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2012-02-15T09:48:00.001-08:00

Warm Up Sketches - 2.15.2012

2012-02-07T09:26:00.000-08:00

Trinity
Another sketch trade that I did with Scott Gwynn. He interned with us for the past nine months (at Disney) and I am lucky to have become his bestest friend in the whole wide world. Check out his work it's really great! Here's the one that I got [Click Here] As you can see I made out like a bandit.

2012-01-10T06:55:00.000-08:00

Warm Up Sketch

2011-12-21T09:21:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 20
All Done!

2011-12-16T12:01:00.001-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 19

2011-12-15T11:47:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 18

2011-12-13T10:42:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 17
I'm catching up now.

2011-12-13T09:32:00.000-08:00

Snow mixed with Smog

2011-12-13T08:49:00.001-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 16

2011-12-12T14:29:00.001-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 15

2011-12-09T08:31:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 14
I'm still hanging in there! Work has been super busy but I am going to muscle through it.

2011-12-01T09:43:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 13

2011-11-30T08:24:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 12

2011-11-22T08:42:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 11

2011-11-21T07:51:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 10

2011-11-16T12:27:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 9
So I feel the need to explain myself, mostly because I'm feeling a little self conscious about the quality or craftsmanship of what I have been posting lately. The Book-A-Day project has always been about getting as many book ideas formulated in a single month as possible. That means that I really only have about an hour and a half to create each cover before I need to get back to the work that puts food on the table. So, please excuse the execution, it's all about the idea.

2011-11-15T17:00:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 8

2011-11-09T12:12:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 7

2011-11-08T09:28:00.001-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 6

2011-11-08T09:27:00.001-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 5

2011-11-07T09:17:00.000-08:00

Book-A-Day: Book 4

2011-11-03T08:12:00.000-07:00

Book-A-Day: Book 3

2011-11-02T12:14:00.000-07:00

Book-A-Day: Book 2

2011-11-01T09:36:00.000-07:00

Book-A-Day: Book 1
Inspired by the great Jed Henry some fellow artists and I have started a courageous effort to create a book a day for the next 20 working days. I'll be posting them through thick and thin until the end. If you'd like to see my fellow artist friends ideas follow the links! Jason Kim and Matthew Armstrong

2011-10-31T21:37:00.000-07:00

Utah Museum of Natural History - Grand OpeningThe Museum has just completed a brand new building to house it's many wonderful artifacts and exhibits. I was honored to be apart of it by contributing artwork to an entire children's section called "Our Backyard" as well as some other exhibits. The above is a small section of the over 400' of murals that I created for the Permanent Exhibit.
The Museum opens to the public for a Grand Opening Community Gala on November 17th, 2011. Gather up your young ones and come for a lot of fun! You can purchase tickets for the Grand Opening here.

2011-10-21T14:48:00.000-07:00

A late warmup sketch

2011-10-03T08:37:00.000-07:00

Warm up sketches. The key to warm up sketches is to find good reference that inspires new ideas. Most of the time I type in a random description into gettyimages.com and up pops plenty of great reference to start from.

2011-09-22T12:15:00.000-07:00

Another warm up sketch... some more Hunger Games fan art - Flowers for Rue.

2011-09-12T09:07:00.000-07:00

Hunger Games fan art. A warm up sketch of Katniss from this morning.

2011-08-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

West Valley Trax Line Poster

This is a poster I just completed for the new West Valley Trax Line. The poster will be given out to Dignitaries, Heads of State, and the who's who of anything to do with UTA. It was a lot of fun to do and quite challenging because of the short amount of time I had to do it in.

2011-08-01T08:03:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3: The Video Game Concept Art

2011-08-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3: The Video Game Concept Art

The below vehicles were paint over's of 3D models to help clarify paint schemes and prop attachments.

The below Goo Machine here went through several different looks. I think the original concept came from Sebastien Gallego and Matthew Armstrong. This was my version of it.

2011-08-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3: The Video Game Concept Art

2011-08-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3: The Video Game Concept Art

The below concept was painted in collaboration with Lee Phung another concept artist at Disney. I did the layout drawing, he painted the building textures and I completed it off by adding in the environment and props.

Props for Sid's Haunted House

The below concept of Frankenstein's Lab was a paint over of a screen shot from the game. The basic geometry and lights were there as well as some textures. I painted in the lighting, effects, and some minor geometry changes.

2011-08-01T07:37:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3: The Video Game Concept Art

2011-07-13T09:29:00.000-07:00

Another morning Warm Up

2011-07-05T09:21:00.000-07:00

Warm up done in Painter. I referenced the model from Ron Spears Art blog. Looks like he is having a lot of fun!

2011-03-24T06:28:00.000-07:00

City Creek Countdown Clock Concepts
I had the opportunity to concept a Countdown Clock that will sit at the entrance to the new multi-billion dollar City Creek Center in downtown Salt Lake City. The clock counts down the days until completion in 2012.
The final reveal. The actual clock was built by Corporate Staging Resources headed up by the amazingly talented Jeffery Berke.

This is one of the final concepts that is closest to the completed clock. I did several versions for the client to mull over.

After a shape direction was chosen I designed all of the elements in Adobe Illustrator. Then built a 3D model in Google Sketchup, Applied my design and textures and then nudged things around until it felt right.

Here's some tighter rough drawings of various shapes. I started out with smaller thumbnails that the client kept and showed around.

2011-03-21T08:15:00.000-07:00

Toy Story 3: The Video Game Concept Artwork

It's been an amazing past couple of years! I was privileged to work on Toy Story 3: The Video Game as a concept artist of which I will be posting my concept work here. I worked with some incredible artists on this project and I am extremely happy about the positive response from critics, consumers, and fans. The game was voted Best Family Game of 2010 and has been a huge hit globally, thanks to the passionate team at Disney Interactive Studios (SLC)!

2010-12-02T08:56:00.000-08:00

Driving home last night I caught a glimpse of this beautiful view. I tried to recreate it this morning from memory.

2010-11-30T11:25:00.000-08:00

Here's more freelance work. This time it's for LDS Living Magazine.

2010-11-30T11:17:00.000-08:00

Here are some images that I created for the Friend Magazine

2010-11-30T11:02:00.000-08:00

Is this blog still up? I've been so busy that I nearly forgot about it. Sorry. Here are some pieces that I worked on as part of a lunch study group with Sebastien Gallego, Sam Nielsen, & Josh Black to name a few.

2010-02-03T13:59:00.000-08:00

My friend and fellow office mate at Disney Matthew Armstrong was kind enough to share one of his homemade photoshop brushes with me. It's a sweet brush and was begging for use in a political portrait. And who better that the man himself Barack Obama.

2010-02-03T13:54:00.000-08:00

Minnie Mouse Princess - I'm not sure what to say about this image, other than the fact that it was created for the Avalanche challenge on 'Disney Princess'. I knew I wanted to take an existing character from Disney's line up and turn her into a princess, but now that I've created her it disturbs me a little to look at it.

2010-01-29T07:38:00.000-08:00

Recent Head studies from life

2010-01-21T12:01:00.000-08:00

This is a stylized concept painting of the house that I grew up in as a kid. Many Saturday mornings much like this one I would come out on the porch in my underwear yelling "I have the power!!!" That's from the cartoon show "He-Man" for those who don't know.

2010-01-12T08:17:00.000-08:00

Work has been extremely busy these days, not including the holidays. So here's some recent freelance work as well as a landscape study.

2009-11-24T10:06:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-19T08:21:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-10-02T10:49:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-09-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-09-29T09:05:00.000-07:00

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'

2009-09-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-07-30T11:52:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-07-20T12:48:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-06-16T07:29:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-06-12T11:22:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-06-11T12:33:00.000-07:00

Today's 30 minute speed painting.

2009-06-11T10:50:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-06-10T11:54:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-05T11:41:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-04-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

Another Friday, another Figure Drawing

2009-04-22T11:07:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-04-03T09:29:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-04-03T09:15:00.000-07:00

2009-03-23T08:22:00.001-07:00

2009-03-18T07:22:00.000-07:00

Some more figure drawing.

2009-03-02T19:50:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-01-23T08:17:00.001-08:00

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

2008-12-22T07:20:00.001-08:00

'Pisces' This is a work in progress and I'll post updates to it as it gets finished. It's for the monthly challenge at work on the topic of 'Zodiac'.

2008-12-22T07:17:00.000-08:00

Another freelance project. This is a cover to Chico News & Review's '2008 Year in Review' issue which comes out this week.

2008-12-06T09:41:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas! Ho, ho, ho!!!
Another freelance assignment. This is the fourth year in row that I have been privileged to do a Christmas Card Illustration for 'Omniture'. Steve Gustavson is the Designer/Art Director on this one.

2008-12-05T09:30:00.000-08:00

Here's a recently completed 'two page spread' freelance illustration for Tahitian Noni's International magazine called 'Tradewinds'. The Design on the left was created by none other than the great Shawn Hansen. Although this was a tight turnaround it was a lot of fun to do.

2008-12-05T09:15:00.000-08:00

Another day of figure drawing. The model was deathly skinny, so it was more about getting the curve of the bones right and not the much needed curves a little fat adds.

2008-11-21T09:18:00.000-08:00

Here's a portrait study done in the Figure drawing session this morning.

2008-10-27T08:43:00.000-07:00

Here's another Digital 'N.C. Wyeth' study. I was amazed at all of the color variation in his piece of which I tried to capture here. The other thing I learned in recreating this is how the purplely color in the clouds is really the same hue as the yellow/orange color only desaturated.

2008-10-24T08:29:00.000-07:00

I recently finished these illustrations for a weekly paper in Reno called 'Reno News & Review'. The Larger one is the cover and the smaller 1/4 page illustrations ran on the inside. This was for their 'Best of Edition' which focused on things to do in Reno with such topics as 'Night Life, Green, Kids & Family, Fun & Gaming, Personalities, The Outdoors, Dining, etc.'

2008-09-23T12:50:00.000-07:00

A really loose landscape study done for fun. This took about 30 min.

2008-09-22T12:37:00.000-07:00

This is a digital study I did in about 45 minutes using Corel Painter. It's a detail from a 'Cornwell' painting.

2008-09-19T09:31:00.000-07:00

Another figure drawing from the session at work.

2008-09-12T10:10:00.000-07:00

A Sketch done this morning at the figure drawing session at work.

2008-08-27T19:50:00.000-07:00

Another Avalanche/Disney Challenge 'Snow Monster'. Only mine ended up being a tiger princess.... go figure.

2008-08-27T12:01:00.000-07:00

Here's my feeble attempt at doing a 'Sparth' type of environment. He's so good.

2008-08-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

This is a water bottle label that I created for Maverik's version of their 'Water for Sale'. I did the original sketch, it was then tightened up by Peter Sakievich and finished off by Myself and Blake Loosli. Although I think it's still going thru some more revisions.

2008-08-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

Here's my painting of a Zombie Highlander which is one of the weekly 'Avalanche' challenges. The drawing is by none other than Joe Olson a fellow artist at Disney. I work there now as a concept artist and I am enjoying the company of such great artists.

2008-06-20T15:53:00.000-07:00

Here's a little cover illustration for an article on "bigotry and resentment towards illegal immigrants" for Chico News and Review which is a local weekly paper in Chico California.

2008-05-13T21:30:00.000-07:00

A quick Painter study created just for fun. The photo reference was found on a photographers website and I would giver her credit because she had really great work only I can't remember what her name was. Tehehehehe

2008-04-17T07:41:00.000-07:00

Snow Viking - created with pencil on paper and painted in Corel Painter.

2008-03-24T16:05:00.000-07:00

Hmmm, What could I do with Red Hair and Doilies?

2008-03-18T12:27:00.000-07:00

A little character sketch inspired by the character design in the film 'Spiderwick Chronicles'. I also played with a technic on this piece that is so well demonstrated by the great Ryan Wood and Todd Harris over at Avalanche. Check out their sweet blogs!

2008-02-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

Color key created as a sample for one of my clients.

2008-01-21T15:44:00.000-08:00

Yet another color key, these are a lot of fun to do!

2008-01-21T13:24:00.000-08:00

Olde Norse Viking created with a ball point pen and water color.

2008-01-14T22:19:00.000-08:00

I'm trying my hand at doing color keys or mood boards associated with pre-production artwork used in film production.

2008-01-14T21:10:00.000-08:00

Madame Mermaid

2008-01-01T20:32:00.000-08:00

I've collected quite a few cloud photos over the years and I finally decided to do something with them. This one is a little color comp done in painter for fun.

2007-12-22T21:36:00.000-08:00

A little cloud painting done in Painter with some brushes given to me by Peter Sakievich who "borrowed" them from Don Seegmiller. I am happy with the color scheme but the brushes ended up creating some really soft edges, so I took it into photoshop and tightened it up a little.

2007-12-11T06:38:00.000-08:00

A little sketch inspired by the latest snow fall in Salt Lake City, I hope you enjoy.

2007-11-17T12:25:00.000-08:00

Here's a personal project I have been working on for a while. And by working on for a while I mean 5 min. once every two weeks for the past year, and three of those five are just remixing my oils again. Anyhoo, any comments for improvement on this are welcome, I am having a lot of fun using oils again but I still need a lot of practice.