A little something I am working on

Currently I am working on a storyboard that will be for an animated short I want to use for my kickstarter. The Kickstarter is for the table top rpg game I developed and the animation will be used to get people jazzed up for it. I'll post some of the boards once I have them were I want them to go.

Until then, here is a little big monster I sketched up for the story.

Outside my own personally projects, I have been working on some storyboards for a up coming Pop-tarts commercial which is themed after the 2014 winter Olympics. 

Iowa

Here is the only Plein Air painting I was able to do while on vacation, visiting my wife's family in Iowa. I got to see the Mississippi river and watched a boat go through one of the locks - which takes at least an hour. So I had time to sit and paint for a time. This was the only time I was able to do this. The rest of the family are not artist an so everyday we went somewhere where we didn't stand still for any length of time for me to paint.

I didn't like this painting so much after I finished it, but now I like it a bit more. As always it is a learning experience, which is all that counts.

Happy 4th Of July

Happy "North Americans Claim Independence from Britain" Day!

Sorry no picture for this. I have been really busy. Been working two different freelance jobs, however, the second one was moving much slower than the first. That being said we finally were approved to animate on the first 30 seconds last week and now I am moving on to the last 30 seconds.

Can't wait for this project to be over. Its not a bad project, its just that I will be flying out to Iowa next week and don't want any last minute problems trying to muck up those plans.


Anyway, here is a portrait of my wife that I painted.

How to Draw Gesture

How to Draw Gesture

Worth wild to check out and tune in; even if you already know what a Gesture Drawing is.

Work in Progress.

I'm working on the layout for a Table Top Game that I had been working on. I started the project 9 years ago, and it has been done for 3 years and just sitting on a shelf while I got life after College to a stable point.  Life is stable so now it is time to move on it. The game is a Table top RPG and will have everything you need to play the game in one book, that being said I wrote enough stuff for it for 3 books. So i am distilling everything down for one book.

Anyway, I am also working on the art direction of the game. The game itself is simi-serious high fantasy fair. However, having played rpgs since high school I know that the players will bring whatever mood or attribute to the game they want, no matter what the game designers intent was. I am experimenting with a styles and I think I have found one that works. Its not like the art work that you find in games like D&D and is much more closer to a style like Joann Sfar's Dungeon (or Donjon if your french).

Anyway, here is the first piece that I worked up for the game that i plan to use as a header for the Monster/Creature section of the Book.

Moving Forward and Upward

It has been a while since the last time I posted on the blog. A lot has been going on. I did several tests to work on an animated series. Still waiting to hear back about that. I am working 2 freelance jobs at the same time and doing about 16-18 hour days. I am doing final layout on the Table Top RPG I designed and that has been sitting a while waiting for me to drag all the setting info into it. At the same time, I am creating all the art work for it.

Currently, I am finishing a storyboard gig and waiting to hear back about any possible changes. While i wait I doodle. Check it out:

Painting Time

Here is a painting I did for a friend's birthday. She really likes Adventure time (Don't we all), and she seems like the person who would paint a little bunny - you know if it was safe and stuff.