enviro studies before bed trying to speed up - thumbs from photo ref

Moving

I'll be moving over to my own server soon, and hopefully just using the blog there. Wordpress is a little easier to manage all my content for a combo portfolio site and a blog. Thanks to everybody who stops by regularly. I'll post a notice as soon as I have everything up and running.

The new site will be
www.motionpirate.com

WW2 MP

first pass design for an upcoming horror survival game more soon....

And now.....

...for something completely different. I've had this color pallete in my head for a long time and I had to get it out. I worked on this piece for the 2d image competition over at the Gnomon forums.

On a side note - I've got loads of work to post up, the blog just seems to be a slipping priority but I've got some free time coming up that I hope to use to update everything.

It's been a very long time since a post. I'll have some really great stuff coming up soon from a work related school project. In the meantime heres a Robo - speedie before bed.

Wild West in uh... Space

Some old stuff from my space movie project thought I'd post it up since it never made it to the blog. Still in exploration....

Postage

It's been a long time since I posted anything, and it's been a fantastic vacation for me. Here are a few photos from my trip to NewYork. I'll have more as soon as I wade through them all - I filled up a full 1g sd card (about 1,000 photos) Sadly many of them did not come out well. All in all it was an amazing trip. There is way to much to see in just a few days. - These are from the Met, Moma, and top of the Empire state.



I've got this awesome sketchbook that I've been painting in lately - it's got a heavy tooth that adds some great texture. Heres a few pages of experiments.
I was researching (googling) Maynard Dixon and came across Luc Desmarchelier's blog - he's got some awesome landscapes and really knows his stuff - I did a study off one of his paints. Check him out here Ushuaia.

figures

My figure drawings have really suffered lately - but I'm trying to make amends here's some gestures and quick studies (2-5 min) From this week.

Slipstream

Heres an update of an old piece. I've been working hard on a few freelance gigs and at the same time trying to update my portfolio. It's giving me the chance to revisit and rework some of my older pieces. It been a busy time but I am amazed at how much gets done when it has to.

Chubs McCyclops

I've got an awesome concept project coming up. It's got a lot of extreme shapes and I've really been working to stretch the contrasts.
While exploring character silhouettes I kept seeing "fat" Xmen shapes, and I had to take this one to finish. I didn't really get the exaggeration I was searching for, but luckily theres a whole team of Xmen to play with.

I borrowed the Color Palette from Josh Middleton. If you're not familiar with his work check it out. He does some amazing cover work for comics.

Roaring 20's

From Thur.s nights drawing club. I am so rusty... fighting the control Z tendency. The computer lets you be lazy with your decision making when it comes to drawing, non committal. Pen and ink is so unforgiving.

Quetzo...?

Trying to do some environments and scenery for practice. I really had a lot of fun with this one. Spent way too long noodling with it though. Pretty cliché Sci-fi.

Boarder Patrol

This started out as a speed painting exercise in PS - I ended up spending much more time than what would be considered speedy, but I had a lot of fun playing with the ship design and the environment.

Fire Eater

Kind of a colab - I had a little fun with photoshop. Fellow artist Brandon Gonzales put some critters through the photo chop shop and I couldn't help but play the idea out a little more. To see the original check out his blog here Gonzo

A little variation on the previous.

Things have been absolutely ridiculous lately. I'm so sorry to those of you who stop by looking for some fresh squeezed content and just finding the same old stale posts. Things should be getting back to normal now... I probably shouldn't be showing this yet... but it's been so long since a post. This is some freelance/contract work - this started of as a low rez 3d model, the geometry is still under there somwhere, coverd up with A lot O photoshopping! Look for more concept art coming soon.

WHAT!

I've been sick as a dog since I got back to California. I think I must've caught a bug on the plane.




Vacation is over! Those 4 weeks flew by. I spent most of my time working some freelance design gigs, and not nearly enough time drawing and/or painting. I'll have my work posted up in a few days over at my graphics and motion site as soon as I get permission to put it on the web.

My trip to Utah was fantastic, it was really good to see my family, and a lot of old friends who were in town, plus I spent a little quality time with my brother up on the slopes snowboarding!

Here are a few pics to document the trip.



Christmas lights at the Coleman homestead - that's my breath illuminated by the flash.
Backyard
The roads were covered in ice, I saw a few wrecks while I was there. The snow made everything beautiful but it was frigid, -18 degrees one night.

Dog Shakespeare & Kobra Koi

SYD MEAD

Thanksgiving has been a serious time to slack off - A much needed break. I figured I get some stuff posted before the whirlwind starts again next week. The Working Title club has an awesome guest for it's last meeting before the break. Syd Mead visited for a few hours in a very informal setting and chatted with us. Everyone had a chance to get a personal portfolio review from the master himself. Awesome! Kudos to the Entertainment club president for making it happen! Here are a few pics of of Syd Meade going through my portfolio.





Look ma I grew a beard again!
Lucky thing I brushed out all the lunch crumbs before the pictures, coulda been embarrassing.


Sketches from church - I just watched the old classic 20,000 leagues under the sea, it was still on the brain.