This is the finished (still working the kinks out when I see them) illustration for the UW Extension Program submissions. I'm experimenting with no black lines with fur and layering it all with 1 scale shading. I like the concept that my future dog will accidentally torment the cat with his innocence and curiosity. Here Waffles wants to show Tuck his new toy.
Some sketches for my latest illustration for the UW Extension Program submission. This is to prove that I understand design and animal anatomy. "New Toy-rough designs" Flash 5/30/09
I have mixed feelings about this piece. This was actually part of a VERY large assignment I was given at an old job of mine in Downtown Seattle. The job was to create an online game for the Hasbro line of Transformer toys for the first Transformers live action movie. The idea of the game was that the user could take pre-made animated clips and edit them together with sound and music, creating their own little film. My job was to create the animations...100+ 1-2 seconds long animations of STOP-MOTION using the actual toys themselves in different and fun ways. Transforming and doing all sorts of things. That actually ended up being fun, but I was under a lot of time constraints since I was the only one working on them, even after requesting help many many times. The Title card, here, was something I put together for the project but was rejected rather quickly for something else done by the art director, I think. I left the company after 1 year of starting due to communication problems between the Art Director and the Producer which caused my work to suffer. I like it because of the kinetic imagery, the use of the props, and the title typeface I created. But it carries a stigma with it since it is attached to one of the most frustrating jobs of my career.
This is another of the Fashion Poster series I worked on a few years ago. I'm not sure why, but I really enjoy how a few simplistic lines and color can create an image.
These are two poster designs I submitted for a potential job of creating posters for a local company in Washington State. They picked me to submit more for the final decision between me and a couple of other artists, but I decided against it, since they would have me do too much in a small amount of time for too little of pay. It would've been fine if I didn't already have a job and a mortgage to pay for.
This started a series of Art Deco style simplistic fashion posters I worked on for a year in 2003 and 2004. This piece was originally for my grandfather Alfred "Harry" Martin who has recently passed on. So this piece has more meaning to me than the rest of the series. I believe there were only 2 or 3 others of this series of fashion poster with one that was unfinished due to not being able to find anyone who knew Japanese. I'll post the rest at a later date.
This is a very quick pose (15 seconds) where its just important to get the positioning down. I like the movement and kinetic quality of the lines.
I finally got off my lazy butt and used my big ol' external hard drive to get all of my stuff from my old G5 (6 years old, btw) and put everything onto my new Mac Pro (Love this thing!!!!). Which means all of my old fgure drawings will be creeping up on the blog now.
Random drawings. Don't ask me what the monkey down below is doing. I'm not sure. Either covering his dinner plate nipples or just tweaking them. Either way he doesn't seem too happy about it.
The arrows in these sketch designs are basically just concepts I have trying to figure out a tattoo design to go on either the back of my right hand or the wrist. Probably about 1 inch x 2 inches. The abstract designs were just that, abstract designs of a flame. Just a concept for an illustration that I'm probably not going to work on.
I had thought of a fun concept for an illustration. I was thinking of RISD friends and remembered Sarah Cave (Film and Animation) who helped me out with my own senior project (I'm eternally thankful) and remembered she had this love of everything penguin. which got me drawing penguins...which in turn, got me drawing penguins having a snowball fight...which got me drawing penguins and polar bear cubs in a snowball fight. Then my brain went onto this track of "What if, I took this really cute concept of penguins and polar bear cubs in a snow ball fight, but it is an all out WWII epic battle style illustration?" One idea was the sketch on the right with 3 polar bear cubs in a snow-bunker holding down the lines while penguins march towards them in large numbers as one cub is desperately calling in for air support. My brain is weird sometimes.
I was working on a cartoon style and drew some good friends from the Seattle area (technically Redmond area...but no one outside of WA would know what I was talking about). If you recognize yourself, and you notice that I might have your hair wrong or something...I apologize, I was working from memory and my memory stinks.
Ferry bathrooms are disgusting. The men's (as you can see) is a trough-like stinking sink with all of the urinal cakes up at one end...seems kind of pointless to me. I dare not think of what the women's is like...although, a lot of places have the women's bathroom as a complete contrast from the men's. Maybe the women's was a paradise with couches, personal HDTVs and massuses on order with glasses of champagne to sip.
This set of sketches was actually on the ferry on the way to Friday Harbor. The little girl with the pigtails on the top of the page was probably one of the cutest kids I've seen (Misha will tell you as well). No she doesn't have more than 5 fingers on one hand...I sketched rather quickly so her mother, who was carrying her as they walked by, didn't think I was some weirdo staring at her daughter. The weird-eyed guy in the middle was interesting. His eyes were REALLY dark. Not 'lack of sleep' dark, but just dark. There was a field trip during the ferry ride as well, so a lot of school age children were running around with their adult supervisors. One kid was particularly surprised and excited that there was an elevator on the ferry and demanded to ride it several times...we sat very close to that elevator unfortunately. Along the subject of the field trip kids, I drew one of the counselors as she was walking up beside us and telling one of the other counselors (rather gleefully, I might add) "I lost my kids. Tee hee." If I had this woman's responsibilities and my kids went missing in a very public place...I'd be pissing myself scared.
My wife, Misha, and I went on a small weekend trip up to San Juan Island. The ferry ride is a couple of hours long and at least an hour wait just to get on. So I pass the time stealthily sketching people. If you see me waiting in line or on a ferry or plane with a sketch book and pretending to look past you...then its a good chance I'm drawing you. Here's some examples of our trip.
A friend of mine pointed me towards this interesting site where different companies/employers will ask for a design, most likely a logo design, and will have artists from around the world post their designs. If the company/employer likes one of the design, the artist of that design gets paid a pre-determined amount for it. I uploaded two logos for "World Travelers United". I was not the one chosen. The artist that was chosen did a great job, so I'm not bitter whatsoever.
My wife and I own a cat named Tuck. We got him when he was only 8 weeks old in the Everett Shelter right after Thanksgiving of 2006. He was really cute with giant ears, paws and big ol' cute eyes. He was very timid and scared due to his previous owner's kids being too rough with him. We didn't know at the time he was actually a Maine Coon, which is the largest type of domestic cat. He's a gigantic 15lbs at 2 1/2 years. He's about 3-4 feet long from nose to tail.
