Tanked

White out

I'm becoming a huge fan of 60's lifestyle fashion illustrations.  

This was me playing around with some of their ideas.

Toxic Forest

Some painting for some one regarding some thing that never became
Over a year ago.....

Jafar's Daughter?

Over at the Think Tank we decided that making Jafar's daughter would be a fun challenge.  This is my take.  I tried to adhere to the line quality and sense of design as getting out of my comfort zone is the point to it. All the Aladdin artists are so phenomenal I hope I did it a little bit of justice.

jeune fille

Haunted Mansion Mess abouts

Some ideas that never went anywhere

From an old project.

In Class painting Demo

For character Design Class.  2 hours.CS2

While over at the think tank

We went to the awesome exhibit of Syd Mead's at the Forest Lawn in Glendale LINK

Free, low key, and you can get real close to see his genius strokes. 

If you are in Los Angeles area you should go see it.

Our task was to pay homage in our style to Mr. Mead

PS at the museum there is a back section of some great sculptures too.

See all the Think Tanks work at http://thethink-tank.tumblr.com/

We're just gettin' started.

Warm up Sketches on Tumblr!

FYI All of my morning 

warm up sketches 

are uploaded to Tumblr here: 

http://2dbean.tumblr.com/

Head on over will ya?

thumbnails for think tank

A new series of art prints coming

Victoria

Maleficent round 2

No Photoshop touch ups.  I just desaturated the colors on the top image because the green pen I used was a neon green bright pen that induces seizures....

Maleficent round 1

While over at the Think Tank

Our task was an environment we would've liked to see in Sinbad.  Skeleton island was our choice.  Check out or Tumblr http://thethink-tank.tumblr.com/ and see Justins piece and all our many adventures past and each week we give a teaser and "publish" on wednesday! 

belly dancer

ART STORE SALE!

It was my birthday yesterday so I thought it was a good excuse to make a special at the store.  Use code "birthday" at checkout for 20% off your entire purchase!  WOWee Wow huh? 

Head on over by clicking here!

bellydancing

So at the drawing club I've come to realize that I haven't experimented enough due to ego and a sprinkling of people looking over my shoulder to see what I'm doing.  So thanks to Bob Kato, this week I decided every 5-15 minute pose had to include a different tool to make the image.  And to just rip off the ego band aid I am putting them all here to just tell myself be OK with taking chances.  So here they are in all their mistakes and surprises.  I have one I really like so I'm going to photoshop it up a bit but here's the rest from last night.  All done with a combo of brush pens, microns, prismacolors, flat head calligraphy, copics and watercolor.

Gorillas

Over at the Think Tank our task was creating a 5th member to the Madagascar crew, A Gorilla.  We blatantly stole this task from the amazing Mark Mcdonnell.  
Here were the studies I made over that day and you can see both our finished paintings over at The Think Tank.  
We have quote clues to where we are heading for the next weeks task.

Arr together now!

This was me playing with a different style and process than I usually do.