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.