John Travolta painting

This will be my last Independant Study Post for a while, as I am going to an internship at Sony Online in San Diego! Hooray! It looks like I got more done than I counted on (by sacrificing detail. Good for me). I don't think I'll be able to post anything from Sony, so anything from here on out is probably just personal junk. Have a great summer, everybody!

Yes, the things I'm working on are very important.

I think I worry a lot about career possibilities, what to do with my life, etc. I'm sure it's all very important. And then, I just read/watched some videos from this site about uncontacted tribes living in South America. That is, these, people are living just like ancient people in the jungle with no idea that we are out there. When we show up, it would probably be, in there eyes, something close to War of the Worlds (the one with Tom Cruise).

By the way, I did not paint the above picture. Sorry to dissapoint.

That 70's guy painting

This one took a lot less time and I think there is a lot of cool color stuff going on! I have learned a ton from doing these. I might get one more in before I leave for San Diego, it just depends on what is going on tomorrow.

Madonna Painting, Step 2

2 things: This woman is almost 50. I hope she tips her surgeons well.
This is the most fun work project ever! (So far. I suppose if this is the most fun project EVER, I've already hit the top, and how depressing would that be? I'd have to retire this year, for sure.)

Another portrait from work, step 1

OK, I'm somewhat happy with this, but I'll have to finish it tomorrow. This has been the hardest one yet because of the combination of diffuse light, weird color scheme, and a smooth female face (she's had all her wrinkles removed). Please give me any useful advice about this! I really don't want it to look like 80's airbrush again...
Also, I'm going to San Diego on Monday! Hooray! Also, I bought a bunch of pirate toys! Hooray again!

Will Smith Painting, Step 2

I think this still looks a little like 80's airbrush art. Oh, well. I still think It's pretty good. And, it's finished for all work purposes.

Will Smith Painting, Step 1

Who doesn't love Will Smith? He's like a happy go lucky everyman character. He makes everyone happy like Tom Cruise. Or at least, that's what I read online.
This one definitely still needs a lot of work, but I've been on it all day, and it's time to go home. This one has been the hardest so far, maybe because I'm trying to make it more accurate, but it seems like the coloring has been hard, too. But then, my reference pic has really flat lighting. Excuse. Etc. Just the same, I'm happy with my progress here!

The Governator

Well, they didn't want the Terminator in a BYU course, so I ended up ditching it and making the Governator instead. Oh, well. Still got to paint all day. How cool is that?

Audrey Hepburn 2

Here she is, finished for all work purposes. These are going to be printed small, so I left some of the details fuzzy. Hope no one minds.

Audrey Hepburn

This one actually WILL be finished, because I'm doing it at work. By the way, this whole project rocks.

Arnold Painting

Here's a pic of Arnold Schwarzenegger I did for a project at work today.

another weird skull sketch

So, before you all think I'm weird and really like drawing skulls, you should know that this was a prop design for our senior film, and that we went with the bottom middle and right version. Ok, now you can go ahead and think I'm weird.

Test

This was just a personal experiment. Maybe I'll do more to it... But, I'm not promising. I have made too many of those promises already.

Odd Skull Design

(This painting is not finished yet.) Anyway, my purpose here was to do a 2-D graphic skull design with a very goofy look to it, and then figure out what the actual anatomy would look like. Of course, it leaves us with a very crooked jawed, assymetrical head that you really wouldn't want to see with flesh on it. But it was fun anyway, and I will finish it shortly.

Tools were: ArtRage 2.5 and Photoshop CS3.

Space Pixie

This was for the same project at work. It's an icon you click on to bring up the "virtual assistant". It's very shiny.

Commercial Work

These are some designs and illustrations I did for my employer, BYU Independent Study. They were sketched in pencil, cleaned up and colored in Flash, and shaded in Photoshop.

Better colors!

Thanks for your comments, everybody--- Yeah, the color on this frustrated me to no end so I ended up repainting it. Not done by any means, but this nice cliche color scheme seems to work a lot better! Hooray!

Better

Painted Girl

My reasons for this recent painting escapade are many, and include but are not limited to this one: I wanted to be able to design for 3d. I figure if it can look good painted it's much more useful for 3d. Also, I want to get a job. Someday. We'll see.

Anyhow, this image is basically one day's (today's) work.

After adding some value in photoshop...

Girl Sketch

I've switched gears again. I actually intend to paint this one as well, using a different approach. By the way, the story behind this is (not finished) as follows: It was prophesied that this girl's father would save his people from a terrible evil. Well, the terrible evil came, and he went to face it. He was killed. Now, she is holding his sword, trying to figure out what to do and what went wrong. She doesn't know that she will be the one saving the people... Indirectly, it will still be fulfilled.

Here he is.

This is he again, after some further advice from Jeff Bunker. Also, for some reason, viewing this image in a web browser is washing out the colors. Viewing it in photoshop or something looks much more vibrant. It's not my monitor, either, because I've tried it on multiple machines... weird.

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OK, so, at his point, I have recognized many design flaws with my space dude. I've attempted to fix some of them. I drew him really quickly because I just wanted to paint something... Now I realize I should have been more careful in the design and drawing. Also, this mac keyboard and I don't get along well.

My pen leaked. On purpose.

So, after talking to Jake Wyatt, I decided to post a full page of fully self indulgent doodles. Yes, they are mine. No, I don't expect them to get me anywhere in any art field. Yes it was drawn on lined paper at work. Hooray!

Again. Yep.

OK, this is taking longer than I intended for a couple reasons: 1, I'm still trying to figure out how to do this, and 2, I've just been doing small chunks of time on it. I think a second one will be faster.

Also- help, anyone?