ipad paintings

Here are a few more quick ipad paintings I've done lately. Rather than try to paint an entire scene, I've been focusing on capturing one effect more closely. It's fun to do as a warmup or a little note on light and color effects, and I'm learning a lot!

 The first on is a 10-ish minute painting of a gold statue at the Museum of African Art, and the one below is my mug of tea. It had this weird yellow-greenish color at the top that gradated down to a warm brown-red at the bottom as the depth increased, super interesting. The ellipse of the cup here is terrible though. I need to work on ellipse drawing in perspective!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Spring is almost here!

Fashion Thumbnails

I love the Hel Looks fashion blog, and every once in a while I'll do some black and white studies in Sharpie to get some cool fashion ideas. It's interesting to note which outfits work because of their contrasting value, and which ones completely fall apart in grayscale without the warm and cool colors that play off one another. One thing they all have is a good or unusual silhouette. The second half of the page is a more down-to-earth set of styles.

Elrod the Hilbilly

Here are the pencil sketches for a character I was drawing for fun the other day while watching "Call of the Wildman". That show has all kinds of crazy-looking people that are more bizarre than anything I could think up on my own. It's awesome!

Also, a random page of character exploration stuff, just to show I haven't been slacking on my visdev work TOO much

De Young goodness

I've been on kind of a dog kick lately, so when I saw a pair of these life-size pups carved into a mantelpiece at the De Young museum today, I had to take pictures.

There was other cool stuff too, including a head study by Frank Duveneck that blew me away. What a painter!

I'm still figuring out the best camera settings like shutter speed, color stuff etc, so no complaining if the photos are a bit blurry or weird colors. Also, I'm getting a weird lens distortion. One of these days I'll figure out how to photoshop that out. 

More dog stuff

I did these a couple of months ago, just for fun. I think I was looking at the amazing Jin Kim's concept art for Bolt at the time.

At the dog beach

We went to the dog beach today and it was a lot of fun watching all the unleashed dogs running around like crazy! My favorite was when they form a 'dog tornado', chasing each other in circles and gathering more and more dogs as they go. 

There was also a white bird, I think it was an egret, wading around in the ice plant nearby. They are very graceful and seem to be fearless of humans and dogs.