And... here are some animals.

Well, Here are some of the pictures from the zoo. I am going to try to start uploading work to this site at least every week.

"So there, bleh."

I really liked the situation in this one, but I am not too fond of the composition. It is two koalas snuggling in the wind. I call it the koalaball.

This is my favorite of all of the shots from the day. It looks like a cub, but it a full grown snow leopard.

Oh yeah,

I also brought with me my sketchbook (of course) and drew a giraffe and a chimp when sitting and taking a break from shooting.

AFK... Finally!

I haven't been out to the stables yet, so I have no new horse sketches... but since I have been rather depressed the past few... months... I decided to go to the zoo. I have some fun new pictures, so I decided to post a bunch here.

This here is a preview. :) Loads of adorable animals, and although it was too fast for me to catch on camera (as well as rather shy) I found out I have a new favorite animal called the serval. Complete awesomeness. I might go back and see if I can catch him when he is not so rowdy. In the meantime, here is a snow leopard.


As I warned... a little bit of adorable going on here. There was also a hippo playing with a ball, and I was amazed at the sheer size and power that it had moving through the water. Look for more images over the next few days.

:) Blue

So one of the models on MM has an Arabian horse named Blue, and she is letting me come and sketch it. Awesome horse... and she trained it herself. It can rear up, and has a crazy bow. I am heading back out on Sunday so I hope to have a lot more horse sketches coming up.

Got my artstuffs out of storage, and am starting concepting again...

So Tony got a new mount on Saturday. Yes, it is a Rhino/Polar Bear. This is an initial concept for the head. More to come.

Some photo-manipulation...

So I was supposed to go to this "best of the best" models workshop so that I could do some shooting, but the model got too drunk and forgot to email me the address. Nice, huh?

Ah well. I stayed home and browsed around the forums until I found a retouching offer saying "Here is a Raw file, Have fun!" So I decided to play around. 12-14 hours later I have this monstrosity... and I am only about half way done! I just thought I would post a WIP to let people know I am still alive.


On a lighter note, I thought about putting together a poster merging the two to try to get a character from a comic I like called "Transmetropolitan" where a bankrupt alien race sold us the technology to splice our DNA with other creatures. The humans who wanted to splice their DNA with the alien culture were called "transients" and in the book there are many of these people in various stages of their transformation. This is supposed to be one of them. I showed the pic to Ark and his reaction was... "So they're making a movie?"

Ah yeah.

Just started a painting of an elf child...

Being the complete nerds that we are, James, Nick and I decided to take a break from playing magic the gathering to play D&D at least once a month. This is a WIP of my character, a 12 year old sun elf wizard.

:)

Not mine, I just found it hilarious and wanted to share.

This one is not going on my page,

but I wanted to share a picture of my father and a place near my home in Oregon.

Photography...

I have quite a bit of photos to go through and upload to the site, but here are a couple to start things off. A bit of nature to make you go "awwwwwww".

Sweet Jesus!

I'm alive! Alive I tell you!

So again, having two blogs on here under two names confused me again and I forgot this accounts password... AGAIN!

I am back, I am alive, and I am going to be posting more art.
Thank heavens.

PS. A slight news update, I am now living in Glendale with Nick Hamer and Ryan Egan... across the street from Ark.

I just thought that I should post a bit of progress.


The dark gray is blocked but untouched, the light gray is pretty much done, UVed with a RM subdiv scheme on it.


Now for a wireframe! :)


As this is modeling practice, I didn't really want to let displacement do any of the work, so there is a whole lot of faces to this thing. I think I am over 15k for the whole thing. After it's done I might remake it as a low poly and see if I can finally get normal mapping working in Renderman.

Ben Beach would know.

One last thing. She is not up to where I am wanting to show her yet, but I am also working on a character that I will be posting soon.

Yay for updates!

So people have been asking why I haven't been posting on here as much... not that you would know it by the complete lack of comments on what I do post, but anyways it is because my scanner died. Now... after a far too long hiatus of traditional to digital flow I just bought a new scanner on ebay!

Joy!

I can't wait for it to get here.

WORK IN PROGRESS

This is just a poly practice object that I am working on. I will post some more as I start getting all of the loops right... and I will have a character to show pretty soon.

Forgot to mention...

I forgot to mention that the "done not finished" animation is viewable at my website in full.