Fight Club

Here is my latest painting. It's a follow up to the monkey portrait I did a few weeks ago in my digital painting class. This assignment was to create an arch nemesis for our first character and to put them in a non traditional portrait. Another requirement was to use a sepia color pallet and one additional color. The Street Fighter series from Capcom are my favorite video games ever. So I put these guys in my own version of the game.

The Queen of all Color

This my latest painting. Another class project in which we had to illustrate a metaphor. Mine was " the queen of all color is black" (Renoir). For this piece I thought it would be cool to paint an African woman in silhouette with beautiful patterns surrounding her.

American Gothic 2.0

This painting is called "American Gothic 2.0" or "The Death of Farming". It was created for a conceptual Illustration class that I'm taking this semester. Didn't turn out quite how I wanted but none the less here it is.

Heathcliff Edmund III

This is my first assignment for Digital Painting 2 taught by Ryan Wood. The project was to create a black and white portrait.
This guy is named Heathcliff Edmund III. He's decorated veteran, who fought in the First Simian-Human Civil War.

Hey gang I was recently asked to guest blog on my Friend Toast's blog check it out!

More marker sketches...

Some more sketches on toned paper. (col-erase pencil and Utrecht design markers)

Space...Pig?

I am a big fan of the guys over at Creature Box. Recently, they have be posting some awesome marker sketches on toned paper on their twitter account. So, being inspired I found an old toned sketchbook and sketched these bad boys. (Col-erase pencil and Utrecht warm gray design markers)

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidays! (Col-erase pencil and Photoshop)

Sketch Trade with Phil Cannon!

Right before the semester ended Phil Cannon and I decided to do a "sketch trade". The deal was this, I'd draw something and so would Phil then we'd trade. Here's what we came up with... 

Steve Jobs: Seiler Style!

This is painting that I did for my History of Illustration class at UVU taught by Perry Stewart. The assignment was to pick an illustrator and to create a piece based on their style. Perry suggested that I pick Jason Seiler (www.jasonseiler.com) His work is fantastic! The original sketch was done in blue Col-erase colored pencil and the final painting was done in Photoshop. This piece was a blast to paint hope you all like it!

Red Dragon!

Here is the final version of the Red Dragon painting with a little added smoke... he is a dragon after all!
(pencil, ink, watercolor and Photoshop)

The Process...

Hey gang! I was working on some stuff for school today and thought I'd share a little bit of my process. First I started out with a quick pencil sketch. Next I scanned, resized, converted the sketch to non-photo blue and printed it out. Then I inked and applied some watercolor to it. The paper I used was horrible for watercolor and was being quite difficult, so back into the computer it went for a little digital treatment... and Presto!

Marker Madness part 2!

Here are some more marker sketches from my sketchbook. All of them were drawn using colo-erase pencil, ink and design markers.

Banjo Pigs!

I'm still messing around with watercolor paints in my media tech class at UVU. The latest assignment was "Banjo Pigs".  Here is the website that inspired the subject http://banjopigs.blogspot.com/. This time I used a little photoshop magic to enhance the paintings. (watercolor, ink and Photoshop)

Honest Abe

I actually painted this one before the red hulk but I figured that I'd post it up anyway. I've been experimenting with traditional mediums in Illustrative Media Techniques 1 at UVU. We just finished oil paints and have now moved on to watercolor. This is my first watercolor painting for that class. It was a real pleasure to paint this and I did learn quite a bit. Aside from letting the beard and hair get out of control I'm happy with how it turned out. (graphite and watercolor)

Red Hulk

I found a really cool 3D model of the hulk on the internet the other day and decided you use it as reference for my next watercolor attempt... It's always nice to unplug from the computer and use traditional mediums (Graphite, ink and watercolor). This was way fun to make. Stand by for more!

Zombie Colored!

Zombie now in color! (Pencil, ink and good 'ole Photoshop)

Zombie

Zombie sketch for a little thing at UVU. (Ink and blue col-erase prismacolor pencil)

Frankenstein

Frankenstein (Photoshop and Blue Col-erase Pencil)

Ogre speed painting

Speed Painting in photoshop CS5

Marker Madness!

Some color studies with design markers, ink and prismacolor pencil.

Sketches

Here is a couple of sketches I drew over the weekend...

Mopar Monster Muscle

Spider-Man 2.0

More often than not I find myself doing a lot of these quick sketch portraits just to stay loose. I like them because I get away from my computer and get back to my roots. When I was a teenager my buddy Justin and I ,when we weren't out skating, would sit at the kitchen table draw for hours like this. They only take anywhere from 5-30 minutes depending on how involved I want to be.

There is a special topics digital painting class being taught a UVU this summer (2011). I couldn't take it but the ever so talented Don Seegmiller (instructor) and My buddy Stewart Craig (fellow student) were kind enough to give me some of the assignments. So here is assignment 1 Alien head. Don's tutorials are amazing and I really felt like I learned a ton. I would love to try this one again...