Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hunt for a meal
I haven't posted in forever, I'm planning to really change that and try to post at least once or twice a week.
This was a project a long time in the making...
I promised my good buddy Eric I would do a painting for him for years, finally finished it.
It involves a cat in dire pursuit of a meal and a supernatural goldfish from our past "Bob".
8" x 10" Gouache and Acrylic on Crescent cold press illustration board.
Middle Photo is a series of process shots.
This was a project a long time in the making...
I promised my good buddy Eric I would do a painting for him for years, finally finished it.
It involves a cat in dire pursuit of a meal and a supernatural goldfish from our past "Bob".
8" x 10" Gouache and Acrylic on Crescent cold press illustration board.
Middle Photo is a series of process shots.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
prophecies of rust
I just came off a Conjugal visit with the universe, so I guess all is OK...
I can start posting again.
Interpretations of the future using Illustrator, Photoshop and
my crappy phone camera.
I can start posting again.
Interpretations of the future using Illustrator, Photoshop and
my crappy phone camera.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Happy Halloween!
As per my usual, I had big plans for this one... wanted to have a creepy background with trees and big bright moon and have these guys crawling out of a crypt or something with a procession of painted faced skeletons all surrounding the pumpkin king. At my rate and free time
I may of had this the way I wanted it done by Christmas!
Anyways, this is what I pulled together in time for Halloween, concept sketches in Photoshop, a little inking on the rat in Illustrator and then back into Photoshop to splash in a little color.
Although there is no real composition or layout here, it was a blast to work on and a nice little digital study.
Have a great Halloween!
I may of had this the way I wanted it done by Christmas!
Anyways, this is what I pulled together in time for Halloween, concept sketches in Photoshop, a little inking on the rat in Illustrator and then back into Photoshop to splash in a little color.
Although there is no real composition or layout here, it was a blast to work on and a nice little digital study.
Have a great Halloween!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
D's Salsa Labels
Well my friend Dani has the labels I designed for her all printed
and on the jars, the salsa is a flowing. These look great!
Just wanted to share a photo, then crack these open and chow down...
and on the jars, the salsa is a flowing. These look great!
Just wanted to share a photo, then crack these open and chow down...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
What's your vector victor?...over.
I will always draw by hand, that's how I learned to do art,
that's what I know.
But, in my efforts to grow and always try to learn more, especially the
digital side of things, I wanted to experiment with digital inking.
There are a lot of cool tools and software out there for this but I have lately been checking out a bunch of different online articles and tutorials by some great artists about inking in Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator is a program that I have used for a long time, but, used more as a graphic software or, if I was doing an illustration I would typically ink the art by hand and then bring into Illustrator. I wanted to try to find something digital that almost looked liked I scribbled it out with a felt tip marker, Illustrator seems to be pretty sweet for this, but unlike Photoshop which is pixel based, Illustrator is vector based
(mathematical points and paths) which is wild, gives you a lot of options as far as setting your brush tool, unlimited re-dos and making quick corrections, It also imports into Photoshop seamlessly to color up.
Here is a quick little exercise I did, nothing special but was a lot of fun, experimented with a lot of crosshatch and dots and just a lot of noise
Tried to pack this to see if all the vectors would bog down the file,
but it did OK, the second photo shows the points and paths.
Much more practice with this to come.
that's what I know.
But, in my efforts to grow and always try to learn more, especially the
digital side of things, I wanted to experiment with digital inking.
There are a lot of cool tools and software out there for this but I have lately been checking out a bunch of different online articles and tutorials by some great artists about inking in Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator is a program that I have used for a long time, but, used more as a graphic software or, if I was doing an illustration I would typically ink the art by hand and then bring into Illustrator. I wanted to try to find something digital that almost looked liked I scribbled it out with a felt tip marker, Illustrator seems to be pretty sweet for this, but unlike Photoshop which is pixel based, Illustrator is vector based
(mathematical points and paths) which is wild, gives you a lot of options as far as setting your brush tool, unlimited re-dos and making quick corrections, It also imports into Photoshop seamlessly to color up.
Here is a quick little exercise I did, nothing special but was a lot of fun, experimented with a lot of crosshatch and dots and just a lot of noise
Tried to pack this to see if all the vectors would bog down the file,
but it did OK, the second photo shows the points and paths.
Much more practice with this to come.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Some more stuff from the old sketchbooks
As I mentioned before, there's a lot of stuff I have in my old sketchbooks that I want to post. Some because it's new to me again after being buried for a while, some things I just like, and some because I just wonder what the hell I was thinking?
This post is just that, I like the sketches but, I don't remember what compelled me to doodle this stuff out.
The first image is a few pages of what I guess at the time would be a cool bathroom, why? I don't know. It's obvious I'm no architect,
I remember thinking at the time it would be wild to have this sort of steam punk, no period, shower tower mixed with metals and tiles and sculptures, that you could walk around and set all sorts of
different heads... from water fall to steam, all in this wild bathroom.
The second image is a concept sketch for a play structure proposal that never really went anywhere. The idea was to take one of those toys that you see in almost every kids play area in the doctor's office lobby,
and make it into sort of this public sculpture and play structure
This post is just that, I like the sketches but, I don't remember what compelled me to doodle this stuff out.
The first image is a few pages of what I guess at the time would be a cool bathroom, why? I don't know. It's obvious I'm no architect,
I remember thinking at the time it would be wild to have this sort of steam punk, no period, shower tower mixed with metals and tiles and sculptures, that you could walk around and set all sorts of
different heads... from water fall to steam, all in this wild bathroom.
The second image is a concept sketch for a play structure proposal that never really went anywhere. The idea was to take one of those toys that you see in almost every kids play area in the doctor's office lobby,
and make it into sort of this public sculpture and play structure
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