Animation Exercises

I took a fairly beginner animation class last semester, and here are some of the exercises I landed up doing:











These were just in-class motion exercises, so they are all really rough.

More Sophomore Art

I found a few more things from my Sophomore year that I never uploaded.



H.G. Wells
H.P. Lovecraft


Edgar A. Poe

This last one was for a poster. Drawn with a tablet in Photoshop.

Oingo Boingo Painting

I keep finding old stuff! Here's photos of a project I did sophomore year. We had to choose a song and do a painting based on the lyrics, trying to capture the mood of the song in the imagery while including the first letter of the song's name. I chose the song Water by Oingo Boingo, a band from the 80's that I still love. They used a lot of Day of the Dead style imagery in their promotional art and videos.
They also would have blacklights at their concerts. This was the first painting I did with blacklight paint.

Old Projects

I was organizing some of my folders and found a bunch of older school projects. Might as well throw everything I can on here!

If you're a relative of mine reading this, you should definitely completely ignore the timestamp on this post:
This was a design for a class I took freshman year.

The phoenix above I drew with a marker and scanned, the rest I added on using my tablet.


Another random thing from freshman year.This one's from sophomore year. We were supposed to make a tattoo design in Adobe Illustrator. Mine was some kind of Aztec jaguar snake thing.



Another one from sophomore year. I had to illustrate a "Florida panther." It also had to be drawn in chalk pastel, which I am soooooo bad atttttt.

SELF PORTRAY

For illustration class semester we're supposed to keep a sketchbook, and do drawings based on a different theme every week. The first theme was to draw yourself in whatever style you wished, as long as you did not look at a mirror or photo while doing so.

Naturally, mine turned out pretty dang silly. That's just how I am:

Matchstick Tiger

Tiger made out of matchsticks. It's a rework for a project in Illustration II. It's made out of around 4,000 matches.

Here it is messed around with in photoshop. Design is not my forte, unfortunately.

Dinosaur Project Concept Sketches 2

Dinosaur Project Concept Sketches 1

I scanned some of the concept sketches I did for my group's Dinosaur project. They are very rough ideas.

Pteradons and some dudes:Some general concepts, including a rough sketch of a "jungle" area:A whoooole bunch of sketches of the raptor character:Sketch of a Styracosarus and his size in comparison to his rider:A more detailed raptor head. None of these are scientifically accurate at all, haha:This is all I have for now. The scanner I was using at the school started acting all weird. I have some more that I'll scan tomorrow, hence the "Part 1."

Skateboard Design for Illustration Class

Sorry for the lack of updates. Getting sick caused me to fall behind on my schoolwork, and it basically took me until now to get caught back up.

Anyway, for my Illustration II class we had to make a design for a skateboard, by painting directly onto an actual skateboard deck. My theme was Mexico City, using a "modern" Aztec style. Um, it was fun?There's an unseen detail to it. Last semester I mixed black light sensitive paint in with a project I did for a class, because the theme of the project was a song/band whose era went with the blacklight theme. A couple of my classmates told me to bring that back just for fun, so here is how the skateboard appears under blacklight:

I apologize for the poor photo quality and the shoddy photoshop splicing on the blacklight version. I didn't have the time to take better photos before it was due for class.

Raptor Color Concepts

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I've had a rotten cold.

Here are some test color schemes for the raptor character I am designing for my Intro to Video Game Production class.

The various feather patterns and skin patterns are based off of animal indigenous to Mesoamerica.

Dinosaur Coloring Practice for Class

Just a few practice drawings in photoshop, trying to figure out color schemes for our Dinosaur game in class.

First one was pink/purple for some reason:


This next one was an attempt to translate the color scheme of a jaguar to a tyrannosaurus rex. I was inspired by photos I took at the zoo this last weekend.

Concept Art assignment for "Introduction to Video Game Production" Class

One of my classes this semester is an elective entitled, "Introduction To Video Game Production." In this class we are learning about creating the art assets that would be used in the creation of a modern video game. This includes the concept art, 3D modeling, texturing, and environmental design... if we have time for it.

Our class was split into groups, each of which had to come up with a concept for a game. The group was then responsible for creating the art assets for its imaginary production.

The group that I landed up being in quickly decided upon a theme of "dinosaurs," since we are all closet dino nerds at heart. It's hard to find a subject that's cooler than dinosaurs, anyway.

Right now we are just beginning to create the concept art. We decided on the main types of dinosaurs that would appear in our game, but not much else. I'm going to be spending all night doodling dinosaur character concepts with my tablet, and I will upload them to this post as I finish them.

I must say this is one hell of a fun homework assignment.

My sketches so far (click for larger image):

"Jerseysaurus," A Jersey Shore Parody for Class

To start off, here's something I did last week for my Illustration II class:


Our assignment was to make a black and white editorial illustration to accompany a newspaper article. The article we were assigned was about MTV's reality show, "Jersey Shore." The article compared the show's appeal as being similar to scientists spying on strange and primitive creatures, which is what I based my illustration on.

Part of our homework was watching the show as "research." Having never seen it before, it was quite the painful experience.

I drew this using my Wacom tablet in photoshop.