I'm not dead yet!

Sorry for the lack of posts! 

Working as a visdev artist at Jim Henson studio and I just finished my first online class and it was a blast: really challenging but also really rewarding and fun.  I’ll be teaching a second time around so if anyone is interested please sign up! I’ll post more details about it when we get closer.

One of the challenging things I find about our field of work is the lack of material we can show. You could work for years and never be allowed to show anyone anything, even if the project is shelved and has no chance of  coming back. It’s not uncommon to have a career where 90% of your concept art never sees the light of day or goes anywhere.

So with that said, I got permission to show a pilot I worked on last summer at Nickelodeon. Even though this pilot was animated and awesome it may never see the light of day and it’s one of the painful realities of our industry.  It really makes me wonder how many awesome, unseen pilots are out  there, floating about in the ether. 

and a random croc archer!

Happy new year!

Ok it's a little late but it beats doing a post next month right? Here this this month's print "year of the rabbit" and a few demo from my online class- Hope you enjoy!

Holiday painting and more!

Hey Everyone! Sorry for the late posting but I finished up work at Nickelodeon and now I'm at Technicolor Animation.So far, it has been a fun challenging job for sure! On another note I'll be teaching an online class on digital painting 101 with a ton of super pros! I'm pretty excited to teach again: I used to teach classes at Inland Empire back in the day and it was something I really enjoyed, even though my teaching style is just barfing out knowledge that I picked up from jumping from studio to studio. At any rate, here's a link to the new school and classes!

http://cghub.com/masterclasses/

I also teamed up with a group of old class mates from Art Center selling monthly themed prints.  The image below is from our Winter theme.  Here is a link to our store to see more work from the various artists. http://www.etsy.com/shop/pressprint?ref=pr_shop_more

Here is a demo I did at Art Institute in Inland Empire when I subbed a class for Derek Kosol. Aging monster robots YAY!

Wooo paintin time!

Welp, its been a while and figure I would post some stuff! I'm doing some back paintings for nickelodeon right now for a pilot which I hope I can share more info on in the future, but it will be epic! EPIC!!

anyways, more paintings from a dead proj + some old figure stuff!

Tofu Girls BG!

Here are some tofu girls backgrounds. (Traci Honda designed the characters and Mike Moloney/ Griffith Kimmins) tackled the animation. We had to edit the backgrounds down but here they are in their original state. There should be a video on the www.tofugirls.com website soon but there will also be a video at comic con- check it out it! Comic-Con Preview (Booth 2445)

Time for a post!

So it is! Here is a rough character stab at Nosferatu. What ever happened to just awesome creepy vampires. I put a few explorations of style but I really wanted a cobra influence on the over all design.  Plus a random background painting for an unannounced shelved project.

The Gentlemen Thief!

So here is proj I was working on in rad's storyboarding class which I highly recommend (cool guy great class what els could you want?) basically my story is about a homeless guy who is actually an international jewel thief who steals purely for the thrills. I also attached a rough work in progress animatic- enjoy!......hopefully

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.