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.

E-Card Update

Here's a a sneak peak at my Halloween E-Card for my flash class. This is my first Flash animation so I'm really excited about it.


A small clip within the E-card. The animation is a lot smoother than this though. A lot of frames like my blur drawings are for some reason missing. I don't know how to keep the video from being choppy as it gets uploaded and compressed.



Some Backgrounds

Katy Perry

Just trying to see how far I can push the exaggeration. She was tough to caricature just because no features really stood out too much. She does have these crazy stares sometimes so I thought I'd do something with that.

Walt

I finally got around to finishing this digital painting. Here's Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski from Gran Torino.

Alien

Just messin' around in the ol' sketchbook. Here's a gouache painting of a random alien that I came up with. And yes he has no arms. I don't know how this species will last that long.

A "Basterd"

I've been hearing a lot of good things about Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Here's a quick sketch I did of Brad Pitt and a stylized version of that sketch. I think the sketch turned out better than the colored version but what can one do? Oh well, time to watch the movie!

A Late Night Painting

Here's a quick gouache painting before I go to bed. No one in particular, just a character I drew up.

Alfred Hitchcock

Gouache Test

I like trying different mediums just because each one has there own different look. I've tried most of the wet mediums except for gouache. I've been inspired by many artists who have used gouache in there landscape studies that I wanted to try it out myself. I plan on taking my gouache kit out to do some landscape paintings but first I thought I'd try it out just so I know what to expect. Here's a quick study of a Toucan image that came with my computer.

Free Caricatures at Cannery Row 4.0

Me and my friends, Virgil and Rob returned to Cannery Row on Friday to do more caricatures. It was going to be our last time doing it there as we plan to do future caricaturing at a new place. It started off REALLY slow due to it being on the same day as a car show and the county fair. A few hours later things picked up pretty fast.

All the sessions we've had in Monterey have been a blast. The bar has been set for the next city. I can only hope that the people are as cool and nice as the people in Monterey.