Snowboard Contest and May the Fourth.

Greetings again internet, I am sorry for such a long delay but i have some awesome news! I recently entered a snowboard design contest sponsored by SOS Outreach, Workplace Resource, and K2 Snowboards and I was awarded first place. It was a really awesome experience. Huge thanks to SOS outreach and Workplace Resource for holding the event and K2 Snowboards for providing the prizes. Congratulations to all of the other artists for the awesome designs that were produced.

I am a huge Star Wars fan, and i felt really compelled to do a piece for May the Fourth. I am also a huge fan of J.C. Leyendecker and Norman Rockwell so i decided to do a Saturday Evening Post cover featuring my favorite Star Wars character of all time, Boba Fett. Enjoy.

Mega Post

It has been far too long since I have updated this thing and I have done quite a bit of work since the last post so this is going to be one mega post chronicling the last 6 months. 

Back in 2012 I had the pleasure of meeting two brothers that own a ski pole company based in Denver. They gave the me awesome opportunity to design four ski poles for their 2013/2014 line. The poles are now in stores and are selling fast. To check out the whole line and buy a pair visit www.sickstickz.com

Last fall I also audited a class through my college as an alumni. It was a lot of fun to get back into that creative atmosphere and have a weekly group critique. The next few images are some pieces I did during the course.

 Lava Man elemental character design.

 Space shuttle Vehicle design

Space Cruiser Wreckage Environment painting.

Space Pirate Portrait.

 I painted this piece for my girlfriend over the Holidays. Its a new take on the classic 1970's Star Wars poster painted by the Hildebrandt brothers, featuring our pets.  

I painted this guy in honor of the SIA ski association Trade show being in town in January. His Name is Foggy Dobbins and he is the most aggressive freestyle mogul Skier ever to grace the slopes.

 This is a collaboration piece I did with my good friend Stephen Ehrmann for another crit corner challenge. The idea was to have two characters facing off against each other. Steve and I decided to do Top gun in Space. I painted the blue guy on the right. For more of Steve's work check out his blog here: http://steviejillustration.blogspot.com/ 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to have more updates coming soon.

Arid Character Design

For the newest Crit Corner challenge, and the final in the series, we were tasked with creating a character that inhabits the environment that we have been creating. I chose to design an outlaw character that lives outside of society and opperates on both sides of the law. Enjoy.

Creature design and Figure study

This is a creature that i designed for the newest challenge on The Crit corner. This was the third part of a four part challenge which revolves around building a world and characters and vehicles that belong in that world.

I recently went to the Colorado renaissance festival with my good friend and fellow artist Cayce Goldberg. He has an awesome collection of medieval armor and weapons so i took some quick photos and did this study. Stay tuned for an epic fantasy piece featuring Cayce and his armor soon. 

J.C. Leyendecker studies

I have really grown to love doing master studies recently. It is a great way to improve as an artist. I think J.C. Leyendecker is one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century so I decided to do some studies of his work.

White Power Ranger re-imagined

This is a piece i did a few months back for the very first challenge for The Crit Corner. The prompt was to redesign a character from one's childhood. I decided to re imaging the white Power Ranger as Tom the overweight part ranger for the Angel Grove Parks Service. Enjoy!

Process work

Hello again! I am going to keep updating this thing pretty often in the next few weeks to bring it up to speed with the work i have done and am doing currently. Today i figured i would show some process work on a few different pieces. The first piece is an environment that i did for an online group that some friends of mine started with the intention of helping each other produce some good portfolio pieces. We have started holding bi monthly challenges to keep everyone involved and it has been great practice. The prompt was to design an arid environment that the next three challenges will be based in. I began with some basic thumbs to get some ideas out. Eventually i landed on a giant bridge cuty that is built into a huge canyon.

The second Challenge in this series was to design a vehicle that exists in this environment. I wanted to design a lightly armored scout vehicle to patrol the surrounding canyons, so i did quite a few thumbnails to experiment with shape language and whether or not i wanted it to be a ground or aerial vehicle. I ended up deciding to do an aerial vehicle with three wings. 

Thanks for stopping by! Stay tuned for more updates in the weeks to come.