Watercolor T.V.'s

This is the first of at least ten small, postcard sized watercolors that I will be part of my second solo show at CSUF. The show will be composed mostly of background art for animation, comic book art, some children's book pieces, and these small watercolors. The show will take place in the last weeks of April. I still have lots to work on, but will post more as I get closer to the show.

Artist Books

A few semesters ago I was able to be part of the artist books class and learned about book binding. Since then I have been creating some of my own sketchbooks and also put put together these two artist books. I really enjoy the challenge and the craftsmanship needed to build a book out of raw materials while at the same time being able to keep it clean all throughout the process of sowing and binding.

Illustration West 49 at Gallery Nucleus

Here are a couple of pictures that I took at opening night of the show. This year there were about six Cal State Fullerton students that were accepted into the show. It was really good to share the event with some of my classmates and even one of our professors. For a look at all the work that was part of the show follow the link to the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles website.

www.si-la.org

Show at Gallery Nucleus!

Recently I was informed with the good news that one of my ink drawings was accepted into the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles and will be part of a group show at Gallery Nucleus. It is my first time being accepted into the competition and I am very exited to be able to participate in a show at Gallery Nucleus. I've been to many of the fantastic shows at the gallery and I know there will be lots of great art in the show, I can't wait to see it. The opening reception is on January 21st from 7pm to 10pm, and will only be on display for about ten days. Check out Gallery Nucleus and the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles online for more details.

www.gallerynucleus.com

www.si-la.org

Two more backgrounds

So here is the finished version of the piece in my previous post. There are always small things that I would like to change but I think I was able to reach a place in that painting where it felt like it was time to move on to the next one. And there is the next one. It is just a simple composition where I tried to create some mystery with simple every day things, grass, the sky, some trees, and some rocks.

Roots in a car

This is a piece I'm currently working on. Here are a few of the stages that the image has been going through. I will be posting he final version soon.

Leopard King!

This was one of the pieces produced last semester in my digital painting class. As you can probably tell, the work of N.C. Wyeth was a big influence on the overall design.

Painted Backgrounds

Here are more backgrounds done for one of my classes. I have more that I'm working on and will post some of them while in the process of completion.

More Thumbnails

The black and white ones where done with markers and a black technical pen. The colored one is actually a color key for a composition that was later changed.

Black and White Layouts

Here are a couple of drawings created for for my background painting class. I've been doing a lot of drawings that have to do with trains and train rails, one of them was started from a thumbnail from the previous post.

Thumbnails for Background art

Many times I create a lot of thumbnail drawings to figure out different compositions, but sometimes I also like to go a little further in the tiny drawings and and begin to add value to give the drawings some form. Here are some examples. Eventually some of these move on to become fully painted compositions.

Pen and Ink

These two drawings were inspired by watching French New Wave films and looking at the art of Edward Gorey. I have a few other compositions in mind for these characters that I would like to push through completion. This is one of a few story ideas that I am currently working on.

Pages From My Sketchbooks

These are pages from the last three sketchbooks that I've been working on. The group of six pencil drawings below are the only ones that were done as preliminary work for for a poster assignment at CSUF. The rest of the images are are works that started and ended on that page. The only only one that I will probably use and take further will be the last image on the yellow paper, I would like to expand on it on Adobe Illustrator.

Photoshop Eyes

Here is the last batch of eyes for digital illustration. Some of these took a while to finish but they were all fun to do. It was really exciting to replicate all those different painting styles and to discover some of the things one can do with photoshop.