Visual Development

Here is some development stuff I'm working on for a project with Rob Lee.

Drawings by Rob, paintings by me. 

Children's Book

Here is a little piece of a book I'm working on.
I will be posting more later:)
Author Zach Nims

Movie Sketches

 

Morning Warm Ups

Just learning about colors. These help me to loosen up before a day of painting. All done between 20 and 30 min. (Screen shots from various animated movies as reference.)

Dude

Im doing characters for a couple different animation projects. This guy wont be used, but i kinda like him :)

LegalTech

This is a project I worked on for the LeglTech® New York 2013 Keynote Presentation. I had less than two days to complete. Used for mugs, banner, prints...  

Presents!

Merry Christmas everyone!
I love everyones christmas art iv been seeing!
This is a christmas grinch monster. He hides in your closet on christmas eve and opens all your presents before you wake up hehe:)

Jury Duty

Some sketches I did in my sketchbook. These are a couple pages that I did when I was at jury duty and was substitute teaching. 

Carrot Ship

This is a painting I did for Carrot Creative. A painting for their studio.
Wasn't sure if I liked the moon or not so here are both versions.
Check out Carrot here:
http://carrotcreative.com/#!/

Another Book Sketch

Here is a sketch for Too Much Glue, by Jason Lefebvre
Flashlight Press
publication fall 2013

Color sketches for book

Here are a few of the color sketches for a children's book I'm working on.

The book is called Too Much Glue, by Jason Lefebvre. I'm working with the awesome people at Flashlight Press. The book will go into publication fall 2013!

I have about two months to do all the finished paintings, I will be working like crazy!

UngiUngi

Here are my steps in creating a character. My job was to create a fun, cute, fluffy chicken monster. I start off will some scribbles, refine a few of my favorits. Art director picks one. I do some quick posses. Then I do some different colors sketches. Then I just render him out! 

This is what you call a UngiUngi! This was an awesome project I was so happy to be a part of. Check out 

http://www.facebook.com/UngiUngiDeutschland

Quick Paintings

A couple quick paintings done for practice. The first two were drawn from photos/memory and the last one was a sketch from Ice age 3, I loved all the plants and jungle in that movie.
I wont be posting too much work for the next couple months because I have a very tight deadline for a children's book.

Columbia Scholastic Press

 

I just got an email from RIT. I guess the art magazine that we made last year got a Gold medal and special congratulations to me and Sabrina! Here is the art that got the award (first image.) (I didn't make the cover art.)

Columbia Scholastic Press Association, which gave us a Gold Medal critique for our 2012 issue, has also honored Signatures with Gold Circle Awards. Special congratulations to the Design Team for last year's issue, which received an award for Overall Design, as well as to Sabrina Speranza for her experimental piece, "Totem," and to Zachary Retz, for his cartoon, "Ex-Lax Smoothie.