Art by Jesse Larsen

A Little Zbrush

2011-06-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

I played with some zbrush today. I always seem to make old, beat up dudes when my mind is free...their faces are so awesome.

Enjoy.

Family

2011-06-20T17:29:00.000-07:00

This is mine :) They are awesome. Even the little bald one.

Edit: I changed Abby up a bit :) Enjoy the new version.

Thor

2011-05-04T15:54:00.001-07:00

This Friday baby! One step closer to The Avengers. I hope it is as good as the reviews say it is.
Enjoy.

Portal 2

2011-04-27T23:23:00.000-07:00

Yeah I am a huge fan of Portal. The amount of time put into the writing and voice acting alone would make the game for me, even if it wasn't incredibly fun. I frequently find myself trying to beat the level just to see what will be said next. That says a lot about writing in video games to me :) If you haven't played Portal, shame on you. Repent and go treat yourself to one of the better games of our generation.

This is some fan art that I whipped up today.
Enjoy.

Microsoft and a Bieber

2011-04-06T22:43:00.000-07:00

I apologize for my long absence. If anyone still follows this blog :) I have been working for Microsoft Games again as a full time employee since January, and it has been awesome. I am currently working on an XBox live title and a mobile title as well. Very cool, they will be coming out soon, I'll let you know when to go buy them ;)
Life has been crazy, moving a family and starting everything up again. Quite the challenge I might say. I think we are a little more established now, so hopefully I will be posting a bit more regularly.

Here are a few pieces I have been working on for fun in the down time. Both will be auctioned off for a local charity event.

The wolverine was a quick fun project because I really couldn't get myself to paint otherwise. Still getting back into painting, this is great therapy :)

This one is for the tweens, my wife thinks I'm making fun of him. I might be...

More to come, enjoy!

Another one down

2010-11-30T21:27:00.000-08:00

I finished up another sketchbook and decided to start in a moleskine again. Hence the yellow paper. I am also continuing work on the Pre-Dominance war competition with the pic at the bottom. I'm loving the use of 3d coat and photoshop together. Pretty sweet stuff. Enjoy!

Pre-Dominance war

2010-11-19T00:47:00.000-08:00

Well this is a little different of me, but I am entering an online competition type thingy called the Pre-dominance war. You go out and make a 3d character that fit certain criteria. This is my quick sketch concept for the character I am thinking of doing. The criteria: 3000 tris, no normal or bump maps, and it has to be done on the 6th of December. Here we goooooo!

Sketchybook stuff

2010-10-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

This is stuff that I draw for fun. Mainly working on design and technique. Yes I know I cut the dudes foot off. I ran out of room alright?! Jeesh.

These are my geeky shoes

2010-10-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

After getting some nice pretty white vans for Christmas last year I decided to embark on a project that sounded like a lot of fun. Now, 297 Days 9 hours, 42 minutes and 35 seconds later...They are FINISHED.

They were this:

They are now this:

Yay for me, now I get to wear them for a week before the snow hits...
Enjoy.

P.S. I got the idea from this guy's wife. Thanks!!

I'm serious

2010-10-17T19:34:00.000-07:00

Working

2010-10-08T12:31:00.000-07:00

We've been killing ourselves on this senior film thing. My class and I are working throughout the weeks to try and get this thing done ASAP. Yeah its not gonna happen for a bit, but hey its looking great.

Here is a little piece I did for a poster on the wall. The film is focused around boxing in the 1930's, and this is a previous boxing champ. Yes women did box back then. And they wore dresses. While they boxed.

A lot of what I am working on for the film isn't something to show. I'm mainly fixing geometry on various models and other stuff. I'll get some zbrush stuff on here soon considering I'm finally figuring out my way around it. Enjoy.

Back from Seattle

2010-09-05T21:57:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

I'm finally back from Seattle. We had an awesome time and we are planning on heading back up there this January because I got a JOB. I will be working for the empire for the next who knows how many years, and I couldn't be happier. My wife loved it, my daughters loved it, I loved it.

On a work related note. Im still clearing up whether or not I can post my work we did on the game over the summer, so when I get that resolved, I'll post some cool stuff up here. In the meantime, here are some pages out of my sketchbook. These are mainly just for fun or to get my mind off of things. I am really growing to enjoy drawing. I dont just stress out about how bad my stuff is anymore, I just play. I still think and design and rehash the drawing, but I enjoy it now. Yes I do.

MGS

2010-06-06T23:21:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,
Sorry for the long time in between posts! I have recently moved to Seattle to intern with Microsoft Games Studios! If you must know, I am an art intern with a group called the SEED team. Myself and a group of interns from around the country are building an XBLA game in 10 weeks. I do concept art, modeling, rigging, textures, animating, UI...basically everything that you will see in the game. I am one of two artists working on it, so needless to say building an entire game in 10 weeks is a pretty daunting task for us. The other artist working with me is also from BYU. His name is Andrew Young and he is awesome. This is where I will be for the summer, so most of what I am doing art-wise is un-postable. I will try and get some side project stuff on here in the meantime. Wish me luck!

Sketchy Sketch

2010-05-11T21:24:00.000-07:00

Here are a few things out of my sketchbook because I haven't posted anything in forever. New stuff coming soon. Enjoy

Cliff

2010-04-18T23:19:00.000-07:00

I tried to get some fun lighting effects out of this one. I'm pretty happy with it. This was done in Photoshop. Enjoy.

Moroni almost done

2010-04-18T20:30:00.000-07:00

This is a project that I have been working on for way too long. Done in Photoshop. It has really been in the works for over a year. I have gone through about 3 redesigns and 2 repaints. I'm still not entirely pleased, but its getting there. Enjoy!

Done

2010-03-08T18:28:00.001-08:00

Finally finished, This was done in maya, photoshop, and zbrush. it is running on an Xbox 360 in the octane engine. Enjoy

Stay on target

2010-02-19T15:11:00.000-08:00

Almost there!

Only a few more changes and I am making a movie for you all.
Enjoy

Not Hitler

2010-02-17T08:26:00.001-08:00

This is not hitler

His name is Higgins, and he is a boxing referee. So stop asking...fine I'll fix it.
Enjoy

Progress

2010-02-05T14:37:00.001-08:00

This here is a screen shot of the project I have been working through at work. It is far from finished but today is the first free time I have had a t work for months so I decided to dust it off and get to work. I might as well take advantage of the hardware while I'm still at Avalanche right?? Oh and more sketches and other updates to come. Enjoy.

Emulation round 2

2009-12-06T15:30:00.000-08:00

This is my second attempt at emulating other professional artists. This first is from the man who was behind the art style of Lilo and Stitch, the talented Chris Sanders. I won't link this guy because a lot of what he draws is women in bikinis. HOWEVER, I found his style incredibly appealing and I was told I should give him a try by a few of my classmates, so I gave it a shot with the squirrel. Another artist that has influenced many throughout the years is CRMK (aka Bengus). He mainly did work for Capcom as one of their premiere artists for Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers. His stuff is fantastic but more hard to find than most. You can find his stuff easily in all the art of street fighter books...but you have to find them. Anyway, the girl is a fun rendition of my wife in her Street Fighter form. She has a robotic arm because she loves to pound things into oblivion...mainly my shoulder when I am giving her a hard time :) Enjoy!

Emulation

2009-11-29T16:30:00.000-08:00

This was a really fun assignment. We were asked to emulate another artist and design a character using their style. This guy is an assassin in the early 1900's. As you can see his normal cover is a saloon pianist. The artist that I attempted to emulate is Maël Gourmelen. I found his stuff on the character design blog and I loved it. His use of the line of action is second to none. He really helped me with clothing wrinkles as well. I also admire is daring use of watercolors in his designs. He leaves alot of his designs in the rough pencil stage to paint up and it gives the character some fun texture. So yeah, like it or not here it is :) Enjoy.

Animals take 2

2009-11-23T11:36:00.000-08:00

This post comes to you from the exotic land of Alabama. I traveled without my trusty tablet so I had to resort to the unforgiving media of watercolor. This ifs for the second round of animals in my character design class. The Monkey has been raised by a street gang to do their dirty work. The goat wants to join the circus but the wont except her because she isn't a cool enough animal. The Badger has IBS when he eats meat so he can only eat veggies and he is very upset about it. That's the run down. Enjoy!

Hero 2 and Animals!

2009-11-15T23:28:00.000-08:00

Hey all, I have been crazy busy lately...seems to be a trend. Anyway here are the last couple bits of design and drawing I've been doing. The first is a redesign of my stereotypical hero. I tried to steer away from my typical style and emulate a graphic novel called "Lucha Libre" The artist who draws this style is called "Bill". The next couple are some animal designs for my character design class. I had a lot of fun with these. Anyway, all of these were colored with Photoshop. Enjoy.

One day, one very busy day

2009-11-02T06:30:00.001-08:00

I finished three pieces today. Well mostly finished. It was a rough one but I got em done. I'm sure they all need a little tweaking, but this is the result of deciding to color these before I turned them in the next day. Enjoy.

Stereotypical hero:

Non-Stereotypical Hero:

Stereotypical Heroine:

Non stereotypical?

2009-10-31T23:42:00.000-07:00

Yeah this was a fun dive into another art style. Let me know what you think :) She is a non-stereotypical heroine for my character design class. Enjoy!

Me?!

2009-10-27T15:16:00.000-07:00

Check this out, Claire pointed this out for me the other day. Who does that look like? Oh yeah its totally me! By no means did I have any part of creating this model. It is the main character from the upcoming movie called Planet 51. Look it up. I smell a new avatar coming.

Muscles, I draws dem

2009-10-26T21:58:00.001-07:00

Here are two Stereotypical characters for my character design class. Hero and Heroine, simple enough. I will shade these guys up and probably eventually paint them, we'll see when that happens. Done with Prismacolor pencils and ink. Enjoy.

Hero:

Heroine:

Steamfish

2009-10-26T09:15:00.001-07:00

This is the midterm for Joe Olson's Drawing for animation class. We had to take our toy assignment and turn it into something better. The theme was Steampunk + Vegetables. This is what I came up with. This is done with Prismacolor pencils, inks, marker and my new favorite thanks to Tyson Murphy...WATERCOLORS! :)

I also cheated with photoshop for this final look.

Enjoy!

Happy Halloween

2009-10-18T21:40:00.001-07:00

My wife, daughter and I decided to do a little pumpkin carving on sunday night and I wanted to do something different this year. So instead of carving one in the old fashion way, I decided to get a little crazy. Check it out.

Yeah, I consider this an epic fail but I had a lot of fun learning how pumpkin reacts to carving. I see why more people don't do this. It is supposed to be the floating zombie spaceman head from a couple posts back. It was a fun learning experience, but now back to the real work. Enjoy.

Sketchdump!

2009-10-11T16:20:00.001-07:00

I found a bunch of stuff that I never posted in my old sketchbook. This stuff reaches back about months. Wow, I need to stay on top of things more. Enjoy!

Audrey 2 and a little life drawing

2009-10-10T22:00:00.001-07:00

This is my second attempt at Audrey Hepburn. I stretched it a little bit more and I am alot more satisfied with this one. This took me forever because no matter how much I stretched her features, I still had to make sure she stayed semi-pretty. Whew. Anyway I thought i would throw on one of my figure sketches from work also. Enjoy!

Audrey

2009-10-07T00:33:00.000-07:00

This is a quick Character Design assignment that I completed tonight. A caricature of a popular celebrity. I chose Audrey Hepburn because that lady had style. She was gorgeous and always had the sweetest hair. But nothing beats the lashes. My wife informs me that she had individual eyelash separator people that actually separated every one of her eyelashes from the others with a needle to give them the full look. Hey, it worked. That is the first thing i think of when Audrey Hepburn comes to mind. I regret not drawing her long ol' cigarette holder, but alas this is life. Enjoy

Oh yeah

2009-10-04T21:55:00.000-07:00

This is a piece that I did for Joe olson's class to the theme of "Bunny herders of the endless steppe". What you see is what you get on this one. The bunnies are really big on that there endless steppe. Nuff said. Enjoy!

Sneak Preview

2009-10-04T20:32:00.000-07:00

These wont be turned in till tomorrow, so if you are a faithful follower you will get to see them today! These are an assignment that we have spent 3 weeks on. The first week we drew a silhouette of 4 themes, Spaceman, Butler, Female construction worker and Witch. These you will see in the top left corner. The next week we added whiteout to all of them to give them some interesting internal shapes and chose our favorites. These you will see in the bottom left. The final week, we were to render out a character according to those shapes and the big ones on the right are what I came up with. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

Butler:

Witch/ Warlock:

Female Construction Worker:

Spaceman:

Toy design round 2

2009-10-01T22:11:00.001-07:00

I am taking Joe Olson's drawing for animation class this semester. It rocks my socks and I recommend it to everyone who has the chance to take it. This is a toy design after the style of the "Urban Vinyl" genre. Look it up, they're pretty sweet. Anyway if you remember my little gangster dude I drew back a million years ago, that was my first attempt at this assignment. This is my newest attempt, and I'm pretty proud of it. The theme was "devonian or precambrian lifeform". Yeah it looks like the fish has splattered on the ground, but as Brandon, one of my buddies pointed out, it looks like he was laying on the ground with his mouth down and he sneezed with a big "pthbtbtbtbtbt" sound. Yeah I like that better too. Enjoy

Finally a new post!

2009-09-15T07:11:00.000-07:00

Hey all, I am back from the summer and working full speed ahead on school and part time for Avalanche (hopefully. still waiting on confirmation). I have been sketching/ designing characters like mad and basically just trying to stay awake during the day. Here is a little taste of my character design class.

This character is a study of rock, and plants. We were supposed to design a character using these elements and this is what I came up with. Pencil, ink and marker.

This guy was created out of a shape. If you look at his outline that was the shape that I sketched, I was supposed to draw 20 shapes, choose one and put a character inside of it. This is what I came up with. Pencil, ink and marker.

More to come! When I get my scanner fixed I will be feeding you with a constant flow of my attempts at good art! Enjoy

More updates

2009-08-20T15:50:00.000-07:00

Sorry, still no art going up, just updates from my project. I wish I could be a little bit faster on this one :)

This is alot of fun, but I am learning a whole lot about where I am lacking. Dont worry, most of the terrain is just blocked in shapes and is most definitely not final. The textures are not final either...man I have along way to go.

ENJOY!

Update

2009-07-27T15:54:00.001-07:00

Here are a few shots from my current intern project. I am still nailing down the layout of everything. I need to start working on this at home so I can get it done before my end date comes up. Anyway here are a few progress shots, nothing special :) Enjoy

P.S. I promise some more drawings in the near future. It is all a matter of getting a scanner to work.

Project

2009-06-23T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hey all! I am still alive, I promise. I have been working at Disney interactive/ Avalanche for a couple weeks now. Here is an example of stuff that I work on. This will not be in a game or anything, this is more of a personal project. It is a work in progress, so It doesnt look amazing yet :) I have alot more sketches to post up here also so give me a little bit. Work at Avalanche has been very educational. I am stoked to learn more from some of the best in the game industry. Wish me luck! Enjoy.

Update: Some lights and a bump map help bring out the 3-dimensionality to it.

Random Update

2009-05-20T08:36:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted in a while, so I decided to throw up some of my recent sketchbook stuff. Enjoy.

Final Animation

2009-04-12T12:35:00.001-07:00

Yeah its simple, yeah there is no background, but its got the Andy Griffith song man!! Enjoy.

Final from Jesse Larsen on Vimeo.

Dont make a green man angry

2009-04-10T23:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a preview of the character for my 3d animation final! I have spent 80+ plus hours on this guy so he better be worth it :) I am having a blast bringing him to life!! Enjoy!

Final for Bible as Lit

2009-04-02T20:31:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed my bible as literature class a lot more than I thought I would. Especially because this is my final project. He let me paint whatever I wanted from the stories that we talked about. Samson is like the superhero of the bible (even though it turns out he wasn't such an amazing guy). This was done in about 12 hours in Corel Painter X on an intuos 3 tablet. Enjoy.
P.S. any suggestions for the background?? I want to change it but here it is for now :)

Facial Reconstruction

2009-03-26T23:00:00.000-07:00

I decided that I didn't like the face of my dog model. So I went in and fixed it. Ah the beauty of plasticine. Enjoy.

3d Little Green Mans

2009-03-25T14:02:00.000-07:00

This is the model for my final assignment in my 3d animation class. You might recognize him from one of my previous posts. This has taken me a few days, but I have really enjoyed growing by learning how things all go together. I still have a little work to do on the eyes, but you get the idea. Hopefully I'll have the animation up for you in a couple weeks. Enjoy! (Maya 2008)

Basil, Salem, or Spot...or something else

2009-03-24T23:44:00.000-07:00

Here is...yeah cant decide on a decent name for him. I did a lot of smoothing and detail work on him for this last pass. I thought he was a bunch of fun. I could really get into this modeling thing :) Enjoy!

Hunchy

2009-03-22T07:20:00.000-07:00

My second maquette is coming along nicely. This guy is way heavy, but a lot more sturdy than the girl. I really like the big shapes, but the large surface area makes him really hard to smooth out and make it look just right. I have only spent 2 days on this one so far, and I'm almost done. I'm going to say that I leveled up in efficiency a bit with this second one :) Enjoy.

Finished

2009-03-16T23:39:00.000-07:00

Here she is in all her glory. I actually finished at a decent time tonight. This model is done with clay, and I'm proud to claim it as my first attempt ever at sculpting. This was a bunch of fun, and if I ever figure out how to do this without taking so much blasted time, I might just do it for fun sometime :) Enjoy!

Delays

2009-03-16T08:29:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the poor quality photo, I was in a hurry to get to school this morning. I really worked on the face last night, it was really bugging me, so I fixed the lips, nose and a little bit more with the eyes. The hair will be my next effort. I WILL finish this tonight!

One Last Step

2009-03-15T08:50:00.000-07:00

I spent all night yesterday working on the hands and a few little details here and there. One main change is her bottom eyelids. I mostly flattened them out so I wouldn't keep getting the "she looks like she's wearing glasses her eyelashes are so thick" look. I have to finish out the hair, possibly some more smoothing out of rough edges and I think she will be pretty much done. Enjoy!

Getting close!

2009-03-14T01:28:00.000-07:00

Here she is after day 5. I finished blocking out her arms and added some detail to the pants, legs and sleeves. I would be embarrassed to tell you how long I actually worked on ths model for so few results. That's what I get for being a perfectionist. I should have her done by tomorrow. Cross your fingers! Enjoy!

Day 4

2009-03-12T23:34:00.000-07:00

Here is some progress for the 4th day. She's actually starting to look like a model of a human! Woo this is fun, but extremely time consuming. I think that I just need to block out the important parts before actually trying to make it look pretty :) Lets hope I can get her finished soon, I have another one to build by the end of the month! Enjoy.

Without her vest.

With the vest :)

Armature

2009-03-12T00:07:00.000-07:00

This is my progress on the 3rd night. It is taking quite a bit of time, especially because wire doesnt move quite as well as human joints do. It is an interesting learning experience trying to get this girl to look like how I drew her on paper. I will post up the concept drawing for her too after I get everything done. It is a lot of fun, it just takes forever.

Model Head

2009-03-11T00:03:00.000-07:00

This is after 2 days work what I have so far on my first model. Hopefully the rest of her won't take me as long to get done. I'm still working out the kinks, but I think that so far it's pretty successful for my first model ever :)

Super secret space

2009-03-01T21:24:00.000-08:00

4 of 4!! Holy snap, this one killed me. Mainly because I took it upon myself to keep to one hue. Yep, this is monochromatic. Everything is a shade of yellow. I tried to get the dank gross feeling that signifies jealousy and greed for me. It was tough but in the end, I'm pretty proud of it. This is where Arlington and his lackeys come at night. Its a secret spot inside a shed on the outskirts of camp. This is where they plot against John, Clarence, or anyone else who gets in their way. It is also where Arlington tries to write poetry to Mary, as you can see from the papers on the table and the crumpled papers on the floor. Enjoy

Bunks

2009-02-27T21:38:00.001-08:00

Here are the bunks where John and Clarence stay. This was a tough painting to get out. Not as clean as I would want, but you get the gist of what is going on right? Painted in Corel Painter X.

Medic

2009-02-26T16:59:00.000-08:00

This is the medical facility for the camp. Number 2 of 4. This one took me a while because I tried to get some detail in the trees and other stuff. Not my favorite or most interesting environment, but I think it does the job. Sketched in pencil and colored in Corel painter X.

Camp (Name coming Later)

2009-02-25T21:26:00.000-08:00

This is environment one of four for the concept design assignment. This was a lot of fun, but environments are not my forte. It is hard for me to find an interesting composition and color it up with pleasing color scheme. Im pretty happy with this one, but I know I can improve it somehow. This is the boot camp in which my characters will live for the story. Sketched on paper and painted in Corel Painter X

Mary Brown

2009-02-24T01:09:00.000-08:00

Here is the last character of my 4. This is Mary Brown. She is a young girl studying to become a teacher. She was notified that nurses were needed in a local Army training camp and was promptly moved in to help. She was never medically trained and is completely lost when it comes to fixing banged up soldiers. She becomes the love interest for John later on in the story. Arlington is determined to take her for his own, and this establishes the main conflict between John and Arlington.
Sketched in pencil, Cleaned up in photoshop, Live traced in Illustrator, cleaned up and colored in photoshop.

Clarence Terrence

2009-02-19T19:43:00.000-08:00

This is Clarence. Part 3 of 4. He is drafted to the army from the work that he loves. Clarence is a botanist, and at times seems more interested in the plants on the ground than the people talking to him. While he is usually in another world, he and John seem to get along great as bunk mates. He has a very loveable personality albeit a little strange. While ofttimes being the brunt of Arlington's jokes he rarely notices and just wanders on his merry way.

Arlington Winsor

2009-02-17T22:53:00.001-08:00

The second installment of my character design assignment. Arlington Winsor aka The Antagonist. A city boy who has had everything given to him in life. He outranks John Johnson as a Private First Class. Because of this he starts making John's life miserable because frankly he thinks he is better in every way. He also thinks he is a ladies man and this creates the main conflict of the story to be posted later!! Sketched with a colerase pencil, cleaned up in photoshop, traced in illustrator, cleaned up again in photoshop, and finally colored in photoshop. Enjoy!

John Johnson

2009-02-16T23:24:00.000-08:00

I decided to try a more simple style for my character design assignment for this semester. This is John Johnson. A reluctant world war 1 recruit who gets drafted off his farm in Nov. 1917. He is a good hearted guy, but he feels that he is just not cut out for the military. This is the first of 4 characters that I have designed for this assignment. I also have 4 environments to do. With how long this guy took me, I think I need to pick up the pace to finish by the first of March. This was sketched on paper first. Taken into Photoshop and cleaned up, Live traced by Adobe illustrator, Cleaned up in photoshop again, and colored in photoshop. It was quite the process, but I think I am happy with it. Feel free to critique. I CAN TAKE IT! :D Enjoy!

Green man gets green

2009-02-10T09:38:00.000-08:00

This is a painting from one of my previous posts. I really enjoyed this because I did it for fun. Not for an assignment or anything, just for plain fun...and for my portfolio for summer internship applications. Done in Corel Painter X with an Intuos 3. Enjoy!

I will win the animation

2009-01-31T17:36:00.000-08:00

Here is the project that has consumed my life for the past 2 weeks. Yeah it doesn't look like much, but i was glad to get it out of the way. This was for our first assignment in "illusion of life". I know I'm going to love the class. I also know it is going to take most of my life up for the next few months. Enjoy!

One Eyed, One Horned...

2009-01-25T20:11:00.000-08:00

You know the rest. Don't worry he only eats purple people. However, this poor fellow seems to be running out of those nasty purple people to masticate. My daughter was watching the 1990's tv hit "Kidsongs" when they sung his theme song. He was a lot more furry, plump and less likely to slaughter you where you stand back then. Enjoy.

Sketches

2009-01-18T23:01:00.001-08:00

Since its been so blasted long since my last post, I'm throwing some sketchbook stuff at you. I really am discovering for my love of normal, wood, soft, colored pencils. I have tried sketching so much with a mechanical pencil, and it never turned out like I wanted it to. Th floating heads page is done with a .05 mm mechanical, but the other two were done with a normal colerase pencil. I love the soft feeling of the lead. It almost feels like the pencil wants you to put out a good drawing with it. Anyway, I'll try to post some more of my sketchbook stuff since that is all that is going ot come out of me for a bit. All of my other projects are gonna take some time. Enjoy!

FInal Digital Painting Assignment

2008-12-16T19:34:00.000-08:00

Here is the finished Burger boy painting. Yeah It looks like a plug on childhood obesity, so that's what I'll let it be. It was fun all in all and I learned a ton. I really enjoyed this project even though it took me eons to finish. Anyway I have another final to study for so, laters and ENJOY!

Final spider...for now

2008-12-08T22:29:00.001-08:00

This is it...I'm done for the assignment. I'm not entirely pleased with everything, but I'm not going to tell you what parts in case you don't see them!! HA HA HA....enjoy.

Spider with shadows

2008-12-05T17:51:00.001-08:00

Still working on it, I need to lighten up the face a little bit but its almost there :) Enjoy!

Eentsie Weency Spider...how do you spell that?

2008-12-05T00:27:00.000-08:00

This is my latest project for my 3d class. Another bug...I actually enjoyed this one though :) I can really feel myself breaking through the newbie wall. I find myself learning new stuff every day if I actually put my mind to it. Currently it is 1:30 AM and I am still in the lab...yeah it's late, but I feel like I was pretty productive, and I learned alot of stuff like binding skin to skeletons and the difference between an IK handle and and IK spline handle. It was a fun day. This was done in maya 10 and is still a work in progress. Enjoy!

Halloween Fun

2008-10-30T19:17:00.000-07:00

Here is the final product of my environment painting. It didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, but I still think it's pretty cool. Enjoy!

The scare floor will be ..........painted?!

2008-10-18T08:25:00.000-07:00

I am doing quite a bit in school right now so I haven't posted a lot, I am working though I promise. Here is something I was doing for my painting class. This is really hard stuff but I am having all sorts of fun. Enjoy.
Done with Corel painter 9 and 10.

Mountain man

2008-09-23T12:27:00.000-07:00

Character design for Sam Nielson's painting class. I wanted to do something less than a normal generic hero. Here is what I came up with. The first is a dressed a little too busy with a boring pose and the revision might be a little too plainly dressed. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

First pass:

Revision:

Famdamily + Me

2008-09-16T20:14:00.000-07:00

Here is a new version of my family pic with myself added. This was per request of my mother because she hated not having all the kids together in one pic. Hope you you like it mommy. Enjoy.

This is a second version for all those of you who didnt like my first one...I still like it better :)

Meh...

First attempt at Corel Painter

2008-09-16T10:14:00.000-07:00

This assignment was done for Sam Nielson's Digital painting class. It was really tough to add in the colors there. It is one thing to understand value, but totally something else to incorporate color into it. I'm not entirely pleased with this one, but It is the final product that I put out. Honestly I know there is something wrong with it, but I just cant figure out how to make it look right. Anyway It was a lot of fun painting it and actually learning the things that I did. The line work was done by the fantastic Joe Olson. I painted this in Corel painter X. Enjoy.

Little green mans

2008-09-03T22:06:00.000-07:00

I scribbled these two guys out in about an hour and a half. I am trying to stray from the floating heads and strictly human bodies. I find myself taking a lot more time on my line work lately, which is a very good thing in my eyes. I just wish I could trim down that time a little bit. I'm sure it will come with time if I keep practicing. I'll get these guys painted if I get the time now that school started :) Thanks for looking, and enjoy!

Colored Flying Leap

2008-08-21T21:57:00.000-07:00

Here is the colored version of the jumper guy. This took me about an hour and a half to color this, I quite enjoyed it. I hope I didn't neglect my wife too much to finish it though <:) I colored this in photoshop. Enjoy!

Flying Leap

2008-08-21T19:27:00.001-07:00

I have been really needing to work on drawing more complete figures...not just those floating heads. This guy just came to me today and I took my time on him. I thought it turned out great. My line work is finally starting to clean up and I actually see some progress woohoo!! Now to get those hands better :) I will paint this guy shortly. Enjoy!

SUPER ART DUMP!

2008-08-14T22:58:00.001-07:00

I have been drawing quite a bit this summer, working on tightening up my line work, and revamping my personal style. I have enjoyed the process a lot, and have seen quite a bit of improvement.

Yeah, I am one of the few guys that are man enough to admit that he has read the first three books of the Twilight series. I am currently reading the fourth. Anyway this is how I see Edward...a little stylized of course :)

Have you had the joy of playing Assassins Creed yet? If you have you might know this guy. Yeah he might look a little different, but hey, Altair has one of the coolest game character uniforms ever, so I had to draw it. 10 Min Sketch.

This is one of the main characters from the amazing comic series "Out There" penciled by Humberto Ramos. I love how crisp his line work is and that is what I have been practicing all summer to emulate. I pretty much drew this one right out of the comic book, just a little study. all the props go to Ramos for this one.

This is a fun little doodle of all my siblings that have moved to Alabama. I wanted to do something fun for my parents one day, so I started having fun with these guys. I thought they turned out well :)

That's all folks! Feel free to comment as you please! Thanks for the look.

Blondie

2008-08-12T22:07:00.000-07:00

This is my first attempt at a fully digital piece. I enjoyed the whole process of learning how to draw this guy, from his hair to the thickness of the lines. I used Photoshop CS2 for everything. The tablet I used is my newly purchased Intuos 3 6x11 Wacom Tablet...beautiful *wiping a tear*. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

The sound of settling

2008-07-06T18:58:00.000-07:00

Here are two quick sketches in my newly renovated style. I'll keep tweaking it to make it more mine, but as of now I am greatly enjoying myself

This sketch was just for fun, but the cheery guy on the right comes from listening to Death Cab for Cutie's "The Sound of Settling". It's a more upbeat song and just makes you want to move around and look cool like this guy. The guy on the left was an attempt to break away from the typical comic book hero stereotype (which if you have seen most of the guys I draw is a habit of mine.)
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This was done per Chelsea "Agnes" Stebar's request that I draw two sibling animals doing whatever I want. My current desktop is of a hamster...so I drew TWO of them! All of my siblings and I seemed to always fight over the last cookie, and that is precisely what these two are doing :) Yes, I will color these eventually...when I get a hold of a stylus.

Enjoy!

Ramos + House = ....

2008-06-19T19:03:00.000-07:00

Finally I get something new up here. Yeah, yeah I know it's been what a few months?? Anyway I have really fallen in love with the linework and style of Humberto Ramos. I also have been watching alot of house lately...hence the attempted caricatures. Enjoy to the fullest :)

Accepted!

2008-04-22T16:02:00.000-07:00

Hey all, no artwork here, but I just want to let anyone who cares know that I made it into the animation program at BYU! WooooHOOOO! Wish me luck!

Tea Time

2008-03-29T09:16:00.000-07:00

This is the midterm for my Intro to Maya(3D Rendering) class. We were supposed to think of a design for a teapot and go crazy with it. I thought that vikings were the least likely people to enjoy tea, so I thought it would be perfect :) Took me a few days to actually figure everything out, but I thought it was pretty successful, enjoy!

Valued Butcher Bot

2008-03-19T19:17:00.001-07:00

This is the result of a value (shading) assignment that we had in my drawing for animation class. We were supposed to design a middle class robot and shade it like so. Enjoy.

New Figures

2008-03-17T17:38:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
If the last batch of figure drawings weren't enough for you, here are a bunch more. I took another class this semester in order to get myself ready for the Animation program at BYU. I need a bunch of these to turn in with my portfolio in order to apply. Let me know what you think. Dont worry, none of these are nudes. The have something against naked people here in Provo :)

Drawing for Animation Midterm

2008-03-10T22:02:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
Here is my midterm for my favorite class this semester. I originally designed the one on the left to be an "urban vinyl" toy for an earlier assignment during the semester. The one on the right is "The Redo". We take our original design, do extensive amounts of research to find out just how to draw the small little details correctly, applied what we have learned so far, apply the design to a theme which in this case was "The golden age of war"and voila! This is what I came up with. Let me know what you think :)

Movie Designs

2008-02-20T16:55:00.000-08:00

These are some recent designs for a movie idea one of my professors has. It's going to be sweet. These designs are progressive from first to most recent.

Sorry its taken me so long to get new stuff up. The new semester is quite demanding...that and a little 6 month old princess demands her playtime :)

Figures

2007-11-18T08:40:00.000-08:00

Here are the figure drawings I plan to put in my portfolio. Its funny that taking pictures of them actually takes away from the look of the drawing...meh, let me know what you think. They are in chronological order from the first ones that I did to the last. Some Ive noticed are a little blurry, Ill try and fix that but they are there for now. BE WARNED. THERE ARE NUDE FIGURES HERE! Just in case you guys get nervous by that kind of art. Enjoy!

From Chuck Norris to a bull terrier

2007-11-18T08:11:00.001-08:00

Chuck...nuff said.

Just a guy with glasses.

The fairy is a copy from an artist at avalanche studios that you can find here. The rest are just sketches with a non-photo blue pencil. Sorry if theyre a bit hard to see...theyre non-photo!! :)

A bunch of dogs that I had to draw for a sketchbook assignment. This was kind of fun because as you can see from the rest of my blog that I don't draw a lot of them.

Alright I'll upload a few more when I have some time. Thanks for looking!

Another Attempt at Color

2007-10-25T23:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a little pic i did tonight took about 40 min to color...and it really doesn't even look that good...by the way for those of you who noticed, he is more blond now. My wife thought it didn't look like me enough...HA! Ok fine, I changed it. I guess I will forever be a California blond boy, even though I think Ive been in California a total of 3 weeks out of my life.

The Skeleton of Pac-Man

2007-10-21T22:29:00.001-07:00

A few caricatures that were pretty fun to draw. The one on the top left is from a website that you can find here. This is one of my many talented professors and the one who influenced the way I draw today. I love this stuff.

Yeah he looks a little flat but I went for detail on this one.

I like the pac-man skeleton.

A Couple More

2007-10-18T17:57:00.001-07:00

Here are a bunch of gestures. These are to help me keep my drawings loose. Even though alot of these look a little stiff to me, I'm learning from them.

I call him Pleasant Man...well my sister does.

Just a guy.

I started sketching a few caricatures of my friends and family. If you see yourself or a friend let me know!!

Yeah thats a very skinny, slightly stretched, tall haired, me

A touch of color

2007-10-17T17:06:00.001-07:00

This is my first attempt at painting in photoshop, heck my first attempt ever at color. Let me know what you think. This took about 30 - 45 min.

Long time, lots o' art

2007-10-17T16:49:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
I finally got back to the blog. I currently am studying at BYU trying to enter in the animation program this upcoming April. We have been required to keep a sketchbook of anything and everything. I have tried a few new styles in here, mainly inking the drawings after I draw them, and I have to admit, I really like them. Enjoy, I'll get some more in a bit.

This is Rufus, he was meant to be a character in a children's book about an elderly couples adventures on their jazzys. I dont think we'll ever finish it because the co-creator is no longer part of the family.

I thought of this idea on my own...In no way or form did I get the idea from an incredibly beautiful movie about a small army of spartan warriors based on a comic book by Frank Miller...nope all my idea :) Still not finished yet as you can see.

This page was just for fun...doesnt a jawa say "WOODEENEE!!" I dunno but thats what it sounds like.

More coming soon...well as soon as blogger lets me post more pics.

Im still here!!

2007-08-07T08:42:00.000-07:00

I apologize to anyone who has been following this blog for not having updated in the past month. I have been drawing like mad and will get my stuff up here as soon as I can. Again I apologize and will have my new posts up soon.

I have returned

2007-06-12T19:13:00.000-07:00

Here are some more sketches finally. I have still been drawing, but I just havent had time to get these buggers posted. I have a few favorites in this bunch. Mainly the bald guy with the big nose (well, both of them) I find big noses are fun to draw :) See if you can pick out which is from dirty dancing...(its not that hard) Tell me what you think. These are pretty recent so this is how I am currently drawing.

Sketchbook

2007-05-05T08:44:00.000-07:00

Here you go, a few random pages from my sketchbook. These are all done with a .03 lead. Notice how much sharper the lines are. I like this new pencil, it takes drawing in fine thin lines to a new level :) This fat boy here was done for an art blog challenge at avalanchesoftware.blogspot.com, the topic was peculiar pets...hamburgers are pretty peculiar...anyway the dog is for the blog also, this topic was "too cute for comfort". The rest is just for fun.

Gym Passes

2007-04-20T00:38:00.000-07:00

I got these guys out of a credit card ad in a magazine. These were pictures from these peoples Gym passes. Perfect I said. .07 Lead still. March 07