another entry

Hey, Howdy, Hey! (50 bonus points if you can name that animation reference). This was another submission that I didn't have time to take to finish, but I thought I'd throw it their way anyways. Ehhhhh, I'm only going to finish it if I'm asked to. I'm a little busy at the moment. Yay wood grain! By the way, the reference "Hey, Howdy, Hey" comes from Toy Story 2. It's the record that Jessie, Woody, and the Prospector sing to. Woody and Jessie run and dance on the record while it spins. What a nerd I am.

This is a little job that I did for my uncle. It's a picture of he and my aunt that was water damaged after their last house caught fire. It was in poor shape as you can see. It's missing large areas of the image, especially on her, so I did all I could to graph it from other areas. That highlight on the back of her head was bugging me too.

DONE

Ok, sooo...I'm not happy with the text, but I'm using it as a placeholder for now, until I find another type that I like (this one makes my piece look to asian). I'm trying to do a neon sign look. Still considering some other clever ideas for the text, I just need to figure out how to make them work. The arrows are more placeholders. I haven't even touched the ground, but it'll be fairly simple anyways. Most of it will be in a motion blur. After all that, I'm just going to unify some of my hues in the skin more. It's not quite matching the palette. Bla bla bla...goodnight.

This is a WIP for a contest. It's for a black/latino documentary, and I hope they don't find out that I won the "White Boy of the Year" contest in 2007. Most of it is still laid in a bit and roughed-in. More to come.

Yay! Sketchbook!

Paintball, Al Roker, men in women's negligee, and jazzercizing zombees. For some reason, these have been recent themes in my sketchbook. Hmmmmmm....

Be on the lookout for the next installment of Drake Goldstein: Jewish Cowboy Senator. It's a doosy!

Sorry, I've been pretty busy lately. Here's a pumpkin!

They said "steal".

Got bored last night...what have I done?

For all of those who aren't paintball savvy, this is a Halo B loader. At least it was before I desecrated it. It's a container that loads your paintballs into the chamber very very quickly. I'm getting back into my paintball game and thought I'd add a little illustrated flavor into it. Of, course I'd be open to doing commissions.

Here's a really quick one from tonight. Mmmmm...about 4 hours from thumbnail to finish. More like an elaborate beat board than a concept piece. I think I'll do a proper prop design layout for this one.

New Sketchbook

Well, it's been a week and a half since my last sketchbook got stolen out of my bag. The cover was a pretty, attractive, beveled green leather piece that wrapped around the actual sketchbook. So I had the opportunity to spoil myself with come new materials. Here's a few pages from my new one.

When Stupid Ideas Are Taken Too Far

Old Ma Robot-Process

The goal for this one was to experiment with Golden Acrylic's Digital Ground Medium. It's a medium that will pick up vivid prints from an inkjet printer and can be applied to any surface. Here's the subject thumbnail sketch with Tombow markers and Prisma Eagle Series black pencil. Just your typical sweet, elderly female robot with gears for curlers, holding up her copper wire hair.


This is the step after the designing of the subject. After painting on the canvas, I apply the non-porous gloss digital ground medium to the areas I wish to print. I haven't used it before, so I gave it two healthy coats and let it dry before scanning it.

Once scanned, I send it into the collage stage in Photoshop. I decided to keep the printed objects achromatic and just let the color of the background show through the negative spaces. I just used images of chain gears and scrap copper wire. Now it was time to print. I used a typical "U"-shaped feed printer and found some dificulty, but not too much. Golden recommends to used a straight-feed or an "L"-feed printer.
The print came out amazingly sharp with fidelity in the gradations. Then I just painted the copper wire on top of that and had a little fun with my new comb brush over the face to get more of a polished steel look. After all the big stuff was done. I brushed on the Golden digital topcoat UV gel to protect the print areas and punch up the true saturation of the print. Clean up this and that, cut it to size, then...BAM! Time to get my real work done. It was fun beacause it married two aproaches that I cherish- digital and traditional. A special thanks to Steve at Continental Art Supply for agressively recommending the digital media kit to me.

These are a couple of mixed media clayboard pieces that I worked on for display at work. I call the bottom one "Mmmmmm"

Ramayana Monkey Chant

Watch it all the way through. The head monkey's expressions are the best.

Just for fun.

The Birdman

A couple days ago, I saw a unique individual walking past my house, holding up a parrot on his finger. It turns out my parents knew him, but I've been out of the loop for a while, because of school. He sauntered along the street, with his head fixed on his crooked neck. Then he paused for a minute, looked about the neighbors yard and spoke to the bird quietly as he shaded the parrot with the bill of his stained baseball cap. The odd man chuckled like he was gossiping with a friend and moved along down the street. I said to my self as we pulled out of the driveway, I'm drawing you when we get back!

I apologize for the aspect ratio. iMovie doesn't have an option to change the frame ratio, so it cuts off the sides. That's why the composition doesn't fit well. Next time it will be fixed and have SOUND! Oooooooooo! Enjoy.

How to Adapt to the New "Hands-Free" Law

"So how's Stan doing in accounting...what?! FIRE THAT ASSHOLE!!"

Finally Free From the Madness

I hope you're asking all the questions you ever wanted to be answered. You prince of free expression and thinking, you will be missed!