The Sketchbook Project 2011

So, I decided last September that I was going to get back into sketching and participate in this Sketchbook Project that some of the guys at work were talking about doing. Art House sends you a moleskine for $24.00 and you can fill it with whatever you want, send it back by Jan 15th and it goes on a cross-country tour, then permanently into the Brooklyn Art Library. I started drawing in it but the paper was thin and of poor quality so I got annoyed and it sat on my desk at home for a few months.

Then a week ago, (in true procrastinator fashion) I decided to finish it so I began rummaging through a bunch of sketchbooks, stacks of papers and digital files looking for stuff that didn't totally suck that I could print out and stick into the moleskine. It ended up being pretty thick by the time I was done taping pages into it but I got it done and in the mail and it felt good to finish it. Even if only a handful of the pages were actually sketched for the book.

Here's the site that hosts the event: http://www.thesketchbookproject.com/

More progress on an old project

I'm going back to this one (finally) and finish it before 2011. Here's some in progress shots. Got some more work to do on Wolvie's face and hair still and lots to do on Hulk. Going to do all the veins and stuff after they are posed.

3D Artist magazine

Lynette Clee from 3D Artist magazine contacted me recently and invited me to do a Q and A in the "Inspiration Corner" section of this months issue. Look how happy I am!

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Shadowbox Bot!

I have been such a blog slacker lately. Been pretty busy lately but managed to learn some new stuff in zbrush 4 while creating this guy. It's a model I created for our art blog at work. Unique parts were modeled in zbrush using shadow box, then decimated and imported into 64 bit 3DSMax and assembled, posed and exported back into zbrush for rendering. You can read more on my thought process here.

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Parks'n'Rec fan art

I did some quick, 1 hour sketches of some of the characters a while back and I thought it would be fun to go back and polish them up. I've been inspired by Mark Sinclair, one of the many talented guys I worked with at Ensemble and another amazing artist from cghub I recently discovered, Vincent Altimore.

My caricatures are not nearly exaggerated enough, but hopefully I can get out of my comfort zone a bit and push the features more and more with each one I do. I'll probably tackle Leslie Knope and Tom Haverford next and then maybe I can do some from "the office".

Hope y'all like!

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Bugbear Mercenary

I haven't had much time to work on stuff lately but managed to squeeze in a few hours here and there to make this image for the Robot blog. It's inspired by Jeff Murchie's bugbear concept from Demon Stone. Hope you guys dig it.

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Sketch-A-Mathon

I was invited to do a sketch blog with some friends and I've been posting more there than my own blog! Everyone tries to post something new every day. Here's some of my latest: