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Still Life Textures in Maya

2012-02-21T15:22:00.005-08:00

On the top one I corrected the refractions in the glass bottles, added a little dusting layer to the cherries and mangoes and made the specular highlight on the apple slightly less sharp.

Using only procedural textures in Maya.

Pepsi Bottle and Sign in Maya

2012-02-21T15:17:00.001-08:00

Texture Assignment 1

2012-01-22T15:50:00.002-08:00

Textures created in Maya's Hypershade.
Red Glossy Paint / Blue Plastic / Chrome
Glass / Orange Peel / Brushed Stainless Steel

2011-10-11T21:13:00.001-07:00

2011-10-11T21:11:00.002-07:00

2011-10-11T21:05:00.002-07:00

2005 Ford GT

2011-10-11T06:21:00.002-07:00

Modeled in Maya.

Robot Modeled in Maya

2011-10-11T06:19:00.002-07:00

Frank

2009-08-13T11:47:00.001-07:00

"Holy Rolls of Fat!"

2009-06-23T20:40:00.004-07:00

fat monster blubbery folds attack blob ogre creature alien fatty

2009-06-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

Robot

2009-06-10T22:39:00.000-07:00

robot robotic

2009-04-11T15:58:00.000-07:00

BULGE

2009-03-29T15:41:00.000-07:00

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

2009-03-28T13:10:00.000-07:00

"Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell.
When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You."
After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done."

2009-03-21T14:40:00.000-07:00

Monster With Muscles

2009-03-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

2009-02-24T20:05:00.000-08:00

Teeny Little Super Guy

2009-02-22T19:37:00.000-08:00

Teeny Little Super Guy

You can't tell a hero by his size.

2009-02-07T21:43:00.000-08:00

The Ventriloquist & Scarface

2008-10-12T17:14:00.000-07:00

Batman villain Arnold Wesker carves the face of his alter/dissociative identity, Scarface.
I thought of him when I combined the Illustration Friday word "Strings" with the Drawforce Blog Mission: "Gotham Wild Card".
I guess that technically ventriloquist dummies aren't on strings like some puppets, but you get the connection.

HE-MAN

2008-10-09T11:14:00.000-07:00

A DRAWRING

2008-10-05T14:48:00.000-07:00

Kung-Fu Komodo

2008-09-04T14:06:00.000-07:00

...or maybe Karate Komodo?... Nah...
I really like the Movie "Kung-Fu Panda" so I've had it on the brain lately.
Here's my idea for a Kung-Fu Panda villain. A Kung-Fu Komodo Dragon.

One-Eyed Ogre

2008-06-24T19:54:00.000-07:00

You may not have known this, but One-Eyed Ogres are not very good at Whack-A-Mole.
Actually, pretty much anything with one eye would suck at whack-a-mole.
On account of the lack of depth perception and all. :) .)

Ogre In Progress

2008-06-21T15:07:00.000-07:00

This is my unfinished take on the latest challenge on the Avalanche Software Art Blog.
They took two images of Joe Olsen's and you were supposed to paint them or do your own take on them.
I picked this image:

CLICK the image below to SEE some of the process:

Long Time No Tiger?

2008-06-18T12:28:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I put something on here.
I've just been busying moving into an apartment and starting a new part-time job to help pay the bills.
We went to the Zoo on my wife's Birthday, and some of the coolest animals there were the tigers.
So looking through my Zoo pictures I was inspired to do this.

Just for fun...

2008-05-11T21:42:00.000-07:00

...let's put the lightning and mer-creature in one awesome picture!
YA!!!!
Hey... it kinda looks like he's licking the lightning. HA!
I think I'll call it "Lickin' Lighting". Sweet.

Electricity

2008-05-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

Lightning is great, cause it's just a bunch of squiggly lines. :)

Mer-Creature

2008-05-10T13:59:00.000-07:00

REGULAR:

OR, DRIPPING WET:

Not a big difference either way, but I thought if this guy is aquatic, he should be kinda wet. :)

Creature Still in-Progress

2008-05-08T14:02:00.000-07:00

Creature in-Progress

2008-05-07T21:26:00.000-07:00

Wrinkley Mastiff

2008-04-28T16:55:00.000-07:00

Machine of War

2008-04-21T15:58:00.000-07:00

Creature

2008-04-21T12:07:00.000-07:00

Free Fallin'

2008-03-22T19:01:00.000-07:00

My Museum Display

2008-03-19T21:15:00.000-07:00

Yep... That's right. My artwork is on display at the Getty museum in LA.
At least it was; they probably took it down by now. They have a little drawing room where they give you paper and pencils and you choose from a selection of things to draw. And they have a wall where you can pin up your drawing.

BFA Invitation

2008-03-14T10:04:00.000-07:00

As part of our project, we are required to make and hand out invitations to the BFA Show Reception. Here's what I came up with. :)

Destroyed Stuff

2008-03-11T14:28:00.000-07:00

Construction Site

2008-02-26T13:49:00.000-08:00

Multiple Villain Concepts

2008-02-22T21:15:00.000-08:00

The original silhouettes that inspired the general look.

Environment Sketches

2008-02-19T09:37:00.000-08:00

Scorpion Helicopter

2008-02-01T15:57:00.000-08:00

I thought of a helicopter that had four legs instead of landing skids. And then I thought, what if the four propellers on top could come down to form 4 more legs.
Here's a little visual on how it would transform. (Front view).
Click on the image to see it animated.

Helmet

2008-01-15T20:02:00.000-08:00

Digital Painting

2008-01-02T20:18:00.000-08:00

More Heads

2007-12-14T14:23:00.000-08:00

Some Old Drawings

2007-12-13T16:35:00.000-08:00

Here's some old drawings from a year ago.

Heads

2007-12-13T15:41:00.000-08:00

Drawings

2007-12-13T14:40:00.000-08:00

Gorilla in the Mist

2007-12-02T23:21:00.000-08:00

So I touched it up a tad. I tried to make the gorilla look more powerful and large. I altered his pose (mostly the legs) to make him look less static in the air. And changed the composition a bit. And added a little fog of course. :)

CLICK HERE to see it in progress...

Character Concepto

2007-11-27T14:01:00.000-08:00

Soldiers

2007-11-15T13:57:00.000-08:00

Heads Up!

2007-11-15T10:21:00.000-08:00

I like to do Drawrings!

2007-11-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

Happy Belated Halloween

2007-11-04T23:13:00.000-08:00

Work-In-Progress

2007-10-27T15:16:00.000-07:00

Frog Sketches

2007-10-24T09:34:00.000-07:00

Sketches

2007-10-24T09:24:00.000-07:00

Frog-Rider: The Ride Continues

2007-10-23T20:24:00.000-07:00

Just some slight changes.

Frog-Rider! Oh Ya!

2007-10-21T22:22:00.000-07:00

Master Copy: Greg Manchess

2007-10-15T07:38:00.000-07:00

Copy:

Original:

Head Drawing

2007-10-12T16:14:00.000-07:00

Photoshop Still-Life

2007-10-08T09:55:00.000-07:00

Pirate... ARRGH!

2007-10-03T06:53:00.000-07:00

LadyBug!

2007-09-26T07:14:00.000-07:00

TimeWarp Concept

2007-09-25T16:37:00.000-07:00

So... for my final project, I've decided to do Concept Art.
It will be for a Video Game that I will conceive of as well.
Anyway... the game would be a first-person shooter genre game that involves time-travel. And this is an early visual concept.

Photoshop Painting Sketchimadoo

2007-09-24T10:41:00.000-07:00

Ya ya... I know... it's a flower... big deal.

Character Concept

2007-09-22T14:02:00.000-07:00

Zombie Face

2007-08-29T21:28:00.000-07:00

Sketch of the Day

2007-08-27T15:37:00.000-07:00

Man From Nantucket

2007-08-13T16:42:00.000-07:00

It's coming a little slow, but here's where I have it now.

There Once Was a Man From Nantucket...

2007-07-30T19:17:00.000-07:00

Here's an illustration I'm working on for the fun of it. I was inspired by the Illustration Friday word from last week... "Poem".
I figured I'd post it in its drawing form. And open it up to any critiques (trusting that some of my art peers may actually visit my blog, that is).
So, here it is... have at it!
:)

Twist

2007-06-30T11:54:00.000-07:00

Photoshop Sketch

New York Trip

2007-06-12T17:42:00.000-07:00

DRAWNBYDAVE.COM

2007-05-31T07:18:00.000-07:00

My Site is up (for the most part).

DRAWNBYDAVE.COM

2007-05-16T19:13:00.000-07:00

So... I just purchased myself a domain name. It's drawnbydave.com.
There's nothing on it yet... but look forward to the near future when you can visit my ACTUAL web site.
Oooh. That feels weird to say "my website".
Weird...
I'll get used to it.
I'm excited!
:)

Ninja Croc

2007-04-22T22:05:00.000-07:00

Sketch of the day.

Kowboy

2007-04-19T21:36:00.000-07:00

Sketch

2007-04-03T16:11:00.000-07:00

Here's my original sketch for the piece I did of Swampthing vs. Audrey 2.
Just felt like I should post something. :)

Head Studies

2007-03-28T15:36:00.000-07:00

Head studies in oil.

Villain's Lair

2007-03-28T15:24:00.000-07:00

This is the furnace room of the lair of my "Death-Dealer-inspired" villain.

Doodles: 'nuff said.

2007-03-26T08:10:00.000-07:00

Battlefield

2007-03-14T23:42:00.000-07:00

This is a drawing of an environment I did for my creative perspective class. The only criteria was that it was 2-point perspective and that the environment be destroyed in some way.

Master Copy: J. C. Leyendecker

2007-03-05T09:21:00.000-08:00

Copy of a J C Leyendecker painting. Mine(top) was done digitally.

DaniDraws.com Video

2007-02-13T23:05:00.000-08:00

Here's a video demo of a Photoshop painting by Dani Jones.

Visit her site at danidraws.com.

Illustration Friday: Sprout

2007-02-07T04:45:00.000-08:00

Swamp-thing vs. Audrey II "Ready!... SPROUT!"

Head Studies.

2007-02-06T05:19:00.000-08:00

Head studies in oil.

Drawing Demo 2

2007-01-11T15:40:00.000-08:00

Click to Play

Ryan Woodward

Animator/Illustrator Worked on Spider-man 2 and 3 Storyboards.

Drawing Demo

2007-01-11T14:02:00.000-08:00

Click to Play

Clip of Ryan Woodward's gesture drawing demo at BYUI.

Run, Run, Rudolph

2006-12-05T08:17:00.000-08:00

The Beast

2006-10-22T20:09:00.000-07:00

This is a little sculpture I did to serve as reference to a painting for my media experimentation class.

Oil Rendering

2006-10-14T10:11:00.000-07:00

Oil Lift-Out

2006-09-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

The Gingerbread Man

2006-04-05T23:19:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration Assignment
We were supposed to do a two page spread of a children's book of the "Gingerbread Man" story. Depicting when the cow chases the Gingerbread Man.
Painted in Photoshop.

Panoramic Photo Assignment

2006-03-28T13:02:00.000-08:00

This panorama was stitched together using about 6 or so other photos.
It is of the main gym in the Hart building on campus.

Llama-O-Rama

2006-03-18T17:14:00.000-08:00

"What?! A Llama?! He's supposed to be DEAD!"

"HYa... Weird."