Portrait Studies

Portraiture is a big weakness of mine, I've been trying to practice every morning. I'll be uploading more of this hopefully daily. Right now, I want to focus on the structure of the skull especially around the eyes. Still needs a lot of work. The pictures I've been using is just stuff I find off the internet, both from screencaps and from Deviant Art!

Sketches and studies

This is a personal project I've been working on. More to come later!

These are just quick sketches I did as warmup over the last few months.

Sketch dump

I just wanted to take the chance to upload some sketches. I wanted to keep working on a lot of these, but just forgot about it.

Space man/Space woman

I felt like doing a painting closer to what I do at work. (character design stuff) I'll put more process pics of this later!

Hands Study

Just a quick weekend doodle. Trying to figure out how to pack in more detail in an elegant way...

Hello, Dexter Morgan

Again, best show on earth, Dexter season 4. My goal on this piece was to improve my compositions a bit. I still got a long way to go. Any other Dexter fans out there?

Reboot

I need a reboot, lately I've been doing a lot of concept/production work and very little illustrative work. Sorry :( I wanted to post work that reflected my current goals but I was worried to do it on this blog since it was mostly my illustrative work. I pretty much never update this blog because of it. Anyways, I want to be a little more free about what I post and talk more about my processes.

These are a set of color thumbnails for a storyboarding study I'm working on. I want to improve on my shitty composition skills so I took a movie and tried to dissect a sequence. I'll upload the final product later.

My goal here was to study composition and also atmosphere.

This one started out as a environment study of a shanty town. The technique I wanted to try out here was to thumbnail, use Google Sketch up to set up a rough model forperspective, then pencil and detail it in PS. I find that in a production environment, using Sketch up helps a lot to speed things up. It's free and very easy to use but very limited compared to other 3D apps. This limitation is actually a plus in my books because it stops you from leaning on 3D too much.

Shameless plug

Hey Everyone, As I've mentioned in a past post, I was workin on a short comic for the Anthology comic. It's almost out so please have a look. :) Here's a page and a rough piece I dug up. It's kind of a mess but I hope it gives insight into my process.

Edit: I threw more process images into the mix. I played with a couple of looks before the final producted, mostly on paper, but I with I found that digital is just faster.

http://theanthologyproject.com/

Humidity

Taking a break from my comic for a bit, this is a piece I did for a small show. It was a digital show so I decided to do pixel art!

My twist on 'Journey to the West'

I've currently been workin on a comic for the http://theanthologyproject.com/. Here's a quick poster. :)

Pursuer

Alright, so this was a practice piece I was working on. I'm in the process of doing some traditional paintings, but i still find photoshop easier to toy with. I realize I havent updated in a very long time, very sorry. -_-

Reincarnation

Looking for the road....

Wow, I totally didn't think I was going to finnish this. It's been sitting on my desktop for way too long. *phew* I worked in some influences from Mr. James Jean and Joy Ang. Let me know what you think! There's still one more Batu piece... one day...

So I havent updated for a long time.

Yeah, I just went through a job change and relocation :) I'll get back into the grove of things! There is still one Batu piece left, but that will come later. In the meantime, this is something I did over the summer of '07. They are commission pieces for a board game.

Be back soon!

Welcome to the Batu cave restaurant

Meet Audrey

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The only orangutan at the Batu.

(I might post a bit of process work later)

The Chandelier Ballroom

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Inside the Batu restraurant, there is a very special cave...

(For those of you who have watched planet earth, you know where this is inspired from.)

Batu Restaurant

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Baboons run the show.

This was a series I'm currently working. It's loosely based on the Batu cave temple and its monkey inhabitants. I was planning to upload all of them but its taking me far too long so I'll upload em as they get done.

Happy Holidays

See you all in 2008!

Dexter

Dexter is like the best show on earth.

Sick day

"Contemplating"

It's been a while since I updated. I've been working at House of Cool for two months. When not doing color work or flash work, I try to have fun and draw but I never end up uploading. Since I got sick today, I might as well upload.

I'm in the process of changing the look of this blog. Does anyone know how to get clickable thumbnails on the side bar???