Drawaholics - Raven

first illustration post since the big dallas-move - finally jumping on to the drawaholics wagon again, this week was 'favorite bird', pretty straight forward topic, didn't require much brain-power :P

it was either going to be a raven or an owl, and scribbling some lines on top of a black mass seemed appealing at the time. i tried to stay lose with the detailing and push for an interesting shape.

Valentine for my Sweetums

this is my valentine card for jess - a play on the old mickey mouse title cards

Mini Turtle Power

i was trying to work on something else, and i couldn't get this damn little turtle out of my head - so now maybe i can concentrate on other things :P

i also wanted to give him a tail, but no matter what i did, it kept looking like a deformed little.. member - soooo, the turtle is tail-less.
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*updated to include colored version

Drive

Drive was probably one of my favorite movies of 2011 - a beautiful, slow boil with brutal payoff. we had some of the soundtrack playing earlier in the night, and it made me want to do something with the movie - this is the "driver" donning that creepy stunt-man mask.
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*updated - replaced the crowbar with hammer, altered the face a bit

Drawaholic: Musical Inspiration - Beatles

i've been falling a little behind on the DRAWAHOLICS blog, but i'm starting to play catch up now. here's my musical inspiration. i was originally going to redo the Let it Be album cover in the fashion of Gorillaz' Demon Days, but ended up just turning in to a profile line up ;P

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American Carny (Drawaholic: Carnies)

so i actually wrangled up some time to paint up last week's carny sketch for the DRAWAHOLICS blog. it's been a good long while since i've attempted to go this extensive with the painting. it feels good to get my digital brush wet again ;P - i decided to keep it black and white, give it a more era-appropriate feel (and man is it nice only worrying about tone and not having to deal with that whole, COLOR thing, haha)

i definitely won't be taking all the submissions this far, but hopefully i can keep it up with a few of 'em..

oh and yes, this was based on the classic painting American Gothic

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Drawaholic: My Pet Monster v.2

i'm pretty surprised that i was able to find the time, or even motivation, to get it colored up this week - but i did it! so here's my same pet monster with a lil' color treatment! off to a good start this week.

(don't worry mullins, your designs are still on the way, i promise)

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Tippett Secret Santa 2010

this year my victim for secret santa wasn't quite as easy to approach (the fact that i did not know him personally, like last year, meant that i probably shouldn't poke fun at his cultural heritage or physical attributes). and the only detail that i was able to get a firm grasp on was their self-proclaimed status of "geek for philosophy"; hence, socrates and philosoraptor.

Purrcasso 2010

my entry for this year's Purrcasso Charity Auction - 'Waiting for Papa'

Purrcasso is a charity art & craft gala done for the Berkeley East-Bay Humane Society - loads of great local artists donate pieces to be auctioned off in order to help out the animals. here is a link to the site if you want more info, and are interested in stopping by!

http://purrcasso.wordpress.com/

Cats & Dogs Schwag

i did these (very late mind you) as pieces meant for crew schwag on my first movie, cats & dogs: the revenge of kitty galore.

the first is seamus, the pigeon, who was voiced by katt williams. and as you may or may not know, katt has had a few mugshots in his day (one of them during the production of this movie) :P so i decided to give seamus similar treatment :) mugshot coffee mugs anyone?










the second is the main villian, kitty galore. she is hairless, and has never forgiven the world for making her so - here we've caught her in the act of trying rectify her situation with a little moose hair and elmer's.

Jess' Christmas

I did this for Jess as a Christmas gift -- Her and her two Ragdoll (yes that is actually a legitimate breed) cats, Jasper and Shilo(h?).

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Tippett Secret Santa

So the tradition @ Tippett Studio, is that eveyrone that participates in secret santa, has to make their gift. You draw someone's name, with a bit of info on the person, and you have to make them a gift! no store-bought gifts, and NO I.O.U.s!!! Some of the past gifts that I've been shown over the year have been INCREDIBLE! So I felt obligated of course to take part in the awesome seasonal activity.

I luckily got the name of someone that I knew, one of my leads from Cats & Dogs -- Mike Brunet. Brunet is a raging-Canadian with a lack of hair and a massive jaw line, and a ridiculously talented animator.

I of course fell to my default for secret santa: round #1; illustrating. I did a full size 27"x40" movie poster, inspired a little by some old serial adventure and james bond posters.

I also pulled a bit of a prank on Brunet at the Tippett Christmas party (where the gifts were handed out). He has had a tough time receiving gifts in the past, half of the time receiving I.O.U.s or lame store bought things (the two BIG NO-NOs). But the good ones that he's had, are REEEAAALLLY GOOD. So not only did I HAVE to finish, it had to be something big, and worthy. After ensuring that I had the real gift finished and ready to go, I got him a decoy gift, to make him THINK he was getting an I.O.U. before getting his real gift. This of course is funniest to the people that know him -- success! I'll include video of the gift giving for the people that didn't get a chance to see it in person.

Purrcasso 2009

This was my entry for the Percasso Charity Gallery for the Berkeley East-Bay Humane Society. I didn't get around to taking it where I wanted, but it still turned out, and it sold for a good bit over the asking price -- so I can't complain :P

In this piece is my dog Harvington-Reginald "Short Stuff" Wallbanger (or Harvey; the corgi in the fez) and my friend Steve's dog Totoro (or Pig-Pug; the pug in the monocle).

Tony's Zombie Party

Catching up on a few posts.. I was asked to do an illustration of Tony and Adrienne for their AMAZING zombie-birthday bash. incredible evening. They used the illustration to create the invites and such for the party-

Monster'N .03

three doodles in three weeks.. that's a record for my recent pencil-pacing. third go @ the monster'n blog. this week's inspiration was the star nosed mole, which is already pretty fucked up looking to begin with. and then there's a little badger and leopard gecko thrown in the mix.

Monster'N .02

next serving of monster'n. this character is from the same little story as the previous. next one 'll be something unrelated, inspired by some weird ass aminals.

Monster'N .01

so a few of the peeps at tippett contribute to a little blog called monster'n, which is basically an excuse for people to get together and draw monsters and other messed up shit! how can you beat that?! anywho, i finally whipped up a submission. i'm not going to bother with back story on the subjects, but i'll post the doodles up here, since my posts have been running dry as usual.. so hopefully, if i can force myself to do maybe one of these a week, it'll allow me to keep my drawing chops in shape (a little at least) and perhaps remedy the lack of activity here.

¡Estupendo, gigante, aventura de Cinematico!

In light of leaving Cinematico, I wanted to draw up some kind of "thank you/farewell for now" piece for the three head-honchos; Brittnell Anderson, Gustavo "Goose" Manriquez and Marco Bertoldo. And if you've been to the studio, you know that there is a shared affinity for old school/foreign movie posters.

Like I said, I've really enjoyed my time at Cinematico, and have learned so much (work-wise and not) from these guys. Hope they like the poster, and I'm sure we'll be working on even more offensiveness later down the road!

2009 contd..

one day later! a new record for me!

a pass on color/texture, i could call it done, but i'm still going to go back and play with it a bit. i also took a lot of the colors into a very vibrant area for a change, that tends to be ground that i don't tread on very often.. high contrast, full black, full white, and colors aaaaall the way in the top right corner of the color picker.

-on a side note. don't see outlander, fuck it sucks.. when's there going to be a good viking movie :(

2009

another year over..

i haven't posted for a while, and it's been even longer since i've drawn anything >< i've got quite a long list of resolutions for the new year, and one of 'em is to rekindle my relationship with personal art; and not just pick up where i left off, i want to evolve and try some new things along the way. aside from a few freelance pieces i don't think i really drew up anything (traditional, digital or otherwise) since maybe june or july? really depressing when i think back on it, but i was busy as all hell with work, managing some episodes for an animated series and then working on cinematics for a couple games, so i supposes that's a decent enough excuse..

but excuses aside, as always, the fire seems to start back up with a self portrait. my artsy roommates and i are all getting our '2009' illustrations ready. you know, to use on myspace, facebook, etc.. though i've abandoned myspace and i don't have a facebook :P

i just finished up the 'inking' process and boy does it feel good to draw something again.. i've been veeeery inspired by mignola and wendling lately, and i've decided to try to push myself a bit more in their direction. hopefully this will be the beginning of a nice little journey. we'll see how it goes. this is also another first for me, i've finally put my now 9 month old corgi pup, 'harvington-reginald short stuff wallbanger', or just harvey, down on paper (digital paper that is). that's one big brick off my shoulders, how could i have not drawn my dog yet?! aaaaAAAAHHHHHaaa!!

colors to come soon, before the end of january at least. and maybe a few more things will peak over the horizon soon too.