Urban Idiot

props

2011-05-04T17:44:00.000-07:00

Trying to do more props in an animation style

refinement

2011-03-31T04:31:00.000-07:00

car sketch

2011-03-14T03:41:00.000-07:00

I have a lot more still to do...crap.

rough gun sketches

2011-02-28T21:36:00.000-08:00

these are quite primitive still, proportions need refinement. These are inspired by "Appleseed".

more work in progress

2010-12-11T20:54:00.001-08:00

Still working on refining these both.

just doodles

2010-12-05T00:44:00.000-08:00

Wanted to take a break from the usual stuff and decided to revisit an old drawing and fix it up. After watching Tangled I was inspired to make the sketch more Disney like. I was going for Princess Leia meets Mucha. I don't draw figures usually, so this feels really awkward to me!

work in progress

2010-11-23T23:10:00.000-08:00

This seems like it will never be finished, always feels it needs something more.

2010-11-02T00:50:00.000-07:00

Had a dry spell, lots of busywork sending out portfolios . Finally, some time to do some of my own stuff!

Study of Scott Christensen

Work in Progress (needs a ship! yay....excuse to do a vehicle!)

Some crappy sketches of Hawaii and LA shopping areas... practice makes perfect!

sketches from life

2010-06-11T01:18:00.001-07:00

sketches from Honolulu, Hawaii

Visual Development for Jules Verne's "Michael Strogoff, Courier to the Czar"

2010-04-03T22:30:00.000-07:00

quick sketches

2010-02-01T00:04:00.001-08:00

exterior landscapes

2010-01-31T23:52:00.000-08:00

greek outdoor reflecting pool

architecture 1 layout of a futuristic city

downtown LA, union station, olveira street studies

2009-12-25T21:30:00.001-08:00

This was an experiment on flat color, apparently it doesn't take much for form to read.

digital landscape studies

2009-12-05T16:45:00.001-08:00

Evel Kneivel in Bolt?

2009-11-30T21:39:00.000-08:00

Assignment was to put a 70's character into a modern media so I selected a shot from Bolt and painted in Evel Kneivel . I pray that I will never have to draw the underside of a motorcycle again!

Travel Town landscape paintings

2009-11-22T03:13:00.000-08:00

Landscape Studies in acrylic

Digital Studies

digital painting just cause

2009-11-22T03:02:00.000-08:00

Ang and I are doing digital studies just to practice. Here's mine:

digital landscape painting

2009-11-14T05:23:00.000-08:00

architecture!

2009-11-10T00:44:00.000-08:00

more landscape studies

2009-11-02T22:44:00.000-08:00

More digital landscape studies.

20s car designs and layouts

2009-10-03T22:58:00.000-07:00

Assignment was to create several 20's cars and then make an appropriate layout to present it with a theme, along with call outs for materials and an exploded view.

These are works in progress.

landscape studies

2009-10-03T22:51:00.000-07:00

Digital study of a fish pond at Descanso Gardens.
Gouache study, hillside campus
Digital studies of Hillside Campus.

Vehicles based on marine life

2009-06-08T18:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-13T16:05:00.000-07:00

This is a digital rough comp for an acrylic painting.

2009-04-03T00:44:00.000-07:00

vehicles as animals and architecture

2009-04-02T23:16:00.000-07:00

10 minute figure sketches from a costumed model

art deco figure as a skyscraper

2009-03-15T23:46:00.000-07:00

2009-02-05T15:50:00.000-08:00

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

cat's cradle sci fi story

2008-08-12T08:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-07-31T22:05:00.000-07:00

Escape from Destruction!

2008-07-18T03:23:00.000-07:00

physics does not apply here!

2008-05-31T05:03:00.000-07:00

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)

2008-03-10T05:20:00.000-07:00

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

2008-02-17T17:37:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-21T00:12:00.000-08:00

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!

2007-12-07T21:15:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-10T23:25:00.001-08:00

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

2007-11-10T00:47:00.000-08:00

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!

2007-09-27T03:24:00.001-07:00

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

2007-09-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-09-13T16:08:00.001-07:00

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

2007-06-12T00:56:00.001-07:00

Just had to sketch this for no reason.

transportation design

2007-06-11T18:48:00.000-07:00

quick renderings

2007-05-25T04:07:00.000-07:00

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

illustration

2007-05-25T03:51:00.001-07:00

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

whiz kid attic lab

2007-05-25T03:30:00.001-07:00

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

studies in traditional media, digital environments, other work

2007-05-25T01:50:00.000-07:00

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.