Battle Angel Alita

Watch this video, which I storyboarded, directed by Forrest McClain.

Here's the beginning rough for an Alita fan art piece I'm doing. It begins with finding a reference photo, I wanted something to do with Alita's martial art background and chose a muay thai photo I found online. Using it as a basis for the figure, I sketch out forms and adjust the limbs and head.

Next, I'll render out the details more and start on the background in grayscale before I tackle coloring the piece.

 

MAGGOTS!

This is a digital painting for a friend's movie called MAGGOTS. This was a concept art piece that I fully rendered in Adobe Photoshop, one of my first fully digitally painted pieces. This was a long process to get to this point, I still need to go in a touch up a few things, but it's otherwise just about complete.

The movie is still in production and it's an independent small budget film by Neil Mechino, the same filmmaker who did MOLD!, which I painted a poster for. Check out the painting for that here!

If you're interested in finding out more about MAGGOTS, check out the Facebook page here!

Misfit Portrait

Here's an acrylic painting of a friend's dog named Misfit.

This is painted on a 14"x18" canvas board.

Two Boys and an Alien

Here's a digital painting for a concept being explored by a friend of mine. He commissioned me to interpret this idea of his to help him visualize the elements he wanted to explore, something akin to E.T.

This was painted in Adobe Photoshop, I used some photo elements and painted over them to bring this piece together.

SHAMUS BEYALE!!!

Here's a promotional poster I put together to be shown alongside my business cards. I was inspired by the poster for the amazingly awesome GRINDHOUSE movie of Rodriguez and Tarantino fame.
I overdid the textures on this piece, but I was messing around and practicing with adding wear and tear. I researched and found some amazing websites showcasing movie posters, which you can check out HERE and  HERE. I'm a fan of the painted variety of film posters, I think that they build up anticipation for viewing the film a lot better than Photoshopped floating heads and "photo illustrations" of today's output.

MOLD! movie poster

Here is the finished acrylic painting to used as the poster for a movie called MOLD! The original size is 24"x36". Look to my older posts on this blog to see the various stages from preliminary sketch to final piece.

You should also view the trailer for the film on youtube here!!!

Here's a picture of me standing proudly by my work.

MOLD! Poster progression!

Here are more pictures showing the work in progress for Neil Meschino's movie MOLD!

I'm done with about 75% of the painting in these photos. 

Please go to to Youtube to see the trailer for the awesome movie!!!

All these photos were taken with a simple digital camera. So I can't wait to finish and show the final image taken with a more appropriate camera to show the true hues and values.

MOLD! poster progression

Here is more progress of the movie poster for MOLD! It's a fun load of painting.

 

 Gooey!

Here's the progression of a MOLDY man!

Yummy!

MOLD! movie poster 02

Here's another installment of my painting process of the MOLD! movie poster for the film that my buddy created. Look to my post earlier in this month to see the initial production of this painting. 

This is the stage I start laying down all the shadows. I like to work from dark to light, so everything should look muddy and gray at this stage.

At this stage, I start to lay down the base colors of the various subjects across the painting.

I'm finally getting to the fun part of painting, where I do the rendering and modeling, building up the form of the subjects. In this case, I started on the three masked military dudes because they're the smallest subjects of the overall painting.

MOLD! movie poster

A filmmaker friend of mine, Neil Meschino, has asked me to paint a poster for his awesome movie, MOLD!, a well done indie horror/comedy film. Here's my initial layout and preliminary work on the canvas. 

I lay down a layer of color just to get rid of the white of the gessoed canvas. Then I used carbon paper to transfer my linework, which I drew on the computer using Photoshop. I printed it all out on 15+ pages of 8.5"x11" and taped them together to make the full sized rough to transfer to my 24"x36" canvas. I then went over those lines with a ball point pen to finalize my layout for the painting. I only did this process because of the elaborate composition and likenesses needed of all the performers of the movie shown on the painting.  I'll be posting more of my painting process as I work through it.

This is my initial rough fully drawn in Adobe Photoshop. 

This is my first pass at laying down color for my underpainting.

Here's my second pass of underpainting to be used as a base color for my line work transfer.

Here's my printed layout of the drawing done in Photoshop. I taped all the pages together to make the full size of the canvas. Beneath this layout is a layer of carbon paper that will transfer my lines to the canvas as I retrace the lines of my rough.

The carbon paper didn't work as well as I hoped, so I went in with a ball point pen to fully realize my sketch on the canvas. This step is important because it's the compositional basis for the poster. I don't own a good camera to take pictures of the large size of the painting, so sorry for the flash ;)

I'll be posting more steps of my painting process until the piece is done. It has been awhile since I've painted so I'm excited to finish this!

Friend Portrait

Watercolor portrait of a friend from college.

Native Ladies

Here's a welding helmet I painted. These gals are painted with acylic.

Zombie Windu

Zombie Mace Windu attacks the Emperor! He somehow recovered his hand! Hahaha, this is ink on paper, colored with watercolor and colored pencil.

Triple Threat

Here are three characters of mine from stories I have in mind. I like females with weapons, they are a hoot to draw. Ink on bristol with watercolor for the gray tones.

Freedom?

This is a gouche painting based on a photo I found on the front page of a newspaper. Iraqi prisoner, most likely civilian, with the ominous shadow of an American soldier.

Never Fall Apart

This is a watercolor work that I did for my fashion illustration class. I had fun working on this.