shh...it's ESTEFAN!

i have the amazing opportunity to work on BYU's student short animation this year, Estefan! it's a film about the greatest hair dresser in the world, an his dealings with a...difficult client. i'm on the style team as part of the design team. it's lots of work to be a concept artist, and i'm loving it! above are early ideas for our title character.

finalish jack characters - fall '10

these aren't done, but they're my favorites from dave mcclellan's concept art class winter '10.

thar mah' favorites.

bear and the bug

meet bear

today, i just wanted to say that i really love painting and drawing outside. i have a plein air class with dave mcclellen and a sketchbook class with bethanne andersen. so, plein air: painting outside. sketchbook: drawing at different locations every class period.

as a side note, we  also found a caterpillar and named him bear. bear the caterpillar.


also, yesterday at sketchbook we went to the bean museum to draw insects. yeah. gross, right? however, i was surprised how much i really enjoyed myself. for about two hours, i listened to my music and drew insects. i was in my own little world and i thought it was rad. here you go.

ps. bear ran off, and i want a fuzzy pet caterpillar. jus' sayin.

jack + beanstalk :: props/environments first pass

every good gardening giant needs his watering pitchers.

and every good king needs his goblet(s).

the giant's cottage: 

inside the prince's castle: 

 the castle/beanstalk:

jack + beanstalk :: animals first pass

jack + beanstalk :: characters first pass

for dave's concept art class fall 2010, we did jack and the beanstalk. i took the story and made it completely my own, which was fun. so, the characters might not look like the typical jack and the beanstalk characters.

had (still having) lotsa issues with mr. king man

scott's suggestion: left two could be the same person

totally had these done before class. sorry for the digital delay and terrible scanning quality!

oh, twicia.

sort of my first real attempt at digital painting! kind of way fun.