flew by quickly. Composition on it changed numerous times and I finally settled on this one, which I really liked. Anyway Enjoy.

digital sketch

2008-09-21T22:35:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch I did tonight in photoshop. I didnt spend too long on this, maybe just over an hour. I gotta get quicker and better and that will come with time. Gonna start doing more of these every day.

It was a busy week with my GF having surgery. I was so busy helping her and dealing with her situation which in turn meant I didnt get to do much art. Shes getting better now and I can get back to work this week.

Alien-thingy guy

2008-09-21T22:22:00.000-07:00

Did this sketch last monday during the MNF football game. Didnt finish it because the game got so good I had to watch the end. I hate the cowboys and the eagles equally but I love a good football game and this was the best game between these teams I have ever seen. Too bad the eagles didnt win. Guess I hate the cowboys more.

Lunch time sketches

2008-09-08T23:24:00.000-07:00

Some sketches done during my lunch hour the last couple of weeks. I try to draw every day at lunch. I dont always get to sketch as I have only about 30 min to eat, kick back for a moment, and still try to get 10 - 15 minutes for sketching. Other times I read, which helps get the imagination flowing.

tree environment

2008-09-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

I really need more environments in my portfolio, so I did this one saturday night. I had a great time painting this one. I think the next few weeks Im going to concentrate on getting some different types of environments done to add to my portfolio. In the mean time, Im gonna have Cody show me how to update my site so I can make image changes as I get feed back on my portflio. But knowing Codys schedule this may take awhile. Anyway...Enjoy.