CG con Day 3

Just finished up my last day at Cgcon.

Today was pretty awesome!

Here's a picture (blurry) of Diego, one of the founders of CGCON. Really nice guy!

Above is Micheal Zimmerman. He was interesting to watch paint. I like his process when setting up storyboards and picking one to detail up! Really nice.
His image below.

Had a lecture with one of the SteamBot guys. David Levy. Man, this guy is soo funny! Really makes his lecture personal. Showed us paintings with using Gradients for color palettes. This guy definitely inspires me to paint!

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Scott Robertson came back and lectured about creating monsters. Using PhotoBooth. Taking the mirror option and taking pictures with random objects, such as fruit, paper etc. Really awesome!
that's his image above!

Mark showed his process with using photos to paint over your lineart. Using it as a guide.
He also touched on a lot of other stuff. I would list it down But it's getting late and I have lots to do before I leave for San Diego tomorrow!

So overall CGCON was great! Learned soo much. I feel like I can really push myself further with what I learned there. So hopefully after I get back from comic-con I'll have lots of updates of art :D


Well I'm gonna get going. I'm thinking I'll be able to update my blog everyday with what's been going on at SDCC. As long as we have internet access!

...sorry for all the broken sentences. I have poor grammar in general. But it's even worse when I'm sleepy!

CG con Day 2

First ones there! lol Actually we were only two hours early :/ If even that.

Anyway...

CGCON is awesome! Really enjoying the lectures soo far :D

Scott Robertson: this guy is awesome! Gave a great lecture on reflection and lighting :D

SteamBot: Two of the Four concept artists involved in this studio. These guys are hilarious!!!
Totally learn great techinques on how to paint with real photos, brushes, and collaborating with a fellow artist :D

More pictures from the SteamBot lecture

The Mighty Ryan Church!!!
This guy is fun! Love listening to him speak. Really was honest about the industry. Gave a great lession on his process of painting. Starting with basic sketches of an idea to modeling that idea in 3D, making a render of it. Then finally putting that render back into photoshop and painting over it. Painting with NO LIGHT. Which is just lowly adding the lighting in. Really awesome!

Saw Jason (blogspot) and Edgar (blogspot) there :D
Both crazy good and inspiring artists!


Mark Goerner: This guy had a LOT of information! Really in-depth, glad he'll be back tomorrow
Had good points about when you start painting. Talk about Composition and the POV, Mood, Story, Genere and much more!

Edgar and I got our picture taken with Ryan Church! :D

Then got pictures with the guys :D


Last day is tomorrow. Then Sunday I leave for San Diego!!!

WOOO it's JULY!!!!

Who's going to CGcon and SDCC???
I've been soooo excited for July. Really, it's pretty much the highlight of my year. Pretty sad and nerdy, but hey San Diego for a week!!! :D
My buddies and I are staying in a condo a mile away from the convention center. Planning on going all four days plus the preview night. I hope to see a lot of the artists I follow on twitter, blogspot and deviantart at comic con. :)

CGcon is a first for me. Oakley is sending me there for digital painting, which is pretty damn awesome! I hear it's gonna be pretty cool with all the companies and artists that have been getting involved in it. should be interesting. Though, I'm NOT looking forward to the commute to that one. Good thing I'm carpooling. Should make it bearable :D


Well, hopefully i'll have some art to post soon! I've been slacking ;(

Fun in the Studio

Been having a photo shoot all week and today we had alil fun. Well actually it was just the guys. Lacey and I just had fun watching and taking pictures. :D

So i'm posting them here!!!

I'm going with this one

This is the one I went with :D
I'm pretty happy with it!


I could see this animated for a Gorillaz music video.

Line art by Joe Vriens (hope you like it!)

Colored by me :D

Pushing that last post down....

Boy, that last post is obnoxious to look at!
Anyway, July is coming up fast! I can't wait. Oakley is sending Lacey and I to CGcon so that should be fun. Sean actually suggested it as a conference for us to go to. It's turning out to be one of the most anticipated conventions of the year. With of course San Diego Comic Con just two days after it. Which I'll also be going to :D
I'm excited to go, but I seriously don't want to think about all the money I'll be spending there. ;p;

Anyway, I'm working on this painting. It's for Joe Vriens! I found this drawing in his scraps and I was inspired to paint it. I actually started it last year and finally, tonight decided to continue with it.
But I'm having trouble with the direction I should finish it up in. It's pretty much done either way.
But I don't know which one i like, yet.
So i'll just post it here and see if anyone has any suggestions :)

Lineart by Joe Vriens

Slightly lighter then the one above

My original end

What's been going on...

This past week has been pretty busy. Not with freelance or anything, but with hanging out with friends. It's been awhile since I've had something to do every night and staying out till 2am. It's nice, but I am enjoying my Sunday of relaxing.

I've seen some good movies over the past two weeks. Up being one of the best ones.


It was soo good, made me cry a little. :) The short was fantastic too!!!

DRAG ME TO HELL:
This one was fun! Scared me pretty good, but it also had it's very funny moments.
definitely worth watching.


HANGOVER:

GOD, this movie was fantastic!!!! Loved every minute of it. Really one of the best comedy's I've seen in a long time. GOOOO SEE IT!!!


I also went to Joe Weatherly's book release! I was able to take shots of his amazing art.

Check out his website at http://www.joeweatherly.net/



On Wednesday I went to House of Blues. They were hosting club Lucky.
Had a lot of fun :D
My camera did an awesome job for taking pictures with no flash and in almost complete dark!!!
I got lucky with these shots cause of the lights blinking on and off

Webcomic

Still working on this. I know, right now it looks pretty flat! I'll post an update soon :D


Something I'm working on...

line art by

Daniel Lafrance

Terminator Oakley

Just saw a private screening of Terminator, tonight.
It was pretty good, I didn't have any expectations going into it. So I was REALLY happy about it. Nice action and explosion shots :D
Oakley set this up for the company employees because we have some apparel in the movie. Specifically the S. I. Assault boots. Pretty badass boots. I want some :D

May

Well lots of new things this month!!!
For starts I got a snake :D He's a California King snake, I named him Kontra. Yea, after that old game. I'm spelling it with a "K" instead of a "C". I think the name looks better with a K.
Here's some pictures of him/her. I think it's too young to tell what gender it is. So for now, I'll just assume it's a boy.


Today, I went to Riverside with my co-workers for some Team Building. We went go-kart racing, it was freakin AWESOME. Though, I was dead last. I was scared and didn't want to flip that 500 pound kart. So I stayed back and took pictures while I was driving. I also cheated to catch up with my group haha. I ended up with the second fastest lap time. But since I knew I cheated I gave up my trophy. lol Seee, I am honest!!!


Tomorrow, Kelli and I are going to see my buddy's band INVERSE perform at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. So that should be exciting! Gotta thank Kelli for driving. I hate driving to LA. EWW!!!

As for art work, I'm gonna start this charity webcomic soon. There's also thing other webcomic I'm debating on doing. No pay, so yea...no sure.

I'll post some work later :D

2D traditional Painting!

Well ever since John and I decided to go see Mike Tracy's art show, we felt inspired to paint with actual paint and brushes instead of the digital ones haha. Boy, did I miss CRTL + Z lol
Anyway, here's my painting and the progress shots!

more fish

just wanted to post some more fisheye lens photography.