I’ve learned to be careful with leaving empty compositional space in my pictures. My friend Jeff has a habit of adding robot doom wherever he finds space available :)
This for instance is a photograph my brother took:
Which then delightfully became this at the hands of Jeff:
I then felt the urge to breath life into it like so:
There was much giggling / maniacal laughter throughout this process.
Last year, I got the itch to get back into photography. I originally fell in love with it as a hobby in my early teens, back when using a camera involved long, bad tasting strips of ribbon. My weapon of choice then was the Canon AE-1
This beautiful contraption taught me a lot about patience and how to cope with failure :)
I’m now wielding a Sony a6000, and finding that taking pictures is a much needed creative outlet for me. I love producing art, and in the past that has mostly meant sitting in front of a computer to create pretty things from scratch, but with a camera, I get to go out, explore the world and hunt down the pretty things, and shoot them! (with my camera…)
I’ll start posting my photos here on a regular basis, but you can also checkout my photography site: www.shootingprettythings.com to see as a whole, where they are also available for purchase :)
Reel FX’s first full length feature animated movie! Happens to have been mine too :)
Had a blast working on it, and very proud of the way it turned out.
You can check it out here:
Also, it was on NETFLIX last time I checked :)
So, Reel FX has an annual Canvas For A Cause fund-raiser, and I was happy to be apart of it this year. I’m pretty happy with the way mine turned out:
It’s been quite some time since I’ve done a traditional painting, and it was my first time with acrylics, so I started by doing a quick digital sketch to figure out how I wanted to approach it.
May I present to you Dr. Randal Direen Ph.D
(I’m not sure the world is ready for this…)
oh, I should note that this was heavily influenced by Pete Oswald’s work on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which happens to be Randy’s favorite movie (I’ve never seen someone identify with a character so much before :)
Sketches from a day at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
And these are some quick (60 sec) gestures from the cool Animal Gesture Drawing Practice Tool on pixelovely.com
This bambino is about to BAMBEAN it! … that or egregiously miss, spiraling to the ground — there might be a reason he only plays on the weekends at a kids field ;)
Oh watercolors, how you challenge me so. These were done in a small 3×5 watercolor sketch book. The first two were done from vacation pictures; the later two were done on the spot.
(though doing a water color under water sounds like an interesting challenge :)
Funny how getting a new job and moving to a new state can keep a guy from his blogging duties ;P
Anyway, here are some drawin’s from the drawing class I’m taking at work:
(all were 5 min. poses)
Went spelunking in Belize last year, and it left a lasting impression :)
