Last Minute Grind

It’s funny how motivated people can get when they’re running out of time.  For the past 24 hours, I completed illustrator renders on 4 designs.  And it’s due to the fact that I needed more color pieces in my portfolio amongst other things.  These renders are based off of some gesture drawings that I did in Mark McDonnell’s Clothed Figure Gesture Drawing Class @ LAAFA.

If you guys are going to comic-con, give the guy a shot out at the LAAFA booth 5362.  Mark will be selling copies of his book “The Art and Feel of Making it Real.”  If you feel your drawings lack life and are too static, it’s work picking up and delving in to.

While you’re at it,  visit David Colman’s booth H5.  The guy is an awesome character designer and teacher.  Anyways, I gotta get packing for comic-con. Catch you guys later.  Cheers.

Zombie Schoolboy

Keeping up with my attempt to produce more vector work, I present to you: Zombie Schoolboy.  It was originally from a sketch from one of the friday night sketch ups with my friends.  Originally tried rendering it in photoshop, but it ended up just sitting on my desktop for a few months.  With my newfound dedication for doing stuff in illustrator, I thought this guy needed his due.  Anyways, let me know what you guys think.  Cheers.

Addressing your strengths and weaknesses

Been revising some designs in my portfolio recently and making the attempt to address the feedback that I have gotten with my portfolio.  One of those points is to do more stuff in illustrator.

For some odd reason, I’ve been forgoing rendering any work in illustrator because I’ve been so hellbent on trying to get better at photoshop.  It’s because I’m stubborn as all hell and have refused that my work looks better in photoshop.  I’ve been caught up in “keeping up with the Joneses” that I’m abandoning a crucial stength of mine. And as a result my portfolio has suffered because because my digital painitng looks amateurish at best.

As of now, using illustrator to render my designs will produce the best results.  It doesn’t mean that I’m abandoning digital painting in photoshop.   It just means that the stuff I do in photoshop isn’t making my portfolio the best it could possibly be  because my digital painting isn’t on par with my vector art.

So until my digital painting reaches a level to where it can compete with my vector art, expect to see more stuff done in illustrator.

Stuff I’ve been meaning to post: AKA sketchdumping!

Been busy with school and such that I haven’t been updating this blog as much as I would like to. Anyways, I’ve consolidated a bunch of pages from my sketchbook into the images below. They consist of people I ended up drawing from sitting in coffee shops, going to workshops, and other functions.

All part of my quest to be a better artist.  I’ll try to post some of the stuff I’ve been doing for the classes I’ve been taking recently.  But one thing is for sure: I realized that with the more classes I take, the less I know.  Try to wrap your head around that and you’ll get where I’m going with that.  So for the 5 of you that read this thing, cheers and stay tuned.