Sand

 Back from Christmas stuff, time to not forget about ze blog.

She reminds me of sand art :P : Sand Art

Castle

Sky castle, heck yeah.

Harry Potta

Saw Harry Potter this weekend in LA,  :P ....and drew more houses.
will totally stop drawing too many cutesy girly characters soon... :/ stuck in a pattern

Watermelon

 

New random artage....including more stump houses :P 

Going to CTN Expo next week, should be fun. :)

The Great Race

A side project we have the option of doing at work is to draw out some designs for the characters in "The Great Race" (which we ended up watching). Hopefully I'll end up finishing these up...for now I'm just practicing drawing quickly with the grease pencil. Not really getting a total likeness yet, but getting somewhere, at least.

Doodles

Tiny house doodles

Not Dead!

I haven't died (after a month of not posting), just got an apprenticeship at ReelFX and have been dealing with all the moving and madness that comes along with that. Either way I'll try to put together a post here...and start putting up some drawings. Just watched Avatar (the series, not the movie :/) so here's an Aang ^_^

and redundant, but I love lineart/wips :|

Digital Painting

Trying to get better at this....

Studies from ref

Animal Sketches

Some stylized owls, and some deer Sketches:::::

Stump Houses

WIP!

Done with school now, so hopefully I'll be able to upload/do more art nowadays.
Painting some of these tree stump house sketches.

Sketchery

Crazy Hair

Crocs

Trying to model him in Zbrush for a school project....also in an effort to get better at using Zbrush. Not done yet...
Mocked up his possible colors in PS

:)

Portfolio

Making a post with all of my updated portfolio pages. I'll keep adding to it as I finish them.

Lighting Thumbs

Trying to fill in all of my shots...

Lighting Benchmark Stuff

What I had for first pass lighting critique, so of course, subject to many changes in the next 6 weeks:

Lighting and Texturing!!!

We are lighting and texturing our thesis' during this semester!

I'm working on the bathroom now, the top is the paintover idea (aka what I want to achieve) I have and the bottom is the render I have as of now (aka yucky). However, the render will improve as I make my tweaks:

The weird glowing teeth above the mirror are stand-in lights. Everyone seems to get confused by them, but they will be replaced!

Here are some quick paintovers (and some renders at the bottom) I did to get an idea of what sort of lighting I wanted to accomplish, but I think I'll tone down the colors a bit when I finish the real thing: