Visual Development, Illustration, & Sculpture.

Alright, here goes a crazy catch-up of all the stuff I haven't posted in a long time. Above is a 3-point perspective painting I finished for one of my classes a little while back.

Just did these two digital paintings a couple days ago for a Tally Hall music video collaboration. The song titled "&," needed numerous images and interpretations of ampersands to be flashing by. Top one is a little Tim Burton inspired. (Going to go see the LACMA exhibit here in LA soon, very excited!). I'll be sure to add a link when I get to see the finished video. Tally Hall's Facebook page, "&" Song on Youtube.

"Barnacles, would you join me for a cup of tea?"

Bone fanart, done for celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bone in the comic-con 2011 souvenir book. Bone and all characters are copyright of Jeff Smith.

More sculptures:

 

 

    

 More character designs....

And a few more older illustrations...

Well I think that caught up almost everything. My posts won't usually be this long (I promise)

Memoriam

My Great Aunt Ruth Elizabeth Granaas, who was 100 years old, passed away recently. She was an amazing woman and had a mind that was just as sharp as yours or mine even until the very end of her life. It may seem strange to be so surprised at her passing, but if you knew her, her tenacity for life and love of her family made it seem like she was never going to be gone. I'm glad I had the opportunity to get to know her better these last couple years.

This was a sketch I had offhandedly done of her last Easter,
I didn't realize it was my last chance to ever draw her again.

Rest in Peace.
1910-2011

Storyboards

  

Some boards for the intro to my short film "Honu." Still working on it, so I'll probably be posting more work directly related to the piece and some more in depth character acting pieces. Below are some various assignments for a story-boarding class and even a test I did for "Fish Hooks" a while back.

 

 

 

 

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...