Concept Design Academy workshop

Hey everyone, I will be doing a workshop at Kevin Chen's school The Concept Design Academy. The workshop will focus on using Zbrush to create high quality digital sculptures for 3D conceptual art, preproduction, and rapid prototyping. If your in the area we would love to have you join us. To register and for more info please check out...http://conceptdesignacad.com/

Creature Design Class: Update!

So I have been busy revising my horror creature designs after our critiques. Things have also been pretty busy at work so I may not get to post them for a few more weeks. We have moved on to fantasy creatures and are redesigning 3 creatures from these classic films, Legend, Willow, and Labyrinth. Enjoy these thumbnails till I get some more sketches and designs online. Thanks for looking as always!

Legend: Meg Mucklebones



Willow: Dragon



Labyrinth: Ludo




After our first critique I decided to rework and revisit some of the characters to further explore them.

American Werewolf in London Thumbnails: revised

The Thing Thumbnails: revised


Week one homework: 20 full body silhouettes

American Werewolf in London Thumbnails

The Thing Thumbnails

Pumpkin Head Thumbnails



I'm currently taking a creature design class with Jerad S Marantz at the Concept Design Academy. Our first project is to redesign the classic creatures from the films Pumpkin Head, The Thing, and American Werewolf in London. I will be updating this post quite a bit over the next few weeks so make sure and check back and thanks for looking as always.

Creature Sketches

Hey everyone, here are a few pages from my current sketch book. Nothing to fancy just a bunch of creature thumbnails and ideas. These are done with a simple pen and set of gray tone markers. Check back soon as I will have some news about a new workshop I 'm doing!

Quasimodo

This started as a sculpting demo for my intro to Z-Brush class. I have just been picking at it here and there when I have some free time. I may tweak it a bit more, but I thought I would share what I have so far. I'll add some different angels and shots later in the week.

Charon, the ferryman

These are some development sketches for my take of the mythological character Charon. He was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. In one version of the myth he is portrayed as a simple seaman and if you are unable to pay the toll he turns into a demon and casts you into limbo to wander for eternity. I tried to capture that feeling in the sketches above.

Life Drawings

Here are a few 2 min gesture drawings I did last week. We have a life drawing session at work every Thursday. I have not done much life drawing since school and it's been a lot fun to get back into and incredibly helpful as well. I have some new character sketches also that I will scan and post later this week, so make sure and check back soon. Thanks for looking everyone!

To a great New Year...

This is a likeness of Peter Cushing that I started just before the holidays. It has been sometime since I sculpted a likeness so I thought it would be good practice. It still needs a good bit of work. I hope to have some free time soon to finish him up.



On another note, this past week I started working as a Jr. Character Artist at Naughty Dog. I'm incredibly excited about this opportunity and joining such a great team. I'm working with some incredibly talented artists and designers. Over the next few days I will be adding their sites to my link so make sure and check them out.