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.

My 1st Commission!

When it was revealed that I was an artist I was asked if I could do a drawing a of grandfather. For payment!

I'm brand new to the whole art world but to be commissioned for my art??? Now that's way over my head! But, I found out what it's like to be paid for something you actually don't consider work and I must say, it's nothing like I've ever experienced before! It's actually pretty cool!

Here's the grandpa I was to draw:


Go easy on me for this one, it was my first time attempting a portrait. I know there are MANY of mistakes (for those of you that have done this countless times) on this one but the most important thing is that I learned a lot from this experience.

They'll be plenty more heads in the future.

gesture drawing class '08, the best of

Here are what I consider my best gesture drawings for spring '08. I'm pretty pleased at the results seeing how I jumped right in with the big dogs (see my Classmates links on the right) a week after being accepted into the program.

While others who were accepted with my group were out soaking up summer vacation I got a head start [diabolical laughter here]!! MUUH HA HA HA!!

Naw, knowing my luck they'll still draw circles around me when Fall classes start.
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These I consider my fashion sketches because I really accentuated the poses and clothes, which is what fashion designers do when they design new clothes. The model had tons of fun this day.

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Normally I had a bit of challenge drawing jackets but before we got started Ryan found out and informed us that the jacket the model was sporting was an authentic Vietnam war jacket and to incorporate a story in our drawings.

I think with this info I paid more attention to how I was going to design the jacket on the model, and the above is what resulted. Funny how knowing little history changes your outlook and attitudes on seemingly mundane persons and/or objects.