Back to Work on My Comic
It’s been a few months but now it’s time to get cranking on my comic again. Hopefully this will be the year to get it done.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.