Face & Figure painting - Week #1

Taking an online class with Don Seegmiller :D

My first and second pass at a black and white figure (er, face). I picked this guy because I liked the values. They were stronger than some of the others we could pick from. I feel like I'm pretty much done with this guy, but I might go back and tweak some more before the end of the week. My color painting will be one of the female photos.

Doodles

A cuteness wave hit me when I was up in Sacramento, so I drew kitties. :3

Goodbye Sandbot

In the beginning of 2009, I lose another friend.

I keep thinking, "He's gone. He's gone! How can this be, I was just talking to him a week ago!" It came out of nowhere. I think one of the reasons I find it hard to accept is that nobody really saw it coming, not so soon.

I can honestly say that Sandborn is a man of incredible talent, who would critique my work and give guidance whenever I needed it. He worked so hard and had a bright future ahead of him, it just isn't fair. But tragedy strikes without prejudice or mercy, to the best and worst of us. I wonder what I could have done to have prevented this. In the end, it does no good and he was his own person, made his own decisions.

I find myself remembering all the good times we spent together, all the mischief and mayhem we went through in school. The trips to comic-con, cramming into a small room with 5 other people in humid, hot weather. The Dale-fests at school, BBQ'ing and eating cupcakes. Oh, and the hilarious misunderstandings. At the very least, the short time Sandborn spent with us, he had a lot of fun times and really lived life. That seems, to me, the least anybody can ask for.

If there is an afterlife, I imagine Mike must be sitting up there drawing in a sketchbook (probably red heads). I look forward to seeing what he's drawn when, someday, my time comes as well.

So to everyone I know, take care of yourselves.


Rest in peace, my friend.

A very Pikmin X-mas

Work in progress. I hope the person(s) I'm going to give this to isn't looking right now. I think this is the only time I've used lensflare in a digital painting too...



Finished Product, Cover



Inside the card. Not really finished, but I need to do some other things so I rushed it a bit.




Apparently, lens flare, even for a little circle, is an atrocious crime. To avoid punishment and further scolding, I changed it. Can't tell? Good :) Also added a few more touch ups.



Finally got finished with the cowboy... boy. At least I think he's done. I posted an image of the progress made over time.





Btw, Merry Christmas everyone! Ah damn. I gotta do Jeff's challenge now. *goes back to work*

Mini Cowboy update

More details and contrast to the colors, but he still needs work. Much better than the last one, huh? His face looks flat though, so that needs fixing.

I'll update more later.

Some "graphic" stuff

Did a mp3 player mockup in a few hours for a friend of a friend. I don't have the flash version yet, but this is the end product. Also made some logos for an anti-domestic violence club at SJSU.

Matte Painting Practice - pass #1

Works in progress. Messed around with combining pictures today. It's kind of tough finding images that will work. I want to paint things in eventually, but this is what it looks like right now. It was funny how I would zoom in and wonder why it looked so pixelated. Then I realized it was in the original file size (500 x 300) doh....

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