Little Red Ridding Hood, Modern Style. 

My Most recent illustration for class. Oil on board/digital, 20in x 15in.   Little red ridding hood waiting for the bus to grandmas house.  decided against a actual shadowy figure.   I like the more implied danger giving buy the gang tag as compared to an actual figure.    

Give you Conan

A class assignment for my art and visual communications class. We had to illustrate the story of Conan o'Brian being fired from the tonight show in LA and going back to the late night show in NYC

Book cover illustration for treasure island. An assignment for my imagination and visual literacy class.

Here is a is a painting i have done for my advance illustration class. wasn't able to bring it to total completion. this is about 75%. it is a modernization of snow white.  Dad is an oil tycoon. mom dies, dad remaries gold digging step-mother. step-mother angry that snow white is set to inherit every thing, leavening, Her penniless. tries to have snow white killed. snow white takes refuge in the oil field here she is protected by the workers on a oil rig. the rest is much the same as the original.

Thumbnails

Value Comp.

Photoshoped photo reference.

Almost completed painting. check back later to see the finished piece.

I recently have been attending the life drawing sessions offered at the "Art Shop" in Springville, to help me keep up on my life drawing skills. This is my drawing from todays session 09/01/12. The life drawing class is open to the public 10 am- 1pm, and the cost is 10$ for three hours. so not to bad a price. a lot of it is do it yourself, but you can receive instruction and pointers if you ask for them.

here is a piece i did for fun of princess zelda.  a friend ask if i could draw her. i at the time i wasn't sure. so after looking at some photos and reference shots this is what i came up with. line drawing is done on paper and cleaned up in photo shop. the coloring was all done digitally in photoshop.

first real attempt at taking a pencil sketch and digitally inking and coloring it. 

the new Batman movie inspired me to do a Batman themed sketch.  enjoy.

Inked

Colored

who doesn't love a little spiderman?

spiderman fan art.

A few femme fatales of our favorite marvel comic heros. Mystique, Madame Hydra, Enchantress Amora, Lady Bulls-eye, and Dark Phoenix

All in a dwarfs day work.

This is a personal project i am working on. it started out as just a head sketch of a dwarf profile. i got he idea for the face as i was driving home from work one day and saw the shadow that one mnt. ride was casting on another, and thought it made a really cool face profile silhouette, so i sketched out  a rough really quick and built it from there. its cool what inspiration nature can provide.

Line drawing sketch

 start of the value mapping, a little more work to be done value wise.

here is the full black and white value paiting.  the next step is to add color by applying thin washes of color using a gel layer.

Project #4 figure painting, spring 2012

"the spirit of spring"

Project #3 figure painting, spring 2012.

"Al at the work bench"

we had to do a figure painting of some one working. i work for, springville city in the parks and rec department. one of my co workers is named, al, and every winter he sharpens the blades for the chain saws they use for the urban forestry department.

Project #2 figure painting, spring 2012

Project #1 for my figure painting class this pass semester. This class was my first go at figure painting. i really enjoy painting the human figure, because it is something we all can relate to see as we are all human. the best part about the human figure is that all it takes is the slight change in guester or tilting of the head, or placing of the arm and you have a story. 

Digital Painting Class

Montgomery G. Bearington III. distiller of world finest honeybee whiskey

Montgomery's pesky neighbor, Jed, the field rat. Always getting into Montgomery's fine whisky

everybody needs a refrigerator like this one. elegant yet striking in its design.

a rhino on a motorcycle, need i say more.

self portrait. this is what you get when you have a nerd with somewhat of an art inclination

the assignment was to design a album cover. i am a huge fan of Bon Iver's self title album, and was largely influences buy its water color illustration on the cover.

Illustration II

Cliche: a new take on a an olds cliche of ponoccio.

A illustration for an article titled "the myth of the 8 hour sleep."

The article's title: " Stiletto's making a comeback." An article about Maine, trying to pass legislation to legalize the use of stiletto knifes for the use of one armed people in the event of a "knife emergency."

Metaphor Illustration: which at this time i have forgotten.

Word Illustration: Strength

conceptual portrait of Robert Downy Jr.