Sketch to Illustration

       Just finished another sketch-to-photoshop paint over. I don't have the slightest clue what this guys back story is. I should probably start thinking about that when I begin my artwork so that at the end there's some sort of cohesion. But for now, it's just a huge robot checking out a tree. 

 The original:

Bunch of stuff!

I just finished animating the scubaman that I painted a few weeks ago. It's Just a looping animation of him bobbing up and down underwater, but if you look closely you can see some nice lighting and particle effects that I did to create some specks in the water. That video is here: 

Scubaman animated: https://vimeo.com/66881688

Next are a couple drawings I did this past week in our figure drawing class. We have to know human anatomy down to every little bone, so we had to draw a skeleton in one of the class periods. And the other was just a normal pose. 

 I needed some new shoes since I only brought one pair and some sandals up to school. And since sandals are are evil according to BYU-I, I didn't want to be wearing the same shoes everyday. I picked up some cheap canvas shoes at walmart and made these badboys based on some monster sketches I did:

And lastly a couple doodles I did the past couple of weeks:

Cinco de Mayo

This is a little mexican bird I drew yesterday. I realized it was cinco de mayo after I drew him. Also I have a life drawing class this semester and I am learning a ton about the human form which is helping me so much in drawing people. Below are our first two projects from that class.

Scubaman

Another scan and recolor.

Airboat

I don't know how it flies...it just does.

Red

Recently I thought it would be cool to do something everyone already knows of, but in my own style. Red riding hood seemed like it would be a good fit since I love creating forests. When I start my drawings/paintings I only have a rough idea of the end product and I just fill in the gaps with what I feel looks best or fits best. Below is a collage showing the progress as I worked on it. And below that is an old drawing I did on an app on an iPhone. Hope you like it all!

I Illustrated an upcoming book cover!

So my good friend Ben Grange is writing a fantasy novel for young adults and has asked me to illustrate the cover for him. The book seems really awesome so far and I can't wait for it to get published. You can read the first four chapters right now here: The Pieces of Fownd- Hexodynamic

I used the tree sketch from my last post as a base and added texture and extra shading through photoshop. I'm pretty happy with it.

And here's a random old thing from my sketchbook.