Rainland Studios

Tree Sketch

2011-04-10T11:28:00.000-07:00

Speed paint from last night.

Gesture Drawing Demos

2011-02-26T18:14:00.000-08:00

I teach figure drawing at the 100 level at Brigham Young University. We focus a lot on the form figure and a simplified version of anatomical structure in this class. Students initially begin with the line of action, an armature, basic form figure, anatomical contours and notations, and simple light and dark value structure. We've just started applying enveloping and comparative measuring techniques using the head as a basic system of measure. This first image is an example of the process. The black conte was used for the underlying aspects and I saved the red conte for the contours. I had them break the drawing down into 20 minute segments for a one hour drawing. The First 20 was used to place the Line of Action, the head heights and widths, and the envelope. The Second 20 was used to lay in the armature and the form figure. The Third 20 was used to put in the contours and values. I spent about 10 minutes on this drawing, working up to each level quickly and then going around to check and see how everyone else was doing.

We start out each class by warming up with quick gestures. We start at 3 minutes and work our way down to 10 second poses. This is a sample of one session progressively going from 3 minutes to 10 seconds.

In these drawings you can see the underlying armature and line of action and how I apply them.

Portfolio Updated

2011-02-26T17:12:00.000-08:00

Rainland Studios updated its illustration portfolio. Check it out.

The image below is from the Toy Story 3 game. It was also used as a background for some of the advertising.

In class copy demo

2011-02-26T16:31:00.000-08:00

From the Fall 2010. I demoed a 1 hour speed copy of a Metcalf landscape.

The original

My Copy

FISH

2008-08-22T14:13:00.000-07:00

I drew a fish.

Avalanche Challenge : : Joe Olson Mashup

2008-07-21T14:11:00.000-07:00

Avalanche Challenge submission. Sorry for mixing things up Joe...

Cancelled illustration

2008-06-17T16:35:00.001-07:00

New illustration for a water bottle for Maverik gas stations, after having gone through all the approvals and comping, color comping, and a final illustration they decided they wanted something different for the label. Back to square one.

Arch

2007-11-24T07:12:00.000-08:00

We were requested to recommend some changes to the mens' restroom side wall mural. So I recommended a new arch . Here it is, thus far (just the arch, not the mural).

For Tyler

2007-10-27T23:37:00.000-07:00

For Tyler, he complains I don't do enough monsters and robots and junk anymore.

20 minute doodle via Painter.

Zbrush Doodle

2007-10-22T23:04:00.000-07:00

Zbrush is a program whose interface has always puzzled me. I think I'm starting to make some sense of the sculpting tools though.

Here's a little monster head, probably spent 30-45 minutes on it.

B/W concepting

2007-10-22T10:56:00.001-07:00

I just slapped down some black and then cut back into them with white. I think I spent about 20 minutes on these three. I haven't done this in a while, the first one was the one on the left and so on.