Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Recent Drawings from Life Drawing Session at Work
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Zion Painting Trip
Last weekend I was able to go on a painting/sketching/reference gathering trip with some BYU illustration and animation students and faculty to Zion National Park. They are doing a student project on environment design and will be using the sketches and reference they gathered for their designs. Since that's kind of what I do for a living I got to come along. It was a blast.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Really Cool Colorful Costume
Friday, April 18, 2008
Demo Videos
Here are some demos that I recently did. The first one is a landscape that was just out of my head without any reference. I have nothing against reference, in fact I am very much in favor of it. I just mention that I had no reference as a disclaimer for why it isn't better.
The next two are digital portrait studies that I did from life of a couple co-worker friends, Emily and Dillon, who were nice enough to sit still for me. I tried to do an approach similar to what I would do with real paint.
Also, I am not very good at talking while I'm painting (or at any other time for that matter) so I decided to borrow the audio track from someone much more experienced in painting demonstrations than myself. I think his commentary is probably at least as instructional as mine would have been, plus something about his voice just makes me feel happy. Special thanks to Tom for help with these videos.
Here are the finished images.


The next two are digital portrait studies that I did from life of a couple co-worker friends, Emily and Dillon, who were nice enough to sit still for me. I tried to do an approach similar to what I would do with real paint.
Also, I am not very good at talking while I'm painting (or at any other time for that matter) so I decided to borrow the audio track from someone much more experienced in painting demonstrations than myself. I think his commentary is probably at least as instructional as mine would have been, plus something about his voice just makes me feel happy. Special thanks to Tom for help with these videos.
Here are the finished images.


Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Drawings
I realized that I haven't posted many drawings on this blog, so here are a couple from the last few months of study at Kamille Corry's studio.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Cast Painting

This is a cast painting that I worked on last year at Kamille Corry's studio. I feel like I learned a lot about oil painting and how to finish a painting over a long period of time. Most of my oil paintings have just been studies done in one sitting.
I also gained an appreciation of ancient Greek sculptors. It was pretty tedious painting just this guy's head. I can't imagine how long it would have taken them to sculpt the whole thing.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Jazz

As a huge NBA fan I have drawn lots of basketball players, but not for a long time. So I thought I would celebrate the start of the season with a portrait of some Utah Jazz players. I originally was going to exaggerate the caricatures more but they ended up more idealized. But these guys have been playing well so they got the flattering treatment.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Latest Plein Air
Friday, August 03, 2007
Star Wars Fun
Monday, July 09, 2007
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Bono

Here's something to make me feel old. It has been 20 years since The Joshua Tree was released. Oh well, Bono is older than me and he's still cool. (I think)
This is for the Avalanche Blog. The theme is Rock Star.
Also this was done using ArtRage, which I just discovered. I don't know if I would use it for professional work, but it sure is fun. They have a free download and if you want the full verion it's only $20. Check it out.
This is for the Avalanche Blog. The theme is Rock Star.
Also this was done using ArtRage, which I just discovered. I don't know if I would use it for professional work, but it sure is fun. They have a free download and if you want the full verion it's only $20. Check it out.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Old Tak Art


Well, it's time to get something besides my losing art contest entries up here to look at. Apologies to those who may have clicked here multiple times in the last month only to see nothing new. I haven't been able to do any personal work for a while, so I will have to resort to posting old art. Here are a couple pieces from Tak.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Losing Art Contest Entries


My former office mate Justin who now works at Blizzard talked me and a couple other guys into entering the Blizzard art contest. They posted the winners today and neither I nor anyone I know is among them. I probably didn't spend enough time on these to compete with the ones that were picked. Oh well, at least I have something to post on my blog now. I don't know if Todd and Ryan will post theirs. We may have to pressure them a little.
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