Final Teapot

So I decided to post my final teapot that I came up with for Brent's class. After many passes and a serendipitous accident this is the result.

I apologize if the image is a bit grainy. I blame it on Blogger.

**Original background photograph by ConceptFurniture.net***

Future cities on ancient mountains

So ready or not here's my enviroment I did for Sam's class.

Some how it didn't exactly turn out like I saw in my head. I really want to work more on this, because I feel there is so much more potential in this piece.

P.S. Oh by the way, I finished my teapot and I wanted to post it but since I used a commercial photo for my background I'm kinda reluctant because I don't want to get sued. We'll see.

Character Design - Final Paint

This is the final painted character I designed for Sam's Digital Painting class. I originally designed a younger more actiony cowboy (because I was watching a lot of westerns that week) but Sam suggested I do a simpler pose due to the inherit complications of painting a comic book action pose.

While I was trying to figure out how to simplify my design the thought hit me to go more Don Quixote-esque. So as a result he became an old gun fighter that was the best in his day but due to his fading mind he forgets he's not young anymore.

(I realize he has no gun and I completely left out his cane but I plan on working on him some more in the future, if I ever find myself with free time...yeah...on second thought I will be coming back to this...I didn't do him much justice.)

Teapot - 1st pass

Here's my teapot and teacups I'm working on for Brent's Intro to 3-D class. There's still so many problems to work out, but this is what it looks like so far.

My first Silhouettes

Here's some silhouettes I did for Ryan Woodward's character design class. The two themes were Mad Max and Soccer Moms, and I know the Mad Max theme doesn't show in my silhouettes that much but they look pretty cool to me.

My first digital painting - monochromatic

I'm taking a digital painting class right now with Sam Nielson and I've never done any painting before much less done it digitally, so you can imagine I have to hustle to keep up with the other guys. Nevertheless, here is my first product.

This was a study in modeling and monochromatic color.

**Line art by Joe Olson**

summer sketches

Here are some random sketches.


The guy listening was very attentive, which is a quality that is rarely paid to Sunday speakers, especially at this time because most of the guys were hunched over in their seats while their wives rubbed/scratched their back. But what caught my eye was the way he alternated the tilting of his head. People are interesting creatures

P.S. please disregard the speaker's hand, it was my failed attempt to draw a fist from memory, which goes to show my visual library isn't quite up to par yet.

P.P.S. I've finally found a sure fire way of not dozing off during church: drawing!! It's like being a kid in church all over again, except without the snacks.



As for these sketches there really are no explanations other than the fact that I grew bored at work and started to doodle things that caught my eye.

All I can say is the guy with the head phone cord and jack was inspired by graphic designs of DJs, or something like that.