Homework Number #5

 This assignment was the most time consuming and the most challenging... but it was the most fun and I love that I get to show you my process from beginning bluelines to full colors.

First I lay out my pages in blue line non reproducible pencil.

Then using graphite I start laying in all the details

Using Micron Pens I ink in the piece

Then into Photoshop to do the computer coloring.

Then into Illustrator to do the borders and text.

The four part process.

This assignment was fun to get into the principles of complete pages.

Thank you to The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art for the amazing education.

Excelsior!

Angry Gnome Comics / The Third Act

This is my second story I have done for Angry Gnome Comics. I really enjoyed doing these pages because it had the detective noir genre. I loved playing with the deep shadows and grey tones.

Discovering Emma

Recently I have been hired by a couple of different companies to do some photoshop work for them and that led to this project. Discovering Emma is a the story of Emma Smith the wife of Joseph Smith the mormon leader. The company that hired me, Candlelight Media Group had created the top DVD cover for there distribution of the film, but were very unhappy with final result.

They sent me stills from the film and they wanted more realism and a rustic/pioneer tone to the piece. There are several versions of this DVD cover, but this is the one they ultimately choose.

Photoshopping and creating is a great art form, but it takes a lot of time and a great knowledge of the program to make everything work for you, I have great respect for people that do great photoshoped film posters after doing my one DVD cover.

Buddhist Priest! Threadless design

I am at it again!! I am trying one more time to get my design printed on threadless.com, it is my goal!

This submission is a funny little idea and a couple of cute illustrations, it is a mashup of the classic Heavy Metal band Judas Priest and a couple of religious people.

Here is the original logo for the Heavy Metal band

Here are my sketches of my two religious people

And here is the final product!!!

I did the logo and finished Illustrations in Adobe Illustrator and the sketches on paper with graphite.

I have submitted it and now I hope it gets approved!!

Wish me luck, Namaste!

Short Keys for CS5

This is nice quick reference chart for Illustrator, since I use it ALL the time this will be handy to have. It is mostly just for me to look here really quick, instead of trying to find this in the web somewhere, when I need to add a quick anchor point. 

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Desert Star Back Drops

I was approached by the Desert Star Theater to create some backdrops for them like I did in 2008 fo rtheir show "Wizard of Odd". This year it was for "The Bi-Polar Express"

These drops have to be done in a very short turnaround process, 4 weeks altogether.
1 week of comps and brainstorming to get the feel for the drops they want. Now these drops had existing drops that were painted by hand and now they have a set for their dinner theater also, so they can run the show in both theaters at the same time.

They needed a drop to look like the interior of a train car with section in the windows that they will cut out.


This drop was hard because of all the toys and trying to get them to look like they were all individually painted... which they are but you really have to see the detail of the drop to see the painting effect, from a distance they look very picturesque.

This drop was the funnest one to do..it just was really easy and I had fun with it.. of course it was the one that went the fastest.
Each drop took about a week to do and they turned out well. It is a project that could use a lot more time, but time is not an option I have as a freelance artist

Digital Art done in Illustrator and Photoshop CS5

YOGA Sketch

I am going to try to hit up threadless.com again.. but this time I am going to try this sketch. The word Yoga illustrated in people doing Yoga positions.
So this is the basic premise, I will put this into Illustrator and make it a nice tight vector image for shirts... I hope this one works.
Graphite on paper.

Crest

One of my latest projects was to help a client come up with a family crest. Well when I say help I mean I illustrated and she just told me what to do.
This was her initial sketch of what she wanted and the final image is what we came up with.

After several emails and sketches we started to move forward. She wanted the classic animals protecting the crest and choose a swan and a bear (but she wanted the bear to look like the classic lions that you see in a crest) so there were a ton of elements added and changed.

Here is the final version of the crest once it was finally decided on. The process was several forms of media, traditional drawings for the animals, Adobe Illustrator for the placement and layout, and Adobe Photoshop for the coloring and effects added to the crest.
All in all it was around 25 concept drawings and samples and around a week of solid working to get it to her liking.

Pencil, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5