Reclining Nude

Reclining Nude, 2010. oil pastel on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Flower Detail

Flower Detail, 2010. oil pastel, ink, and pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Flower Sketch

Flower Sketch, 2010. pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Teeth and Creatures

Teeth and Creatures, 2010. pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Blue Bomb

Blue Bomb, 2010. oil pastel, pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Umbrella

Umbrella, 2010. oil pastel, pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Edwardian Magus

Edwardian Magus, 2010. Corel Painter XI, Photoshop and hand sketch.

This was entered into a little weekly challenge called 'Character of the Week' from a great website called Conceptart.org. Here is they write up they did for it:

London, England 1907. Cyril Grey is the leader of the ‘Order of Shining Starres’, an occult organisation that aims to become the most dominant in Britain. Grey has access to some of the darkest forces of the astral realm, and demands complete devotion from his acolytes. He is a man obsessed and committed to the promulgation of his black bible, the Book of Regulation, or Liber Ordinatio said to have been dictated to him by a messenger from the gods that provided to him his magical motto, Sit Vis Vobiscum. He has inherited wealth, independence, and apparent youth; appearing little over 35. But there is talk that he is older and uses a ‘glamour’ to fool his followers. There is also talk of the wealth running out, and debts beginning to mount up; of pretenders to his position, and of... murder. Dark murder, as prominent figures in the occult underworld start to... go missing...

Design Grey in his ceremonial robes of office. Consider the historical period (Edwardian) and setting. Also consider his apparent age and powerful persona, and try to present that in your design.

The character was designed around a drawing I found from a sporty edwardian advertisement. After reading the prompt I couldn't help but to think about the Warhammer Universe and their designs for the magus type. They use bird/ eye motifs for their design; so I picked a theme around bull/ stars. Since the character is supposed to be older than his youthful appearance suggests, I made his exposed hand look wizened.

Celtic Warrior

Celtic Warrior, 2010. Corel Painter XI and hand sketch.

This was entered into a little weekly challenge called 'Character of the Week' from a great website called Conceptart.org. Here is they write up they did for it:

"The Celt remembers very little of his homeland any more. Though he was fifteen when he was captured and sold into slavery, his memories of his time before Rome are so few and so fleeting that he wonders sometimes if he merely dreamed them.

His home, for the last ten years, has been the largest ludi - or gladiator school - in all of rome. And he, their prize pupil.
Though maybe once he railed upon his captors, it has been a long time since he has thought of any other way of life than the sword, the bow, and the chariot.
For the last three years, he has been an Essedari - a war chariot fighter. His chariot is his prize possession - even if technically he doesn't own it. He has spilt so much blood onto it that it is closer relation to him than any living person on the entire planet, and he loves it enough to prove it.
Though he often fights on foot, especially for the one-on-one battles, he and his chariot are now so famous that Rome would be devastated if he did not at least use it as a backdrop for every battle.
Today, outfitted in all the splendor his keeper could manage, he fights for the emperor himself.
Note:
This does not have to be a historically accurate chow, especially since there are no pictoral references for the Essedari. So keep to the spirit, but you don't have to keep to the letter!"

So I based the character off of a photo I found of Roy Keane that looked like he was kissing something in his hand. It reminded me of when soccer players score a goal they'll sometime kiss their ring, a tribute to their wife. Since the prompt mentioned he missed his homeland, I thought he might be tributing his victory to his homeland by kissing a necklace medallion.

Fears

Fears, 2010. oil pastel/ india ink on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Celtic Warrior -- Work In Progress

Work in progress for a celtic warrior I have based off of everyone's fav brutal footballer Roy Keane.

Ponyo Contest

Ponyo Contest, 2010. pencil

Colored pencil sketch done for a contest on the deviant art website to create a splash banner clickly for the Ponyo movie.

Volcanic Planet

Volanic Planet, 2010. Photoshop.

Created a photoshoped planet with the help from a tutorial.

Dying Neda

Dying Neda, 2010. Corel Painter XI.

Nutcracker Ballet Shoes

Nutcracker Ballet Shoes, 2009. Acrylic paint.

Some slippers I painted for a charity in Christmas 2009.

Sleeping Owl II

Sleeping Owl II, 2009. Corel Painter XI

Sleeping Owl

Sleeping Owl, 2009. Corel Painter XI.

Wadleif, design for a Cirque du Soleil type show

I was boasting out loud the other day after seeing a Cirque du Soleil commercial that I could design one of those shows.

My wife said, “Well why don’t you?”

“Well…alright” I said.

So I got to thinking about characters and a story arc. The story centers around Wadleif, a forest custodian that falls in love with an unobtainable Forest Queen. After seeing her he tries to become things he is not in order to impress her. Throughout the show he tries to copy the performers, much to the comic delight of the audience. He fails and in the final act either Wadleif hurts himself and the queen takes pity on him -OR- he gives up and acts like himself which the queen admires and in the end creates a love for him.

Here are the main characters I’ve created. These are the actors and not the performers, they would just have themed costumes that would work with what ever stunt they were doing.

Wadleif, carries a broom that he uses to sweep the forest with. It has flowing roots so that it actually functions. At the climax of the story it will light up similar to how it is depicted here. His character is not intentionally funny, but we laugh at his attempts to please the Forest Queen. However, we commiserate with him by the way in which his boss, the Lichen Monster character, treats him. He is an everyman.

The first of the clown trio is the Rock Clown. He would be played by a short portly man. He is the Hardy to the Twig Clown's Laurel. The pair function mainly as a group and are always seen together. The Twig Clown would be played by a tall lanky man. He is the master of ceremony for the show and the only member of the cast to speak English. The others might use a word or two, but speak in stage gibberish for the show. The two clowns are afraid of nearly everything - they run amok during stage transitions, and freak out if approached by cast members. They are not afraid of the Mole Character and the audience, esp. females in the crowd. A staged joke during a crowd participation would be the Twig Clown's top twig becoming erect while interacting with a female audience member.

The final clown member of the trio is the Acorn Clown. She would be played by a petite athletic woman. Her character is a lesbian and in love with the Forest Queen and her Guards. She wants very much to be a Guard and is very forward. She constantly bullies the other clowns for being such cowards.

The Forest Queen role is mainly just an aesthetic one.



The Forest People are meant to be on the periphery. They move unseen around the crowd and in the rafters and hide in the set designs (prop foliage and such). The black suit on the right is how they would look before they are revealed. You might see a flicker of their lights, I want the audience to think they are seeing movement, but not make out what it is. In the climax of the show they move down to the stage and the suits would light up like shown on the left. This effect is similar to suits at the opening ceremony of the Chinese Olympics.

Lichen Monster is Wadleif's 'boss' and berates him at every step. He stomps small forest creatures, is generally evil, and is of course shamed somehow during the climax of the story.

The Queen's Guards consists of three contortionists and are the only actors to actually preform.

The blind Mole Character burrows around the stage and pops up thru trap doors for comic relief during stage transitions. He falls in love with a tree stump that has a silhouette just like his. He brings gifts to it. The two male clowns aren't afraid of the Mole because of his apparent small size. They constantly chase him and try to eat the him. It is revealed at the end of the circus that the Mole is in fact huge, played by two or three people much like the Chinese dragons seen in festivals. This causes the clowns to flee the stage in terror.

LED lights would be used in the costumes with foliage on them i.e. the Lichen Monster's necklace and Wadleif's shoulders. This is to give a floating orb or firefly effect around them. The stage lighting would be etherial and give an enchanted forest feel. Small pin lights at the ceiling of the arena would simulate a starry night. At the climax of the story some of those lights would descend toward the audience, similar to a room full of fireflies. I'd like to have a floating seed effect somehow, similar to the forest spirit scene in Avatar. Smoky wild rave or club type atmosphere. Music would be a cross between Animal Collective, a jungle sounds CD, and Bobby McFerrin voice effects.

Space Wolf -- Battle Aftermath

Space Wolf -- Battle Aftermath, 2009. Corel Painter and hand sketch.

Finally finished this rather pensive looking Space Wolf marine from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. It is the first thing I have done in Painter and has been really good practice. I need a bit more practice with clouds, but I am pleased with how the actual marine looks. It is still awkward to paint with a mouse. It has taken some time to complete - worked on the figure during Christmas and painted the background a few times after not being satisfied with the composition. I might have gone a bit too far with the floating fire embers; it was a cliche I just could not resist.

Portfolio III

This portfolio consists of some of the great work I got to be a part of at Dougherty + Design Group. The two main projects that became the focus of the firm were La Isla Acapulco a behemoth of a lifestyle center in Acapulco, Mexico. It had 12 buildings similar to a large Department store each, a moat with flowing river complete with gondolas, small food vendors and two parking decks. It was quite huge, the central building carried a "ship sail" type sculpture with an elegant LED light show and 3 monstrous TV screens.

The second project was Paseo Campeche, also in Mexico. It was a large scale mall with two anchors, a movie theater, bowling alley, and family entertainment space. It had 4 outlying buildings and a parking substructure as well as parking deck.

Thesis Models

Models, 2004-2005. paper and chip board.