Rays of Sunshine

Illustration for The Friend Magazine

Painting & Design Process

This video captures my standard process for creating illustrations. I then put it into a design to show the application.

Tonko House Homework Assignment #1

This is a video capture of the Homework assignment that I did after taking "Painting with Light and Color with Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo" a Schoolism.com class.

Merry Christmas!

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City of Temples

Here's a recently published illustration for the cover of the July New Era Magazine

Disney Infinity - Guardians of the Galaxy Play-Set

Guardians Hover Bike Concepts

Disney Infinity 2.0 - Avengers Frost Giant

Disney Infinity 3.0 - Star Wars!

It's been hard to keep this one quiet but now that it's been announced... Star Wars is coming to Disney Infinity! We are still working hard on it but as you can see from the latest Game Informer Cover it's going to be great! I got the privileged to design this cover. I hope you like it!

Disney Infinity - Spider-man Mashup

Spider-man Play Set Mashup Concept

Color Study

Environment Color Study

Disney Infinity - Marvel

Disney Infinity Toy Box - Hall of Heroes Concept

Toy Story in Space - Zurg Bots

Disney Infinity's Toy Story in Space - Zurg Bot explorations

These designs were heavily influenced by the amazing talents of Jason Kim and Sebastien Gallego. Honestly, they did all of the heavy lifting here. I got lucky to come in at the end to combine everything together for these final designs.

Toy Story in Space - Zurg Boss Battle

Another exploration trying to visually define the world of Toy Story in Space 

Toy Story in Space - Broken Planet Concept

Early concept for the Toy Story in Space Play-Set for Disney Infinity

Toy Story in Space - Disney Infinity

Toy Story in Space Environment Exploration

It begins. I now have permission to start posting some of my Disney Infinity Concept Artwork. I will be going back to the year 2010 for some of the earliest explorations. I hope you enjoy!

Skee-hole-ez

My friend and at one time fellow studio com-padre Thomas Scholes creates amazing out of this world landscapes. A jewel which finds its ways into each of his landscapes is a simple figure. While simple, these figures tell a story as if a traveler on a journey into the world he has created. The above is a winter landscape sketch with a stolen Skee-hole-ez figure.

The First Noel - Lexi Walker - Artwork

I recently had the opportunity to help out TML Studios on a Christmas video for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints entitled The First Noel with Lexi Walker. I created these early Color Keys which served to inform the Mood, Staging, and Visual Design.

I also did a bit of 3D Modeling and UV work for the Nativity Scene. I am not a 3D artist and so the crude 'Hand Carved' style worked well with my limited 3D skills.

I hope it will bring a greater measure of Christmas joy into your life. Enjoy!

Helen Chen Style Study

Helen Chen is a wonderful artist. She recently shared her brushes on her tumblr site and so this is a study using them as well as being inspired by her visual style. Also, here is the original reference image.

Helmet Sketch