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December 06, 2011
July 09, 2011
Bill Perkins makes sparkly magic
So just a week after graduation I took a oil painting color class with the great Bill Perkins. Not only was it a joy to work in oil again, but Bill helped me to start thinking about color in a whole new way (I hope). Most of it was doing 40 minute studies from setups that he created using different lighting situations to highlight different color concepts.Here's a few of the better examples from his class. Apparently I have forgotten how to properly photograph oil paintings.
May 19, 2011
GraaaaaaaaaaaaaduationJOB
Ok, I've been promising an update for a while, so here's the grad update. That's right. I am now an official graduate of the Art Center College of Design, yaddayaddayadda. I busted my butt, I made a wall, and I got a job. Now begins my lifelong journey to ruling the animation world while simultaneously being a outdoorsy bum living out of my car. ... It'll be an interesting next couple of years anyways.
SO. Art. This was the totality of my wall. For my story, I took the ballet Swan Lake, tweaked it so that it was more character-driven and less boring, then set the whole shebang in ancient Mughal India. The main characters are as follows: Vanhi, the flirtatious princess. Sitara, her shy handmaiden. Dyanesh, a noble prince from a neighboring empire. and a demon who inhabits the body of a young courtier named Kuber. I painted 6 keyscenes and 4 characters. I already want to redo most of it.
and the characters:
and now on to things that don't involve classes, tuition, or long saturday nights spent in the computer labs. ..supposedly.
February 14, 2011
Color Headaches and funtimes
OK, I decided to show some of my senior project stuff, mainly cause it's not done yet, sooo i'm not really giving anything away. Vanhi is a flirty Indian princess and Sitara is her handmaiden. These two took weeks of re-working. And then I painted Batman (he's not part of my senior show). Which was more fun? I'll let you guess...
Vanhi
Sitara
Batman & HARLEY
November 28, 2010
Catch Up
The colored character designs from Willow in Africa and the final painting from the Subtle Knife project. I've been redesigning the characters from the group Centrion project and will be posting those as soon as I get the incidental characters done. I may not ever be able to oust Carter Goodritch, but dammit, my life is dedicated to trying.
November 24, 2010
Stylization and Frustration
Attempts to stylize landscape. Some are successful, some aren't. After training so long in traditional practices, it's hard to break out and push shapes so dramatically. I can see how my traditional knowledge informs my stylized work, but it's hard to push it further.
I also updated my online portfolio at http://astods.carbonmade.com/ Check it out!
November 14, 2010
November 04, 2010
quickquick..
Ok, cause I spent a long time on these aaaand I'm not quite ready to start the big painting...
the other 2 characters from the Subtle Knife and the 4 new sketches for Willow set in Africa.
October 21, 2010
Damp
I love it when it rains in LA.
Quick dump in the middle of a tough week. I have a bunch of landscape paintings, but they need to be cleaned up and made pretty, so no trees for you tonight. Instead, you get characters and props. the colored ones were designed for The Subtle Knife and the uncolored ones are from a personal/class story.
Enjoy!
August 17, 2010
Scorch it
More doodles, attempts, and other productions as I try to find shelter from icky heat.
3 Catwoman drawings from life at The Drawing Club
then an attempt at an environment. feel free to critique. ..please..?
and some sort of glowy bunny thing. i think i need to study foliage shapes.
November 12, 2009
Still going..
Week 10! I think..? Maybe. Could be. A month till I'm home in the cold and snow. Sweet. One more from Background Painting (which I always have to put characters in), one from Image & Idea, done to illustrate an article about "black swans" (a high-impact, low probability event) and two photographs from the pinhole camera project for Light & Color (a physics class for artists. electrons are fierce.) Enjoy. Looking forward to doing something other than homework in my life.
November 10, 2009
Just keep going...
I am tired.
not so happy
better
boom.
October 07, 2009
Middish.
I've been watching LotR while working, and have come to a sad conclusion: those movies take themselves way way too seriously. Also, Frodo is the most emo hero ever. That said, I still love 'em.
Anyway, a hodge-podge of arts for you today. First up and most recent, two layouts I'm working on in VisDev. They are two different viewpoints of a beaver dam that's blocking the river upstream from Jethro's fields. But Spanky the beaver is very satisfied with his work. As I spent a good portion of my break hauling canoes over endless beaver dams, I felt rather prepared for this project.
and a quick one week painting that is based on George R.R. Martin's short story "Bitterblooms." It has showed me that I need to work more on my speedpainting...
there's been a bunch more productive things going on, but i haven't scanned/pictures/digitized. k dinner. enjoy!
September 06, 2009
Rushreadygo!
Well here I thought I'd have time to make all my images neat and pretty for you guys, organize them into classes and all before the new term started. Aaaaand term has already started. Whoops. Soooo, here's a bunch of presentable stuff from summer term. Enjoy it!
First some characters from Inventive Character. I did Snow White set in ancient Egypt. You'll notice that Snow White herself is actually missing from this set, but that's because I redid the design and haven't finished it yet.. but first, the Evil Queen:
and the Prince:
the Hittite king, who takes the role of the dwarves:
and the Pharaoh, who casts Snow White out on the advice of the Evil Queen:
I did a rough keyscene that depicts the moment that the Hittite king finds Snow White collapsed in the desert:
and for something completely different - one of my personal paintings from Advanced Sketching. And yes, I was thinking of Where the Wild Things Are.
July 12, 2009
More paints
Some more from-life paintings from advanced sketching. Props must be given to Alex for trying so hard to fill Gary's shoes. I'm still having troubles getting motivated on the homework tho..
July 05, 2009
Animal Magic is a silly name for a class
but that doesn't mean the class is silly.
assorted sketches and finals. bummed that I didn't have my camera with me at the final presentation cause there were some excellent showings. i made up for it with tacos.
the finals were meant to be done every week and could be in any style, any format, any anything really. i feel like i could have pushed all my finals more, but then, i always feel like that...
June 05, 2009
Gary Meyer come back!
Ok, I love Alex Schaeffer, but I took this class for Gary. Here's hoping he gets better quickly and comes back before the term is over. Go Gary go!
Advanced Sketching -
Also some better snow white sketches:
June 01, 2009
Poot.
Some sketches for a young Snow White set in Egypt. Better ones coming... eventually.
First sitting in Advanced Sketching for Illustration. Here's hoping Gary Meyer can come back, cause there's no words for how awesome he is.
May 13, 2009
New term, old term, color term, paint term... ?
Alright alright, remember that time I said I'd update? Well I updated the stuff from last term that I liked, then.. um.. yah forgot about the other stuff. Cause I didn't really like it. But maybe if I post it, smart people can tell me *why* I don't like it, and then I can make it better.
That's the idea anyway.
So, my final digital landscape paintings, minus a few that really are quite awful;
In other news, this term is shaping up to be a solid good one, as long as I keep my motivation up. Gary Meyer is already my hero.
April 21, 2009
OUT
Well I'm on the move, as I like to do when I'm not tied down to school. I find a nice balance in spending my breaks going/doing where i want to go/do when i want to go/do them. In other words, I blow town and stay away as long as possible, living out of a backpack and far away from LA. This time I'm haunting northern Arizona and southern Utah for while, with inclinations towards San Francisco later on. I'll slowly update from the term as I go. today's lucky visitors get the final installment of the Peter Pan key scenes and the title banner from the final board. The key scene is my version of the point in the story when Pan is mimicking the tiger (crocodile) to frighten Hook.
