Thursday, December 14, 2006

mask - an epee dream


pen in sketchbook - pilot p-500 extra fine

This week's topic for Illustration Friday is Mask.

The other night, I had this dream of a masked man with an epee. Today, I continued the dream during my morning break at work...then sketched him while taking the train home.


pen in sketchbook - pilot p-500 extra fine

Dreams are a wonderful thing.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

mighty present


digital painting - corel painter

This weeks' Illustration Friday topic is "MIGHT".

Here are some additional rambling sketches for the topic, done with a Berol Verithin Sky Blue 740.5 blue pencil I found deep in my pencil case:


Friday, November 24, 2006

Invention - Da Vinci Fish Flier


digital painting - Corel Painter

Back in March of 2006, I came up with some concepts for a weekly sketch group topic Evolution. The original idea I had was how fish would eventually evolve into flying creatures. I believe Da Vinci had postulated the same theory, but no one took him seriously. Since the topic this week for the Illustration Friday is INVENTION, I decided to take one of my original sketches and paint it.


If you are curious, you can see my other Flying Fish concept sketches here.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Pre-Thanksgiving Shopping Angst


Me with a bit of angst going from store to store -
blue bic pen on Banana Republic Credit Card Application


To prepare for the upcoming crazy holiday shopping madness, Rosa and I stopped in the mall to pick up some early gifts.

I left my sketchbook in the car, but was able to snag a bic pen and this lovely little marketing booklet, which I "borrowed" from the counter for signing credit card receipts.

I wanted to capture what I saw throughout the day... with some thought bubbles on their clothing:








Monday, November 20, 2006

thanksgiving - juicy

This time of year, one should be careful what they advertise.



digital illustration - Corel Painter

This is my second Illustration Friday submission. TOPIC = Thanksgiving

Sunday, November 12, 2006

rubber ducky


digital painting - corel painter.




concept pen sketch on blue steno pad.



Now that work has slowed down a bit and my freelance gigs are all completed, I had some time to play more with Painter.

I based this sketch of a duck with rubbers and a rain coat from wooden sculptures I saw in an store window two weeks ago. They were of a mama duck and her chicks all dressed in rain coats and hats with tiny foot rubbers. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Friday, October 20, 2006

ghost - illustration friday


My first submission to the Illustration Friday site.

Sketched with Derwent graphite 4b, Prismacolor greys and thin lines with my friend, Mr. Pilot P-500.

I've been struggling with coloring the Mariachi sketch in Painter. I'll chip away at it more this weekend :).

Saturday, October 07, 2006

mariachi - base layer




I wanna try coloring this in Painter. Wish me luck!

Monday, October 02, 2006

assassin revisited - in color



This is my first attempt at coloring with Corel Painter. I wanted to take this application for a spin, figure out the dense interface and play around with the pens and brushes. I've always wanted to try it, but I never had a wacom. Now that I dove in and picked up the Intuos 3, I have no more excuses :)

See the original pen sketch here.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

taiwan and philippines - photo gallery



While updating my computer, I found some old photos deep in the hard drive from 2003. I was sent to Asia to take some pics. I had a blast.

Read more about it here.
See the photo galleries here.

More sketches and animation to come :)

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

assassin


Been a while... what the heck causes a BIOS error anyway? haha...
I'm thinking about trying to color this one. hmmm.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Friday, September 01, 2006

Saturday, August 26, 2006