Todays update is all about Gusteau. The images below are from Pixars’ Art Of Series, This one being Ratatouille. Enjoy!
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Picasso's World Of Children pt.1
sketchbooks from centuries ago
today’s update is a good one. i have posted a few pages from some really old sketchbooks and books. the craftsmen ship on these pages are phenomenal.
A flea and flea larvae
a beautiful illustration of a flea from Micrographia. both images from the book animal:exploring the zoological
Anatomy for the artist
todays update are few beautiful images from the book Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet. This book is one of the first books i got as a young artist trying to learn and improve. As a older but relatively still young artist I find my self going back and reading things over, art tip… copying the drawings and photographs is a good way to sharpen ones skills. enjoy!
W.pink and W.hunter, Smugglerius (plaster cast after sculptures by Agostino Carlini c. 1775/8)
Antonio Cattani, Muscles and Tendons of the Dorsum of the foot, 1780
Bernard Siegfried Albinus, a skeleton 1747
Leonardo da Vinci anatomical studies 1510
Cartoon America pt.3
more scans from Cartoon America
Travel log #15
Some photos from a trip to the land of ice a few years ago. such a beautiful place, i deff want to return
Travel log #14
some more beautiful buildings and patterns from my Boston trip recently
Shapes and Patterns #1
Travel log #13
spent the weekend in boston, here are some picture of some cool sculptures
Photo dump #2
some really cool structures
nyc
barcelona
barcelona
long island
nyc
home
barcelona
barcelona
Wacom 15x PL 550 LCD tablet
working on Germs in 2015
todays update is about a Wacom tablet I used to have. It was a gift from a very good friend from the post art school days. A buddy of mine was running his own animation studio out of his apartment and could pay for help from time to time on his projects. I would go for the day and help him animate and composite stuff. His home studio was and still is impressive. One of the first real hustlers I met on the freelance scene.
His set up was three work stations in a tiny tiny room. Three because it was that tiny, call it a half room. He built his studio over the years and did it all with used tech. I was impressed by his philosophy which was, “you dont need all the new stuff, old stuff is cheap and it works just fine” this was such a impressionable moment for me, I knew this already but I never really thought much about it and this was the first time I say it being applied in the real world. Seeing his builds and his dedicationI was really humbling.
This leads to the post, he gave me my first drawing table. I had a wacom bamboo that i had used since about 2009 but this was my first LCD screen. I went on to create two short cartoons “GERMS & APC’S Space Show” while using it in 2014-2017 and many doodles and other animation things. I have since moved on from this tech for over 2 years now, I am now working with a friends Wacom 13in Cintiq. It is used and works just fine.
I just want to say thank you to my friends Berdian and Elmer, my work is possible in part because of you guys support, I appreciate you both! RIP to the tablet it served me very well but it was time to let go, making room for the next gen in my home studio.
My art #1
i want to start a new branch of posting. it will focus on my art and thing i have created.
Travel log #9
photo dump of me around the world and just chilling
amsterdam
barcelona
brooklyn
home
queens
queens
miami
paris
miami
Miami
Manhatten
NY a story behind this picture
home
colorado
stuart davis
Hey Tubby comic page
A funny comic from JJ Sedelmaier
My mentor Tsukasa
When I was in art school I had a mentor named Tsukasa. He was about 10 years older then me, grew up on 90's hiphop lived in Brooklyn and was from Tokyo Japan. I was very drawn to the man for several reasons. His artistic voice and abilities as a draft men and animator where some of the best I'ed ever seen. His key poses where something unlike anything I’ed seen. They contained so much movement and power, I would study his drawing in awe.
Unfortunately while he was working on his final project the Tsunami hit Japan and he ended up leaving to help his fellow country men rebuild forcing him to pause his thesis project. Before this occurrence I was helping him with his project. I would clean up some of his scenes and scan them, preparing them for compositing. He was an upper classmate and as tradition goes they usually enlist the under classmates to help. After his return I was knee deep in my own thesis and didn’t have much time to help him, I tired my best but as is usually the case with thesis projects it was a huge undertaking and he just didn’t have enough time to polish his.
However he did manage to complete the majority of his rough animation and a few cleaned up scene. Long story short I ended up storing a few boxes of his during one of his moves. These boxes contained his thesis drawing, I have recently re discovered them after about a decade in my basement closet. There is a lot of animation and the majority is beautiful worth studying and sharing.
So this lead me to the purpose of this post, within the coming weeks I will be re scanning some of his drawing. I will try and composite some of the scene’s and I will share them on this site. I don’t know exactly how long that will take, I am knee deep with my own animation project so it will be an on going restoration project, but believe me when I say it will be worth it. I also don’t know the timing of his scene so I will be using my judgement and opinion when the time comes.
Final note about mentors, I have had two mentors since my journey as an animator started in 2007. Both have influenced me in different ways, I have fallen out of contact with both but I still feel like I will carry their teachings with me for the rest of my years. Do you have a mentor story? How have they helped you grow?
These are some key poses from the project. As you can tell…AMAZING!!
Museum Sculpture 3
Some more sculptures from the museum of art in lyon France. Really cool stuff! I spent almost all the morning drawing and admiring the museum. It was quite lovely
Museum Sculpture 2
More sculptures from france
Museum Sculptures
This sculpture really caught my eye when I saw it in Lyon France.
Brick doodles in oil pastels
some oil pastel doodles
