i should have drawn a picture of Jack squatting, just as a special tribute for that idiom.. but i digress.
HERE is a bunch of concept art i've been doing in a sweet class, taught by the one and only Jake Parker (who also happens to be THE man, and all around awesome drawer of stuff) where we're basically redesigning Jack and The Beanstalk. We have a huge list of characters, props, environments, story moments and stuff that we choose from, and take them all through quick passes to final.
so WATCH as the quality of these designs go from better to worse, as i am posting them grouped, but in reverse chronological order. lots of fun.
first up, Jack. prop is one of the Giant's butter-knives i thought would be cool for him to use as a huge sword. just figuring out some props to go with Jack
The Giant
The Village (jack's house is WAY in the back on the hill as it starts to slope down)
Jack about to climb the beanstalk, leaving home for the first time
Jack's House
The Beanstalk (missing a few steps on this one... I'll scan them in and update later)
Jack's room
The Cow(will update steps leading up to cow later..)
long time no post. been drawing lots and stuff though. promise. in no particular order, here are some pictures - most of which are based on true events that have actually happened in real life. really.
yes. i actually road a gorilla, and his name is solomon. unfortunately in real life, solomon is currently impaled by a long metal poll that keeps him forever moving in a counter-clockwise circle along with other helpless and equally impaled creatures from the animal kingdom.
the tentacles were originally going to be arrows... somehow, something went horribly awesome.
i saw two people on a scooter once. it sort of looked like this.
i saw somebody underneath a tree once. i also so a cooler looking tree earlier that day, and put them under that one instead
study of some photograph of a homeless dude. had very intense eyes.
doodle...
went to this concert outside once.. apparently not finished yet.
jack and the bean stalk , in a post-post apocalyptic setting.
final painted result of one of the funnest collaborations/silhouette games i've ever played in my entire life.
for character design class - all i had to work from was the description of him being an ex-sailor, having a peg leg, pale blue eyes, a round bronze face, and what hair he had left was scraggly or something like that. i took a few liberties with the rest of it.
unfinished painting about time travel from a class i had last semester.
finished painting of the unfinished one, from a class i had last semester.
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...... it's been a couple months. time for pictures!!
(above) picture was an assignment/attempt to re-do/awesome-ify an OLD picture (below) done my last year in highschool?? still got some things to add in there, but i think it's going somewhere.. heh. really just trying to get the feeling of adventure there and stuff.. hope to get a lot more done on this before we turn EVERYTHING in. colored pencils and gouache.. i didn't even know what gouache WAS back then, but i still tried to use it. haha..
got to copy something awesome for an assignment. i picked this. learned some cool stuff. copying is cool like that sometimes.
got to try and copy somebody's style on this assignment. i picked this guy. learned some cool stuff. copying apparently is still cool like that, sometimes.
ummmmmm..... what else. oh yeah, leaves. LEAVES!!!! man. autumn has got to be my FAVORITE season of all time.. lots of mixed memories and nostalgia coming back and blowing by... like i'm being reminded of a billion significant things that have happened in my life at once, and not being able to notice any specific thing at all, really. kinda like these awesome LEAVES!!! heh. really though, been feeling some awesome positive vibes for the past little bit that i can't quite figure out... not complaining though. just happy.
final colored/painted version of the stuff on the previous post. originally this dude was gonna be a janitor when i started, but quickly transformed into what you see before you now.
also.. i was thinking of having somebody do a stage-dive in the back where all the light is, but make it look like they're ascending towards the heavens... though that seems so unnecessarily epic and AWESOME, that i may just do a separate painting for that. hahah.. so epic.
also.. i found a ten dollar bill on the ground in a parking lot a couple days ago, and am now just barely coming off of the good luck high. i was having such a lucky day, that by the time i picked up the ten dollar bill i was almost worried/confused how everything was going so well. i literally just stood there in the parking lot for about 5 minutes, just waiting for a voice of reason to come and explain everything to me. . . heh.
also.. K-Murdock and Mega-Ran released another goodie, to thank all the peeps who successfully helped destroy the goal on their epic kickstarter campaign they did this track aptly titled "thank you for listening." samples from Mario 3 - hence my little spin off the title screen for the single's cover art. love this - very chill vibe, yet emotionally penetrating at the same time. check it out.
had to paint this guy using only one color.. fun little exercise in the digital painting class i'm taking right one. black and white version below, obviously - unless you're absolutely blind to all color, then the illusion is lost, and they should both look exactly the same.
been experimenting with not relying so much on lines to describe form, etc. instead of the usual stuff i love to do. more of both to come.
WHAT THE DUCK!?
slow day at work.. started doodling to keep the sanity/not fall asleep. couple days later, enter THE DUCKDRAGON.
THE DUCKDRAGON feeds exclusively on ducks during migrational periods. the ducks' real reason for the flying-v formation is that it's a defensive formation designed specifically to give them the best chance at survival vs. THE DUCKDRAGON. that is all we know so far.
ENGL 43
this was for the cover of an english course based on the book "Enchantress of the Stars" which turned out to have a pretty cool concept that helps you better perceive time and space and all that. i should read real books more often. . . ...
ICE COAT... GUY.
another random thing started at work just to fight off sleep, and keep the motivational juices flowing.. to me, little dude sorta looks like a weird mix between a black mage, an eskimo, and kenny.
your mom.
this was for some random... Scott Pilgrim drawing contest. the comic had a lot of 'your mom' jokes in it, so i thought i'd do one of my own. Mom - if you're reading this, this totally isn't you. promise. also. The MOVIE was AWESOME.
summary (since i don't feel i need to bore you with every detail of my life at this point..) of random thoughts/observations over the past couple months since the last post, that i can remember off the top of the headt:
-over the summer, i did a lot of walking around outside during the day. listening to music and drawing stuff while outside = very relaxing. may do it some more.
-saw a little bird with a messed up wing. i only noticed because it let me get so close to it without flying away... then i realized it couldn't fly at all. the same day i was walking across a bridge and saw a homeless dude with his shirt off, chilling underneath a huge tree who's branches and leaves almost draped down over him like a huge curtain... made me think about the bird. made me think about what our 'wings' could be, and how messing those up can get us into some really unnatural situations.
-the ability to 'let go' of something good suggests that both 'good' and bad are moving. to hold on to any good thing in your life simply means to move with it and accept the direction it is moving.
-it's almost ridiculous how much music is really out there, is being made, and will be made.. it's impossible to find all of the good music out there, and not worth the effort to try. however, if you don't make any effort to pursue any good music - you wont have any. support good music and it will support you.
other random things worthy of note: -went to a really cool costume party, and we all played glow-in-the-dark wiffle ball. -Mario was on my team -saw a car half-way in an apartment building/half-way out (they drove INTO the building on accident) -someone was actually HIT BY THE CAR!! imagine that. you're just relaxing... doing stuff in your house, where you LIVE... and then suddenly... YOU GET HIT BY A CAR... crazy. sorta reminded me of Donnie Darko, except i'm not so sure the person who was hit by the car was hit by choice, resulting in the preservation and stability of the world in which we live.. or something like that.
alright. that's about it for now.. last thing. i was driving home sorta late a few nights ago, and caught the last minute or so of this song on the radio... loved the mood/lyrics.. all that. kinda funny how you can never really choose the exact time or source of inspiration, but it hit me. a nice extra little shove in a positive direction.
first off, here's some bonus art for the Forever Famicom bonus content. Forever Famicom DLC is basically 22 tracks - 3 songs that didn't make it onto the original album, and loads of solid instrumentals. so good... since the original cover art takes place at night, i figured i'd flip it to the day time and eventually even unplugged everything.. or at least that's the concept behind it.
now, for some reason i don't think i've ever put stuff up here from my "real" job (making pretty pictures to go with course content made by BYU Independent Study) but i finally had a good excuse to draw a sword finally, and had to share!! heh..
and here's a super huge version, if you wanna get in and look at stuff a little closer for some reason..
now.. for a little context to set you up for the next thing - i got this task at work for a student development course, which said exactly the following: "I want to try for something that encompasses an Ivy League type prep school in the digital age (near future/online technology fused with traditional East-coast prep school images with a touch of Harry Potter gothic thrown in. I know that's a lot - but I'd like to try for something with that look and feel."
ummmmmmmm.... what? yeah.. so anyways, here's the course cover - or as we say in the biz, the "splash." aaaaand some "banners" you'd see going from lesson to lesson..alright. now that you're all caught up, here's where this next picture comes in - one day i came to work with my glasses on, started working on the "harry potter" course... and this girl, i mean.. she who should not be named decided to draw a lightning bolt scar-thing on my forehead.. pictures were taken.. i even pretended to cast a spell at someone with my stylist... ANYWAYS. for some presentation our little art production department did for the rest of the BYU independent study production people, one of the pictures we used as a slide was from that, plus a little photoshop magic on my part...
and while i'm posting stuff about work, just for fun here's some stuff i did for an Aerobics course that i'm sorta proud of.. especially the one with the Nintendo Wii... heh heh..
and that's about it... i mentioned last post about being in a weird mood, and having 3 songs on repeat literally for about 5 days straight wherever i was able to plug headphones into something..
per request here are the 3 songs: (couldn't find a good place to get a direct hyperlink.... so if you REALLY want to hear them, you can click here, find them, and download them..) kind of green - act III, track 14 smooth sun of magma - bonus tracks, track 3 i love this radio - bonus tracks, track 2
i ESPECIALLY had to keep listening to "i love this radio."
all the tracks are from this EPIC ff4 remix album the good people over at OCR did. no personal work to post yet... haven't had the time to play that much lately.. life goes on, and so will i.. OH!! that reminds me. i've had a song stuck in my head for more than a few days.. really sad yet makes you appreciate life in a positive light kind of thing. love it.
done for another random drawing contest.. kind of thought the judging was a little ridiculous, not just because i didn't make the semi-finals, but other cool kids didn't either. whatever - still had lots of fun doing this!
a doodle. i've never considered myself very strong at "sketching" for lots of personal reasons... but DOODLING is insanely fun, and somehow "works" for me. doodling vs. sketching.... is there really a difference? maybe doodling is like super slow-motion sketching.. i dunno.
so... LOTS of stuff piling up that i wanna play with in photoshop.. don't know when i'll get around to it, so this is just a mini sketch dump of some of that stuff.
finally got some of my figure drawing class stuff on the computer. all of these are self-portraits except the last one.
other noteworthy stuff... kind of: -went to a pretzel making party. apparently some people are really into pretzel making? i'm really into eating freshly baked goods such as pretzels, so that was a relief. -cant stop listening to an AWESOME Michael Jackson remix by Beatnick & K-Salaam -had 3 songs on repeat CONSTANTLY, even at work... i guess i was in a weird mood or something and it just seemed to help. finally snapped out of it after about day 5. -aaaaaaaaaand... yeah. the end.
(will update steps leading up to cow later..)
