You Shed Your Clothes In Spite And Whisper

I'm not gonna talk much with this submission because it's late and I am sick!  :(  But, I did want to give you all another update with the BGs that have been finished.  I will be putting more life drawings up as well.  oh, and I purposely put two of the same BG up because I wanted to show the scene with and without light.  I know, pointless, right?  Nope...I don't think so!!!  Enjoy!!! *Mega Man dash*

Well I'm Doubting My Portrait of Skin...

Hello all. As it would seem...I think I am back in business with these backgrounds.  My freelancing has simmered down with a couple of ad projects, which is allowing my to do a little more with my free time.  YAY!!!  Well, here is the latest bg from the Cerulean animated short I am working on.  I really loved how this came out. So dusty and dusky.  Haha.  Well that is all for now...more to come.

Show Me the GOODS!

Yes, it has been yet another extended period of time where I haven't been posting as much.  I swear...my days are becoming more and more occupied with LIFE!  And the weird part about all of that...art is MY life...but I just haven't been able to get anything art-related completed or posted on a consistent basis, which for me...is at least once a day!  So maybe this slower pace that I am currently working with is a bit better, no?  Well anywho, I decided to have my own open model session at home. I found this lovely site that have nude models for us artist to sketch to keep out skills fresh.

Here is the link:  http://posespace.com/

Here are some pieces that I did.  They were about 2 to 10 minutes a piece.  Enjoy.  Oh and the BGs are still coming too.  Just needed to switch it up a bit.

We Won't Give Up...We Won't Give Up...Now!

Hello all.  It has been quite a while since I have posted on here...well for me at least.  Haha.  I had a few things that needed my attention and so...that's where I was.  One of which was an animation test!  But unfortunately, I did not get the position.  So...BACK to the drawing board.

One thing that I like to do when improving my art is to place myself in my own "Hyperbolic Chamber"...just like DBZ!  Haha..of course there's no time difference...unfortunately.  But really, for myself, it's a big thing regarding discipline and learning as much as I can within a short period of time, or whenever I think I have come to a point where I have new material and feel confident enough to try my hand again at working towards jumping back into my field.  Well, anywho...I can go on and on about that little ditty, but I won't.  Instead...I will just showcase more backgrounds as I am now back to focusing on my short Cerulean animated project.  I'm pretty stoked about this to be honest.  We'll see what the future may bring.  :)

I also changed the time of day of a previous background that I posted earlier when I started this blog. At first I was going for a day time, just to get a feel, but now, since I have decided to place everything within a dusk setting, that background had to change. 

Shed Your Burdens and Build

More background work for this animation deal.  Since my last post, I have knocked out 4 total, with these two here being my favorites.  Going for the whole sunset/dusk look is so fun.  The oranges and reds and such...and a little yellow and a little purple makes me feel all tingly inside!  Well, for right now...there really isn't much to report.  Oh...background timing...they both took about 3 hours a piece.  Not bad, aye?  More to come.

Welcome to BG World!

As stated in my previous entry, I will be doing more animation work and of course...with animation there will be backgrounds to go along with them.  SO!  This little ditty here comes from a scene in my Cerulean animation.  The atmosphere throughout the short will be during dusk.  I wanted to get that effect here with the bedroom and with the colors that come through the blinds and reflect on the walls and everything else.  "Pill bottles?", is probably what you're saying to yourself.  Well...yeah.  One thing that I forgot to add before saving out this jpeg were the prescription information that would be on these bottles...I did that on purpose.  They will be in the final animation, also, I am thinking about adding a little more to this too and changing that "strength" poster as a whole, if not just the text.  Just to clutter it up a bit more, plus that text is bugging the crap out of me at the moment.  Considering the angle and where the character will be within the scen...I may not be able to add much.  But we'll see when we get to that part.

I Would Love To Take You There...

I had a BLAST doing this one.  So many elements to work with here.  Not so much as far as with color as I had wanted to keep things pretty blue.  Working with water...I think I am more proud with how the bubbles came out.  As I was working along, I had Frozen Creek by Circa Survive playing along in the background...this piece here took me about 3 days, I think, which includes errands and going to work in between that time frame. 

This piece will be the last for a bit, because I will be animating for the next couple of months.  It's has been a while since I have animated traditionally, so I am really stoked about that.  More to come!

Background Design Concept

Nothing to crazy, but this here is a BG from an animation I am doing for my comic, "Cerulean".  I did the whole deal in Photoshop...however, the atmosphere doesn't feel sincere enough for me.  It feels more like plastic than anything.  In this particular shot, the character is suppose to be at the tip of cliff looking onward.  Pretty generic/cliche but it was simplest BG that I could do a quick render of without taking too much time.  Since it didn't meet my expectations in Photoshop, I think what I will do is try the same BG in Painter and see what I can get out of it.  Or...I should just get better at Photoshop (Oooooo, burrrrrrnnnnnnn).  Wish me luck!

Rebirth

I'm not sure if I am gonna add this one to the Second Love project, but I will definitely share it with you all.  As simple as it may look, it took me quite a bit to actually come to a good with how I wanted the background to look.  At first I was gonna throw a few objects in it, i.e. a heart or symbols or some sort of texture, but then I figured that, if this is indeed a rebirth, it would make sense to add a bright light at the end of what seems to be a dark tunnel.

Man...what a run-on sentence that was.  Haha.  Before the final "edit", I guess you can say, I originally had eyes within all of the fingertips and thumbs.  They were watching the baby as he was crawling.

Music of inspiration?  Their wasn't one for this one, however, The Most Dangerous Commercials by Circa Survive did set the mood as I was painting away.

Sneaky Felines...

Another pic for PTHSL.  This one really wasn't inspired by music, however, as I was drawing , the acoustic version of Ameliorate by Fiore was the only thing I was listening to.  The piece took about 3.5 hours.  Not too shabby.