Meet Kobe

I'd like to introduce you all to Kobe, the newest member of our family. We just got him a couple weeks ago. For being 2 months old, he's pretty small but man does he have a lot of energy. He takes up a lot of my time since I have to make sure he doesn't soil or chew up the house. I worked on this piece mostly when he would be sleeping.

Magic Trick

For the people who haven't seen the film yet, I wont say much. Lets just say, its one of the moments I'll always remember about this movie. Fun Times haha

Ha Ha Ha!

First off I just want to say that The Dark Knight in my opinion is the best Batman movie to date. I've seen it a couple times already and loved it! I don't know you about guys but I save my ticket stubs when its something memorable (ex: Concerts, Sporting Events, Movies) . More often than none, I usually just end up misplacing or losing most of them. Since its hard to lose a sketchbook, I decided to place my stub in there and paint something related to the movie.

Iron Man 2.0

I know I already posted an Iron Man drawing but that was before the movie ever came out. I just had to do another after seeing the movie last month. I started it a couple days ago and worked on it during breaks from animating and modeling in Maya.

Self Portrait: Homage to Norman Rockwell

For the final in our Figure painting class, the assignment was to choose a master painter and try to emulate his/her style either by color pallet, brush strokes, technique etc. I chose Norman Rockwell mainly because of his use of story in all his paintings and the color pallet he uses.
Out of all his paintings, I went with "The Letterman". Back in the day, I wanted to play high school football with some of my friends but my Mom just wouldn't let me do it. I figure since I couldn't play football in real life why not make it happen through the world of art.

Just a side note, I added the background because my teacher stressed throughout the semester about having a background so I didn't want to risk leaving it white especially on the final even though Rockwell kept his white/off-white.

Watercolor Portrait

A couple of weeks ago I discovered I still had watercolors when I did a piece for class. I've been working mainly with oils and acrylics this past year so it was nice to use this medium again. I decided to take a break from my Maya project and do a head study using watercolors. If you can guess the celebrity then Kudos to you

Unlucky 13

This was done for a class project. Our class is creating a "zine" about "That ONE Guy". We thought it would be a funny topic to illustrate because we all know "that ONE Guy". We all have said that phrase more than once in our lives. .. "Remember that one guy who always that head band" or "You know that one guy who always wears a green jacket, yeah, that guy!". We've all said it. Well I decided to do my illustration as more of a tribute page to my favorite quarterback. Dan Marino is known as that one great NFL quarterback who never got a ring.

Crew of You

This was done for my Conceptual Illustration class. The assignment was to create 6 characters based on yourself using your personality, life experiences, likes and dislikes as a basis for each. Once the characters were made we had to come up with a story using all 6 characters. The final illustration had to illustrate the climax of the story.

Fun Fact: Charles Schultz did this same thing to create the famous "Peanuts" Crew. Many of the characters were inspired by his own life

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.