Brian's Baby

My good buddy Brian asked me to do a piece for his soon-to-be-born baby. For a while I wasn't sure what to, but then I realized that I could do something to help him out. I figured any time his son asks him where babies come from Brian can just show him this picture.

Brian, I hope you like it!

All in all the thing took me around six hours. I can't believe how fast I went through it and I'd have to say without a doubt that this is my favorite painting I've done. I feel like it was the most successful from start to finish and I love the way the palette turned out! I'm getting faster!


Detail:

Another Friendly Face

Still moving along! I've been working on a lot more environments lately, so expect to see some of those up soon as well. I'm waiting until I have a decent amount of them done so I can aggregate them into one post. But, maybe I'll post some if I get bored. Who knows, right?




Looking back at some of the portraits I've posted I am extremely pleased with my progress. I've created some really fun brushes that I'm implementing here and there. The biggest thing I'm gaining is more of a behind-the-scenes type of thing I suppose. I've gotten a better grasp on colors, so I know what I'm doing now. There's a lot less guesswork and each brush stroke has more purpose these days. Not only has it increased my confidence, but my speed has picked up considerably. Plus, I mean, this just looks way better than that junk (minus mah boi Judd)!

S'more Sketches

I'm trying to keep up the workflow and pick up the paaaahaaaahaaaace.







I don't feel like typing much. Good night.

30 Minutes

Ok, so I got Photoshop CS5. It has a whole slew of new features I'll probably never touch, but some that might end up useful to me. Right now I'm trying to get a feel for the thing. It has some sorts of new brushes that are supposed to behave more realistically from what I understand.

So I decided I'd try to give some of them a whirl with a quick half hour portrait. It seems to me that they're not really doing anything different than the old brushes. This sketch is kinda wonky in some areas because I was trying to test out as much of the new stuff as I could think to use.



So far I'm liking CS5, but I'm not doing anything differently. I probably just need to read up more about it and keep experimenting. I want to keep doing more characters for my portfolio, but I need to start getting some environments in there too. Right now I'm in full-swing character mode, though. Oh well.

Aaaaaand here it is. It's been cool just getting to paint whatever crap I feel like at any given second since graduating. Case-in-point:




I recently watched The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke and loved it. Great soundtrack and characters that felt completely believable and had a lot of pathos going for 'em. Iron Man 2 came out (somewhat ) recently and was pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum from the Wrestler, but was still a totally engrossing feature and a fun experience. It was kind of a no-brainer for me to dream up Iron Man about to get ram-jammed to pieces after such a Rourke filled couple of weeks. Let me know what you think!

I'm Back!

I hope!
Here's a little sneak preview of a piece that should be up in full bloom very shortly.

Hungry Howie

In Character Development (a class I am no longer in,) we were given the assignment to redesign the Hungry Howie mascot. This was something that I thought was due day one and I suppose I just assumed it should be fully rendered. Anyway, I come into class with it and the teacher explains that he is going to give the class fifteen minutes to sketch out the project and then we would be moving to something else. I was pretty bummed.

Anyway, my idea was Voracious Howard. He's a viking with a taste for fast food as well as blood.
I'd like to keep going with this and work it into a finished Illustration, so maybe I'll get around to that. Oh, and I've changed up my blog.