Portait Paintings

Digital Painting Photoshop

Digital Painting Photoshop The Memory Project

 Yeah. Got my intous 3 tablet, now back to work...Well work that I enjoy. The first portrait painting was done for my beautiful cousin Shelly. Sometimes your first subjects tend to be family members but I really enjoy this and I hope she like it too. The second portrait was a painting I did for the The Memory Project. The Memory project is where students can participate to bless children in other countries who are less fortunate. So I was given a picture and it was my task to do a painting from it. I was so glad that I participated and I hope that the child who received the picture enjoyed it. I encourage any artist to take time to use their talents to help inspire a child. For more information please visit their website.  http://www.memoryproject.org/

Summer + Job= Less Art :(

Yeah. There are a lot of times when you have other responsibilities you have to do. Like actually working to save up a money. But that is no excuse for not honing your draftsmanship skills. That's what I have found myself doing recently. Going back to the fundamentals. Getting better at drawing proportionally, drawing more expressions, varying different types of characters. It also doesn't help when I had lost my bamboo tablet pen and now have to buy a new tablet. At least it will be a intous 3  but then I have to wait for it to come here and etc. I cannot wait for next semester. One thing I love to see and to keep on doing is to improve in big leaps. That is what seems to happen to me all the time. It also helps when you go to such an awesome school as Ringling College. You can receive so much help from friends, classmates and the amazing professors. August can't come to soon!

Album Cover Design

"Rhythmic Journey"  Digital Painting  Photoshop 

Illustration done for an album cover. I was influenced by the band Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. I love their fusion jazz and style that travels into other genres. That is why I did this space ship flying through this valley of instruments. I really enjoyed it and it is definitely one of my strongest pieces of work.....so far.   P.S. Victor Wooten is the BEST BASS PLAYER EVER!

Car Concept Designs

If only I interned under Syd Mead! This was just playing around with different vehicle designs. I realized that I actually didn't know how to draw cars in the first place which definitely throws a wrench in designing anything. So I took my time to draw cars and then play around with them. Its just always good to draw and draw some more because who knows what shows up!

Business Card Designs

The end of the semester is winding down, and I am reminded again that I have no business card. So thankfully my class is doing a project to help us in this area. So far I want to do an illustrative approach to this but I still dont have a consistent theme yet. Here are some designs for the cards. Definitely more are coming until I can decide on a final one.

Would be back of Card

Kanji symbol means "Soul"

Just a fun one.

Concept Art Illustration

"Overwhelming Force" - Photoshop

 

This last few weeks my classI was given an opportunity by my professor to do a open assignment. I was so glad to be able to focus on an area of illustration that I might go further in. So I decided to do a creature design and a mech design. But even after doing the designs I wanted to breadth life into my creations. So I decided to do an illustration. The whole narrative was to have machine controlled by poachers that are hunting these exotic dinosaur like creatures. The composition instead was simplified  to highlight the struggle of nature vs machine. I still need to do more to know which direction to take. This summer I am going to seriously research and define my goals.

Children Book Illustration

"The Starry Phenomenon"  
Digital Painting
  2012

This is a recent illustration done  in Photoshop. It is a children book illustration, depicting a magical moment of these containers coming from the sky, each containing pearls. This was based on the task of taking a page from a dictionary and only using the words on the page to make a cohesive illustration. One main issue that I have and others have pointed out is that it is too complicated for a children book illustration. I agree with them. Kids (small) like to see big shapes and simple ones. I love the characters that I have in this piece, but I feel the background competes with them too much. This is yet again another learning experience of knowing your specific target audience and planning accordingly. Well back to more work.




Below is the initial character sketches