Bug Wars

You can always win the battle once you've deployed your Beetle-Copter-Bomber squadrons! I painted this for the Avalanche blog.

Value study

I did this value study from a pic that looks like it's from a high school yearbook from the 50's. Of course, this would have been the principal or something... Thanks to Todd Harris for the sweet brush!

Redo

I attempted to polish up the image two posts down, and had some success, but it just wasn't dynamic enough. I decided to redo the image entirely, and I like this one a lot more! It hits the personality, righteous rage, and god-like indignation I wanted. Thanks to Sam Nielsen again for critiques.

Disney Princess

Well, this started out as a coloring book page I was painting for the Avalanche blog, and one thing led to another... Anyway, something about the image just said "Drink Coke!" I attempted to rip off the color and style of some old illustrators- I specifically tried to imitate Gil Elvgren's colors. I'm sure he'd be overjoyed.

sketch

A sketch a did yesterday for an idea I had... Wow, these colors don't look good on grey.

some recent life drawings

Most (maybe all?) of these are from recent figure drawing sessions at work.

Robotic Armor Design

And, just to prove I'm not dead, I'll post something! Hooray!

Ripoff Head Paintings

Corel Painter. Based on an image by Paul Bonner. These are the results of me trying to learn to paint. I copied these to learn how. Also, I have to thank Ryan Wood for showing me some great techniques in Painter! Sam, I wish I'd have listened sooner. This image was MUCH faster than images I painted in Photoshop.
Oil on board. Based on an image by Burt Silverman. Obviously, Burt did it much better, but I learned a ton about color. I did this one while I was taking Bob Barrett's head painting class at BYU.

Head Paintings

Head Paintings from Bob Barrett's class. This class was unbelievably helpful! I highly recommend Bob to anybody. This was my first ever real media painting class.

Dinosaur Museum!

So, I can't believe I've never gone to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving point. Turns out, it's the biggest Dino Museum in the world! Here's some sketches from my visit. I'm not done yet, though. I'll have to go back, and I don't care if it's just me and all the moms with little kids! There were too many dinos to draw all at once!

Lantern design

Another prop design.

Happy Birthday, Sarge!

Sarge hates surprises.

Another prop!

I designed this saw for our senior film. I just painted it to add to my portfolio.

Prop designs

These are for my group's senior film. Dreamworks people told me I needed more prop designs in my portfolio...

Happy Power Re-work

Attack from Kronak

These are from my final in Ryan Woodward's Character Design class.

Brothers!

by Charles and Brian Kohrman. Ink on index card. 2008.
A collaborative work by two artistic geniuses.

Save the Baby!

This was my final project for Sam's digital painting class.  I was trying to convey a strong story point in a single image, and I was trying for a Disney type style.

Tad, flustered manager of a hit boy band

This is Tad, manager for the hit band, Tha Hott Boyz. Looks like they're late to another practice! Darn those Hott Boyz!

This was my attempt to emulate the style of Stephen Silver.

dog

kitty

My Alter Ego

Peter Deseve emulation

Here is a marginally succesful attempt to emulate Peter Deseve. I still like the polar bear.

Jim Lee style Sketch

This was the sketch for my previous post.

Jim Lee Emulation

I did this design in an attekpt to emulate the style of DC comic artist Jim Lee. This guy has the amazing powers of the cosmos!