Tobola Sketch

Sweet new brushes and Art Jumble

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:50:57 +0000

Just found some brushes created/collected by Barontieri, M@, and Goro over at Pandemonium Art. A ton of great stuff in these collections. While I was experimenting with the brushes I ended up making a warrior guy out of the abstract shapes that I was making. I’m not sure whether the guy looks better with chains or not so I have two versions.
I recently joined Art Jumble a weekly illustration community with different themes for the week. The first one I did was for Fight Club and I did a speed painting. I don’t often try to draw/paint real people so my Edward Norton interpretation doesn’t look anything like him. I didn’t want to spend more than an hour and a half or two hours on it though so I didn’t go back and fix it.

2nd military chick

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:01:14 +0000

A military themed girl (again), a retro colored version of the picture, and a step-by-step process going from a sketch to finished character.

Dragon and Combat Boots

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:45:16 +0000

2 colored pics. The girl, an awkwardly posed sketch that I colored and pasted in a background from Google. The dragon, not sure what kind of dragon it is but I was inspired by art on magic cards (yeah I’m a huge nerd) and especially Raymond Swanland’s jaggy painting style. The dude in the dragon pic is the planeswalker Sarkhan Vol from MtG.
Dragon and Sarkhan Vol
Girl in Camo

Salty sea biscuits

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:49:45 +0000

Pirates from concept art group. Painting took forever so I dropped one of the characters in the sketch from the painting. Took a nice step toward developing a painting style that is comfortable for me which means using the hard round Photoshop brush at 60-70% opacity 99% of the time and cleaning up my idea BEFORE painting which I neglected to do with this. Also work from big to small unlike this painting. –Mental notes end.
Sketch
Painting

Updated Sketches Again

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:29:38 +0000

Pirates for concept art group and other doodles.
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Updated Sketches

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:52:45 +0000

Added 6 drawings done at Tully’s while I was trying to study Japanese.
Sketches ahoy!

Make Your Own Comic

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:25:54 +0000

Sandwich Pants Comic #1

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:14:15 +0000

Monster Marathon Comic #1

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:38 +0000

Australialialia!!! Part 1

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:18:39 +0000

Well we have been back from Australia for about a week now and it was a pretty awesome trip.

We started our trip on the Gold Coast near Surfer’s Paradise. It is kind of like Australia’s version of Miami but with far less Cubans and alot more old, sunburned, Australians.

In truth it is a very nice place and I wouldn’t mind living there. Anyways for our first week in Australia we stayed about 25 miles away from Surfer’s Paradise at Kirra Beach.

We rented a car and drove to a bunch of different places everyday like Byron Beach.

Byron Beach is a pretty laid back kind of place and like everywhere else on the Gold Coast, it is a good place to surf.

On the same day that we went to Byron Beach we headed out to the lighthouse at the point. Apparently the lighthouse is the Easternmost point of Australia.

More to come in part 2…

To check out all the pictures from our trip go to my Flickr photostream