Trouble Maker

How can you to get mad at a puppy? It's tough. My dog Kobe is a year and a half old. He tears up any plush toy we give him. I chose to portray my dog back when he was only a couple months old. Back then he was TRULY a monster. No plush was safe! Nowadays, he'll just let it live a couple days before its off with their heads.

Happy Holidays!

Caricature of the Week

Straight from Hell's Kitchen, here's Gordon Ramsay.

Art Collabo

This was a collaboration with my friend Rob. He did the drawing and I painted it. He started to get into digital painting and asked if I could look at his piece. I gave him some pointers and fixed some areas.

I had so much fun fixing his painting that I just wanted to do my own. I decided to scrap his work and start over from scratch. I changed the colors and added a couple elements, making him completely different from what he originally looked like. This is probably far from what my friend imaged but it was fun adding my twist to his character design.


To see my friends version, check out his blog at Chanvannark Kath

Speed Painting

These were done in no more than 1 Hour with no eye dropper tool. I tried to force myself to work fast and still try to match color and value as best that I could.

Face Study

A face study of Eva Green.

Caricature of the Week

A quickie of Tiger since he's been all over the news this weekend.

Chimp

My brother and his friend just came back from their trip to Oahu. Among some of the sites they went to was the Honolulu Zoo. I browsed through their pictures and saw a chimp that reminded me of a drawing a friend of mine did a while back. My friend was able to create a moody piece yet still have energy in his sketch. I tried to give it a shot with this pose.

Caricature of the Week

I miss doing caricatures. I was never all that great at it, but it was fun doing them. I'm going to try to do a caricature a week just for fun and for more painting practice . Each week I'll try to do one of a person that's in the news that week. This week I'll start of with Beyonce. I always wanted to do one of her, so here she is.

Fall Tree

A speed painting of a tree from a photgraph. Just trying to get faster at painting. Since its Fall, I thought this would be a nice painting to do.

Halloween E-Card

I'm currently taking a Flash class as I search for work. Our first project was to create a Halloween E-card to send to friends and family. I think I bit off more than I can chew, especially since it was my first Flash animation. I could have went more simple but after I came up with the story and got good reactions with my storyboard, I knew I just had to get it done. It still needs some more work, but with the amount of time we had to work on it, I'm happy with it.

Halloween E-card from Jeff C on Vimeo.

R.K. Design

Here's my Hit Man design for a book I just read. I played around a little bit more with the faces and started to have fun with the shape silhouettes. 1 character down, 2 more to go.

Jasmine Coloring Book

I saw someone do this a couple months ago on Deviant Art. I thought it was a pretty cool concept so I decided to try it out. What they did was take a page from those Disney coloring books, picked a princess and colored it digitally. Jasmine is one of my favorites so i thought I'd give it a go.

Just to make it clear. I didn't do the line drawing. It was from a coloring page I found online I don't know who to give credit to, so I'll just say a Disney Artist. The Painting is mine though.

Work in Progress

I decided to do some concept art on a book I read over the summer. I had some work done for it but since my Flash class started, this personal project of mine has been put on the shelf. Anyway here are some sketches for it.

One of the main characters lives in a 1930's bungalow up in the hills of Orange County. I plan on doing an environment shot of the house and its surroundings later on. That way you get a feeling of who the character is living inside.

As for characters, there are three main ones. One of them is a hitman. I didn't really have time to think this guy out yet, but I did do some body silhouettes and faces. Below are just a few faces I played with. Since I have been working in Flash the majority of this month, I really wanted to just paint something in Photoshop. I'm not set on any of these faces so I still have to do more.

Something Out of A Movie

Last week I went to Vegas for my Brother's bday bash. As I was waiting at the gate to board the plane, I had a moment that was movie like. I forgot my sketchbook from my check-in bag so for the time being I was working on my Sudoku book and listening to some tunes. I was in my own little world focused on my puzzles for around 15 minutes when something made me want look up and see whats going on around me. As I look up there's a girl walking in my direction who catches my attention. She shoots me a smile and at that same moment Ziggy Marley's Drive ( a song from 50 first dates) just began to play. During those few seconds, everything seemed to be going in slow motion... or maybe I was just super tired and it was way too early in the morning.