01.16.09

day 16:

ok, so, like i said, art everyday . . . almost. here's a self portrait. i started off wanting to do a sin city treatment, but in the end, i wanted a bit more mid time and color. cheers!

01.13.09

day 13:

well, today joel came over and we worked on the game for a couple hours - i'm sooo psyched - it's going to be great!

01.12.09

day 12:

today's the day i created the site and posted all the previous drawings and comments. tomorrow, i'm going to work a bit more on the bird.

01.11.09

day 11:

more game development - and some much needed relaxation.

01.10.09

day 10

i worked quite a bit on character and asset ideas for a new game i am developing. nothing really to show (at least not on a public site), but it's really shaping up.

01.09.09

day 9:

i don't know, i just felt like dancing - or, i guess, drawing the act of dancing. i know, i know, the front hand is a little crude. hey, it's a online sketchbook, chill out.

01.08.09

day 8: 

busy day working on more forms for school and the government - and trying to get some classes waived so i can get into the meat (maya and after effects) asap. needles to say, it left me feeling a bit spacey again, so did a quick shop of the lunar landing.

01.07.09

day 7:

added light and shadows. tightened it up a bit. still need to work on the tree, the bug, and i'm not happy with his front foot.

01.06.09

day 6:

blocked in the background color and added a little more detail to the bird.

01.05.09

day 5:

worked a bit on the lines and began the coloring for our hero.

01.04.09

day 4:

a little history on me . . . i was the art director and graphic designer on the xeko game for their first 3 sets (aka first couple of years). i art directed some really great people (like michel gagné, travis and jordan kotzebue, adam bolt, edward pun, bj nartker, and a whole bunch of others), and together, we made an awesome collectible card game that very subtly taught kids about ecosystems and endangered species. 

anyways, i was always too busy directing the artists (and cleaning up their files) to ever do an illustration myself . . . but i always wanted to, so here it goes . . .

i chose the green woodpecker as my subject and spent some time studying and sketching.

01.03.09

day 3:

i spent most of the day filling out forms for school and applying for grants, scholarships, and loans. by the time i looked up from the paperwork i was just spent - but here we were on day 3 and i had not done an arty thing all day (i would of loved to call the prep for art school "arty", but trust me, it was not), so, i made a spore animal.

01.02.09

day 2: 

this is lucy. she's our boxer. she is (and i know i'm going to get some heat for this) the best dog in the entire world. of course i had to draw her with a ball - as she is rarely without one. drawn in photoshop with the tablet.

lucy, like the girl, goes by a few other names . . . the goose, monkey girl, miss pants, magoose, smoochy pooch . . . yes, we know, it's a bit much.

01.01.09

day 1:

i thought i would start off the blog with a self portrait. it's me and my wife heidi (to eliminate future confusion, or just for future reference, i tend to call her "my girl", "cute girl", or "the girl").

it's a quick sketch in photoshop (cs3) on a wacom intuos tablet from a photo.

catching up

my new year's resolution this year was to do something arty every day. so far, it's been going well - of course we are only on day 12 of 365, but they say if you can stick with something for 2 weeks, then you form a habit. i'm hoping that since i actually enrolled in art school (academy of art university), this shouldn't be a problem.

so, here we go . . .