creative ramblings

abandoned

2008-09-23T20:55:00.000-07:00

i was working on this in painter, and when i started detailing it i realized it reminded me too much of the tree in disney's Pocahontas.

so, i've set it aside.

issy and iggy

2008-09-08T22:13:00.000-07:00

just working on stuff....

baxter

2008-09-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

something i was working on for my friend's work (a dog day care center). this is her dog baxter.

arizona

2008-09-01T19:06:00.000-07:00

was so beautiful. i love the desert. just something really quick in painter. i wanted to get some of the colors down while they were still fresh in my mind.

really tired. hopefully more desert/colorado river inspired paintings coming soon. (when i'm not exhausted)

i'm not looking forward to the return to reality tomorrow :(
ugh. hopefully i'll be able to afford a car soon.

hope everyone else had a good holiday weekend!

frogs

2008-08-28T14:00:00.000-07:00

i'm currently on a frog kick.

update!

2008-08-27T21:49:00.001-07:00

hey everyone,

i've been sick for a couple weeks, so i haven't felt like updating. here is one that i finished a while ago that i have finally scanned in. starting to feel better now.

(color pencil on cardboard)

beach bun, in color

2008-07-22T22:36:00.000-07:00

i got a hold of some black card stock and i broke out my colored pencils.

i'm feeling kinda unproductive right now. hopefully it will be short lived.

sandy

2008-07-19T00:54:00.000-07:00

rip sandy dog
9.21.96-7.18.08

i drew this back when i started school five years ago, and my mom liked it so she decided to hang it in the house. (sandy was sleeping on the couch and i was sitting on the floor, as usual) thought i would post it in memory of my dog, sandy. we had to put her to sleep a few hours ago.

apparently she had a tumor that was undiagnosed and she started bleeding internally. there wasn't much the vet could do. there was an exploratory surgery but on the slim chance it was successful, she would only have a couple months, and she would have been in a lot of pain.

at least we were all there. and, she wasn't in pain.

but i'm still really going to miss her. she used to keep me company on my late nights.

BEACH BUNS!!!! and other goodies.

2008-06-26T23:31:00.001-07:00

beach buns!!!! in progress. more coming this weekend. promise. i have a story to go with it to. i'm kinda excited about that.

i started painting a turtle and decided i didn't actually like the drawing, and then the animal sketched spiraled outward from that point.

and turned into sea creatures. (i drew the seals before the painting, but i have been too lazy to take out my HUGE scanner/printer until now. and now it's out it's going to sit on the floor indefinitely)

just trying to draw some people so i can feel comfortable getting back to work on becky's bugs.

anyways, running on reserve battery power now. more coming soon.

baby seal

2008-06-03T13:32:00.000-07:00

just messing around in painter.
let me know what you think.

i'll rescan and post some of my stuff from the semester soon, i'm not happy with the way it scanned just yet.

stairwell

2008-05-13T21:42:00.000-07:00

i decided to paint it, used photoshop and painter.

garden!

2008-05-11T02:35:00.000-07:00

one of the last illustrations from becky's bugs.

the red car

2008-05-08T01:37:00.000-07:00

i think the title is pretty self-explanatory.

spot illustration

2008-05-04T21:39:00.001-07:00

another illustration from becky's bugs

rejected animal hybrids

2008-04-28T14:41:00.000-07:00

bird-crocodile. (not to be confused with a crocodile bird)

i doodle how i feel.

disney!

2008-04-26T09:08:00.001-07:00

here's one of the layouts i turned in. more coming soon.

more bugs!

2008-04-21T23:41:00.000-07:00

from becky's bugs.

bugs!

2008-04-02T14:58:00.000-07:00

i have easy access to a scanner right now, so i'll make the most of it.
um, not all of them are quite there yet, but they are still cute!

i have more but i forgot to scan them. maybe later.

last of plein air paintings

2008-04-02T14:51:00.000-07:00

it was a little damaged over the break, in addition to the areas that i already need to go back and fix.

but, i probably won't get to that until summer, so i'd thought i'd put it up. the color is much better than the others (i took a picture of this one, and scanned the others)

taz update

2008-02-06T18:32:00.000-08:00

started adding clay yesterday!

anubis?

2008-01-30T21:41:00.000-08:00

taz is off to a rocky start.

he looks less like anubis then at the time of these photos, but, still. it's challenging.

sargent brush

2008-01-16T19:59:00.000-08:00

just messing around with the sargent brush in painter

i'm back

2008-01-13T15:32:00.000-08:00

it's been a long time since my last post! here is a recent painting from break, that i will hopefully develop into a children's book in the coming semester. let me know what you think!

plein-air painting

2007-11-22T12:11:00.000-08:00

this is by far one of the hardest classes i have ever taken. i guess i improved slightly, but i still have a long way to go.

this one is from cystal cove.

first week at irvine regional park, it was really overcast.

we went to little corona when the fires were burning. it was hard getting back in beach mode. this is the second one from that day.

when we went back to irvine regional park.

so, yea, still need lots of work. and i don't think that the scans look all that nice. too much shine and it messed with some of the colors.

work in progress

2007-11-21T21:21:00.000-08:00

um, "action"

not done, needs splashes, they horses aren't done yet, etc. i need feedback on this one, so feel free to help me out.

more.

2007-11-21T11:26:00.000-08:00

so, i have a couple more that just need for me to go back and touch up, hopefully i'll have time. i have 3 1/2 more to do before the end of the semester, so, it's crunch time.

oh, and i know that they around the same size, even though they should be....so formatting my portfolio for this class is going to be a nightmare. as will printing. i've been having issues with that all semester long, any suggestions?

bear's den

2007-11-19T20:41:00.000-08:00

hey, haven't updated in a while, but i have some things to post. right now, it's just my last project from the painter class. it still needs some work, hopefully i'll have time to go back and touch things up before the end of the semester.

um, i'll post some more stuff this week. i have a couple of backgrounds that i can maybe be post this week. also, expect some plein-air paintings.

strange behavior

2007-10-19T11:50:00.000-07:00

a mouse reading to a tiger cub.

cute, but, strange. right?

tease

2007-09-28T21:43:00.000-07:00

working on the next painter project.

clara

2007-09-23T11:21:00.000-07:00

ok, so, here it my first painter project in three different stages: sketch, digital water, and then the final version. i'm really liking painter, but i work so slowly in it. i need to stop myself from zooming in to 500%. maybe that will help.

joe moonstur

2007-09-21T23:46:00.000-07:00

he's just your average monster, trying to make it in the world. he's not the brightest, or the bravest, but, he's an everyman's monster. on hes left is his teffy bear, fluffykins, who has a matching night gown and cap.

cartooning class

2007-07-07T19:33:00.000-07:00

here is my final for the animal character design. i know the facial expressions need some work. the differences were too subtle and once they were shrunk down it made them look them same.

these are two of my layouts. i am pleased with the way the bench turned out here (in the final version i had "track 2" on the sign, and i think that killed it a little.) and i am ok with the establishing shot, although i know it needs work. i wish i had remembered how much i hate acrylics. i refuse to post the last one. i am not happy with it at all.

anyways, that's all for now.

bogie was too cute

2007-06-15T18:17:00.000-07:00

teenage bobcat character design for dana's class.

i went with a punk. something about the bobcat's appearence lends itself to it. i was inking this early this afternoon and my mom walked in and said it was cute. but when I dressed that way i got weird and disapproving looks from her.

anyways, still needs color. and i need to do the turnaround and additional poses too. (does anyone know if i can use this for the colored piece and the turnaround? because that would make life so much easier.)

let me know what you think

bogie

2007-06-10T17:45:00.000-07:00

yes, i named the sunglasses after humphrey bogart. i was all happy with the name too, and then my brother pointed out that bogart wore a fedora type hat and not sunglasses. he wanted me to name them "paris" and put it in a jail cell. as amusing as the idea was, i decided against it.

here's looking at you, kid.

3 page comic

2007-05-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

my comic!!!!!

yay. it's done.

animal drawings

2007-05-13T14:27:00.000-07:00

some animal drawing from last semester

final version

2007-05-09T00:22:00.000-07:00

updated underslung zath

The Underslung Zath

2007-05-06T05:41:00.000-07:00

This is the first round of my Shel Silverstein poem illustration, there are still some issues I need to work out.