Plein Air Pastels with Bill Cone

Here's a chunk of pastels done during the course of the class, taught by Bill Cone.



This is on the other side of the Berkeley Hills in the early AM. The bushes on the f/g and m/g is kind of flat because of the same treatment of plants regarding detail and value. should've pushed the darks darker in the f/g and a bit less in the m/g.



This one's overlooking the SF Bay, atop of the Berkeley Hills during sunset. This was a fun exercise, chasing the light and all the colors in all their glory during this golden hour. In the background, you can see tons of atmosphere and fog covering the hills and costline.



This was my first attempt in attacking water with the pastels, at a man-made pond at a park near my house in San Jose. I had to forget that what i was looking at was "water" but focus on patterns, shapes, and color instead.



this has to be my favorite out of the ones on this post. i didn't let the limited palette control what i was going to put down; lots of back and forth going on here when it came to really getting that atmospheric perspective. i still feel like i could've pushed the hills in the background to be even more desaturated.



this one was at the cemetary in oakland - at some crypt, i forgot. there were beautiful views of the bay but i turned away and focused on the hills behind me along with the roadpath leading up to our site. i fought very hard to indicate shapes and light instead of rendering the hell out of something.

SF Sketching

This update has been long overdue. Work is getting more chalenging / crazy / and most importantly fun ever since my first day. I've got a couple of personal projects lined up which I'll be blogging about - both art and non-art related. In the mean time...here's a few sketches of some folks at Yerba Buena Park. See you soon?

Waiting...

For a while, I've been waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Thank goodness my patience has been at a high level. The waiting has ended. Pixar, here I come. =)

...oh, and this is a vizdev piece for that one short film project.

Color Script!

I've been wanting to do one of these bad boys for so long - it's so fun! I tried incorporating some design and composition elements in there as well just to mix things up. This one's for a personal project that I've been working on for quite some time now. Too bad it got shelved. I had story issues that I simply had to let go, but those sleepless nights did not go to waste let me tell you. I'll be posting some more pre-pro vizdev in the future. But for now, enjoy.

Old Sketches

I was flipping through my book and found a couple of sketches that I've always wanted to post. One's from when I was in Union Square in San Francisco and the other one...well, let me tell you a story...

So I was at Comic Con last summer waiting for the Disney/Pixar panel and presentation to begin - and sitting right in front of me was this fellow. The display was sort of distracting and my company noticed as well. It was a crack up.

Burbank Airport

A doodle of an old couple fresh from the sketchbook. Before I drew this, Dave Navarro sat diagonally across from me as I devoured a breakfast burrito.

What the Peesh really thinks...

Here's a sketch of the girlfriend while at a cafe. Deep inside, she really wants to strangle me.