Cover (no longer)

This was going to be the new cover.  It's going to end up being something else as this one isn't strong enough.  But thought I should show it here before it goes away forever.

Hedy over Heels

I got an invite from Planet Pulp to

join their squad for a monthly online art thingy.  

The theme was Femme Fatale.

Check out the other artsits at

http://www.planet-pulp.com/

The Deal

Trying different methodologies and brushes.

I struggle when I set out to paint "nothing"  so I

just messed around until I saw a story n all the shapes, then went at it.

Triplets

Q&A Morning warmups

I get a asked a lot of questions so I'll answer them all here regarding my morning warmups.

• You can find my daily warmups through twitter or instagram.  In both programs, look for 2dbean.  You can find links to the right on this blog.  I also eventually put them on tumblr.
• Time wise these are between 5-20 minutes dependent on the design and intricacies............... and caffeination levels.
• Materials used are Copic sketch markers, Prismacolor markers, micron pen .005 for the under drawing and a brush pen for the thick lines.  (Zebra or Kuretake brush pen.)  A white gel pen and a white pencil for the highlights.  A brown paper wired earthbound cachet sketchpad.  All pens I get are available at www.jetpens.com 
• As for how "accurate" I am regarding design vs. observation.  I tend to only have between 10 seconds and 1 minute to observe and remember my subjects so I definitely choose to draw adjectives and not nouns.  Sharp, soft, bubbly and not the eyes go here or the nose ends like this.  After my design sense remembers why I looked at them in the first place, I remember basic colors and style of clothing they have on. 
• People do notice and rarely are mad, they enjoy it and quite a few patrons recognize others in the shop.  Most people are pleasant and happy...even in LA.
• I generally try to sit and sketch for an hour to warm up and get my day going.  Usually up and out the door by 8 AM and taking advantage of the weather I sit outside for all this.

Hopefully this answers most the questions I get on a regular basis.  Comment on the post if you have any more and I'll make sure to get to you.  Hope your week is awesome! Keep drawing.

-Bean

Scuply time

Over at the think tank we decided to have at the sculpy and make a 

simple sculpture of our design.  Justin rocked it. 

 Check his out at http://thethink-tank.tumblr.com/

Well I do Declayah....

I haven't painted for myself in a long while so I wanted to make sure I messed around with a new rendering style.  Lots of clients along with putting together my novel and a new art of book for CTN.  Exciting and busy times but for today, I just needed to paint something for me.

Costumed Figure Drawing session

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Was asked to do a take on the Ninja turtles for Nickelodeon.

Super fun to do  and an honor to work on a property I had fond memories of as a child.

Zombie King

 Zombie King is this weeks theme.

The Think Tank

Some Commercial work

Did some commercial work with Liquid Animation.

A lot of people ask me about what I do, here's just one portion of my daily life ;)

 thumbnails and camera angles

This was going back and forth between the Australian team at Liquid Animation and then the Singapore clients.  Weird hours but great people.  I love seeing the start of something and seeing what the next set of artists do to it. 

We go back and forth and I try to understand he clients needs and go from thumbs, to tighter gray scales to color thumbs to Finished colors.