Yay Fireflies!!!

Finally, a nicely scanned image of this painting. Acrylic on Illustration board. I love fireflies!

Polar Bear Hugs?

Here's another quick doodle of Oliver and me. I'm not sure why he's a polar bear... Maybe I was thinking of the cold/bear hugs ::shrugs:: Anyway, I like making these moments, perhaps I'll do a series. We'll see. Merci!!!

... love birds!?

The BFG project

Amazing things

Our group is doing amazing things! Here is a revised Sophie. How different from the last one! This week will be environments, but wait till you see the finished Sophie. It's going to be sweet.

Meh

A struggle to the death! Hopefully the critic will help me.

Super WIP but done for fun

Happy Birthday to me... Has it been 24 years already? Crazy beans!

Anyway, with this image I was trying to experiment with the pen tool over the summer and came up with this. Not done yet, but whenever I get the chance it'll be the best darn cupcake ever!

Tears, fears, & oh dears!!!

These are not so great thumbnails for the next step of this project. We are suppose to illustrate a scene and I wanted to show how much the two main character loves each others company. I'm hoping these will be okay for tomorrows critic. Eeks!

Here is my semi-finished living room... It's getting close to the finish. I'm going to try to revise it during break and I hope to take out the line drawing and make it a crisp and clear color rendering. Things that I should work on is take out tangents, make the moon light brighter, and change the cliche white light.

Happy birthday Mommy!!!

After designing the room we now have to paint it. First pass... WIP

Below are just different color and lighting situations.

Stay tuned for the final!

SwatBunnies & Headaches

Keeping at it!

We are still working on the Kurt Vonnegut story, Harrison Bergeron. We are getting close to our illustration, but before we get there we had to do set designs with the choice of living room, prison cell, and TV station. I ended up choosing living room and here is my design.

Trees from LIFE!!!

Trees from life is hard, I think these are the most successful. Pen.

School is Kicking my Butt!!!

Yay, painty painty!!! So here is a branch and a branch with leaves! Acrylic and Gesso. Let me know what you think, feedback is always welcome.

Painty painty... acorn

Acrylic on Coldpress Illustration board

A New Semester!!!

I think I'm going to like this semester. It will be tough, as always, but It's going to be great!!! Here are some ideation doodles for Visual Development. We had to read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and then do some character designs. I am going to learn SOOO MUCH!!!

Surreal Night

Last night at the San Jose Museum of Art, there was a discussion panel with Todd Schorr as well as two other artists. This is a quick sketch of him, after the event he signed my book as well as my sketch. How cool.

Todd Schorr Inspired

This was a project given to me by my boss at SJMA. She wanted me to make a thank you card for the woman in charge of the marketing department. She is a big fan of Ernie and her gift to us was Todd Schorr related so I thought this was an appropriate subject.

Practice 1 2 3

I'm working hard this summer to brush up on some skills! I have already learned a lot from just playing around in photoshop! Oh Strawberries, you are so delicious and so cute. I have gone into a food craze. Reading up on nutritious goodies as well as yummy desserts. I am inspired by food and excited to see my cooking and art skills progress ^^. Oh yeah... I heart cupcakes to the extreme!!!

Fireflies are pretty

Cover Idea for Barron's Class

Mew

Rough Layout

Our current project in Barron's class is to create a Zine together. That was my current spread. I have changed it since to a horizontal format. Our collaborative project is called "Sweeet" (there is no typo... it has three E's). My idea was to great a sweet moment. Each spread needs to have some sort of text placed into it. Mine will be a short story.

Guitar

Blast from the past

Hey I finally found this painting that I did in Hartford.  I'm proud of this one so I think it deserve to be on the blog. Watercolor used to be my worst medium ever! Now I enjoy it. There is this great beauty with it's transparent nature. It's also versatile. I thank you Dennis Nolan... Bunny with a Pearl Earring

I painted it! Woo bubbles!!!

This is done with acrylics and color pencils. The girl, Anita, is holding a fish-eye pendent that creates bubbles. The bubbles create life. They sound like giggles if you are close to them. The figure behind the girl is her grandfather who has recently faded. The bubbles have the magic to bring him back to his normal state. This scene is based off of the set I built for Barron's class

Set for Barron's Class

Whoa big painting

Not the best painting in the world, but for me it's definitely a challenge I am proud of. It is very rare that I paint on anything that is larger than myself. This is done in Oils 5'x3'

Widow Ching?

Photoshop

TIDE POOL 113B

Phthalo blue (green shade)

FOR YOU FIONA !!!

Alla Prima Style

Maya

Reel Illustration: A Red Carpet Premiere