Creative Life Drawing

 

 

 

  

Creative life drawing from my portfolio development class or from various sessions of me dropping in at Calarts. Many many thanks to John Mahoney and Steve Brown for getting me into this style and method of drawing, it's really changed the way I look at and interpret art.

Mummy Sketches

Went to the mummy exhibit at the California Science Center last week. Feels a little weird sketching corpses of people long since past, but one doesn't get the opportunity often as an artist.

Moorpark Life Drawing

Just wanted to share some of the work I've been doing in life drawing at Moorpark class, I'm gonna start working this stuff into my portfolio now, so yay.

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New Header!

Yay, new header (see above header for details on new header). That's it, just needed a post acknowledging its new-ness. Also, I will be at comic-con tomorrow! The fun never ends....

DBZ Father's Day

My dad and I have been reading a lot of Dragon Ball recently, so I made this card for him on this most special of days. Treat your fathers well everyone :)

Dreams of Silly Teeth

Created for a documentary on dreams at http://hitrecord.org/ Come and be a part of the collaborative artistic community.

This brief animated short is based on the archetypal dream of having one's teeth fall out, although I think I took it in a bit of an odd direction.

Original post for this video: http://hitrecord.org/records/84132
Animation - Dax Schaffer
Background - Elktree
Voices and Sound Effects - Erika Ishii and Dax Schaffer
One additional Tooth Voice - Rachel B. Gray

Fotography Girl Poster

A nifty poster I did for a friend, Steven Ray Morris' film The Premiere.
Fotography Girl is actually a film within the film, so....yeah.
You see this poster in the film and not necessarily for the film, if that makes sense.

Fairly happy with how this turned out actually.
The photos in the BG were taken by Steven I believe.

One last batch of stuff from this project

Finally I'm at the end of this thing. Currently doing layouts,

but here are a few more samples of work for the project.

I relish the idea of being able to say I am done with this after 5 months of work.

A Moment of Silence...

Tally Hall Surrealist Tribute Thingy

Tally Hall has quickly become one of my favorite bands ever. Getting to see them live in LA a short while ago only served to further cement that opinion. This drawing started out as just a sketch, but quickly turned into something that warranted more effort. Most of the imagery is inspired from various songs or simply what goes through my head while listening to them. See if you can identify all the references, I tried to cram a few in there. The sign with the band name is taken directly from the MMMM album cover, so I can't really take credit for designing it.

The only way that I can think of to adequately show gratitude for any piece of art is to produce my own art. I don't know if any of the band members will actually end up seeing this, but if they do, then I would like it if they thought of this as my form of thanks for producing such wonderful music. Thanks for signing my album at the concert guys, I wish I had had the time to talk to each of you. Oh, and a big thanks to Andrew for suggesting the band "fun." Aim and Ignite is easily one of the best albums I've heard in years.

Really looking forward to all of your efforts on the next album, keep up the amazing work.

Practical Pig

He'll solve all of your practical problems, he's quite the Practical Pig.

New Project!

Working on a project that I am actually getting paid for, woot! These are a few examples of what it will be like, basically very children's book type drawings. The awesome thing is that this person actually likes my style, so I don't have to change it up too much. I might put up a little more from this in the future. I'm likely not going to have too much other stuff to put up, because of how much work this is gonna take.

Sommore Stuffs

"Red Star" Mario from Super Mario Galaxy (Copyright Nintendo). The photo doesn't quite do justice to it, but oh well... Felt like posting a few more images to catch up with my more recent work. Been working on a lot of stuff. I actually have an illustration job right now that will probably consume my life for the next month, so you're gonna see some work for that up here some time in the near future. Until then, I hope this is cool enough.

A caricature of my pet as the Cheshire Cat.
He's sitting on top of the computer as I type this.

I think this was sketched last November..... I post it "Anonymously." Btw, David Lloyd's new book "Kickback" is pretty good, go check it out.

Kyle wasting his life away as I sneakily sketch him from behind. We are now no longer roommates, due to contractual obligations...
...and the fact that he smells.

...sorry Kyle.

Sculptures I

Ok, time to post some sculptures. Above is Gandalf the Grey, based on the movie version, played by Sir Ian Mckellen. My most recently finished piece, but I've worked on and off on this one for quite some time now. I guess it's still timely approriate, considering that the Hobbit movies are in the works (thank God he's still playing the character). I would like to have more professional shots taken for this one, so of all my stuff this is the most likely to get reshot. Below are some more of my sculptural endeavors, and this is probably my bulkiest post yet. Pretty much everything is made from varying types of Sculpey with mixed media, I hope you'll enjoy.

Butter's infamous alter ego, Professor Chaos. An old gift for my Dad...and yes real tinfoil.
Copyright Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

America loves GIR. One of my first gifts to Erika. Again, I need some better photots taken for this one. GIR and Invader Zim characters are copyright of Johnen Vasquez.

Yoshi! Hope to have this one painted someday. Copyright Nintendo.

Alita from the manga "Battle Angel Alita" by Yukito Kishiro (Or Gally from "GUNNM," as it's called in Japanese). This one is actually quite special to me and was an anniversary gift for my girlfriend Erika. We and our friends have been long time fans of this series now (which is still going) and it wasn't uncommon for me to refer to Erika as my very own "Battle Angel" from time to time (please forgive the mush). I would do it differently now, but it still remains one of my better pieces and one that I put a rather large amount of love into making. Below are some other angle shots.

A coral reef made for my mom, she's always loved ocean life.
I think the crab is still my favorite part of this one.

Concept bust for the main character in a short film I want to make.
Sort of a clay sketch, if you will.


Dagget, from Angry Beavers. This one is sort of silly, but who doesn't love this character? I do have to say that their anatomy is somewhat difficult to pull off in 3D. They don't even look like real beavers, more like pointy weasel thingies...

Dragon with a pipe. A birthday gift for a friend of mine,
you can probably guess what kind of friend from the gift....

The fact that many of my models were made as gifts for friends is something that I have been noticing increasingly while posting these. Moogles are no different. I forget which Final Fantasy game I based this version on though. Moogles are copyright of Square-Enix.

Probably the only thing you'll ever see posted from my days of using Crayola Modeling Magic, an air dry foam clay (one step up from Play-doh in quality). This is a scene from an episode of Taz-Mania where Taz chases a Kiwi with a very rare, collectible bottle cap on his head. It may seem a little dated craftwise, but to this day my dad will tell you it's the best sculpture I've ever made. So for you Daddya, I put this one up. Taz (and Kiwi) are copyright of Warner Bros.

A fun little scene of Erika and I playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. It's already been pointed out to me, but just for plausibility's sake, pretend that this is some sort of wireless Gamecube and television set we're playing on
(At least the Wavebird controller makes sense regardless).