True love! Can't you just feel it!?

Every weekend my Four year old daughter and I try and get some painting or drawing time in. One of us will start something that the other will be inspired to emulate. In this case my nephew joined us and started doing an Octopus. I pulled out the acrylic paints, dusted them off and came up with this version.

I recently picked up an Ipod Touch for myself, I then downloaded the Sketchbook Mobile App, purchased the Pogo Stylus, went to a figure drawing session and here's the result. All in all I'm pretty happy with the tools. On the ipod touch screen the colors were more subdued, I resisted the urge to fix them in photoshop so you could see it in it's orginal form. This was done in about and hour.

Another editorial project for Chico News & Review. Far left is the cover and included are the two inside spot illustrations. This was a lot of fun to do!

Here's my sketches and mood board that was created for an editorial project a little while ago. The Art Director doesn't mind it when I experiment with other styles (Which is a lot of fun!) but I do include a mood board so he's not surprised at the delivery of the final image. And to give him the chance to say whether or not the style will fit the audience.

Here's the final image. The article was on the 'Blessings of hard work'

I've been super busy lately with freelance work which hasn't given me much time to post. So here's some older client work that I did while working at 8fish which was done in collaboration with some of the great artists there.

I've been doing a 'Sketch Trade' with artist that I know and work with. These are two of the ones I sketched and traded.

I was bed-ridden this past week and a half with the Flu, Sinus Infection, & Eye infections. Whenever I try to explain how I felt now one can really visualize it. So I drew a picture!

This is a study from an Ashley Wood Painting. I really enjoy his brush work so I tried to accomplish that here with a new custom brush I created in painter. After I figure out why it won't let me export the brush, I'll share it here on my blog.

Another day of speed painting. For those who may be wondering, speed painting is painting from photographic reference (Usually found on the web) in 30 minutes and done digitally (on the computer). This one was much more successful than my first two. Probably because I chose the picture this time.

Today's 30 minute speed painting.

I finally had some time to do an Art Challenge at work on the topic of 'Land of OZ'. No time for color, so here's the sketch.

We had a speed painting challenge (30 minutes to complete) today at work. Here's the result!

Here's a little digital study that I did in about 45 min. I did it as warm up sketch. At the original size you can really see how loose it is, but scaled down it looks a lot tighter.

Another Friday, another Figure Drawing

Here's an old digital painting portrait that I did as a demo for my students at SLCC. Thanks to Rita for posing for it.

Here's a drawing of a Ballerina that my 3 year old daughter sketched up. I scanned it in then painted it in Painter. We gave it as a gift to my Mom (Grandma) on her birthday.

Some more figure drawing.

These are two of six character designs I did for an animated series pitch. It's hush, hush so don't ask what the project is. Thanks to 8fish for including me in on the project.

Another morning at figure drawing. I had some extra time so I painted it up.