Candlelight Media Videos Released

Several months ago I did freelance work for Candlelight Media Group for a couple of DVD covers. One was for a new movie called The Beautiful Beast and the other was Discovering Emma. Both DVD's are now available for purchase at Desert Book online

Discovering Emma

The Beautiful Beast

Here is my work on the website

This artwork was modified by the production staff at Candlelight, but I did a good chunk of the upper image.

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.

The Beautiful Beast / Candlelight Media Group

I have been hired again for another job with Candlelight Media Group. This is their newest movie The Beautiful Beast, they sent me images to "Hollywood" the poster

Here is the original Background

Here is the Original Photo

and after a great deal of photoshopping, and critique from the client, we have the poster that you see above.

A super fun Romantic Comedy Movie Poster.

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.

Angry Gnome Comics

Well I have been hired to finally draw for a real live Comic Book!!

I was asked to draw a 2 page spread for a small publication named Angry Gnome Comics, true it is not Marvel or DC but you have to start somewhere.

The pages were written by Mario DeAngelis

Willy Juan-Cah' the Candy Bandito

I think my white whale will be to get a shirt selected by threadless.com.... I have a new goal.

Threadless gets thousands upon thousands of submissions and very few make to completion of printed T-Shirts, my goal is to be one of those select few.

This is my third attempt at getting printed, it is called "Willy Juan-Cah' the Candy Bandito"

please go to the link above and underneath the two drawings and vote for my t-shirt, the more votes and the higher the rating, the closer I am to capturing my white whale...

I really loved creating this design and getting to completion. I had several design friends of mine give me input until I felt it was just right.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

Kim's Tattoo

I was commissioned by a friend, Kim Allen, to design a tattoo she was looking to get 

She loves Sunflowers and Music so she was looking for something feminine and very nice

I came up with this concept and she approved with very minor adjustments

and here is the finished art for her tattoo.

Utah FM Benefit Poster

I was commissioned by local DJ Angie Jantz to illustrate a spoof of Hot Shots part Duex for their annual benefit concert. I did the stations poster last year and this year they wanted to have a very funny image to promote the event.

I did a photo Illustration in photoshop of Charlie Sheen's WINNING face over the old Hot Shot's Part Deux movie poster... surprisingly he hasn't changed that much.

Photo Illustration / Photoshop

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

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

LOST's Island

So I was sitting on my couch watching the greatest show on earth... LOST!!! And I got to thinking.. "Hmm.. I see some very close similarities to another T.V. show I used to watch" and so 'We are all LOST' was born.

Done in graphite of 11"X 17" Bristol - A mix of LOST / Gilligan's Island-The Minnow in the back ground reflecting Oceanic 815, Ginger and Mary-Ann replaced by Kate and Juliette... Sun and Jin as Thurston and Lovey...Sawyer as The Professor and Jack and John Locke as Gilligan and the Skipper.This is a color version of the drawing. I colored it in Photoshop and submitted it to http://www.threadless.com/submission/268474/We_are_all_LOST

vote for my drawing and if enough people do they will print it on a t-shirt!!!
So go vote NOW!!!

If the end of the show they run across the Minnow sitting in a Lagoon.... just know I called it.

Sales Cartoon 2

The sales team asked me to do another cartoon..now this one I know I have seen this one before , but hey they ask me to produce..I produce.
Pencil sketch colored in photoshop

Superman

I was asked to draw Superman for a client in pencil..so I did, I didn't take to much time (the budget was very low) maybe a hour or so. After I got done I wanted to see what it looked like colored so I took it into Photoshop and colored it up...it was a fun afternoon.