Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Bird's Nest in the Sunset

This is a sketch I did during Christmas trip to Toronto. I love how fast I'm getting with painting these backgrounds!


Bird's Nest in the Sunset
 


Flash Vectors


Sketchbook Sketch


Saturday Afternoon

This is was a sketch I did last year on my visit to Fruitvale, thought this is would be a nice quick paint project.


Saturday Afternoon 
Background Design and Painting

 Sketchbook Sketch

Christina Lake- Illustration

Here is a sketch I did on my trip to Fruitvale in Summer of 2012. Christina Lake is about an hour away from Fruitvale, it's the place locals would call the hamptons, which I think is funny cause it's surrounded by screaming little kids. Lets just say I was promised a relaxing trip, and is it was anything but relaxing.

Christina Lake


Sketchbook Sketch


Tuesday, October 22, 2013

House in the Koots

Going through some of my sketches from last summer, I found this sketch I did while I was on a trip to Fruitvale, BC. Fruitvale is small town in interior British Columbia, the general area is called the "Kootenay's" area and it is beautiful out there, lovely mountains, clear blue lakes. Kootenay Lake is definitely on my bucket list of places to visit, and hopefully I'll be able to cross that off my list in a couple of years. For now, I'll be doing a Koots series with background designs and painting, which will be posted up in the near future. Here's the start of that collection.

House in the Koots


Progress



Western California Background Design

Since I'm in this waiting period before I head off to Manchester, UK; I've been taking this time to work on my portfolio. This week I've been focusing on background painting, in hopes of becoming a colour artist in the near future.

Western California Background Design

Day Version 


Night Version 



Progress


Sketchbook Sketch



Transferring it to Vectors 

I find it that when you have a fill on as your creating your lines with the pen tool and opacity on 50%, it helps when it comes to figuring out the layer order.

 

Painting Stage

Here are some progress photos of this background design. 
(Next time I'll document the whole progress and not just a corner of the piece) 



Monday, October 21, 2013

Some Sketches for Upcoming Paintings!

At first I wanted to paint this for Remembrance Day, and I was going to sell it later, but now I'm planning on making this one into a painting for a Christmas present.


This is also going to be a Christmas present. I really wanted to go to Algonquin Park this fall, since I'm back in Toronto for the next couple of months, but it doesn't look like I'll have time, so I just I'll just paint it. It's going to be very fall inspired.


This is going to be a background painting project for my portfolio, hopefully, I'll get it done in time for Halloween!

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

New Business Cards!

So since I'll be moving to the UK for the next chapter of my life, I've decided it's time for some new business cards! I feel like this design has more personality than my old ones, plus this ties well with my resume and cover letter designs. I have about 2 months until I get them printed, so I'm wide open to your opinions!






I'll be posting up some digital backgrounds paintings and short animation clips that I've been working on soon! I'll also be starting a thing called "Pin-Up Sundays"... Basically I'll be posting a pin up or life drawing every Sunday starting in November. Hopefully, this is get me in the routine of posting stuff daily on my blog and to get my creative juices flowing!

Thanksgiving Cards

Here are some quick thanksgiving sketches I did on Thanksgiving for some relatives.

I think this one really captures the relationship I have with my family!

The Painting that Broke the Dry Spell

For those of you who don't know me, I love to paint traditionally on canvas. And I'll be posting more of my paintings on here. I'm actually considering opening a Esty store to sell some of them some time in the near future.

I feel like this painting was start of my creativity coming back to me, as I had a major artist block for a long while there, also it didn't help that I was working 50+ hours a week at Gener8 at the time. The amount of love I had put into the painting was unlike anything I've done in the past 3 years, and it really helped me open my eyes to a place I can call my home. However, a series of unfortunate events occurred shortly after my contract was over at Gener8. This experience has really been an eye opener for me, it showed me the true meaning of friendship, and for that I am truly happy to be going through this transitional stage in my life.

Here's a few progress photos of the painting I was making for my apartment at the time before the series of unfortunate events occurred.

14 X 16 Canvas with acrylic

I absolutely loved this painting, but I ended up throwing it in the trash. I had painted it for my apartment in Vancouver, BC., but due to the series of events I ended up moving back home to Toronto so it was a hassle to move with it. Plus, I felt like the painting held too many memories within every brush stroke I had made that I just didn't want to remind myself of this time in my life. My life is now once again, a blank canvas and I'm really looking forward for my new beginning.

I'll be painting a lot more now, that I've gotten myself out of the dry spell. I really feel like this change in my life is going to shape me into a better person and artist. On the plus note, I'll be moving to Manchester, UK for about 2 years or so within the next couple of months; and I have no doubt that I'll be bursting with creativity! 

Thanks for all of the support! :) XOXO

Craft Day!

I love doing little craft projects on the weekend in my spare time! 

Here are some progress photos of making a cute vodo doll!

A majority of the supplies were from Michaels and a local dollar store.

First I decided on the shape of my doll. 

Then I sewed it up from the inside 
(in the future I think I'll just sew it up from the outside, so I can save some time)

This is what I ended up with!
(Ended up giving it to someone else to finish the eyes and such)


This is going to be my next doll project in the future!

Repost: Date: July 24, 2012 -DCA Random Sketches


Random sketches from my DCA (Digital Character Animation) Notebook

I think I might go back and finish this sketch. I wanted this guy to be sitting in the strip bar.


I don't really remember drawing this...I believe that I must have drawn it while I was waiting for my lighting for my final 3D film to finish rendering.


I drew this in the middle of a rigging class. Obviously I was freaking out :p 
I think this would be fun to turn this into an acrylic painting, and playing around with colours to help catch the expression in his face.


Naked Girlies 



Characters





Backgrounds




Random Doodles - 2012

Well it's been quite a long while since I've posted anything on this blog! Or any of my blogs for that matter. I promise I'll get better with posting up updates at least every month, rather than every year.

Here are some doodles from before 2013 that I found on my phone.

This was a photoshopped doodle that I had start October 2012, unfortunately I didn't end up finishing this project, due to work... But I might pick it up again. I've gotten so use to painting traditionally that painting in photoshop is taking me a bit longer to do. But I'm sure I'll pick up speed soon! (Also her eyes freaks me out :P)


This is a doodle I did while I was in Toronto for Christmas of 2012, and my thoughts behind it is that people deal with stress on a daily basic and sometimes the signs are not there to an outsider looking in. The rapid line movement are suppose to represent how one's electrocardiogram may look like artistically under pressure and stress.

This is a background I quickly sketched over my Christmas break while I was in Toronto in 2012. I think I might turn this into a digital photoshop background painting.

And that wraps up my random doodles from 2012 :)