Whenever Marit and I are at DisneyLand, no trip is complete without a visit or a few to the Art Academy within the California Adventure Park. For those who are not in the know, these are approximately 15-minutes courses, taught by young animators at the Studio, on how to draw a favorite Disney character. Normally when we do this, we use the provided paper and pencil, but I thought it would be fun to try on my iPad Pro with Procreate.app, largely to make it easier to transport home, but also so I could share here. Enjoy!
Continue reading “Roughing It”Category: Artwork
Here you will find, you guessed it!, sketches that I have done over the years.
In the past few years I’ve transitioned to mostly digital starting out on iPad Pro with Procreate.app. However, I’ve recently bought a used (new for me) Wacom Cintiq 22HD Touch and Corel Painter 2019 (macOS) to my toolset.
Given I find other people’s sharing of their process hugely educational, whenever I post I do my best to show my work in all its stages. And there is often a time lapse of said progress added, too. Again, I find all of this shared elsewhere hugely educational.
Hopefully you find this posts as informative as I find others who do the same. And do not hesitate to reach out to me via comments or directly if you anything is unclear, or if you wish for me to fill something out with more details.
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Crash Course: Color Theory
I have a confession. I have no inkling about color. Whatever I know is purely instinctual. I’m much more comfortable staying to grays, and reserving color for symbolic purposes (think Dexter’s inability to see any color other than blood as red).
Continue reading “Crash Course: Color Theory”Site Refresh
Due to a WordPress update, my design overrides got, well, overwritten. While I was at getting things back in order, I decided to do a slight design refresh. As much as I loved my original concepts, they just were not quite working for me. Which isn’t to say there aren’t elements of the original concept that I won’t someday incorporate; but, in the meantime it was obvious to me that I really needed to rethink how I approached the header.
Continue reading “Site Refresh”Treant redux
I decided to explore the same subject, but utilizing my own style I arguably perfected in high school. While it is a lot more work to build up organically this much detail — and I am still a long way off from a finished piece of work — I feel it is starting to exhibit the complexity and details that I love to focus on.
Continue reading “Treant redux”Treant
Originally I was going for something a bit more brooding, but as things generally happen I got something quite different and a bit more whimsical.
