Halloween Pumpkin

This is a small part of a larger project that a friend and I are working on, right now. The flaming eyes and mouth probably won't be in the final project, but I thought they were fun to add to this image.

Halloween sketch

I feel bad that I haven't posted in a while. I've been super busy with other projects, and haven't had a lot of time for extra art. I've even been neglecting the CG Character Challenge that I swore I wouldn't neglect.

I drew this during conference. I used only a pen and drew it in a dark room, so it's pretty rough. I was going to color it, but it looks like I won't have time to do that, either.

Terrifying Thanksgiving Turkey

This is was for an art challenge that my family does once a month. The challenge was "Things That Start with 'T'". For those of you paying attention, you may recognize this as a revamped turkey that I did for one of the Low Poly Challenges that I did several years ago. I just spent a couple of hours tweaking and rigging that model to get it ready for this image.

Fish on Patrol

Ok... I know that last Wednesday, I said I would be posting this that night. I actually had something to post, but when I saw that no one else on the CG Character Challenge had posted anything for the week, I thought I would take an additional week to make this a lot better. I'm glad I did... I really like how this turned out.

The challenge that I did this for was Lurpy Cop Sea Animal Female. I built this fish to be like a officer/patrol car hybrid; with the body painted with the colors of a patrol car (I tried to make the top fin look like red & blue police lights), and topped with a classic bobby hat that holds a starfish badge.

Don't mess with her... she'll jack you up!

Sneak Peak

For these CG Character Challenges that I participate in, I usually end up having a lot of detail in my characters that no one, but myself, ever sees. This week, we're working on a Lurpy Cop Sea Animal Female. I'm making a lurpy looking fish. This starfish is part of the fish's hat badge.

As I'm sure that in the final render, you probably won't be able to see the detail that I put into this starfish (it is only a small part of the whole character), I thought I'd just post this now, as a sneak peak for what I will hopefully be posting tonight.

I should also point out that the center of the star fish is fairly smooth because there will be a cartoony face there.

Well... hello, there.

It's been awhile since I posted anything. Last Monday, I had surgery to take my gallbladder out. Between recovering from that and doing some freelance work, I haven't had a lot of time to do anything.

This image was for the last CG Character Challenge, which was Crazy Cook Dog Female. I only really had time to get the modeling and VERY quick texture job done on it. There were several other things that I wanted to add to make her more feminine, but I just didn't have the time or energy. I'm just going to have to call 'er good until I have time to re-visit the old gal.

Will you BEE my love?

Man... that title is pretty lame.

This is my submission for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Twitterpated Computer Nerd Insect Male. Because of my lack of time this week, I ended up using a bee that I created several years ago for my sister, Sharman (if you're interested, you can read the back story here).

I pretty much threw this together in about an hour.

Pink Teddy

This is a submission that I did for my family's monthly art challenge. The topic was pink, and I thought it would be funny to do something cute, with a smedge of inuendo.

Evil Turtle

This was my submission for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Evil Delivery Boy Turtle. I spent most of the week being busy with side work and having to go to the emergency room with a gallbladder attack - which, while it was very painful, I'm extremely glad that it wasn't more serious.

I really like this character, and was a bit sad that I didn't get to finish him. Hopefully, I'll have some time to finish him up in the future. If nothing else, I'd really like to take him into Zbrush. I have some fun ideas to do for his textures and detail.

Fighting Fire with Fire

Man... I need to get a lot better at posting.

For this week's CG Character Challenge, the goal was to make a Frustrated Fire Fighter Food Female. I thought it was cool that every word started with the letter 'F'. I wanted to make a food character that started with an 'f', but I couldn't find one that I liked. Instead, I chose a red chili pepper so that I could go with the whole 'hot vs. hot' theme.

I also have this scenario set up to have two frustrations. The first frustration is that she can't figure out why she isn't getting any water out her hose to fight the fire. The second will be when the hose becomes unkinked and she gets a face full of liquid pain.

Oopsie!

It's been awhile since I've posted. It's been pretty busy over here, so I haven't had a lot of time for doing art, outside of the freelance stuff that I've been doing.

I was barely able to get this done. It was for last week's CG Character Challenge - which was Clumsy Cowgirl Dinosaur. She's supposed to be tripping over something, but I probably should've built something for her to trip over... maybe a cow pie.

Purple Dragon

It's sad that I couldn't think of a more interesting title to go along with this. Come on... the mocking potential for a purple dragon has got to be pretty high. Maybe I'm just tired.

In other news, I should probably announce that I'm working on several freelance projects this week, and may not be able to post that much. I'm hoping to be able to have some time to work on this week's CG Character Challenge, but there's a good chance that I won't have a lot of time for it.

This guy could use a good meal

This is my entry for this week's CG Character Challenge, which was Sad Lumber Jack Skeleton Male. I had a lot going on this week, so I wasn't able to get a lot of what I wanted to do with it. If I had the time, I would've had him holding an axe, with one of his arms accidentally chopped off. Instead, it just looks like he's sad to be a living skeleton, working for a lumber jacking company.

Also, I didn't get any art up yesterday because it was my son's birthday, I was working on some freelance jobs, and then spent the last couple hours of the day working on this. You know... considering the lack of time that I had to do this, I'm pretty proud of how much I got done. :)

Parakeet

Sorry I haven't posted for the last couple of days. I haven't been feeling well, and everytime I sat in front of the computer, I felt like my head was going to explode. So, I thought it would be best to take a little break.

Now, on to the story of this image. This is definitely not my best work, but I posted it for good reason. Awhile ago, my daughter, Kensie, got a childrens' how-to-draw animals book. One day while she was learning to draw from the book, she asked me to draw the parakeet image with her. Though this is not how I would've drawn a parakeet, it was how the book taught you how to draw it.

I ended up giving the drawing to my daughter and didn't really think about it again. Over the next several months, she used the drawing that I gave her to create many variations (by tracing it and doing some freehand copying). I think she ended up doing around 25 different versions - naming each of them and coloring them with different designs and colors (similar to the dolphin image that I just posted).

Yesterday, she asked me to ink in that sketch that I did for her several months ago. Being so close to Father's Day, I think I felt obligated to be a good dad and do it for her. After I inked it, she asked me to color it. I didn't really want to, but she is so cute, I couldn't say 'no'. I had her bring in her pet parakeets and colored this image similar to the colors and designs that were on her birds. The result is this image.

So, while this isn't something I would show off in a portfolio, it reminds me of some fun memories I got to have with my daughter.

Dolphins

I drew this for my daughter because she loves dolphins. By adding the baby dolphin, it just increased the 'cute' factor for her.

I ended up giving her the original drawing for this. She liked it so much that she traced over it and made several different versions. She then colored all of these versions with different colors and markings, and then named every single one. She is so adorable!

Daily Drawing Challenge 020

Well... this is the last of the Daily Drawing Challenges that I did. This was a lot of fun when I drew them several years ago, and just as much fun to color them over the last couple of months.

I like doing art challenges. Hopefully, I can keep the CG Character Challenge going, as well as start up a new one here and there. I should really get my family's art blog started up again. That was a lot of fun.

Speaking of family, it's my Dad's birthday today. I'd like to wish him a very happy birthday today, but I don't think he knows about this blog. So, it looks like I'm going to have to give him a call.

There's something soothing about a snowman playing banjo music

This is my entry for this week's challenge - Sleepy Musician Snowman. I'm kind of sad that I spent so much time on details that can't be seen, yet have several areas that I wish I would've improved, instead.

Oh, well. On to the next challenge

Daily Drawing Challenge 019

This one was a lot of fun to draw and color.

One of the first things I ever built in 3D was a haunted tree, that I built in Ray Dream Designer. One day in the near future (hopefully), I plan on rebuilding another haunted tree in 3D (now with almost 13 years of experience under my belt) and posting along side my original rendering. Hopefully, it will be an improvement.

Daily Drawing Challenge 018

I'm not sure if this monkey is more crazy for driving sideways, or for not using his hands to drive. Either way, I think it's crazy to even let a monkey drive. What was I thinking?

Daily Drawing Challenge 017

This is another one of my favorites from the challenge. I also have it in my demo reel - although, I re-colored it, tonight.

When I was coloring it again, I was going to paint in fur, but I thought that it would take away from the 'softness' that I thought this baby monster should have. All-in-all, I'm happier with the way this turned out, than the first time I colored it.

When I originally drew this, I used a lot of inspiration from my son, who was a baby at the time. I think that's another reason why I like this so much.