Don't Let Those Robots Eat Me!

I was painting the spare bedroom yesterday and listening to the Flaming Lips while I did so. This quick sketch and Photoshop color was the result last night! Couldn't resist. Go Yoshimi!

One for the Show!

Here is a piece I did recently for an art show benefiting a charity focused on mitochondrial disease. It's called "Ill Gnome".

Oni Eyes 2 (for one)

As promised...here are a couple more quick paintings of "close ups" on the other two oni characters from my story.

 

The Eyes of an Oni!

So I am planning to do set of three of these, just to sort of get in closer to my oni characters. Buuuttt... since I kind of used part of this for my new banner I figured I would go ahead and share - a shot of what it might be like to look one of my oni in the eyes. Happy Friday!

The sushi chefs together!

Okay, so my visual development project this semester is called Oni Roll and it centers around three sushi chefs in medieval Japan who are, of course, much more than their appearance would suggest. I was going to show these guys one at a time, but I put them together in a quick line up and figured I would just show them that way. Anyway, more characters form Oni Roll to come, but here are (from left) Mac, Tong and Bolo!

Another sushi shop study...

... this time of the outside.

Ye Olde Sushi Shoppe

I suppose this will serve as an intro to my spring semester illustration project. It involves a mepdieval sushi shop...

A Couple Quick Paintings

Happy New Year, everyone! Here are a couple quick paintings I did today and thought I'd share... any Goro Fujita fans might recognize a lot of his influence in the one with the dude standing in the field!

Getting Back in the Groove

Here is a quick, 90-minute color study... I promise I'll post something more finished soon.

There Will Be .... color studies!

I know I'm not the first to this kind of thing, but I wanted to post these 60-minute color studies I did from There Will Be Blood. Such a beautiful film! 

New Billy Goats Gruff Paintings

I included an updated version of the bridge scene with Jethro and Goonch. The second image is a "personality" shot of the brothers Gruff showing Clement yelling at Jethro and the third is the moment of conflict as Dogo rams into Goonch. A seriously big thanks to Rico Jackson for some post-process color help on all these!!!

Goonch and Jethro on the bridge!

Whew!!! This is my first completed "final" composition for my Billy Goats Gruff project. VERY exciting!

Another Look at the Troll Bridge

Well, make that two more looks. Some more studies of the bridge for Billy Goats Gruff.

View No. 2!

Here is the second painting of my series of four views of the bridge/troll cave from my story.

Beware of Troll!

So... I have to do a bunch of paintings from my Billy Goats Gruff project including for views of the bridge since it is the main location in the story. Here is the first of those views!

A Door!

A new background for our class/group project... Lumin. Just finished this afternoon and wanted to share!

Below is a link to the blog we have set up for the project. Check it out!!

http://luminfilm.blogspot.com/

Some more troll caves.

A couple more quick composition studies of the troll cave.

Troll Cave!

Here is a quick painting for my Billy Goats Gruff project! Much more to come! (Very excited about it.)

Special Project!!

So... for one of my courses the entire class is going to work together to try and make a complete film by the end of the semester. That's just 16 weeks! I was able to make these concept pieces for it over the summer but haven't been able to post them until now. I was given a pretty wide open prompt and we don't have the story nailed down yet, but these were just to get a feel of the world and some possible directions to go in the film. I'm sure there will be more from this project over the course of the semester. Pretty excited! 

Me.

A self portrait. Just trying out a different style.