zoo trip

went to the zoo on Saturday, which was much glorious fun. Here's some conte and pencil sketches from that trip...

pole vault concept

so, we're finally getting the ball rolling on our third year film. :) This is a quick colour concept I did based on our idea (photoshop.)

colour doodles

two little colour experimenty type things I did this weekend.. one for an animation analysis concept and one just for my synopsis pitch/fun. Pretty quick, I kind of like the watercolourish look I got with the top one.
Photoshop.

Super wedding

First time doing something digital for etsy. They wanted a comic book cover for the front of their wedding program. I had some fun with this one.

birch tree painting

So with moving day coming so quickly I decided to make something big for this huge empty spot in our house. I'm kind of undecided whether I like this or not, I continued to change things constantly even after I'd finished. Mostly wanted something that would match with the room and not draw too much attention to itself. In my mind when I started this was extrememly abstract, but I wasnt happy with that and ended up adding some texture here and there. This was definitely a more experimental piece.

cup

hey, so I did another quick study, probably about 2 hours, drawn + painted in photoshop.

Simply saw my cup sitting on my desk and thought it would make an interesting painting.

weather

JULY IS NOT THE TIME FOR SOCKS.

At the Jazz club..

something I whipped up recently for fun. I wanted to paint something blue... I don't know why...

Somewhat (but not really) inspired by Sunfest.

trees on a hill

ah yes, I have now become one of those countless artists that paints trees on a hill.

(seriously type it into any image search engine. You'll get a bajillion paintings.)

I wanted to paint a wheat field before they were all harvested, and kept driving by yellow fields with purple clouds and thinking "man. I HAVE to paint that." I also wanted to paint it digitally, cuz I'm trying to get better at digital painting before third year hits us. I soon discovered two things:

1. My laptop lasts about 30 minutes when it is unplugged.

2. There are no wheat fields within extention cord reach.

dammit.

So instead I settled for painting these trees by sitting outside the milking parlour with an extension cord..

I toned down the colours a bit, they were mad. When you paint out in the sun with the laptop being backlit things get crazy...

cows with hats

if you're wondering what possessed me to make such a piece, this was based on a comment on my recent upload of cow sketches. My friend Heather suggested I draw some cows with hats. So I did. Happy belated birthday Heather.

APPLES

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. (which doesn't happen too often. :P ) I decided to stick by my one thing a week promise, so this morning I grabbed three apples and a piece of white cardboard and stuck them on my desk. I was suprised how quick this was, maybe two hours max, and I kind of wish I did something like this sooner, if you wish to practice digital painting I totally recommend doing a study of some sort, I think I learned a lot from this...

This week has been crazy busy, I've got a ton of aunts and uncles over for my parents 25th anniversary party (This saturday.) it feels like I'm in Holland or something... With dutchies an anniversary is sort of like a second wedding reception...

cow sketches

alright so this time my weekly art dump was completely ignored, so I went out to the field and drew some cows for an hour. Wanted to finally put my markers to work, need some practice but they are quite fun, will use them again soon. Also while I was sitting there a fox ran right by me and across the field. When the cows saw this every single cow in there ran up to the fox to see it, which was quite funny, seeing a hundred or so heifers chasing after this poor little fox.

I've noticed that the second I leave oakville all my artwork becomes very very hick.

lawn mower of DOOOOOM

Is anyone else as terrified of tipping a lawn mower as I am? I painted this after 7 hours of mowing the grass around the blueberry bushes at work, as soon as I go on the slightest slant it scares the bejebus outta me..

summer time...

long time no post,


So May is coming to a close, and since I've been doing nada in terms of art I made myself a solemn vow to do at least one thing every week this summer. I've got a giant pile of ideas to do so I figure better do them now while I have time. Anyways since making that vow I've made this funky new avatar and this painting. Actually did this painting twice, the first time I was halfway through and just going for the save button when my computer crashed. Not so nice.


Lately at work I've been spraying 24-d and roundup on all the plants, and the blueberries are in that nice stage where the leaves are sort of a pinkish colour, so that and the flowers makes the fields just this huge splat of pretty colours. But I think I just wanted to play with some brushes on photoshop, I love the pastel for the clouds. For some reason I really love the pastel tool....


Anywho enjoy :)

3d character

character I made last week in 3d modelling..

old west paintings

five colour keys a layout and my character lineup from the "stagecoach" assignment, just finished today...

I ended up doing the character line up twice because I accidentally deleted it and didn't have a back-up.. was really kicking myself on that one...






yee-haw....

beak sync animation

animation I just finished yesterday.. originally was going to be an ostrich but I hated the design...



this is also the last animation of second year... I'm dreading the end of school next week, but the good news is with any luck this will be my last summer spent doing non-artistic work... I'm also stoked and terrified about starting third year in sept...

western layouts tests and tonal

Character design: "Performance"

here's a project for character design I just finished.... don't know bout you but I'd run too... actually now that I think about it I once picked up a strawberry basket at work and realised there was a snake in there, scared the bejebus out of me.. huh..

um so i pretty much needed to dump some more recent life drawings online for something and this pic was all I had.