Oriole Quickie

Sometimes at work, I like to see how far I can get into a painting before I get my assigned project in the morning. Depending how early I get there, I can have between 15-4o min to do one of these. Here's an Oriole I did last week.

Kang Roo

So I tend to be at work a little bit early. My commute is pretty long and since I never know when there's going to be heavy traffic, I just leave the house early. On days when I don't have a project to work on yet, I tend to do my own thing when I arrive there. On some days I'll try to do as many quick speed paint/sketches before our project meetings. This was one of them.



The same day I did this, I had a couple minutes to kill at the end of the day so I decided to do a more simplified version of this sketch. I finally had time today to vector it in flash.

Stephen Curry

He's quickly become my favorite Golden State Warrior. Not only is he good but he's fun to watch. What a like about him most is that he comes out on the court with a lot of confidence yet he shows no cockiness.

This season was pretty much a loss due to almost all their starters being injured. Even with that situation, he's able to make something out of nothing with the bench players. I just can't wait til next season. If everyone is healthy, Curry will tear up the court along side Ellis. So excited!

Anyway, this was inspired by those All Star Vinyl Toys. I like their action poses and that Sean Galloway simplicity style. I believe he even designed some himself.



Originally I was going for the local+dark value type style but then I found myself rendering just to see how it would look. Eventually I rendered the whole thing haha. Here's the stages for those interested.

Hummingbird

A couple weeks ago I thought to myself that I should do a bird drawing and I always found Hummingbirds interesting. Every time I see one outside, I can't help but just watch them fly around. Even though they're nowhere to be seen during this rainy stretch I decided to do a painting of one.

It's a little too much on the cute side, I know... now if you excuse me, I think I'm gonna shoot some bad guys in Metal Gear or do a thousand pushups. You know, manly stuff haha.

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.