zazabayan

2011-09-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

new stuff

2011-06-26T23:49:00.000-07:00

juanito?

2011-03-02T22:50:00.000-08:00

sup

2011-02-22T20:00:00.000-08:00

newish

2010-09-20T23:08:00.000-07:00

starcraft 2 commercial

2010-06-26T01:16:00.000-07:00

woohoo! its coming..
i worked on a few of these shots.

melissa

2010-05-10T23:03:00.000-07:00

brittany??

2010-05-02T12:38:00.001-07:00

haven't painted in a long time.

starcraft 2 in game cinematic

2010-04-26T11:42:00.000-07:00

i worked on this.

Video Games | StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty | Unexpected Encounter Cutscene

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

tasha

2009-12-21T21:48:00.001-08:00

forgot their names

2009-12-21T21:46:00.001-08:00

its been a long time.......

dave

2009-10-20T23:43:00.001-07:00

i gave him a big head and a little body.

sheila

2009-10-11T00:05:00.001-07:00

been out for awhile. vacation and things.
sticking with the name thing.

tanya

2009-08-18T23:32:00.001-07:00

now i'll never forget their names... plus it looks like a comic book cover, which is cool.

linda

2009-08-18T23:26:00.000-07:00

so i recently got an iphone and saw this dope iphone case designed by Parra. i think i was inspired i bit with the colors and background.

can't remember names

2009-08-18T23:21:00.000-07:00

yo its been a long time..... and i can't remember the names of these models. went to spain and never posted these up. two of them are of the same lady, but different days.

nicole

2009-06-24T00:00:00.001-07:00

not sure what i was going for, but i kinda like it.

rebecca

2009-06-23T23:58:00.001-07:00

not very good huh?. it was cool that she kept her pants on though.

jana

2009-06-01T23:26:00.001-07:00

i like the background color.

kathy?

2009-05-23T23:21:00.000-07:00

a really good model and apparently she helped in the architectural work of the Blizzard building. go figure. i kinda like this one.

roxanne

2009-05-16T11:07:00.000-07:00

nice little get up. more interesting than totally nude i think.

rebecca

2009-04-20T22:53:00.000-07:00

finally, a stand up pose. its been awhile since someone offered to stand for hours. i wish i could have spent more time on this. i liked where it was going.

nicole

2009-04-16T22:41:00.001-07:00

awesome outfit and awesome pose. i just had a very not so awesome spot. if i made it on time to the workshop i might have found a better seat. oh well.
her hands are a bit big. yeah?

rose and some other girl

2009-03-22T20:26:00.001-07:00

so this first girl on the left got sick after the first 20 minutes. she ended up throwing up and leaving. then the second girl showed up as a substitute. i sat right next to Frank Tauriello the whole day, so i think i was subconsciously trying to impress him. lol! i told him i got inspired by his good vibes and he said, "Bullshit!". awesome.
this was mostly done in Sketchbook Pro 2009 (i got suckered into buying the latest version because it was cheap. but what i really wanted was the 2010 version coming soon). only the color was done in Photoshop with overlay layers.

mara

2009-03-22T20:23:00.001-07:00

this day kinda sucked. this was the second drawing i did, because the first one was super bad. just wasn't feeling it.... i think i had work on my mind.

lynda

2009-03-01T23:23:00.000-08:00

i really like this brush. does her head look big or a long neck or something?

ana

2009-02-05T00:14:00.000-08:00

meh.

roxanne

2009-01-19T22:30:00.001-08:00

the colors are kinda wack. too muddy.

nicole?

2009-01-12T01:01:00.001-08:00

this chick had a way cool outfit on and it would have been rad to paint her in that, but instead she got naked. i guess life ain't so bad when thats the kind of thing that totally messes your day up. haha.

rebecca

2008-12-31T14:39:00.000-08:00

here is the last painting of the year. a quick two hour joint. i exaggerated her nose way too much. lol! honk honk!

lynda

2008-12-21T02:01:00.001-08:00

here is more of this girl. i did the extra two hours, so i got another painting in there. this time i think i was a little more accurate with how she looks compared to the one froma few weeks ago.

athena

2008-12-14T12:27:00.001-08:00

i stayed an extra 2 hours. so i cranked out another portrait real quick. the first painting makes her look too young whiles the second painting makes her look older. i just took a ride on the failboat...

lynda

2008-12-01T22:11:00.000-08:00

more of the square brush. i made her look older than she really is... my bad.

gabby

2008-11-24T21:59:00.001-08:00

cool outfit on her. something different i guess. i'm trying to stick with the square brush thing and explore some more. the full body thing isn't so nice with it. a lot harder to deal with, but overall the entire process/painting was faster because of it.

rebecca?

2008-11-16T11:37:00.000-08:00

just trying out more of the square brush stuff. i'm kinda digging it. it keeps me loose. although it probably looks better if its really tiny and you're squinting your eyes. like impressionism.

marci

2008-11-14T01:38:00.000-08:00

oh no not again. same chick, different style. i guess the benefit of being bored is trying something new.it's pixel pushing.

ana

2008-10-26T22:28:00.000-07:00

i had a really crappy view. i'm not too fond of the profiles. oh well ... good practice i guess. i'm digging that brush though.

oh yeah... Diablo 3

2008-10-22T02:00:00.000-07:00

i had a few shots in the debut trailer for the World Wide Invitational.

more Starcraft 2

2008-10-22T01:56:00.000-07:00

from the recent Blizzcon
stuff i'm working on

athena

2008-09-29T08:11:00.001-07:00

the flower in the hair made this fun. why are these first time, non-professional models better than the real ones? her mom was there to make sure nothing sketchy was going on. lol.

roxanne

2008-09-23T01:19:00.000-07:00

wack. wasn't feeling this.

passport saturday

2008-09-23T00:17:00.001-07:00

chelsea

2008-09-14T23:02:00.001-07:00

its the same chick from awhile back. not sure whats going on with the pouty lips thing. its looks way over done on my part, but i swear they were there.

bethany

2008-09-01T12:28:00.001-07:00

trying stuff out here. i read this cool comic recently with art by Frazier Irving. really awesome stuff. great color in his work.

krystal

2008-08-24T23:56:00.000-07:00

super skinny chick with really cool hair. apparently she is or used to be a "real" model, even though this is her first time doing this sort of modeling. i sat right behind the light/lamp (thus the black bar down the middle.) not the most ideal kind of lighting i guess...

lynda

2008-08-19T00:06:00.000-07:00

i used a pretty standard PS brush. i like the fact that it looks like brush strokes. makes me feel like i'm really painting (sorta). ha.

sherry

2008-08-10T13:30:00.000-07:00

nice outfit.

lynda

2008-07-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

i got a bad spot so i couldn't see half her body.

mara

2008-07-18T20:46:00.001-07:00

i got some new photoshop brushes from a magazine. a bunch of spray paint looking things. she had a really cool pose.

gabby

2008-06-22T15:48:00.000-07:00

i think it turned out ok. custom brushes made the dress details easier.

pam

2008-06-17T01:07:00.000-07:00

here done??

2008-06-17T01:05:00.001-07:00

here... this?

2008-06-11T02:12:00.001-07:00

SPARKLE ATTACK!!!!
i think i'm rolling with this.... no seriously. unless you totally hate it. its kinda corny and overkill, but i think it fits. haha.

here this one

2008-06-08T21:42:00.001-07:00

the other gown...

izzy

2008-06-08T19:29:00.001-07:00

she kinda looks like she has a disease, but i like it.

here new version

2008-06-08T19:25:00.000-07:00

here yo. this better? worse? pose ok? foot or no foot? don't mind the crap fonts. i'll figure something out.

marci

2008-06-02T23:01:00.001-07:00

uhhhhaaaaghhh!!!! not this chick again! i made her look old... Lol!

courtney

2008-05-28T00:17:00.001-07:00

look i did a portrait for once. and what do you know. the proportions are all off. i'm so used to doing full bodies that i had a hard time on just the head. i don't have the usual things to compare proportions/relations to each other. like head to torso to hands to legs to shoulders to hips etc... but its fun to focus on one thing for a change. instead of rushing to get it all in.

here, kinda like this?

2008-05-27T23:59:00.001-07:00

this is for someone else......
ok here this is what i'm thinking. just trying out stuff i guess. i'm not sure what to do with all the crap around it. i'll dig around for something though. like i was saying, looking generic. any ideas? let me know about the real mask.

chelsea

2008-05-21T23:22:00.000-07:00

i tried doing a little of what i did last week, but with color. its very time consuming.

dave

2008-05-15T23:12:00.000-07:00

yet another dude.... naked.

christina

2008-04-26T22:34:00.001-07:00

this wasn't turning out the way i wanted. so i went and started messing around.

frank

2008-04-20T15:23:00.001-07:00

hey i painted another dude. a flamin rockabilly latino dude.

yvonne

2008-04-14T00:22:00.001-07:00

last one before i went on vacation.

rose

2008-04-14T00:20:00.001-07:00

i had a really crap spot for the day. i tried to make the most of it.

emmita

2008-03-17T22:48:00.000-07:00

here is my favorite punk rocker chick. for being a non professional model, she can hold a mean pose. she is way more interesting to paint than pretty much anyone. mainly because of her cool look. i always like painting her shoes too. ha.

allegra

2008-03-12T23:04:00.001-07:00

alright no more week counting. i'm just throwing these up .
i finally got around to trying out the greyscale technique that i know a lot of digital painters use. its where they do the painting in black and white first to get the tones all good. then they bust out the colors on top. it makes a ton of sense to do it this way, but damn it sure does make things take longer. i sorta feel like i ended up painting this twice. i almost prefer it in greys though. its pretty straight forward technique. its eliminates a lot of the guessing, trial and error in starting with color early. good lesson.

finally

2008-03-12T22:45:00.000-07:00

so after 40 weeks of painting naked people, i finally made the time to paint something outside of my workshop class. and of all the damn things out there.... its Ned Kelly!!!! with some New Balance kicks on. wtf? yeah i know.
its the outlaw bushman Ned Kelly. i just love the spirit of Ned Kelly. i think when i was in Australia i got this funny, messed up impression of what i thought he was/should be like/act like. i'm pretty much sure its super far from the truth, but oh well. he's much cooler in my mind. haha.

week 40

2008-03-04T22:55:00.001-08:00

week 39

2008-03-04T22:51:00.000-08:00

week 38

2008-02-12T22:14:00.001-08:00

hey its a dude.

week 37

2008-02-12T22:11:00.001-08:00

another one of those with with the background thingy. i used a very specific color palette for this. i got it off of a color website where people come up with color combinations and post them up for everyone to admire and comment on.

week 36

2008-01-21T14:36:00.001-08:00

again just trying new stuff especially with the background. i found this neat book with some Japanese patterns and motifs. its all copyright free stuff and it comes with a cd full of all the files. cool stuff. it makes the bg really easy to do.
this was quite a challenge. dealing with two models can be overwhelming at times. i felt like there was never enough time. i had to be a lot looser and not sweat the details as much.

week 35

2008-01-15T22:44:00.000-08:00

again just trying something different. it keeps things interesting.
she's got a case of long body (or maybe its short legs). bad proportions

week 34

2008-01-15T22:41:00.000-08:00

just trying something different. i wanted to be faster and hit up different views.

week 33

2007-12-16T23:18:00.001-08:00

hey its the punk rocker girl from way back. this girl is always pretty fun to draw. there is always something interesting about her look. she always has rad hair and the shoes really make it work. and man.. this chick can sit. and i mean still.

week 32

2007-12-16T23:09:00.001-08:00

i kinda dig the vibe going on in this. its the wood divider thingy and the fact that she isn't totally naked. this model always has some crazy interesting outfits and apparently she has to wear her shoes. it makes things less boring i guess.

week 31

2007-12-16T23:03:00.001-08:00

she had really cool hair. my painting... not so much.

week 30

2007-11-26T01:13:00.001-08:00

probably the best outfit we've had. this girls was pretty fun to paint. drawing naked people can get a little dull after awhile (yeah wow never thought i'd say that). aside from setting it up yourself, you really don't get to paint rad costumes/clothing on the regular.
here i actually took it a little further after the workshop. mainly adding extra details a such. i went back to a smaller dpi and waht do you know, a more complete painting. either that or i was really inspired.
funny thing about this model. i didn't know this until later, but she is also know as Basura, from Who Wants to Be a Superhero? yeah the Stan Lee joint. i'm guessing she was the "hot one". but hella cool huh?
oh and Dan... i see you're a fan of hers! lolasaurus rex!

week 29

2007-11-26T01:04:00.000-08:00

so i think i figured out why i can't seem to get very far lately with the paintings. Image Size. yeah, i recently started painting at a higher dpi and so its been taking me that much longer to really get into these. maybe i'm such a noob that i'm doing sonething wrong with my settings?? eh who knows.
anyway i didn't get very far on this. got kinda bored too i guess. i was trying a different approach too. i'm trying to find ways to speed up my process.

week 28

2007-11-12T22:06:00.000-08:00

i got bored and started messing about.

week 27

2007-11-12T22:04:00.000-08:00

i like the background.

week 26

2007-10-28T20:16:00.000-07:00

here it is... the first guy model since i started painting.
its a guy, in a suit. yay.
i just didn't feel like "painting" on this day. plus i felt the black and white worked with the whole suit thing. you know... just doing something different.

week 25

2007-10-22T22:00:00.000-07:00

so here i continued what i started in the last painting. more of the same splattery background. i tried to add an outline around her. feels more comic bookish. i didn't finish the outline because it really took away from her face and changed the whole vibe of it. her right leg turned out a little jacked up. one of those things i sketched/blocked in and forgot about till the end and realized it was too big/long. oh well.
this was the first time this model posed... ever. pretty crazy to just get up and get naked on your first try. i believe she is a dancer/art student so thats probably why she is cool with her body.

week 24

2007-10-18T23:35:00.001-07:00

yeah i know the neck looks long. but you know i realized this as i was painting and i kept trying to remeasure the proportions and in the end this seemed right based on the model. i laid in the background fairly early which i think led me to want to add the paint drips on her leg. for whatever reason the splattery thing going on in the bg made me think of graffiti. i kinda like it though. i'll experiment more i think. why not right?

week 23

2007-10-18T23:28:00.001-07:00

man... i can't really remember much about this session. again more photoshop. i used a lot of that furry looking brush for most of this (shout out to nivbed for that). it really helped with the blocking of color. it also added to the way i was planning on rendering this. basically i didn't need to do too many brush strokes to fill in areas.
it still amazes me how many people haven't seen a tablet pc. they really trip out on it. and the fact that i'm drawing on the screen really makes them bug out too.

week 22

2007-09-25T00:20:00.001-07:00

so after a two week holiday, i'm back at it. homegirl had a really cool outfit. a gothic looking type of thing with some really rad boots! she had a little bat painted on her right cheek so i tried to put it in the background instead. ha!

week 21

2007-08-29T23:54:00.001-07:00

last one for august. its pretty crap.
worst model ever. you'd think, "oh, neat outfit." but an old lady with parkinson's disease on two red bulls would have been a better model. i swear this heffa could not stay still. pretty uninspiring. oh well.

week 20

2007-08-20T23:04:00.001-07:00

yeeah..... i don't know what to make of this. i think i had a whole different thing in mind for this painting and it just never turned out the way i wanted it. i really exaggerated the colors and just took it really far out. i pretty much only used one brush for this whole thing. it was a really carefree session. just kinda experimanted and had fun with it.
this older lady had a pretty interesting figure. the curves and shapes were really accentuated. i think a lot of it had to do with the lighting and the pose she took.

week 19

2007-08-13T08:55:00.000-07:00

this was done in photoshop. same model from week 15. the runner chick. damn i love those new brushes i mentioned from last time (i added freaking freckles!). i still come back to that set of brushes no matter how many new brushes i try out.
i think i made her look like a cross between sarah jessica parker, a dash of tea leoni and a little bit of hilary clinton... what the F?

starcraft 2 story mode

2007-08-08T18:32:00.000-07:00

here is more of what i'm working on. this is from the Blizzcon demo.

new mixes dot com

2007-08-06T11:56:00.001-07:00

this link here
fall in love all over again with that "electronic" music you might have heard about from ten years ago. (remember that?)

i love this site! i can finally catch up on current tracks and freshest mixes. a lot of live mixes and radio/studio (internet radio) mixes. good good stuff!
i've been getting back into other genres since i found this.

week 18

2007-07-28T21:37:00.001-07:00

alright one last painting for the month of july! again using photoshop. got a set of brushes from an Imagine FX magazine tutorial. it was a set of like 10 brushes that some fancy artist uses. i had a good time using these. i finally can get better textures in my skin. if you look real close the brush patterns are all spotty (in a good way i guess). all done with a custom brush. next to the lens flare, custom brushes are the best feature ever! ha! but yeah just having some fun with this. tried to keep it loose.
i didn't get around to painting this girl's tats. she had quite a few. oh and apparently, her and her boyfriend are saving themselves/waiting till marriage... if you know what i mean? it was hilarious to see everyones shock and amazement when she mentioned that. even the old guys in the class had a laugh.

week 17

2007-07-26T00:21:00.001-07:00

whoa where have i been? after being super busy i finally got around to going back to my workshop class. and as i said in the last post i moved on from alias sketchbook pro to photoshop. the workflow is way different. sketchbook is built around its ease of use on a tablet pc. photoshop is meant to be used in conjunction with a keyboard. and damn the added amount of options and brushes and whatnot isn't always a good thing. i think i waste more time trying out stuff than actually painting. but man you can get some cool stuff out of photoshop.
as far as the painting goes... well i was definitely trying things out. experimenting. having some fun. got this cool model who was down for a standing pose (which is always good). she even had this cool little outfit that made her look like some jazz cabaret dancer. she kept moving so i just went with my initial pose and faked it a bit. tried using a few custom brushes i picked up in the past (big ups to nivbed's brushes). but yeah just having a laugh. gotta get more practice in with photoshop though. peace out for now.

week 16

2007-06-25T23:40:00.001-07:00

man.. this older lady had the craziest tats all over her entire body. there was a huge dragon on her left side that went all the way down her thigh. one can only wonder what she was like in her golden years... an attention starved, ren fair hippie??? i kid, i kid.
i switched up the rendering a bit on this. tried to paint more like the way i might sketch. i was trying to be very conscious of following her shape and contours while shading and adding color.

this may or may not be one of my last paintings done in sketchbook pro. i've finally accepted the fact that this is pretty much a dead product. nothing new. no more updates. i've been reading up on the new artrage update/version that will be out in the near future. sounds like it should do what i need it to do. the current version is lacking in a few areas (lasso, move scale, rotate tool). although, i might just bite the bullet and use photoshop without a keyboard and added slight lag.

adidas top tens

2007-06-23T01:06:00.000-07:00

snap son! back before i had a job in animation i used to see a pair of adidas top tens that i really wanted. i never got a chance to buy them. after i got a job, i could never find them again and i forgot all about them. untill recently....
so ok i've been on a little hunt for dope top tens. i just got the black "soul power" top tens (i believe they came out to commemorate black history month). i almost don't ever want to wear these cause they are so dope. super plush. velour around the ankles, embossed leather inner sole and tongue, printed design on the sides... oh so fresh.
to me, top tens are like the "dunks" of adidas. straight up classic and simple. if these were marketed right, i think they could really take a chunk out of the market that nike has created with both their dunks and air force ones. as far as basketball type of shoes, if the top tens are like dunks, then the centennials could be like af1s. i know adidas pushes the superstar/shelltoes as their basketball shoe, but honestly, i feel thats in its own category. its more related to/associated with hip hop rather than basketball. they already got soccer on lock with the sambas. they got tennis on lock with rod lavers or stan smiths. and they got plenty of fresh ass running shoes. but i never felt their presence in basketball shoes. and lets be honest, a shit ton of kids, hip hoppers, tastemakers, and sheep, flock to nike for basketball kicks. and they really aren't all that (nikes are the only shoes that ever fell apart on me). adidas corporate, step your game up. i know you've done a few neat things with top tens, but where are the top ten exclusives, limited editions, and collaborations. damn at least how about some different colors.
and another thing, i can't be the only adidas head out there (and i'm not even that serious about my kicks). where yall at?

week 15

2007-06-23T00:39:00.000-07:00

now this was fun. this model comes in and is totally down for a standing kind of pose. i think up till now everyone has been sitting. finally... a full standing (ok, leaning) figure for once. apparently she runs and hikes a lot so she had some real range in her skin tones.
the funniest thing happened when i got a impromptu life drawing lesson from some older asian dude who works at disney (or used to maybe) as a storyboard artist. he was rocking a glen vilpu t-shirt so i asked him about it and we got to talking. i haven't had a lesson in years. it was nice to get some good advice. a reiteration of basics. a reminder of those simple lessons that should be second nature. he got on me about my proportions (the dreaded small head and large hands) and how to properly measure up a model. he also got on me about how i need to really finish/connect my lines together(making corners from curves as steve huston would say). the last thing he talked about was shading of planes and breaking down the model into planes. basically... take my time and look, instead of rushing off to the rendering of a pretty picture.

week 14

2007-06-23T00:28:00.000-07:00

whoa!! whats up wonky eye? totally my bad on this. more time should have been spent really nailing underlying structure. i rushed into this. i needed to get the relationships, curves, corners, angles, and planes right first. yeah... what more can i say? this didn't turn out too good. i was bored. after having good fun on the last painting, i think i was expecting a little too much on this one. boring pose + boring outfit = bored painter. i tried to make the most of it. nuff said.

korea pics!!

2007-06-06T23:53:00.001-07:00

the quick description........
the day before the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational held at the Olympic Park in Seoul.
booth girls all lined up.
buddhist temple near Insadong. decorated to honor Buddha's birthday.
shopping area in Myeong-dong
riding the white horse @ Geongbokgung (the palace).
more WWI.
Olympic Park.
Blizzard party @ Rock and Roll bar in Apgujeong. free drinks and bbq all night!
meat. lots and lots of meat @ a supermarket. they have lots of things to sample! mmm... free meal.
me with a handlebar stash eating meat and eggs on rice. can't go wrong.
props to my bro for the camera. good stuff.

arthur adams

2007-06-06T23:35:00.001-07:00

so i saw this cover for the up coming Avengers Classic and i was reminded about how cool these kind of covers were when i was a kid. and how Arthur Adams was the man behind them. for as long as i can remember this guy was always impressing me with his artwork. when i was younger i used to copy his drawings (especially his wolverine).
he's got plenty of other comic work, but i went looking for his other "here we come!", "comin' at 'cha!", multi hero'd covers. sure when they are all together like this, there are many similarities. you might say he relies on the same kind of poses. and yeah, wolverine always looks about the same. but in the end they are still pretty damn cool!