Armchair Assassin
I finished up two jobs this week, so I gave myself some time to do a personal sketch. Still trying to conform my style to appeal towards adults. It’s still a work in progress but man it feels good to just draw for enjoyment. It feels like it’s been forever.
The Making of My Sunset Duel Illustration
Here are some process images for my new illustration entitled Sunset Dual. I recently took a character design class and one of the assignments was to take the photograph of a person and turn them into an illustrated character. So I found an image of this Amazon girl and changed it into the image you […]
Grock’s Macs Family Tree
Today is Macs Birthday, so I thought it would be fun to take a look at all the Macs my family has owned through out the years.
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Holiday Card 2013
Sadly, I forgot to post this before the holiday season so everyone will be seeing this in 2014 but here is my families 2013 holiday card.
My Top 10 of 2013 – Entertainment
Every year I tried to write down my favorite things from the past year. It’s just a little reminder to me but I like to share it with everyone. Here is my list from 2013. Pacific Rim (Warner Bros.) Gravity falls (Disney) The last of us (Naughty Dog) Cintiq Companion (Wacom) Hyrule Historia (Nintendo) The Art of Journey […]
Character Design 2 with Steven Silver Lesson 4 Homework
Week four homework was to design three waitresses. Each waitress had to be designed side by side in a line-up and each of their body types needed to be A different shape. The shapes I selected were: hourglass, pear and a prism. Here is my entire process for the three characters I came up with.
Character Design 2 with Steven Silver Lesson 3 Homework
This weeks homework was to design a character from a famous person. If I were ever to create my own animated film I have one actor on my list that needs to be in my film. Patrick Warburton is that actor. I’ve never forgotten his voice as Kronk in Disney’s the emperors new groove. It makes […]
Creating a vector graphic from a bitmap image in Adobe Illustrator
In this edition of the Once Upon a Sketch screen cast we show you how to use the live trace tool in Adobe Illustrator. In Adobe Illustrator CS two Adobe added a handy tool called the live trace tool which allows you to convert bitmap images into a vector based image very easily. Check out […]
Starting a Artist’s Texture Library with CGtextures.com
CGtextures.com is a great resource to find photo textures for your images. None of these photos will win any photography competitions. The images are, for the most part, flat and evenly lit and have straight on camera angles. And that’s the point. You add the interest when adding them to your illustrations, 3D models, logos […]
Preparing pencil sketches using Channels in PhotoShop
First off I’d like to start off with a quote from one of my instructors in college about working in Adobe PhotoShop. He said “There are a thousand ways to solve the same problem in PhotoShop”. This statement is 100% true. I know there are so many other ways to accomplish a nice clean line […]
Using Layer Masks in Adobe PhotoShop
In this episode I discuss one of the most helpful things I found in Adobe Photoshop. This feature is called layer masks. The use of a layer mask is to hide something you don’t necessarily want to get rid of. Watch the video to find out what I mean.
Character Design 2 with Steven Silver Lesson 2 Homework
It’s week two in my Character Design 2 class and this weeks assignment is to pick an artist style or television show to try to emulate. The artist or show can be from the past or present and the character can be an animal or a person. The task was to design a character that will […]
Fix Missing Images from Post on Facebook
While working on OnceUponASketch we are constantly posting our articles and posts to Facebook and any other number of social networks. When you post a link on Facebook it usually goes to the link and finds images that it then gives you the option of displaying in association with your post. Sometimes when we post […]
Finding Artists Groups on Facebook
A great way to spread your work around Facebook is by joining like-minded groups. Groups let you share things with the people who will care about them most. For artists it’s usually their artwork and news about the industry. Let’s look into how to join groups and then how to share with them. First Sign […]
Character Design 2 With Stephen Silver Lesson 1 Homework
A few weeks ago I started taking an online class, Character Design 2 with Stephen Silver. I took Character Design 1 and got a lot of good information out of it, So here I go with the 2nd class. I’m going to be showing off all the assignments I create as I go through the 9 […]
Improving Your Facebook FanPage
Once you’ve set up your Facebook fan page you might think you’re done but there’s still a lot more work to do. You may get a few Likes at first but the goal here is to continue gaining momentum and continuing to spread the word. Spreading the word Now that your fan page is set […]
5 Steps to Setting up a Facebook Fan Page
This week on Once Upon a Sketch we are going to talk about setting up a Facebook fan page. Wilson and I recently both set up fan pages and we’re going to share everything we learned with you. It’s not a difficult process but it’s always nice to have someone to help you through it. […]
T-shirt design – Northwest Roadhouse
A few months ago I was asked to design a shirt for a local biker club. The only requirements that they asked for was that the name of the club appear at the top. The rest was up to me because the only other information they gave me was “make our building look […]
Using Dropbox to Send large Files to Clients
I’ve been sending a lot of large files to clients. As an illustrator I get my drawings done and the files saved, compressed into a nice, neat package, but in our line of work, we end up with pretty large files that we try to send to our clients. Even if it’s over 5 MB […]
Inking and coloring artwork in Adobe Illustrator
When I first started doing the Once Upon a Sketch Screen Casts I created a series of two videos about how I ink and color my drawings in Adobe Illustrator. Well, it’s been over a year since I created this set of videos so I thought I would share them again for those who haven’t […]
Online Backup Solutions for Artists
Last week a friend of mine had a scare with his computer. As computers will do, his PC hard drive decided to just die on him. As you can imagine he had the normal response for someone put in this situation “Oh no what have I lost!”. It turns out that he had almost all […]
BYU Football Coloring Books
Recently, I completed a coloring book for Collegiate Coloring Books. They create coloring books for college sports teams. This specific book was for the BYU football program. The book has not been released yet but here are a few sample images. If you’d like to preorder one of these books please visit this website Colorthecougars.com
Rainy Day in Paris
2 or 3 years or so ago I sketched this drawing of a woman walking down the street looking down at her phone and it has just been sitting on my desk. Finally I got the chance to revamp it and add some color as well as relocate the girl to a rainy Paris evening. […]
CEDE – 48 hours of Artwork
Over the weekend I did the Portland indie speed run with a few friends. The speed run is where you try to make a video game in 48 hours. Here’s all the artwork we created for our game CEDE.