Pixar Times illustration and Interview!

Hey Bloggers!

I recently had the pleasure of doing an illustration and interview for the Pixar Times!  They're a great blog that covers Pixar news of all kinds and they asked if I could do a piece for their PixArt section for Pixar's 25th Anniversary.

"Checkmate!"

Head on over to The Pixar Times to see the illustration in full resolution as well as reading my interview.   I hope you all enjoy!

Cafe Sketch 5/31/10

Hey Bloggers!  I've been trying to catch up with posting my sketches from last weekend.  Here's the last batch I did about a week ago at the local cafe in my neighborhood in Berkeley.

As I mentioned several posts ago, I'm trying to make a more concerted effort of drawing the local scenery to stretch my artistic muscles.  The painting below is of a real estate office viewed from the cafe.  I'm happy with the overall picture but still feel like some parts of it get a bit too busy and need more improvement.
Any feedback would be much obliged!  Hope you all have a great weekend!

Ignatius Reilly!!!!!

Recently, Steven Gettis of Digital Medusa asked me to submit a literary themed drawing. I feel really bad because he's already asked me twice before but i've just been so busy that I haven't had the chance to do a drawing for his site. Well, since I've wrapped on Wall-e and now have plenty of downtime, I decided to go ahead and draw one of my all time favorite literary characters from one of my all time favorite books: Ignatius Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole.

The character is a behemoth of a man. He still lives with his mother and constantly writes manifestos about anything and everything on pads of paper in his room. The basic premise might sound lame but I guarantee, its a great read and there are moments in the book where Ignatius interacts with his mother or other characters that are just hilarious.

Toole describes Ignatius in the beginning of the book:
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black mustache and, at their corners sand into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.

Anyway,I'm a big fan of the site and I encourage everyone out there to check it out.... I'm sure you'll get a kick out of it!!

Life and Death

So last week, as I was driving around with my dad, I saw something that really stuck with me. As we pulled up to a stop light, a hearse stops along side us...Then right behind that was a minivan with a "baby on board" sign. That image of life and death was just so perfect that I couldn't stop thinking about it. I started painting this when I got home so I would always remember the image. I actually had to look up some referrence photos of both the hearse and the minivan then work on the composition a little bit. Hope you all like it!

Self Portrait

Hey Bloggers! Well, I had to post one sooner or later I guess, so here's my self portrait done in Photoshop. Actually, it'll be my profile pic for Animation Mentor which i'll be joining this July! Hope you all like it!

A New Illustration!

I was doodling in my sketchbook the other day and thought this guy would be fun to color in Photoshop...I was halfway through when I realized that it kinda looked like my friend, Matt! Matt, if you see this, don't kill me!

Anyways, my wife and I are off to Yosemite this weekend. I'll make sure to take lots of pictures (and hopefully squeeze in a sketch or two) and post them sometime next week! have a great weekend everyone:)

Happy Easter 2007!!!

Happy Easter everyone!

60's Illustration

Another Photoshop illustration for all you bloggers out there. This one is my homage to the 60s. Whenever I think of that era, I always picture Jackie Onasis, North by Northwest, and cool, air-conditioned lounges (Kubrick style, of course!)

As usual, I scanned this one in and played with different brushes, colors and techniques in Photoshop. I've made it a goal to make my digital stuff feel more hand-done. I'm still struggling against the computer with that. Hope you all like it and please let me know if there's anything I can improve on!!!