Figure Drawing

Can't tell you how long it has been, but I think a war started and ended since last I sat to draw from the model.

Here are the Scretches that came from last weeks drawing session. I just took picture of them, to lazy to scan.


2 min

5 min
Mistakes are there, I write on my drawings to remember :)


10 min
Oh, I remember the days I use to have a polish drawing in ten minutes, hopefully soon again.

I am looking into the Glenn Vilppu manual.
http://www.vilppustudio.com/
He is an amazing draftsman, should have take more classes with him in california.

How does one get to Blue Sky?

I took a plane, but it was mostly luck.

The events that lead to it are as fallow. I will start from July because that is when I last posted.

July-Finished work as a Character Finaller in Barnyard the movie and then needing a break from it all and some R&R, I decited to help a friend produce a reality base TV series.

August-September- Produced and Coordinated "Abroad" a show about the travel http://www.fantailtv.com/home/ which lead me to Paris and Die, France. Then I took ten days to roam Italy, it was amazing.

I got back home on October 2nd and proceded to work on my reel http://www.antelmostudio.com/greetings/reel.mov (it does not stream in IE Use Mozilla or wait like a min to load) . At the end of the month I got a phone call from a friend (Rafael Arce) in El Salvador who needed help with a huge project, so I left on Nov 7 to El Salvador.

As I was leaving I sent out my only reel to Blue Sky Studios here in NY.

November-December- I was a generalist for his company in El Salvador, D' Pixel Factory http://www.dpixelfactory.com/ in which we produced three 1 minute shorts, and one 30 sec spot during my stay there. I stayed at my friend's family's house and his family treated me like their own. I am going back for a wedding on next month.

As I was there I got interviewed by Blue Sky ( a friend of mine who works there put in a good word for me) and eventually the company offered me a job. ( I owe him big time)

So I landed in Cali on Jan 10th and by the 16th I was in NY working :)

I will post the work from El Salvador this weekend. But as you wait for that try http://bsschallenge.blogspot.com/ a weekly drawing challenge from the guys at work. I posted last week and working on the one for this week. It looks a bit archaic but it was my first drawind on a waccom tablet. Boy do I miss paper and pen.

Thanks for all the support and prayers. I am blessed by God with my friends.

Picture Perfect

The past week, I attended many social events, therefore, I took a lot of pictures.

I had a good camera but because I was using the built in flash and everyone was sweating I got a lot skin glare.

I found a good to tutorial to remove it so I tought I would share.

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials/harris13.html

I am not to happy with their end result because they make the portrait look flat. But I found that you can change the opacity to 50 on the brush and make it look better. The idea is to leave a little highlight to keep the natural glow.

Before

After

I also played with the curves.

If you are going to do color correction, make sure you have a good CRT monitor, LCDS tend to be bad at color managing. But either way make sure you calibrate your monitor.

Drawings from the street

I have been stuck in my room for 90% of this week going over endless amounts of tutorials, and although I should be animating for the reel, I love the process of leaning something new.

Here are a few sketches from the free world.

I was grabbing lunch, and I had a pad.
Which was given to me by a friend. Thank you Melissa :)

The Illustration

I made this sketch about a year ago when I was working on the book.

Nature facinates me and a child dancing in the middle of a grassy field, enjoying the quite time, is as close to nature one can be.

This is what the first sketch looked like,

and it was about that size.

Then I scaned the drawing and put it into painter and re-sketched the layout.

After that, I made the character to model, and added foreground elements for Dynamics. Making sure not to lose the little girl as the main focus.

After that, I added the midground color.

Then Foreground

Lastly I painted the character and the foreground grass.

I always wanted it to be a peaceful moment but all the foreground leaves started to look menacing, so I removed the big right leaf and blurred the closest ones to us.

This is with what I ended.

Business Card

The end of my contract with the movie is coming and the idea of using the same old business card seems lame to me.

Especially since when I was in college I had four types of business cards.

With that in mind I set out to re_design my cards.

Ivaylo, my artsy friend, suggested for me to use one of the previous sketches as a card.

So I gave it a try.

I am not trying to sell myself as an artist who wants to show artwok at the Met so I felt it was not a good representation of me.

I am going for animation. So I gave it another go, using old art work.

As luck would have it, I ended up liking an unfinished pastel.

This is what it looks like done with printing bleed, I will make another blog for the illustration.

Sketches

Aww,

How I miss sketching.

There is nothing like putting markings on paper.

Here are a few more sketches I did on my breaks.

I love the mountains

I wanted to polish this, but liked the way it looked rough, it captured the mood.