An update after too long

I have actually been sketching this summer. I know it seems like I vanished, but I am still around. I have a bunch of things to post, but rather than dump them all on you I figured I would just grab a few sketches from this summer and throw them up now and slowly feed out the rest.

I am flying back to GA in a few hours for my wedding reception there and then its back home, finish up some work and then get ready for this 10 day production. Lots of awake all night on sets and a massive load of set dressing. It will be fun, but with school starting up it will also be taxing, especially now that I live a good 45 minutes from school and an hour from the shoot location.

I will update again soon I hope.

laters

Colored page.

Colored first page. More to come.

tho project.

Here is page one inked for the 12 page comic I am doing for a cd insert. this project is for a company out of LA and I have 10ish days to finish it up. I cant post the whole thing here, but I will post updates of some of it as I go.

some random stuff

First I have the finished Telekinesis logo. I had to postpone doing this a few weeks longer than I wanted due to wedding stuff, the Riot art test, and the now 12 page full color comic I am working on. I took some breaks when I was sick of the comic and got this together.





Im trying to get a little more motion in my drawings and this levi ad kept popping up of a dude doing a hand stand so this happened.





this is old. It was me finishing up a tattoo design from a photo of the guys started tattoo. The jesus and the volcano and part of the mountain were already done.




This is older too. I did this a few months ago for Live for Music and Shaun Barret. It was a fun little work.

getting hitched and some ramblings about it and such

The time has finally come. I am getting married. Yup, hitched, tied down, tamed, saying goodbye to the bachelor days and all that. I am luckily marrying my best friend. She is a patient, kind hearted soul who for some reason has the ability to deal with me and my tumultuous life. I really am quite lucky to have broken past the friend zone and swindled the girl into liking me! I have known Claire since 2007 so that makes it almost 5 years now. During that time I have had girlfriends and she has had boyfriends, but we still managed to stay friends and when the stars aligned and we both ended up in the right place, our paths stopped just crossing finally and paralleled. I for one am thankful that they did. I kept hearing that when you find the right girl its just easy. I never believed that because my relationships were always hard in one way or another.(a large part of that difficulty my own making!) Timing I have been told by some. Different goals by others. Religion differences. Well Claire was like glass. Smooth and simple. There were a few little air bubbles, but nothing major and as I spent more and more time with this woman I started to realize that this was what they all talk about. The easiness. The simplicity. The ability to just be open and accepting of one another. It hit me back in ferurary of this year that I really wanted this girl with me always and that I best put a ring on it. So in 16 days I will marry Claire Valene Bagley and we will take on this crazy adventure of a life together. WOOT!

So most of my friends and family will get this above invite soon, but if you didnt fill out the facebook forms or get me your address one way or another then know that your invited to the Utah reception, Georgia reception, or both. Come dance, come cut loose, and come help us celebrate our marriage. And dangit, stay classy folks!

p.s.
If you cant tell, there is a hint of steampunk in our wedding theme, so if you feel like dawning the monocle, top hat, Victorian styled garb, or geared up steampunk robot arm, feel free! ;)

Riot Games Art test

A few weeks ago Riot Games contacted me and asked me to do an art test for them. I didn't get the environment artists position that they were looking at me for, but they have allowed me to post the work done for them which is pretty cool of them.
I had a lot of fun on this art test and I learned a lot. I had very little z brush practice before this and I have come to learn just how radically powerful Z brush is. This was painted mostly in z brush and then detailed in photoshop. I will be doing some more sculpts as soon as I can.

Cow-a-bunga, Righteous, and Pizza

So for some reason I had flashbacks today to a happier time, a better time, a simpler time. When all one cared about was highlighter colored clothing, pizza, and the thrill of kicking some good old Foot Clan butt. I was born a short year after these Turtle dudes were, and I was in that prime moment of my life when they surged onto the scene riding skateboards and wielding the ninja's tools of destruction. My parents hunted down the last 6 action figures left in the state of Utah one year, for my older brother and I, for Christmas. We had the pizza launcher tanks, all the bad guys, and we had dreams my friends, dreams.

SO today 2 triggers launched me on memory lane.

The first came from Joe Olson's hyper stylized and gracefully executed Donatello posted here. http://joeolson.blogspot.com/

Then right after in the completely opposite style the legendary Dave Rapoza put this Leonardo up on CG hub. http://cghub.com/images/view/138397/

So I felt a need to draw a Raphael. It was done in a total of 3 ish hours on breaks throughout the day, and its the first ninja turtle I have drawn since 1996.

Enjoy.

drawings in church

I have been swamped with work lately. Half of which I cant post or even talk about. But I did get permission the other day to start posting the comic that I am working on so look for that soon. Until then here are some touched up sketches from church the other day. This lady had some things to say that cast women in a poor light. My sweet fiancée sitting next to me was shaking her head and heating up over some of her thoughts with good cause.

a few character wips

3D model WIP

I have been working on this guy for 2 days. I think after having rebuilt the facial topology several times I have fount the theory i prefer the best. I have also become very familiar with several ways of redirecting my edge loops to accommodated fusing different topological areas of varying detail. Look for a dresses guy soon.

Chow