Book Illustrations

So, I just finished illustrating a children's book for a friend, and thought I'd upload the final images. It was fun to work on a bigger project and I'm looking forward to seeing it published!

Happiest Place on Earth

So I found these cool little trading cards from Strathmore that you can get in all kinds of paper. I picked up some of the watercolor ones, mainly to get some measurements(which happen to be 2.5 X 3.5, in case you were wondering) and look into the trading program, cause it sounded like a fun way to see cool art. I decided to do some quickie watercolor pieces of pictures that I''ve taken at Disneyland, and I'm amazed at how addicting these little paintings are. I think Ill probably go back into these with prismacolor over the top, just to clean up some lines and such, but we'll see.

Piano Man

So my good friend Brooke that I work with LOVES Billy Joel, and she comissioned a painting of him. I thoroughly enjoyed working on this one, and I really glad that it made me realize that I've missed painting. Limited color palette is always so much fun :)

Sketchy update o' doom

Finally! It feels nice to get some more current work up. These are just from my sketch book...lots of backgrounds/landscapes to make me happy, and some people thrown in just for kicks :)

Time to finally update with some new stuff...it's been an insane ammount of time. But here's some of what I've been doing with more to follow soon, I hope :)

Moose texture for a project with Kelly Loosli. This was painted in Photoshop using hi-res photos I took at the Bean museum, and then applied in Cinema 4-D. Now the trick is to get it back into Soft Image.

Ah, the knot charm. Despite its simple appearances, this little thing was quite a beast. WIth a little bizzare-ly appropriate warping in the uv's though, it turned out all right. This texture was created with procedural shading and bump for the knots and wood grain/varnish, and painted textures with a hi-res scan for the chords and lettering.

This was for a fun thing online called the Harry Potter Fan Art project. I don't usually do much in the fan art genre, but this one kind of caught my attention. This was a pretty quick painting done in Photoshop using a watercolor-ish brush. Kinda fun.

Here's my newest lighting demo reel(texturing soon to come)

Pajama Gladiator DVD covers

So, here are the covers I've just finished for Pajama Gladiator's DVD case. I'm really excited about the way they turned out. It was really fun to experiment with making things look like an old comic. Now all that's left is the spine, and we'll be good to go. Which is good because Kites is gonna be right on PJG's heels.