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.

'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'.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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

Another figure drawing from the session at work.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Madame Mermaid

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.

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.

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

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.

A detail of the face that I've repainted for the third time. There still is a lot of work to be done especially on the likeness. These oil paints are tricky! There aint no command Z!

This ones for you Peter.
It's a concept sketch that I created from my head only after being inspired by some of the visuals found in the latest live action Peter Pan movie. This was a lot of fun to do.... dang those concept artist who have all the glory.

My version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. It's still a work in progress and there is a lot of painting left to do, so if you have any comments on this work in progress I would love to hear it.

Another doodle from my sketchbook that I scanned in and meant to finish off more, but I just haven't had the time. So here it is anyway with some basic color blocked in.

My poster for "Lilly & the Raccoons" which is an animated property that I recently created and pitched down at the San Diego Comic Con. People loved it! And I am currently choosing between several options for distribution and production. To watch a teaser of Lilly & the Raccoons along with more information about the show visit 8fishanimation.com

Here's an Angel book cover I have been working on for a while, finally it's completed. This was done for fun so its hard to find time to work on it amongst the list of paying jobs and tight deadlines.