Spring Time

I was inspired by another artist who painted a portrait with birds playing with strands of a girl's hair. I was thinking about doing the same thing but then i thought about using butterflies since it's already Spring.

Pac Man

After being partly done for month now, it's finally finished. While taking a break from school projects, I was looking in my folders and noticed my unfinished Pac Man drawing thats been neglected for quite some time now. I decided to use my break to finish it off. For those of you who don't know who he is, he's Manny "Pac Man" Pacquiao. Former junior featherweight champion of the world from the Philippines.

Sketchbook

Its been a while since I last posted some work so here's some stuff from my sketchbook. Most of them were done at school and at Starbucks.

Gladiators Ready!

I caught the premiere of American Gladiators and I was surprised by the female gladiators. They're not what I expected to see. My favorite right now is "Crush". Don't let her innocent smile deceive you cuz she can actually kick some butt. I found out she's a MMA fighter specializing in Muay Thai. That's AWESOME! For this drawing I had some tonal laying around that I decided to use. I've seen comic book artists use a technique where they use pure black on tonal paper then add in the whites. I was afraid of using pure black on some places so I ended up using some black pencil to add another tone.


This one I did a week after other drawing. I was watching American Gladiators agian as I was sketching this out in my sketchbook. I splashed some color in afterwards on photoshop.

Lets-Go-Warr-iors!

After 12 or so years of watching the Warriors struggle even with big names like Starks, "Mookie", Jamison and Arenas, it's nice to finally see a group of guys that mesh well together making them playoff contenders for years to come. I always wanted to draw one of them so heres one as kind of a joke. If you're a Warrior fan, the Stephen Jackson cartoon should make sense. The other, my friend had a Warrior Girl calendar so I decided to draw the cover girl for the heck of it.

A couple of friends and I went to see a celebrity charity game last week at the Oracle and guess who we saw... Stephen Jackson, Monta Ellis, Donald "Turk" Faison, Terry Crews and many more!

Chewy

Just messing around with my Wacom Tablet. My main focus was to create an image that had more of a painterly look to it rather than a digital rendering. Why chewy you might ask? It was one of a couple images on my Desktop. I was gonna use it as reference for my Xwing but never had time to model a Really Simplified Chewbacca. Thought I'd use it before I erase it.

The Highwayman

This is a design I came up with for Alfred Noyes' poem The Highwayman. Its for a group blog that my friends and I started just to keep productive and to see each others creations for each topic.

Final Projects

Here are my Final Projects for my 2 art classes this past Fall, Beginning Maya and Intermediate Paining.

Beginning Maya

For our final we had to model a vehicle of our choice and animate a turnaround. I chose the X-wing from Star Wars. I think I had a little too much fun working on it. As it was rendering, I was watching A New Hope for sound effects just so I could get it as authentic as possible and because Star Wars is awesome!


Intermediate Painting

Our Final was based on the concept of "Self Reflection". I chose to play with Norman Rockwell's idea of Triple Self portrait. I noticed he had a Spartan Helmet on his easel so I used it since SJSU are Spartans. I thought it would be cool having me paint myself as a Spartan. As I was painting, my teacher told me to change the Spartan into the style of Francis Bacon. At first I didn't like the idea, but then it started to become fun painting in someone else's style. It was funny seeing people's reaction as I was painting it. People thought I was bottling up feelings haha. I thought it was interesting how a style can totally change a mood in a painting.

This is still a work in progress because there's a lot of things I need to fix up.

This is a close up of my back. My teacher got me to use my palette knife as an alternative to a paintbrush. Most of "me" in the foreground was done using a palette knife just to pop myself out more from the middle ground. I used it sparingly throughout the painting so that it looks like one consistent piece.

Merry Christmas!

Just a little quickie I did for Christmas. I wanted to avoid using the the usual Christmas Icons so I went with little Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Merry Christmas Everyone!

Happy Birthday Arissa!

I made this card for my Goddaughter who just turned 3. Shes a big fan of Dora so I thought it would be cool to turn her into a cartoon with one of her favorite characters. It went well with the gift that I bought her. If you're wondering what "Ninong" means, its "Godfather" in Ilocano and Tagalog.

Iron Man

This was done a few months back but I just happened to stumble upon it yesterday and decided to share. At the time, my friend told me there was going to be a new Iron Man movie so decided to paint him for fun. I had no idea how the movie version was going to look like so i had to find other images to work with that would look realistic. I actually ended up looking at a toy figure for this digital painting.

Library Sketches

I was at my local Library studying for a quiz this week. After reading a couple chapters I'd bust out my sketchbook and draw people around me. It was going fine until I was drawing the guy wearing the safari type hat. I was pretty sly until I attracted an audience of little kids. They were cool but they really made it obvious that I was looking at that guy by surrounding me and staring back and forth between my drawing and him. After that I couldn't really study cuz they joined my empty table and expected me to draw more.

Smith-inator

After PJJ, a couple of friends and I went to go eat at Denny's. I haven't hung out with this group of friends in a really long time so it was cool catching up and goof off with them again. We all went with the usual breakfast plates but one of us decided to go a different route and order the most weirdest combinations, Sausauge Links and a Milk Shake. It was supposed to be a joke but um yeah i dunno. Anyway he's such a character that I decided to sketch him out when I got home. I tried to go with a different style this time around and emulate one of the great character designers, Stephen Silver.

Pajama Jammy Jam

This was a poster I did for my friend who was co-chairing an event on campus. I think I may have went a little overboard though. I used it as an opportunity to get away from Maya for a bit since thats been taking up most of my time along with painting. I'm not really that happy with it cuz a lot of it was rushed due to having a short period of time to do it in but I could live with it. People seemed to like it so I'm happy. Kinda sad though cuz i don't know whats going to happen to it. Its a HUGE 3ftx6ft poster so I dunno if anyone would wanna keep it at the end. Oh well, wherever it's future lies, I had fun working on it... Tiring but fun.

My First 3D ANIMATED short : Storyboards to Film

As the titles says, this is my first. It was done in Maya which I'm still getting used to. So basically the assignment was a simple ball bounce BUT it had to be about 30 seconds. I went with the first thing that popped into my head which was Indiana Jones. Originally I did all the sound effects with my mouth but then I started finding sounds online at the last minute that sounded a bit better. I wanted to at least keep one of my own sound fx so I kept the boulder sounds.



For those who aren't familiar with animation or film making, these are my Storyboards. Storyboards are basically quick sketches of what a film will look like. Storyboards help you see if your shots and timing are working before production even starts. Its a real time saver!



And now my film. Sadly when I uploaded, the Video and Audio went off sync but ENJOY!