this blog has become kinda pointless with danielle and i being the only people who still update it.

anyways, 2nd pass on my sketch from the other day. gonna fully render this.

the unknown guest

late morning speedpaint. about two hours

ice

unfinished scene from my graphic novel (which i will never ever find the time to make)

crappy-canyon

speed paint, a little over an hour. will keep on rendering this up if i have the time.

half hour speedpaint before bed last night.

Day 1

Day 1: The winner of the auction has called to get her winning prize! I am painting a picture of her daughters horse for christmas. Times Ticking!!

This is the first stage of the painting, generally just blocking in to get paint on the canvas.

hfilm

a good friend of mine, and incredible 3D animator who just finished up an internship at Disney is directing his MFA thesis film due out this spring, and I'm attached to it as a concept artist. Here's just a sample of what I've been doing... will post more in my own blog within the next few weeks

rough logo design for a band. posted with permission.

bbking

this piece is of BB. king. Trying to get more expression and character into the pieces.

zorg

An hour and a half "sketch" in Photoshop and ZBrush. Neck makes no sense. Still developing this new technique, gonna be doing a series of character designs in this style (once i can pin down the final style).

Nov27.2010

"CeeLo Green"-Digital

3 hours late

a spooky house. not done yet, but getting there.

In the works ( celebrities)

Celebrities in the works.Probably have a hour or 2 left in improving them. I am changing up my medium to the computer(for now) to get my ideas out faster and also get the color I am looking for more immediate to get in that fast rapid gestural groove.

chrisette michele

pink

Paintingss

Painting study of vanessa. Done in a couple hours yesterday. Going to do a bunch of fast studies like these to get quicker and more gestural.

done with open acyrics in level one with william cochran. Amazing class!

landscape

Going for the Thomas Wilmer Dewing soft touch approach. Sorry the image is such crap. Hope to have this painting done before Wednesday.

Fish

Skate!

http://www.vimeo.com/16379170

10+ hours of animating for 10 seconds of film.

still getting the hang of this.

portrait

portrait for tonight, took about 2 hours. no reference. gonna try to be doing these more often...

Skate!

 Screens from my first computer animated film (and by film I mean 11 second short). Demonstrates a modified version of the Bloke 1.0 character riding a skateboard. Besides the character base, everything else was done by myself, including modeling, rigging, animating, and recording audio.

This will be online in a few days on my Vimeo page. I'll link to it once up.

recent

Logo design in the works for vet clinic.

bzzzzzz

work in progress assignment from character "rigging" class (a rig is a virtual skeletal system for all you n00bs). will be a full 10 second animation when done, fully rendered. character rigged by me, environment modeled by me, animated by me, character based off of the bloke 1.0 mesh which was altered by me. maya is fun : )

"Living with no Home"

New series- "Living with no home"

First piece:sketch

- Have a bunch of paintings lined up for a new series"living with no home"

- A bunch of gorgeous places I have been and seen in my life ,time from all over the world.

This sketch is from elba a small town in Italy. I envision the painting to have a nice range of blues and purples in the sky.

starting to cut and prep boards today!

Sketch: Family

A post for art jumble.

nottingham lace

update after working on it, still not done though. Blizzard begins internship applications in november and am trying to get my portfolio as solid as possible before the submissions begin. keeping my fingers crossed : )

This and that

I am currently working on a few projects at the same time, since I have time on my hands. The top is a page from my sketchbook for the sketchbook project that I'm doing. I urge all of you to join! Last day to sign up is Oct. 31st. The bottom is the last leaf that will be joining a series of leaves that I painted during the summer before my senior year for a client. I hope to have it completely painted by the end of the week. My client decided she wanted one more to balance out the others.

to here knows when

speedpaint. will probably fully render this.

Sketchbook

Here's a page from my Sketchbook for the Brooklyn Art Library.

in the works...

In the works still. worked on it a couple more times. slowly building it up.

any critiques are more then welcomed.

oliver james

old piece of mine I went back into. worked up the details a bit more, pushed the value, and improved the gesture slightly.

In the works.

-Rust painting in the works.

almost done

almost done with this, just need to lay on some more details. planning on constructing this in Maya in due time...

clouds

My finished oil painting of the photoshop sketch I did last week. I'm in between liking it and not. I painted it for a friend. What do you guys think?

mkay

Finished.

Rust

Sketch for the next painting.

Wanted to further explore decomposing textures.

White Lily

Drawn with a 2h pencil and colored with lightfast prisma colored pencils. This was done while watching 500 Days of Summer and The Pursuit of Happyness. And before that, I was watching the 9/11 documentary. Bed time for me that night (saturday into sunday) was 4:30.

Factory 2

threw some texture on this. still working it up...

eden prison

Perspective errors ahoy! Going to fully render this one, but still have a ways to go on it...

Taking a break from Maya until classes start monday, but I'll have plenty more 3D work up soon.

Peace out from (way too hot) Savannah,

-Doug

preliminary color sketch

A piece that I did in photoshop that was started last night and finished tonight. It may lead to a painting, but I'm not sure if I like it enough. Suggestions?

For My Living Room Wall.

Abstract painting I started. Mostly done. Just a little more staring at it and adjusting values.

Docking Gates

Photoshop, still a work in progress. One of several new things I'm working on...

Much much more coming once I get internet at my house next week.

Peace out from Savannah,

-Doug

sketch before dinner

trying to get better at line drawing and the feel of the wacom tablet.

asdf

Un-rendered Maya practice.

re-hash

Danielle and I are going to take over this blog. Whether it returns to it's "glory days" or not, I could care less. I'm gonna keep posting in here from time to time, and anybody from UHA, SCAD, or wherever is welcome to join. I'll give any feedback/crits too for anyone who asks.

I haven't posted in a while because I've been too busy with the move to Georgia, and teaching myself Maya (which is hard), but here's a speedpaint I did last night.

I'm without internet at my new house, so I won't be updating as much as I'd like to, but once that gets taken care of in a week or so I'll be back on here.

Peace out from Savannah Georgia,

-Doug

Moving On

Open Sketch Book society started out with a bang, and had a good run. The idea was to help us all network with each other and keep updated on what everyone was working on, and hopefully continue to challenge ourselves to keep drawing after college.

If anyone would like to take over the open sketch book and lead challenges send me an email to joinsketchsociety@yahoo.com.

Otherwise, the Open Sketch Book Society will be terminated within the next week or so.

Keep in touch!

painting... what

one more!

20 minute doodle before bed.

YES.

quick doodle.

quick sketch: oil pastel