Vehicles based on marine life

Designs I did for Velazco's Viscom 4 based on a sandcrab, sea horse/dragon, and turtle, Can't believe I made it through his class alive, got my butt handed to me a couple of times.

city spaceship battle

This is a digital rough comp for an acrylic painting.

vehicles as animals and architecture

10 minute figure sketches from a costumed model

art deco figure as a skyscraper

Viscom 4 Transportation Quick Sketch pastel on newsprint 12"x36"

cat's cradle sci fi story

Steam Punk theme set in mid 1800's Story takes place in the Caribbean circa 1850. Misuse of a scientific discovery cause world to freeze over.

Two Dogs in Slumberland

Escape from Destruction!

physics does not apply here!

I did many iterations of this ship until I came up with the craziest design possible. I used a nautilus for inspiration. Really tried to push reality with this one! Rendering it was actually the fun and easy part.

I did this for Viscom 3. My left brain is having a fit with the physics of this, but my right brain is having a ball with the weird and crazy shapes.


These hovercraft designs were drawn and rendered entirely freehand in Photoshop, starting as flat silhouettes and then refined to their final form.

'Stardust' re-designs (based upon book and film)

Color Theory final project which is to re-invent the movie Stardust, redesigning the characters and scenes.

This my version of the scene where Tristan meets Yvaine for the first time after she falls to earth.


Casting of the king's jewel.
thumbnails to explore composition of Stormhold castle scene.
Fatal battle of the witch and the unicorn.

This is a rough color study.
This is Lamia, the witch. In my version, she is coy and shows a false exterior.

Did research into period costumes, Lolita and Goth fashion The features aren't based on anyone, I just imagined an ideal beauty and invented the gesture, which is why it looks a bit awkward!


The following design is for the character, Yvaine.
This is my redesign of the character "Tristan". According to the novel, he is half fairy, half human and has one pointed ear.
In the story, there is a unicorn that helps Yvaine escape and also battles the witch, impales her shoulder but receives a mortal wound.

Doodles, creature anatomy, lighting and color studies

fun doggie doodlesmore dog-gone fun ...Get outta the way and off the sidewalk!
Fantasy Creature Design

Project for "Imaginatomy" is to invent a new creature, sculpt it, and create an environment for it. Thus was born "Equus Pteropus" the "Terror Horse" of the early Oligocene era, here seen as a huge fossil museum display.

Made with sculpey clay, baked, then painted with a black base then a layer of green patina. Display background is my digital painting.


Cool and Warm Light
Exercise was to design an exterior and paint it according to cool and warm lighting conditions.


This was a limited palette study done with just 2 complementary colors plus black and white. I tried to use warm/cool contrast to bring in more variation and applied an analytical approach to grouping values and hues. The hues are mostly desaturated, which is closer to a realistic rendering.

more sketches and redesigns

Something about fighter jets that makes one's blood tingle. These redesigns wouldn't actually fly, but it's fun to give your imagination a try.

sampling of other sketches

things that go!

excerpts from my sketchbook of drawings from drawing on site at museums.

Fish have the most interesting forms and colors. I'm trying to get some redesigns done but having too much fun just playing with gouache.

animal drawings

Drawing animals at the zoo was a challenge but really fascinating. I tried to take all the several animals I studied to combine them all into a redesigned animal.




BuG mAnIA!

Bug have cool interlocking parts, once you get past the "ick" factor!

Happy Halloween!

Anyone for some weird candy?! Mmmm, tastes like bugs...

Now is the time to think of the ghosts of pets long past, perhaps to haunt us at last!

observational sketching

This work is done for visual communication 4 at ACCD.

These were done at the LA Arboretum, a much better place to draw than Huntington Gardens by far. Less people, more interesting flora, fauna, and architecture, quiet and no snobby staff or gestapo security.
Ducks are fun creatures to observe, really like their aerodynamic shape and their gestures.


Sketched this directly in pen with out any lay-in. This technique requires a thorough understanding of form and visual analysis and is great drawing practice.

This is an excerpt from my sketchbook for landscape class.

Did this surfing dog in Adobe Illustrator as a color study. This dog has a "crusin'' attitude. Next time I want to do a very, very scared dog about to be engulfed by a tsunami!

quick sketch

Just had to sketch this for no reason.

transportation design

quick renderings

This was a rendering for vis com 3, done with marker and pastel.

illustration

Attempted to capture some of the strong and self-possessed qualities in the subject.

whiz kid attic lab

Concocting new ways to command space-time in the dusty attic.

studies in traditional media, digital environments, other work

Quick sketch of a ruined city.
environment showing a mood.
This was a CGI environment I did in Alias/Maya . The concept came from a story I had in mind set in feudal China. It started with a sketch, then a color comp, then I built it using mostly nurbs. Each object was individually light linked.
Concept of a city which I modeled, textured and lighted.