Another morning Warm Up

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

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.

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)!

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

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

Here are some images that I created for the Friend Magazine

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.

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.

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.

Recent Head studies from life

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.

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

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.