Self Portraits '94-'07

Looking through other art blogs, I found an artist who put together all of the self-portraits he'd put together over the years. I searched out all of the self-portraits that I had done and realized I'd completed more than I thought. The first four portraits were drawn in pencil or pen prior to me ever touching a computer to draw. The last two are explorations with the Wacom tablet.

Children's Book Illustration

One of 10 illustrations in a children's book all about getting rid of that monster underneath the bed. I wanted to play with textures and shapes layered on top of one another here and get them all to live in the space of this little kid's bedroom. Coming up with and executing the 10 illustrations was more or less like putting together a movable story on a felt board. I had a lot of fun using two dots for eyes and moving them around or skewing them to create the right emotion.

Go Jazz!

I always got into the team character drawings as a kid. Not sure I picked the best season to characterize the Jazz, but it made for a great desktop wallpaper this year on the Jazz website. I sketched everyone in my sketchbook--sometimes multiple times--after which I scanned the sketches into the computer and tied everything together by redrawing everything with the Wacom tablet. I wanted to leave this looking as if it were drawn with a ballpoint pen, maybe by some fan drawing this all on the inside of his personal pan pizza while sitting on the sidelines watching the Jazz play.

Pretty and Puckered

Based on the traditional mountain folk song of the Southern Appalatians, "Sourwood Mountain."

I composed this drawing right after performing this song with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I drew it in pieces in the sketchbook, put the pieces together in photoshop and redrew everything with the Wacom tablet. I love how adding the flare in the background alludes to the sunrise and how the light bounces off our Blue Eyed Daisy.

My little girl's a Blue Eyed Daisy, if I don't get her I'll go crazy...

Aloha!

Been working on this one ever since I began daily figure sketching. I'm somewhat satisfied with the sketch, but as shown I'm still pushing around the color.

Recording session sketches

From the Sketchbook

Figure reference from Posemaniacs.com

DH.PPT

The look and feel for some .ppt slides I put together for Destination Homes. This is the title slide.

General Conference Sketches

I don't know if I'll ever out grow this tactic. It seems that drawing the speakers during conference is the only thing that'll keep me awake and attentive. Each speaker is only about 10 minutes long so that is all the time I have to try and capture their likeness.

Stand tall for the Alma Mater

Having relatives teaching at the old high school provides plenty of opportunity to supply them with some designs on various things.

Beauty and the Beast musical posters and program covers

Les Misérables musical production program covers

NHS staduim blanket #1

NHS stadium blanket #2

Let's Get Political

I've never done any political cartoons before, but with all the interesting characters this election year, how could I not. These turned out okay, I would rather have had that the level of characterization more consistent throughout, but as it turns out it ranges from conservative to liberal quite appropriately. Go figure.

Logo Concepts

A couple logo concepts for Video Tribute Express.

Family Portrait

What would we do baby, without us?

Heads

This is just a quick study of some very different faces and expressions from women to men to children. It is fascinating to learn about the face and the relationships that all the features have with one another. Stay tuned for my upcoming post titled 'Tails'. 

Ping Pong Sing Song

Where a fan meets ping pong and singing at the Tabernacle on Temple Square. This will come in handy since there is no air conditioning, and it may even prove to be useful during any down time. Did anybody bring a ball?

PWR Electrical Services

Logo, business card, and desktop wallpaper design

My June Cleaver

This picture explores putting a character in an uncharacteristic environment. Still a ways to go to pull something like this off effectively, I've seen it done much better. I decided to make the character have a June Cleaver presence with a little bit of pin up girl attitude in the pose.

Sketchbook

A few recent additions. The lego man is my high school choir teacher.

Figures

A quick study here on figure gestures. It's good practice for getting the shoulder line and hips aligned to make a more lifelike pose.

Snarr Crest

This is the official Snarr family crest. I dug up an old copy in a family book of remembrance. It was an old copy and had been colored in with colored pencil. It was in poor shape. I recreated it in photoshop with some nice texture layers, brighter colors, an updated font, and refined some of the sketched portions with the Wacom tablet. Finished things off with a subtle vignette on the edges for a much more polished look.

Emerge

New business seminar identity

Collateral Design

A small sampling of a brochure designed for some accountants.

Cake Steak. Extremely Rare.

A fun combination of red velvet cake, cream cheese frosting, and a custom designed label make this cake look a lot like steak. Delicious!

Will the Real Joker Please Stand?

Family Vacation to Yellowstone July '08

Olympics 2008

Just playing around here with textures and the Wacom tablet to come up with a fun desktop wallpaper design as I watch the Olympics. The gymnast and the background aren't really jiving together in the same space, but I'll chalk this one up for good practice.

From Conference Sketch to Polished Composition

The sketch above was created during a session of general conference. I liked the look of the organist's face. For some reason organists strike me as having very little career options. Seems to me that at a very young age they decide that they could either be a butler or an organist. I've never seen an organist that didn't look like he could be a butler. Anyway, the final design weaves in many of the little details that I find fascinating with the organs on temple square. So many knobs, keys, pipes, and pedals. These men are amazing musical craftsman. I enjoy the polished look I get from redrawing portions of my subject as vector art in illustrator and finishing him up in photoshop.

Desktop Decor

Draw Everything

Just paying homage to the step-by-step drawings we all grew up drawing. It was a good exercise to get used to drawing with a Wacom tablet.

Framed digital painting

First Recording Session Observations

04.07.08