Found a new fave.

I just discovered a new artist to add to the favourites. Mike Kim. He's done work for Wizards of the Coast and other companies I desire to work for as well. He's an amazing painter.

Waiting on you Wacom...

I just finished tweaking the last of my recently scanned sketches, preparing them for my Flick'r sketchbook album. The quantity is depressing. There are so few sketches it makes me feel like I'm totally dropping the ball in that area. I really need to step it up. I just wish I had a portable digital sketching solution. I own a Wacom Cintiq interactive display and always fantasize about that platform incorporated into a nice tablet style PC. I would absolutely love that! I'd take it with me everywhere and sketch using Painter X.

So I'm going to make an effor to sketch at least 2-5 sketches every day. I'm going to start that today. For now I will be sketching images from movies I'm watching, or books I'm reading. Their not going to be exercises in ideation so much as an effort to keep my hand moving in an artistic manner.

Death's Carriage

I created this on October 2011. It was for the ImagineFX forum art challenge of the same month. The theme that month was "Death." The winner of the challenge gets his/her image in the magazine. With this design I wanted to create something I had an idea for a long time ago, but also stick along the lines of "character" concept painting. Something that could be used in a video game development pipeline. I'm relatively happy with the end result here.

Spider Man 2012

Created in June 2011 for the ImagineFX forum art challenge of that month. The theme that month was "insanity." I was disqualified from the challenge that month for not providing the links to the WiP's properly, but I did win image of the day with this design and was invited to be featured on the ImagineFX DVD that is bundled with the magazine. I'm still not sure when the DVD will be released or if I even met the deadline with providing the designs, but I subscribe to the magazine and check the DVD's every month.

Lipstick Face

This is a 45 minute speed painting I created in April of 2011, after watching the horror movie Insidious. I was absolutely creeped out by that film. It actually reminded me what it was like to be 6 years old, afraid of the dark. A feeling I cherish, at my 29 years of age. When I came home from the film I was compelled to create my own rendition of one of the characters from the film. I won't spoil anything, but if you haven't seen the film the you absolutely must.

Monkey Business

Created in August 2010, as a gift for a colleague I used to work with at the Art Institute of Las Vegas. I was a student worker in the career services department while I attended school there. My friend told me how she had always requested various students to create this concept she had. I was able to pitch this design as a project for one of my classes and killed two birds with one stone.

ProtoType

This was created some time near the end 2009. It's a poster designed to promote the album ProtoType, by ProperDose (my old band). This designed served two purposes; A poster that doubled as album art. I created it so it could fold up neatley and allow graphics for type to be inserted allong the certain sections of the left wing.

I also created the artwork on the disc itself.