epic fail

I took my 2 backup hard drives (years of mediocre work, family and friends photo's) to have them recover the data off them, only to find out the owner has lost both of my hard drives. Once I find the final versions of these guys I'll post them up. Hope you enjoy the roughs!

Hansel and Gretel are both Neanderthal and the witch is a homo-sapien killer!

Hey hey!

Woo characters from a former project! and an environment!During the holidays I had a chance to rummage through some old boxes and found this little sucka. I never really kept any of my artwork when I was growing up (I never really consider art as a career option growing up) so naturally, I trashed just about everything I did. Luckily my mother saved one little piece and here it is, I was roughly the age of 6 and I can only assume this is a wizard monster with a mouth in his stomach! good times.

Bah~!

Half way through I thought "Man I should have done something more creative......bah! Happy Holidays everyone!

Here are my three paintings for the Gifted Artist show, hope to see you guys there! There is going to be a lot of industry giants there, so its worth the extra drive!

Little preview of the show!

Heres a bg from a shelved project - the sketches were mostly used to figure out the composition/ style of the project.

Here is a little preview of whats going to be in Gifted Artist show (I'll show the full version once the show is over!) so I painted all these specifically for the show and they are one time prints. They were a lot of fun to paint!

These are just random sketches from my sketchbook that were a lot of fun!

holy diminishing vital signs batman! I'm 27 today ack!

Coo! So this piece is for the group over at Part Time Dreamers and the subject was “Opera”. The first thing that came to my mind was the scene in Amadeus when Salieri is describing Mozart’s work. The beauty and complexity of one instrument taking over another and finally coming together to complete the song. So I wanted to show the process of an Opera.

Last Friday Marcelo Vignali was kind enough to invite me out to the Sketch Club for lunch (man those guys can freakin draw!) so here’s a few drawings from my sketch book.

Finally, todays my birthday…and I manage to pull my back really bad. I been spending the whole day just hunched over like an old man (I see the irony in this happening today) The shower is a true story, I couldn’t stand for that long so I just had to sit there…….so sad.

I really wanted to help out my gf Traci Honda and Rona Liu since they are graduating but they’ll understand! ...I hope. Congratulations you guys!

new update!

Here are a few new updates- I hope everyone had a great Thanks Giving!



on another note I'll be int he "Gifted Artist" show here is the blog http://www.giftedartist.blogspot.com/

Some of the industry giants will be showing there! Glean Kean, Peter De Seve, David Coleman , Rohb Ruppel, Steven Silver (and a lot more!) It's for a great cause so if you can make it, swing by and say hello!

How can a vampire put on make up with no reflection?

I'm assuming it must take a long time.... happy Halloween everyone!


There's still a few days until Halloween, so if you can't find a cool costume- maybe give Zardoz a chance! If you haven't seen this fine film (which makes a fine drinking game with friends) check it out....you'll be pleasantly surprise who the main actor is. I know I was!

click here to find out!

circus animals!

It's been a while! Here are some Circus animals I did for David Coleman class. These were fun to design.

Gah!

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Update!

Update time! Our new cat is growing like crazy! (Jess forer) suggested "Otterpop" and we just stuck with it. He's really active kind of cat and loves to attack “play” with Addy , whom generally wants to be left alone, while Otterpop demands attention all the time...matter of fact -she turned out to be a He. The dr. said "he wasn't much of a boy". It was quite a shock for all of us haha

The other two images are just environments, done for James Paik class (he's so freakin fast gah!) I really need to practice sci-fi more. thanks Jackson for all the advice!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Wooo I haven't posted in a long time! Things have been really busy lately, I been doing freelance- working at Imagineering and now I'm teaching part time at an AI school. I figure it wouldn't be that bad- after all I TA so many art center classes........oh man I found a whole new respect for teachers to so many levels. Anyways- have a safe and happy holidays everyone!

So this is a quick speed painting we did at class. (15-20mins max) I think the topic was "rock creatures coming out of the ground) This is Jackie who works at the animation archives (really nice girl!) A lot of the images in the new book "Story" the archives series was scanned by her.

NEWS UPDATE!
The school I'm teaching at is going to have a workshop on the Jan 6th with Steven Silver and Bill Perkins- and it's FREE! Sadly I'm going to miss this event by 1 day (my flight comes in a day after uuug) but you guys should sign up for it! Hope this helps someone.

New meber in the house!

Well we got another kitten to play with our cat "Addy". We came up with several names such as: Battle star, Otter pop, Bicycle, chubacabra "chubby" for short, leopluradon and Isis! She doesn't seem to respond to any of these names, but perhaps soon she will have a name to be proud of!

Addy!

Kitten!

Postin Postin

I had this one in the back burners along with a few more but I'm just going to get it out of my system hah

Work is really tiring

I been really busy lately these past few weeks because I work for Disney's Imagineering -Research and Development wooo. So before everything became crazy here is some old landscape painting I started before I took the gig. Digital and on location - The frogs are just random characters I wanted to explore more- wish I could take it further actually hah

new stuff!

Oliver Twist!

So my recent project for myself is Oliver's Twist! Here are some rough characters (Oliver, The lost boys and Bill Sikes.