Final Painting!

Okay, so for my final piece in my painting class our assignment was to design a book cover. I chose The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. He's a pretty crazy guy as far as what he did with his free time.

Paintings!

My teacher finally gave all of my paintings back from class and all I got for them were smiley faces, gold star stickers, and a condescending mussing of my hair.

Christian Wines Down

This is a painting (acrylic) of my friend Christian at this thing called wine down wednesday where for 5 bucks you get a glass that you can refill as many times as you want from 5-7. However, we're the only ones under forty there usually and I think it's meant for a little more...uh...sophisticated crowd.

Beetle & Moth

Here's some new drawings in my sweet recycled sketchbook with some DIY calligraphy I copied from some jpeg off the internet. Rhinoptera doesn't exist as far as I know. The moth was from a specimen my teacher passed around. K later!

updated pics on sea serpent

Here is some of the progress I made on my modeler's reel. I should expect the summer to yield more time to finish the whole reel.

Round II of Notebook Mining

These ones can be summed up pretty quick. This is what my Zoology teacher looks like when he has my undivided attention...well, while drawing him. The rest are drawings from visiting the Body Worlds exhibit in LA. Pretty cool for some German guy obsessed with being around dead people all the time. A very relevant, enjoyable, poignant and freaky weird exhibit.

Scouring my Last Notebook

Alright. There is no rhyme or reason to these pics. Simply wanted to document the drawings from my sketchbook that I enjoyed. I'm gonna have to do another post or so to get them all in here.

Pelican Wing & Jellyfish

The first drawing is of a pelican wing. The second one was just something I thought would be awesome to see. There aren't any jellyfish this big that could take on a shark, but if there was...that'd be f-ing sweet.

new character

Alright, so I now have some spare time to get my modeling reel underway. Here's a preview of the first character.

Still Life

This was an exercise we did in my painting class. I call it "Spelunking through the caverns of human consciousness or some vase, a sake cup and a squash". I really think the art world is about to get its roof torn off with this one. This was a limited palette exercise which was quite interesting as we only had 3 colors to work with.

Furballs

here are some tests from my hair/cloth and fur class. Computers are pretty crazy sometimes. The last pic is a piece of cloth hanging on a line and the fur is animated by a system of hair (that you can't see). I guess I got what I paid for right?

Drawings from class

Hey everyone. Here are some drawings I did from the random specimens from around the room of the zoology class I'm taking.

lizard pose

Here's a screen grab or two of some of the progress on the lizard from my zbrush class. Lizards in the mist...also I bet you didn't know that lizards with absurdly large hands have a full on greco roman wrestling desert league. Seriously.

Skeleton From Memory

My teacher Cesar Dacol Jr. is proposing we do this exercise where we first draw a human skeleton entirely from our imagination for thirty minutes and then draw it from reference for thirty minutes. Theeen go back and do another drawing from memory. It peaked my interest since I have been jonesing to get my anatomy back up. This is the first drawing from memory. I like it....ish.

Birds!

I just rented The Life Of Birds With David Attenborough and I did some studies while I was watching the DVD. Birds are pretty rad.

Old Art

Okay, so I know that no one likes someone who keeps reliving the past but here is a link to some of my older works. My friend is in the process of setting up my professional website so sometime quite soon, my exploitation of all of these public domain sites will be a thing of the past.

old artwork

Hope you enjoy!

l8z!

revised portrait

While I was waiting in line at the DMV I finished up the portrait of the girl. Needless to say, the DMV is still a cold, dismal institution that should provide foot and back massages as you wait for your number to be called. When will the American public get to see the "friendlier" side of the DMV? Who knows. Alright later everyone!

Figure Drawings

These are some figure drawings I did at a workshop near my house. Which reminds me. I am also looking for work as a figure model. Just throwing that out there. I never thought I'd be posting to work naked on the internet. At least not before I turned 25. haha!...seriously though. Ta ta for now!

CENTAUR!!!!

Alright, it's been awhile since I rapped at ya but I've got exciting news. The pic of my friend Andrew as a Centaur singing his song of peace for his war torn land is finally complete. Now all that's left is printing the image out on some fabric, sewing it to a blanket or pillow case and giving it to his girlfriend. She's gonna love it I can already tell.

new zbrush stuff

This is after the details pass on this model. I'm happy with how it's coming along.

Fodder From My Zbrush Class

This is what I've been working on in my Zbrush Class. It's taught by Cesar Dacol Jr. & he's a great teacher.