A few weeks ago I went camping with some friends up in MENDOCINO COUNTY. Beautiful place with a quaint little town. I was able to steal away while everybody napped on saturday to do some doodles. It was a great experience. Last year I also did a painting, but gave it to the hostess. I highly reccomend this area to just relax. If you do have money to burn or just want to get away somewhere there are a lot of bed and breakfast type places around there. If you do go, I highly recommend the chocolate shop in Mendocino Town, and not the one in Fort Brag. Oh and abalone diving is awesome out there.

Some more doodles. I'll probably finish these up in illustrator.

drones and worlds, just trying out some new techniques and ideas. Thus far it has been fun and interesting. Just by rotating the thumbs i get a completely different scene and landscape. I will be painting a few of these to see what I get.

So these are some ideas running through my head of redesigning certain super heroes. It's a fun little test to build another folio for a company. These are just busts, but for wolverine I was thinking that since he uses mostly his blades fro fighting he would have an extremely muscular and large upper body, and for his face because it is undetermined just how old he is, he would appear older in the eyes, more wrinkles to show the struggles and the hard times he's faced.
Flash, smooth, arrow dynamic like a shark. I added goggles, cause it always bothered me that he ran so fast that i figured his eyes would dry out, or bugs may splat in his eyes, and it also helps with wind drag.
Spider woman, i'm not sure yet, just wanted to try a woman and spider woman I always thought was interesting being one of the first jet black haired women, but still working on these ideas. more to come.

here's my idea of a mad scientist that uses his nose to fullfill his mad plans. This is a work in progress and I hope to emphasize more on the fact that he uses his nose for his science.

Some more doodles.

It's been a while since i've posted. Still doodlin, here's some recent sketches i did on an excursion to the SF. good times.

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You know how there's those days where you just want to do this. It just feels good to give a fat little gopher a good squishin now and then :)

Some new images. Fully painted the plane to the best of my ability and now i'm thinking i'm gonna paint up some of the other planes. These were really fun to do. I can see why scott robertson enjoys vehicles so much.

THIS IS NOT MY PIECE, Favor for a friend

I didn't give the whole piece a makeover cause it would've took to long, but you can see i just pumped the contrast with the cart area. I outline the areas i wanted to overall deal with using the pen tool and then i went in and painted, and used the dodge tool to bring out some highlights. good luck man and keep up the awesome work.

Here's some new stuff i've been workin on...... can we say Scott Robertson... ugh... i'm trying some new techniques, seein whether or not i can do this stuff, render realistic, and yadda yadda yadda, trying not to get too pigeon holed. I dunno, just doodlin. I can confidently say though, it is fun, and i'm eager to see what will land on paper next.
Oh if anybody has any advice or, just plane, hey try this, please lemme know. word.
Oh yeah almost forgot, these are all works in progress, it's a long road to painted finish, but i look forward to the finish :) sweet!

These are some new doodles I did. Good fun.
I'm hoping to take some of these to full color and even further exploration. Some of these are part of a larger story. There are definite influences. The typ for the gamblers is influenced by Tim Burton films and type. The Goat is a mix of ideas I've seen from my friends, Emperor's (sp?)new groove. some recent inspirations to draw more are my coworkers and inparticular some ground breaking artists Sean "cheeks" Galloway and dreamworks's Nicolas Marlet, who if you haven't heard of either of these two half man half amazing artists I really recommend them. Beautiful sense of style, and technique is solid.

For some reason i've been noodlin cats... Definitely influenced by Claire Wendling. Good fun :)

More Noodles

Some stuffs to unwind from doodlin obj and layouts all day at EA ARGH! I've been on some cat and rabbit spree these days... can't explain just have, but i like it it's good fun :)

Here are some doodles from a meeting and here are some plein aire doodles touched up in Phtoshop stuff. Tried to preserve that brushy stroke kinda a thin, but didn't wanna spend too much time on it. It was a good day in monterey though where they were done.

Konstantin honored me by painting up my little doodle noodle. Schweet :)

Here's some doodles over the weekend trip to the Annies. What a great trip and experience. To see people like us geeks getting recognized and appreciated like that for our hard work. Well worth it.

Landscapes

These are just two of a few chinese landsacapes I did. I was researching Fu Xien to see where possibly my family heritage came from, since I'm 5 generations deep in Taiwan. With the language barrier and the lack of relative resources I tried to find out whether my family were originally farmers or fishers. No luck though. So i Just toyed around with the ink brush pen to instead. No where near as beautiful as true brush painters, but it was a fun experience. I'm pretty happy with the results though. Hope you guys like it too.