Apples and onions

Still life color study. 45 min

Here is a quick little painting. I think that I should start painting more still life. Previously I mentioned that I need to work on materials and I believe this will probably be the quickest way to improve that ability. My perception of color has come a long way since a year ago, and I have a few pieces in the pipe right now that I think have a lot of potential. I will post them as soon as I think they are reasonably presentable haha. Now that more people are actually following my blog I have a greater fear of posting sub par work, and hastily writing really awfully composed entries. (which I did quite often in the past)

Death Becomes Him

So here it is. The final version. As you can see it has gone through many, many changes. I think for the better. I decided the pose was not very dynamic, and chose to change it. As I mentioned previously there was another color version of this. I am not going to post it for fear that I would only embarrass myself. haha.

Clearly I still have a lot of things to practice. Such as material differentiation and rendering folds in cloth. I have come a long way though, and maybe someday in the near future I will be able to call myself a proper illustrator. I would like to thank everyone who has helped me out so far. Some people I feel need mention are the great and wonderful Don Seegmiller, Piero Macgowan, Kevin Bradley, John Stewart, Andrew Curry, Steve Jamerson, Justin Thomas, Bryce Homick, McClean Kendree. I linked to a few of their blogs so check their work out. They are all incredible artists.

Till Death do us part.

Hey Everybody,

Here is an illustration I am working on. I have been looking through a lot of great books lately. A majority of them dealing with subjects that pertain to animation in some way. This illustration was inspired by a wonderful book called the artists complete guide to facial expression. There was a lovely picture of a Edwardian man. I think that the macabre and the late 1800's go very well together. I personally think this piece is pretty awful in its current state. There are a lot of things I would change. The poses of the characters is very stiff, and the skeleton in the background needs work. I originally took this to color pretty quickly and then decided to go back and re-approach it focusing purely on the value spectrum. I have always had trouble working with color and getting rich values.
Its a start, and I have some ideas on how to improve it. Ill be back with a better version in no time.

Figure Painting

I have not posted something in a while. So here are some of my figure painting studies. They have been sitting around on my hard drive for the past few months and I have been meaning to post them. The character I was working on in my previous post is coming along nicely and I will update you all on him really soon.

Last week was probably one of the most exciting weeks I have had in years. I finally attended GDC and I think I would like to make it a yearly tradition. If you have never gone to the Game Developers Conference and you are in the games industry, and/or, like games, it is certainly worth going to. Some of the highlights of the trip were; the amazing panels, getting to meet/talk to people that have made my favorite games, hanging out with old friends, and San Francisco. Perhaps I will go more in depth about GDC in the near future.

I have not been adding too much text to my posts in recent times. I am not much of a writer and I do not think there are enough interesting things about myself to reflect on. For those who take the time to read the grammatical mess I call writing, thank you. I hope everything is going well and I look forwards to updating you soon with more artwork.

nearing completion

Update

Wherever he may go....

In progress, more to come.....