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?

Spaceman's Head

Here, I've kind of worked out his head. At least, I like it. I'm going to try to finish this whole thing for my portfolio. Geez, the Avalanche guys make it look so easy!

Current Painting Progress

So, here's my latest progress in painting. This is a space dude. He's a bit peeved right now cause somebody stuck a piece of bubble gum in his rifle chamber. He's got to finish cleaning his space gun before he can go put the hurt on somebody. OK, I had a more profound story worked out at first, but then I canned it in favor of just being goofy. Hopefully you can tell that I'm trying to emulate the avalanche painting style. After talking to Todd Harris, I've been trying to copy some of his and Ryan Wood's work, just to learn some skills. This guy is my own design, though.

Gator Painting

I don't know if you can tell, but I think alligators are pretty awesome. But then, who doesn't? Also, bunnies are yummy.

Gas Station Lighting 2.0

So, this one turned out... almost exactly the same as the one before it. Geez. Well, I feel like I fixed some of the afore mentioned focus issues, and it looks much more solidly sitting on an actual ground. Also, the colors are cleaner and more saturated. Comments welcome!

Gas Station Lighting 2.0 (but not done yet)

Here's the beginnings of another one I hope to finish tonight. I'm making some changes after talking to Al Bradshaw, who is in charge of our lighting design team. Also, this one hopefully looks less like it's swimming and more like it's on the ground.

Gas Station Lighting

Yep. It's yet another painting for lighting purposes. It's also a color test for our film about squashed armadillos. Man, I'm starting to dig this paint in photoshop thing.
By the way, this color design was based on photos our lighting design froup found and on some color work by Mike Mercer, especially.

Another Lighting Test

Here's a middle of the movie lighting idea. I think, though, it's probably too dark.