Game Art Haberdash
Lately, Nic Biondi and I have been working on a few video game ideas. Nic is a programer and has been making these games for a while now. He already had a game that he had been working on for the last 6 months and he wanted me to help out with some new artwork […]
Warming up Digital Figure Drawing with PoseManiacs.com
It’s always nice to start my work day off with some gesture sketching. Unfortunately, I don’t have a live model on call or have a lot of time to go through photo reference sites looking for a pose to sketch. Maybe I could just find a magazine, but my computer is right here and I […]
Girl on Fire Progress
I’ve been doing a lot of drawing lately and so I’ve been getting a lot of reading done as well. When I have a lot of work to do I listen to audiobooks. It makes the time go so much faster. Since I’ve burned through all the new books I’ve picked up from the library […]
Pink Haired Girl
I was messing around in sketchbook Pro the other day and came up with this pink haired girl. The sketch took me about a half hour with a few adjustments the next day.
Project Process – The Best of Us
Recently, I’ve set a goal of trying to get a better grasp on lighting faces. Here is one of my recent studies. I ended up enjoying it so much I took it to a final piece. Hope you enjoy the process images.
Questions to Consider Before Working With a Illustrator on Your Children’s Book
Is this your first Children’s Book? If it is then the illustrator might not only have to be the Illustrator but the teacher and possibly the designer of the book as well. In most instances very few have taken the proper steps to educate themselves about the process and kind of work that goes into […]
My Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a global blog tour, started in Australia, to showcase authors and illustrators and their current work. I was hit up by my partner in crime Wilson Williams, Jr to be a part of this blog tour. I decided to post about the kids comic I’m working on. Then after the question […]
My Top 10 of 2012 – Entertainment
10. Movie – Wreck-It Ralph (Disney) 9. TV – Newsroom (HBO) 8. Movie – Brave (Disney • Pixar) 7. Video Game – Unfinished Swan (PS3) 6. Gadget – White iPhone 5 (Apple) 5. Software – Sketchbook Pro (Autodesk) 4. Video Game – Mass Effect 3 (PS3) 3. Video Game – Need for Speed Most Wanted […]
Schoolism’s Gesture Drawing class and My thoughts
Last weekend I finished up my Gesture drawing class at Schoolism.com with Alex Woo. This is the second class I’ve taken at this site and so far I’ve found both classes to be very helpful. The first class I took at Schoolism was character design (Read my review of that class here). When I took my […]
Alternatives to Using the Adobe Creative Suite
There has been a lot of fire out there about Adobe changing their upgrade policy and some users feeling like Adobe is taking advantage of their monopoly on the design application market. So I thought I would go through and find a few alternatives to Adobe applications. I’m not saying that any of these are […]
Book Report – The Art of How to Train Your Dragon
One of the most amazing movies I’ve seen in the 3D era of animated movies has got to be How to Train Your Dragon. A big part of that for me has to be the way the animators gave life to the dragons. This is why I love these types of art books. I love […]
The beauty of Interactive entertainment – Journey
When most people think of video games they don’t think of art. Video games have become an increasingly expressive medium for artists combining painting, writing, sculpture, music, storytelling, and cinematography. One game has brought all of these things together in a amazing interactive experience. Journey is the most profound video game work of art I’ve […]
Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop Digital Painters
Here are a few handy key board short cuts I like to use when painting in PhotoShop. Some are very basic but still good to know. To download a PDF of this quick guide click here. Type B for the Brush tool, Pencil tool, Color Replacement tool depending on which tool you used last. Increase […]
PDX CreativeMornings lecture with Nelson Lowory
This past Friday I attended my first CreativeMornings lecture here in Portland, Oregon at the Portland Art Museum. CreativeMornings is a free monthly lecture series for creative people. Oh by the way, they serve free breakfast, donuts! Here is a link to the lecture http://vimeo.com/44747795 The lecture I attended was by Nelson Lowory who was the […]
Schoolism.com – Character Design: My thoughts
First off what is Schoolism? Schoolism is an online school that teaches classes for artists. The classes are taught by working professionals through out the 9 to 14 weeks course (depending on the classes). They offer a self taught version for around 500 dollars and a critiqued session course for 1000 dollars. The classes are […]
Book Report – Avatar: The Last Airbender (The Art of the Animated Series)
One of the first things you learn about me when you walk into my office is that I have a problem… A big problem. I love art books. So I thought it would be nice to share my thoughts on a few of my favorite books that always seem to end up on my desk […]
