texahol

2011-11-11T04:38:00.001-05:00

Seems it's been a little while since my last update.

I reckon there's a bit of a long story of random shit that's happened since relocating from Shanghai to Singapore...but I'll spare you the long rant :3 Things happened, and I'm still in Singapore.

Here's some kind of something almost a year old already from a cancelled project at work. I started out with some loose line work from a coworker...these were a collaboration of sorts that I did while I was waiting on feedback from another project that I was working on.

...and a rather quick study that I spent somewhere around 30 minutes on.

collab!

2011-04-27T22:28:00.002-05:00

I've done another collab with the fabulous clo!! and as usual, she did the lines, I did the other part :P

some recent freelance

2011-04-17T01:15:00.004-05:00

here's a small sample of some freelance work I've done over the last year.

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woah~

2011-03-11T08:54:00.008-05:00

been a real long time since my last post :O I've been real busy working full time and doing freelance, and trying to have some fun inbetween :S

many of you probably already have seen this elsewhere, but Gorilla Artfare is releasing an artbook through CFSL :D :D

I worked on the cover as a collaboration (Clo, Devin Platts & Tom Scholes, designed by Victoria Maderna & Federico Piatti)

Seeing how I love collabing so much, I've also had the honor of doing a collab with Clo on Wakfu TCG!!! This was released in the Pandala extension!:O :O

She did the lines, and I painted it :S

These are pretty old, but I had a lot fun doing them. A couple of my coworkers and I were painting 2-3 hour portraits of friends [and sometimes strangers] here are a few of them :)

This is a former coworker of mine, Jocelyn Joret.Sadly he's left us and gone to work at Gameloft Montreal branch instead :( Monseigneur canard...because he was leaving us, I wanted to immortalize him in paint, and convinced him to sit for us ;)

pipipipip pew pew pew

2010-12-04T11:36:00.006-05:00

Soooo, I was playing team fortress 2 with my coworkers during my lunch-break, but now I'm trying to do daily studies instead. These are all about 1 hour or less. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up, but it can be reallllly hard to get started on studies some times. Always feels good once you get going, but so hard to just...get started :P

Also, I've been doing some portrait painting once a week at my friend's place, with only a few weeks missed since we started! Really fun to do :O I'll try to remember to take some pictures of my paintings next time I am there. For now, here's a shot of his awesome 'studio' that we're working in :D My painting is on the left, his is on center [he is the one who took the photo kekek]

moo

2010-12-02T09:33:00.004-05:00

woah, been forever since I posted on here. I'm trying to let the blog die, I've just been insanely busy the last few months. While I was on a lovely working vacation in Norway [see posts below] I got a job offer, and took it :O

soooo... I've been in Shanghai, China for the last 4 months...trying to stay on top of my freelance, and working fulltime at Redsteam Studio, working for Gameloft.

Here's some sketches from the old sketchbook, which I only recently remembered I had...
my friend/coworker Oyo and I have started going out on monday nights to do sketching after work :) feels really good to get away from the computer and doodle...

and here's the crazy view from my 27th floor apartment...

Haven't really had much time for personal work. When I'm not doing freelance and not working, I really prefer not being at the computer...

warm-up

2010-06-30T04:35:00.001-05:00

morning warm up before getting into work, and breakfast...for that matter. hmmmmbreakfast

hahaha

2010-06-29T05:18:00.004-05:00

been real busy, so I had to chew on my morning throw-away/warmup so I don't get too stir crazy~

plouf

2010-06-07T05:45:00.002-05:00

started out as just a throw-away warm-up before getting into freelance, and then...mmm

the woods :O

2010-05-23T14:34:00.002-05:00

I went into the woods with some friends, and we were attacked by ants...and we did some painting...
about 14cm [5.5inches] tall.

life painting

2010-05-14T19:11:00.003-05:00

each sitting was about 2hrs each. they are 15-16cm tall or so. [a little over 6 inches tall]

out for a walk

2010-04-30T07:50:00.002-05:00

been real busy trying to catch up on freelance work, but I went out for a walk yesterday and took some photos!

chicken mcnuggets. no, not really.

2010-04-15T09:52:00.003-05:00

warmup doodles before getting into freelance work.

fishy lookin or kisses

2010-04-13T22:07:00.003-05:00

quick doodle before getting started on freelance work.

pup vid

2010-04-06T00:17:00.001-05:00

Here's the short-hand version of the livestream vid.

waking up

2010-04-05T10:41:00.005-05:00

getting warmed up for today. ~1 hour.
I did this for a livestream which you can watch the playback at: http://livestream.com/devinplatts SKIP ahead 5 minutes...there were some things I had to work out...*cough*

breakfast!

2010-04-01T08:41:00.000-05:00

nomnomnom did this while eating breakfast.
~1hr

scrup

2010-03-31T02:39:00.002-05:00

puh. doodles in between work and work e_e

sketchpoopz

2010-03-23T20:40:00.002-05:00

sketcheeez done for daily art blog sketchamathon! They are really keeping me on my toes!

rapid creature thumbs

2010-03-16T13:34:00.004-05:00

did two separate challenges with some friends.

10 creatures in under 1 hr!!!

really fun to do, it's nice to just do random thumbs of critters, I think i've got some designs I'd like to explore further outta these :)

process poops

2010-03-14T14:06:00.003-05:00

I did a livestream and talked about my two basic working processes. These are the results of that. each method took about 1 hour.

out taking photos again...

2010-03-12T17:36:00.004-05:00

winter is gone...but spring isn't quite here yet.
i wish i had money to buy a DSLR :P

swamp monster

2010-03-12T08:31:00.002-05:00

had some fun on this one, changed up my usual working method a bit, not sure if it's really noticeable tho...

more doodles :(

2010-03-09T12:20:00.002-05:00

woah more unfinished doodles

2010-03-09T04:07:00.002-05:00

sketcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
joined a group sketchblog with some friends:

http://sketchamathon.blogspot.com/

feeling pretty good about just doing dumb sketches again, instead of being worried about making rendered/finished stuff.

doodlez

2010-03-08T19:20:00.003-05:00

plorp

2010-03-04T22:04:00.002-05:00

can has have are am is doodlingss

walkin' the dog

2010-02-28T19:00:00.004-05:00

I'm up visiting my friend dave rapoza [freelance illustrator, all around badass]. These are some photos I took out on a walk while staying at his place.

For those of you who don't know, dave does a livestream every morning at 9am EST. He does studies/personal work and talks about anything you ask. I was a [not very] special guest this weekend during his streams: http://www.crimsondaggers.com Previous streams are available to view.

raven

2010-02-27T21:55:00.006-05:00

Started out with a character just on white, all rendered it out... but I'm trying to shy away from working on white...so I ghetto-blasted in a background, and erm...anyway I ended up with this haphazard image.

imagination environments

2010-02-25T11:29:00.004-05:00

trying to apply some things that I'm learning from the studies.

these are not quite what i had hoped for, but at least it's a start in the right direction.

more studies are needed :S

another screen recording

2010-02-24T09:23:00.003-05:00

actual drawing time was like 25 minutes or so...
iMovie was out of the picture this time, and the end results are much better :P

environment studies

2010-02-23T15:39:00.002-05:00

Some environment studies. Starting to get easier...still a struggle

screen recording

2010-02-23T00:53:00.002-05:00

I did a quick screen recording while doing some environment studies to work out the kinks...I sure am glad I started with something quick...I've had some trouble figuring out the right settings/compression and I'm stuck with iMovie until I can get ahold of finalcut express...btw for those of you who haven't had the *pleasure* of working with iMovie...it's a right smart pain in the ass.

sweet tshirt

2010-02-16T17:15:00.006-05:00

I know I don't usually post something that's not mine on here...actually I think this might be the first...but anyway this sweet tshirt came in the mail today, with the illustration done by federico piatti. He's a real swell guy too. Been meaning to pick it up for a while...anyway finally got around to buying one. I think the illo is pretty swank, and I really love me some yellow tshirts!!

you can pick it up from here: http://shop.savantwear.com/product/federico-piatti

You should also check out Fed and Vic's artblog, loads of great work: http://blog.absens.net/

life drawing and life drawing

2010-02-10T23:43:00.001-05:00

some life drawing and also some life drawing...

sketchbook

2010-02-10T04:15:00.002-05:00

some stuff outta my sketchbook from the past week...

sketchydoodlez

2010-01-07T21:49:00.002-05:00

doodling around...

snowwwwwwwwww

2009-12-09T16:47:00.003-05:00

took the dog out snowshoeing! we got the 2nd storm of the season [we got about 5 inches last storm, and this one was about 1 foot]
first off a little disclaimer~ I'm not a photographer, and don't really know how to use a camera :) I just point and click...

winter :O

2009-12-07T19:36:00.001-05:00

drew some creepy kids...snoooooowwww

demonsdemonsdemons

2009-12-03T03:50:00.002-05:00

pirate doc

2009-11-30T20:26:00.001-05:00

doing some normal humans for the folio...

enviro studies

2009-11-23T13:23:00.002-05:00

some pencilz

2009-11-04T00:35:00.001-05:00

yop yop flippity flop

demo

2009-10-26T20:36:00.003-05:00

I did this as a demo for a friend. I painted this live for him through skype's screen share over a couple sessions while he asked me questions and I talked about various things.

-click for larger image-

gorillaman

2009-10-22T14:07:00.004-05:00

mushroomdoomboommurp

2009-10-15T18:51:00.002-05:00

a little doodle i did as a friend watched with skype screen sharing to watch my process of taking a greyscale to color. One of these days I'm going to have to figure out how to make screencap videos.

life drawing

2009-10-13T13:42:00.003-05:00

been really busy with freelance work!
some life drawing I've squeezed in during some crazy deadines.

another collab with clo!

2009-09-20T20:29:00.007-05:00

these are her lines:

hehe this time it was for chelsea's birthday!!!! chelsea makes these amazing monster plushies!!! check 'em out!
Clochette and I talked about what to have for the illo, clo did the lines and I finished it with the colors and render I am really happy with how it came out, and we are thinking about selling it as a print...if we do I will be sure to post it here!

collab with clo

2009-09-09T15:21:00.003-05:00

this was a collaboration with my good friend aurélie neyret [clochette] for gorilla artfare's dirty sunday. Gorilla artfare is an awesome group artblog filled with excellence. Anyway, Aurélie did the lines and the text, and I did the colors/rendering.

bear skull

2009-09-09T15:16:00.000-05:00

study of a bear skull I did a while back.

chitenoid

2009-08-27T02:55:00.003-05:00

a little creature concept snuck in between freelance jobs! had to do a little something for myself before my brain melted :)

click for a larger version :)

life drawing

2009-07-21T22:47:00.002-05:00

two different life drawing sessions. 10,15, 20, and 30 minute poses throughout

deer skull

2009-07-13T22:33:00.000-05:00

doooooodlez

2009-07-08T17:50:00.002-05:00

a very small painting

working process on that bananagrabber...

IRC thunderdome/blunderdome depending on your vantage point...

banana grabber

2009-07-02T23:16:00.002-05:00

it's a monkey man

watch out, he might grab your banana...

doodlejunk

2009-06-24T12:29:00.001-05:00

poop scooping

2009-06-16T17:10:00.002-05:00

a fancy cane and a goat

2009-05-06T17:26:00.000-05:00

monster poop

2009-04-19T23:44:00.002-05:00

paintings

2009-04-16T21:34:00.002-05:00

plant man

2009-02-16T13:56:00.001-05:00

I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark alley.... :O
designed to be an all around char, above average all stats.

plant warrior two

2009-02-08T14:43:00.003-05:00

+speed and attack
-defense and stamina

plant warrior

2009-02-08T01:44:00.002-05:00

something from a personal project I am fleshing out...more to come
+defense and stamina
-attack and speed

paintoodlez

2009-02-04T15:10:00.001-05:00

portrait

2009-01-30T00:46:00.003-05:00

we had a little mix and match portrait extravaganza at gorilla artfare for the 1 year anniversary of the blog :)
this is my portrait of dave palumbo :o

cheshire cat

2009-01-18T18:57:00.002-05:00

This was for the CHOW at conceptart.org
I was kind of thinking about Alice being on a really bad trip, and what she actually saw was really pretty normal...

life drawing

2009-01-14T02:41:00.002-05:00

life drawlz

2009-01-06T23:06:00.002-05:00

life drawing

2008-12-31T07:59:00.000-05:00

i cropped them for you steve

2008-12-25T20:26:00.001-05:00

life drawing

2008-12-03T01:52:00.003-05:00

life drawing

2008-11-25T22:59:00.005-05:00

life drawing

2008-11-19T14:21:00.003-05:00

life drawing

2008-11-14T00:13:00.004-05:00

life painting

2008-10-30T00:21:00.003-05:00

one 30 minute, and two 45 mintue poses from life. Really hard! I think it's my first time trying to paint a figure in color from life...

dead funny...

2008-10-30T00:20:00.003-05:00

16x20 oil on masonite

crabby mccrab

2008-10-09T12:39:00.006-05:00

paints!

2008-10-09T12:39:00.004-05:00

mushroom

2008-09-10T12:43:00.000-05:00

all the better to cut you with.

2008-08-11T22:06:00.003-05:00

have you seen my tentacle?

2008-08-11T22:05:00.000-05:00

moke 2

2008-07-13T04:33:00.000-05:00

char doodles

2008-07-10T00:34:00.001-05:00

just having fun

moke

2008-07-05T14:01:00.004-05:00

ant thing person maybe lobster influenced. Where are my bananas?

2008-07-01T19:44:00.001-05:00

enviro

2008-05-20T12:35:00.001-05:00

enviro

2008-05-19T17:56:00.001-05:00

environment and char

2008-05-16T09:51:00.000-05:00

nom nom nom

2008-05-14T01:12:00.001-05:00

characters

2008-05-11T20:57:00.002-05:00

color studies

2008-05-11T20:55:00.001-05:00

last man standing

2008-04-29T13:59:00.004-05:00

Last Man Standing: Round 2 entry. It's a competition over at http://www.conceptart.org/. There were loads of amazing entries :) I ended up doing this in about 6 hours in the lobby of a hotel while on vacation in Paris. It needed more loving, but alas...maybe next time.

uhmmm

2008-04-29T13:49:00.005-05:00

andrew hem is awesome, and so are his ideas. He is way cooler than me. But painting on matchboxes is a ton of fun :D
check out his work: http://www.andrewhem.com/

nannybot and some critters

2008-04-11T17:21:00.001-05:00

critters

2008-02-28T22:28:00.003-05:00

more thumbs

2008-02-28T05:57:00.001-05:00

a study, something fun, something thumbed

2008-02-27T20:36:00.003-05:00

river guardian take two

2008-02-27T05:42:00.003-05:00

not really happy with the last design, so i decided to do another design based on the same topic as river guardian.

river guardian

2008-02-23T19:34:00.006-05:00

river guardian at thunderfalls pass. Yet another conceptart.org friendly competition for the art crusades.

LMS round 1

2008-02-14T21:56:00.004-05:00

last man standing: "underneath it all"
competition over at http://conceptart.org/
I made it into the 2nd round...lots of great talents :)