Fall 2010 Work

So, I know I haven't posted much in the past year. I've been pretty busy and trying to find my way of doing things. That means a lot of stumbling. But here are some highlights (?) of the past year:

This here feller was my version of an icy Alan Quatermain from a reimagined King Solomon's Mines. It was for a class called Inventive Character. The painting started out fairly graphic...then obviously took a turn toward the rendering tendencies I have.

I didn't quite care for the paintings I did for the character class, but the drawings weren't too bad. Here is my drawing for Gagool, the sinister centuries-old witch.

This painting and the following landscape studies were done on-location, taking no more than an hour and painted smaller than how it probably appears on your monitor. They were done in gouache for a landscape painting class with Dreamworks' Kathy Altieri.

And now for some concept paintin's...

These two were done for what ultimately became a matte painting that I am, again, not very proud of. So you get to see the progress. The top one is just a simple gouache idea with slight digital touch ups while the bottom one is a more detailed digital paint over. I always feel my quick stuff has some quality that is lost when its more developed...

I'm Back

So I haven't posted anything in almost a year. Yeeeeeeah.

Now I'm taking a portraiture class with Sean Cheetham and this is what came out of the second week in-class painting.

Not too bad. Now for a background painting...

It was our first assignment in Background painting class with Dominick Domingo. It's just a one week assignment created from a story of my own choosing: King Solomon's Mines. I hope Haggard would be flattered if not proud.

I'll try to post more frequently and certainly post the stuff I've done over the past year. Hoo-ray!

Nude Body

This was the first painting for my "Nude Body" class with Kent Williams last semester. It was a self-portrait with an inanimate object that is a representation of an animate thing. What? Yes. I tried not to take things too seriously.

Anyway, if you're wondering "Was he really neked when he took the photo reference?" The answer is "no." And "yes." Which really means "mostly," and not "totally."


This is the third and final painting of the class. We painted from a live model in class and later took photo ref to refine it. I super-refined it. Maybe too much so. But hey, both my finished paintings were hanging in the school's gallery last semester so I guess it couldn't be that bad, ay? (Maybe they just had nothing better?)

The End of the Term: Digital Life

So here are in-class paintings from my Digital Life class from the second half of the semester...

Week 7

Week 8

Week 10


Week 10


Week 11

Week 11

Week 13

Week 13

First post of the new semester!

Well I haven't produced much this semester so far, but here's what I've done that's somewhat interesting. All this work is from a class called Digital Life taught by Cliff Nielsen. The class is basically a life painting class with a computer and wacom tablet. It's actually purdy fun!


This is week one - a still life. I'm a little rusty and a little slow... I haven't really painted a lot with Photoshop, but have enough experience to know my way around the program. For the class we can either use Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop. I've been sticking with photoshop the whole time so far..for better or worse.


Week 2 was another still life and I didn't get any further than the previous week!



Week 4 (I don't know where I put my files for week 3) was good to me. This here was a 10 minute pose.

This was another 10 minute pose.


A 25 minute pose. It's kinda sad that given 2.5 times the length of the previous poses, I actually accomplished less!


Week 5

Week 5 again, hour long pose.


Week 6, 10 minute warm-up.


Week 6, I believe an hour long pose.


Week 6, a 1.5 hour-long pose. Prolly my best so far

Animal Maaaaaagic

Some of the 'final' paintings for a fun class called 'Animal Magic.' A sugar glider, sand tiger sharks, cow jumping over the moon, mountain lion, camel, dromedary camel, and bearded dragon were all animals that we saw first-hand and drew to later paint at home. It was a fantastic learning and drawing experience whether the animals came to us at school, or we went to them at the zoo, aquarium, and wildlife reserves. Here's some sketches from in class...

MORE Sketching for Entertainment

These are the final pages I used for a portfolio of the class 'Sketching for Entertainment'. There is the final composition and the ideas leading up to it.