Creature Brainstorming

Drawing with my little helper...

Drawing with my little helper. :) At least she's not eating my sketchbook. I am just doodling some Wolf Children Characters from the movie. I just got the comic book for Wolf Children. :) So cool!

The Code Lyoko Gang

Brushing up my skills in Adobe After Effects CC

Long time no see! I have been busy at work doing photography, editing, and maintaining item inventory. Just recently, I found out that I am going to be doing more stuff at work. I have the opportunity to work on product labels that need some editing, social media websites for our business, and in the future I am most likely going to get the chance to create video tutorials and videos inside Adobe After Effects CC and Adobe Premiere Pro. I just recently got a montly Adobe Creative Cloud membership  so that I can get a monthly membership to all of Adobe's programs. It's exciting! 

In my free time, I have decided to brush up my skills in Adobe After Effects CC. I am watching lots of tutorials to refresh myself since it's been a while. Here's some of the tutorials that I've been watching. They are neat and easy to follow. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/aftereffects-workflow-terminology.html?set=after-effects--fundamentals--aftereffects-workspace

The Phoenix Companies LLC. Logo Work

I am so thrilled that I had been asked to work on a logo design for a company called, The Phoenix Companies, LLC. The Phoenix Company logo is the parent company of 3 other companies The Phoenix Companies, LLC will have products such as heliocopters, cell phone screen protectors, and an organic soap company.  Here's the work that I have been doing. I have some rough design work as well as the final logo design. All final design work belongs to the Phoenix Companies, LLC. I have permission to display these on my portfolio websites.

 

 

Rough Logo Designs:

 

Final Design selected and other generations:

 

 

 

 

 

My first freelance job!

I am so excited to inform you that I have gotten my first freelance job. I am happy to be working with a small company called The Phoenix Companies, LLC who has other companies underneath the parent company. This is all work outside of my current job and work is done at home in my off time. I am near completion on one logo. I am so excited and thankful. I will be posting the final work soon. :)

Balsa

I just finished watching Moribito and I have to say it was a fantastic show! Here are some little sketchy sketches I did tonight. I like drawing characters it makes drawing the anatomy a lot more fun well, at least for me. :P

Painting techniques with Zac Retz

My next tutorial that I am going to be working on is from Zac Retz from the Society of Visual Storytelling. It's been big gaps in between my tutorials and for that I am sorry. But, good news is I am learning a lot from these couple hour tutorial videos. This is my fourth video.
Zac Retz is a young freelance illustrator. He graduated in 2012 which is two years before I did. He's gone far with his life already. He works for ReelFX in Santa Monica, CA as a visual development artist. He has a very painted look to his art. He loves drawing couples and monsters.
In this tutorial, he will be demonstrating how he goes about painting. So far, I'm about 10 minutes in. I will post more soon.

Here's what he's making.

I want to practice doing some landscape. Here's my drawing.

Here's the beginning of his process. He makes shape in paint and does this by separating the layers by values using the pen tool. I started blocking in mine. This was a bit different because I'm used to atmospheric perspective where it goes darker to lighter but, depending on the lighting that may change or if there are mountains in the background. So, interesting stuff. 

Percedal of Sadly Grove

Here's Percedal finally colored! I tried out a new style from Jake Parker. It was kind of challenging but, I like it. I can't wait to work on more.

Work in Progress

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! It's been busy this time of year with the holidays. I did manage to work a little on this today and I hope to finish it soon.

 

 

Percedal

 

I finally made some more time and I did some line work for the sketch I was planning on working on. I am hoping to finish Evangelyne's line work and color them using Jake Parker's tutorial video. :) I hope to get to work on that soon.

Evangelyne and Percedal

I watched Jake Parker's tutorial and it was a lot of fun. It's interesting how each artist uses Photoshop differently. From now on, I am going to try and use the artist's techniques from the tutorials and maybe to try putting out a piece of artwork a week. If I do it that way I should have plenty of time to work with my busy schedules. Here's some sketches that I am preparing to paint. I am doing some sketches of Percedal and Evangelyne from the French television show Wakfu. I am trying to work on my anatomy as well and drawing characters from other shows helps me a lot as well as drawing things from life.

Illustration Techniques with Jake Parker!

This week I am going to be studying some illustration techniques with Jake Parker who is a visual development artist a Blue Sky Studios!  Jake has worked on movies such as Horton Hears a Who! , Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Epic. Here's some of his work! This first piece is the picture that he is going to be showing his process on. I'm excited to dive in!

Illustration techniques with Brooke Boynton Hughes

This week I am studying some illustration techniques from Brooke Boynton Hughes. I've been doing some of the Society of Visual Storytelling courses when I'm not too busy at work. She has been an inspiration to me as an artist. She faced a similar struggle where she struggled with human anatomy and she overcame it with lots of practice so she will be a cool artist to learn from. Here's some of her work. She primarily works traditionally and then uses Adobe Photoshop tools to enhance her color and textures.

11-4-15-Beast Boy

I've been drawing some of my favorite characters from tv shows to help me get better at drawing the anatomy as well as studying some of my anatomy books. So, I could not help but, start wanting to draw teen titans characters. :) Beast boy is my absolute favorite character in that show. I finally am getting back around to doing digital work and hopefully soon some paintings.

11-2-15- Robin

I miss the Teen Titans show! :) I could not help but draw some of the characters again. It will also help me with my anatomy.

10-28-15-Out and About

10-27-15-Bulbasaur

10-26-15-Figure Study

10-23-15-Ori

Doodled Ori from "Ori and the Blind Forest" today. :)

10-22-15-Birds and Turtles

10-21-15- Male Face Studies

10-20-15-Shadow

10-19-15-Motorcycle Otter

10-16-15-Back Muscle Studies

Here's my last sketch of the week and then it's on to the weekend.

10-15-15- Breath of Fire

10-14-15- Various Bird Sketches

The past few months I have been trying to get better at the human anatomy and animal anatomy so I wanted to draw some birds. :3

10-13-15-Arm Anatomy Studies

10-12-15-Pumpkin Fox

10-11-15- Ferrets!

 

Distant-Skies-Early Exploration

I have been recently collaborating with my brother to write a fantasy story I have had in mind for a while. Here's some little sketches..really rough of course. I'm trying to get my ideas down and there will be lots more on the illustration end soon. I'm going to explore my character, the creatures, and the landscapes of my Distant Skies story. When I get more, I will tell you more.  The writing process is going it'll come soon enough. :) I'm excited though.

 

 

 

 

9/9/15-Quick Sketch

Just a quick self-portrait sketch for the night. There is some anatomy problems but, for a quick sketch, eh, not bad.

 

9/7/15- Muscle Studies