Son of Speedy

aaaand more speedy-ness

Happy speeds

Thursday Sketchyness

Sketchy for today

Sketch o the day

New Years Resolution

One of my many New Year's resolutions is a speed painting a day. Here's the first three days.

Sleeping Beauty After Effects Process

So, this was a test project I finished several months ago...and I just now compressed it enough to post. The idea was to recreate a backrounnd from an animated film, in this case Sleeping Beauty, and then mess around in After Effects treating it like a real set. Below you can see the process from my early sketch, to the digital painting, and finally the Quick Time of the After Effects film. All in all, I'm pleased with the results...learned alot just playing around with different effects.

p.s. this was finished before I started at Imagineering, so not done under Disney or anything like that...just me working things out

Painting and such...

And another one....

Sketchy Fun

Ohmigosh Disney-ness

So, I guess I've been on a Disney kick lately. I started another trading card series of paintings, and so far I really like how they're going...just like the last series, these are watercolor on cold press, 2.5X3 inches. Then I was messing around with my Photoshop upgrade (hurray for CS4) and working on lineart...and there was Ariel :) Kinda fun to draw such a classic character...haven't done that for years.Anyway, cheers!

Happy sketchiness...white Prismacolor and Blackwing drafting pencil on rough brown paper...good times. I really like some of the results, so I think I'll keep messing around with this style :)

Caution: Girl Working

So here's a snippet of my current pet project....mysterious indeed...but lots of fun. To be general, I'm working on another children's book, and having a blast messing around with a VERY different style than what I'm used to.

Finished one series...starting another?

Well, I finished my first series of trading cards...I liked doing these little paintings so much I think I may continue. I realized that I kind of neglected some areas of Disneyland...so maybe I'll keep going with the Park as my theme for the next group as well...specifically Tomorrowland, Toontown, and Main Street.

Well, just found out that the book I illustrated is going to be for sale next week...so that's exciting. I'm working on another children's book as well, so things are moving along.

Some more itsy bitsy paintings from the Disneyland series I'm doing. These are all 2.5 X 3.5 inches on cold press watercolor paper. Nice to do something quick :)

Late Merry Christmas

Long time no update...oh well :) I did this painting for my Grandpa for Christmas as a companion to a piece I did a couple years ago of him as Santa Claus...wanted to get Grandma in as Mrs. Claus this time. Hopefully I'll have more to update soon!

Book Illustrations

So, I just finished illustrating a children's book for a friend, and thought I'd upload the final images. It was fun to work on a bigger project and I'm looking forward to seeing it published!

Happiest Place on Earth

So I found these cool little trading cards from Strathmore that you can get in all kinds of paper. I picked up some of the watercolor ones, mainly to get some measurements(which happen to be 2.5 X 3.5, in case you were wondering) and look into the trading program, cause it sounded like a fun way to see cool art. I decided to do some quickie watercolor pieces of pictures that I''ve taken at Disneyland, and I'm amazed at how addicting these little paintings are. I think Ill probably go back into these with prismacolor over the top, just to clean up some lines and such, but we'll see.

Piano Man

So my good friend Brooke that I work with LOVES Billy Joel, and she comissioned a painting of him. I thoroughly enjoyed working on this one, and I really glad that it made me realize that I've missed painting. Limited color palette is always so much fun :)