Dan Vs Greeting Card

Sorry I haven't been updating in a while! So here's a last minute post!

Here's the completed design for the greeting card I made for the production crew at Film Roman. Would have uploaded this months ago, but oh well!

Happy New Year everybody! See you all in 2013!

Design Lab: Sunken Forest

Joined Conceptart.org after years of being too lazy to join it. Here's my entry to Sinix's Design Lab thread, designing an environment; in this case, a "Sunken Forest":

A friend of mine 4 years ago suggested I join CA.org... and I should have listened. The community over there is just filled with amazing talent!

International Self Portrait Day 2012

Apparently today is International Self Portrait Day, so I painted myself.

My attempt at being loose since I'm usually not. Not liking the shoulder though. OH WELL!

Can't Hide From Her

Made a painting of some fat ugly girl as an inside joke for my friends, but ended up making some silly movie as well using the limited After Effects and Premiere knowledge I had. Still learning!

Here's an edit of the original "faux vector" I made jokingly in 2010:

And then here's the vector trace I made in Illustrator while learning the program. And yes, that's her name btw:

And then my painting. Omg, I laughed:

And finally the "short film" which was more an experiment with both After Effects and Premiere:

I had my fun. Haha.

Spirit Day 2012

Did a quick painting for Spirit Day 2012 on October 19th.

 Completed it just before midnight too.

The Bomb Challenge: Complete

Still learning how to use Flash. Animation is pretty novice, but I'm starting to understand how to move the components individually.

Quick desert painting to use for the background.

For some reason Flash wouldn't export a 1200x675 pixel .mov file correctly by squishing it on its sides, so I ended up stretching it in After Effects. Still learning, yo!

Pen Tablet Test

Looking at the differences between the Wacom Bamboo and the Wacom Intuos.

I thought my line quality would change, but I guess it didn't all that much. Maybe it's just me. However, I think my lines taper more at the ends I guess.

Here are some thumbnails I did with the Intuos. I think it's a little better? Hmm...

The Bomb Challenge

Went to the CSUF PMC event called The Bomb in which the goal is to make a bomb animation move across the page and not blow up during the 72-hour animation marathon... or something like that. I actually attempted it this year (and I've been going since 2009) so I can practice Illustrator and Flash.

Simple colors, although I might change it later.

Andddddd... a ridiculously simplistic motion tween. Need to learn how to animation individual components independently.

Nail: Production Model Sheets

Presented my turnaround like the production model sheets I've seen on the Dan Vs. servers.

Model sheets for my character Nail. Played around with Illustrator since I don't really know how to use it. Hurray for learning.

Dan With Chainsaw

Been taking advantage of my last month interning, so I haven't really done a lot of painting and stuff. However, seeing that I've got access to a library of references, I'm making a thank you card for the crew on Dan Vs.

The cintiq lines... omg. Totally gonna miss all that. Will definitely upload my completed card soon!

Nail: Clean Turnaround

Cleaned him uppppp!

Omg the cintiq lines are the best. I'm gonna miss them. Got to color him in and stuff.

Nail: Rough Turnaround

I need to calm downnnnn with the painting and actually do some boarding and cartooning.

Rough turnaround of my character Nail (PG version). Need to add toes and clean it up, yo!

Robot Concept Sketches

Just a bunch of robotssssssssss!

Need to start painting again.

Abandoned Alley: Complete

Finally doneeeee!

Thank you SenshiStock and barefootliam-stock for the reference images! That was fun. Time for a break maybe?

Rock Shore

Painting practice againnnn. Didn't really have a plan for this one, so yeah.

It's generic, but I think it's still gneiss. Hahhhhhhhhhh!

Abandoned Alley: Work-In-Progress

Another work-in-progress I suppose. Wanna try painting flat surfaces.

It's been a while since I've drawn the human figure, so let's just see what happens.

Poliwhirl Plush: Work-In-Progress

Been working on this one on and off between other projects.

Mmhmmmmmm.

SHARK IN THE WATER

IT'S SHARK WEEK 2012 AND I ABSOLUTELY LOOOOVE SHARK WEEK! I PAINTED THIS BECAUSE SHARKS ARE AWESOME AND I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITH PAINTING OMG!

SHARKS ARE AMAZING! THANK YOU FALLN-STOCK FOR THE REFERENCE IMAGE!

To Be More Pacific

Had a whale of a time painting tonight omg!

 Referenced this wallpaper from this page. I'm getting better, that's for shore.

Surreal Eyes: Complete

Finished that eye painting!

 Eh... not my favorite, but oh well. What did I learn today? Plan out paintings before going in blind.

Blobbert Chalk

Some silly thing I whipped up in like, 10 minutes while trying out other photoshop brushes.

Mmhmm.

Surreal Eyes: Work-In-Progress

Wanted to paint a bunch of eyes together into a giant eye blob floating in an empty void. They look kinda sexual though, but then again one can argue that eyes are sexual, no?

Don't know what the scale is gonna be yet, but I'm getting there.

Bird Painting

Been practicing digital painting. Never really had much instruction in school, so it's pretty different.

Wish I took more painting classes. Thank you emilie-stock for the reference image.

Twitter Drawings

During the last moments of my Spring internship, I had been playing around with their Cintiq monitors and ended up drawing silly cartoons what I did or how I felt that day.

Never really drew myself before, but it turned into a weekly thing for Twitter.

And so I regularly updated Twitter with these drawings, realizing how fun it was to just do whatever.

So yeah. I'm interning in the summer and have been updating Twitter with newer drawings of better quality. Will definitely post some more up here later.

Some Café Sketches

Café sketches from Laguna Hills.

Need to get into the habit of updating this place with stuff, you guys!

I Should Start Using This More

Salut mes amis!

I've been neglecting this blog and now it's time to fill it up with sketches and art and whatnot. Still not use to this interface, but I'll learn it in time. With that said, here are some silly drawings done while bored at Starbucks.

I don't know, man.