Bouldering the Ka'aena Point Arch

This picture is one of a few taken on a successful trip to climb the Ka'aena Point Arch. A pretty rad basalt landmark on leeward O'ahu.

Bloudering on O'ahu

If any climber is on O'ahu for an extended period of time and wants to try someplace other than Waimea for bouldering, a couple of decent places are the Lanikai ridge trail, and the Helemano Bug Park. The Lanikai has some awkward, chossy V0-V5 routes and Bug Park has a wide range of problems all throughout the dry creekbed (there are a few boulders upstream too). Both are worth checking out for a day if you're in the area (especially Bug Park if you happen to live around Schofield). Here's a couple of topo pics for each. The top is of the Lanikai and the bottom is of the upstream unnamed boulder at Bug Park (I forgot to take a picture of the main wall). 

ogre

silhouettes

silhouettes are pretty cool cause they really streamline the design process. and it's fun to type "silhouette" a lot.

helmet design variant 1

helmet concept

I'm pretty excited after having just gotten a MID and installing alchemy on it. I can't really use a sketchbook at work, but with a MID, I can quickly switch back and forth between art and work related stuff. it also doesn't hurt that alchemy runs like a fucking champ on an atom processor. all my best ideas are at work and I've been wasting them for far too long.

the alchemy doodle is on top and the photoshop paintover is on the bottom.

whoo! new month!

warrior woman

based off of a design by a somethingawful forums member

mother's day pug

a portrait of the family pug for mother's day

character design

another character from "that insidious beast"

That insidious beast

some fan art for this story

GECKO!!!

after almost 3 months on Oahu,island that's supposedly known for day geckos I just today saw one.  it's too bad all I had was my lame-ass cell camera.

alchemy doodle

I gave alchemy a try. I like the way this character turned out, but I'll have to be careful with an abstract program cause I don't want it to become a crutch.

a quick sketch

...that took entirely too long.

work sucks

really heavy workload lately. that's why I haven't been able to update much.

post apocalyptic character

I watched doomsday. stupid movie, but it did serve to get me interested in post apocalyptic characters again.

new art

I had a dream about a month ago. (I know. I take forever to finish anything) it was based on a story I'd like to someday write.

the blue stopsigns of hawaii

today I drove on the scenic Hawaii 3 highway.

I also took some pictures of the beach.

Hawaii photos

I recently moved to hawaii and I have taken pictures of  some mountains and the area around schofield barracks. I'll take some beach pictures when I get the chance to go.

Photos here

finished jabberwok

I took a little time to finish the jabberwok picture. pretty happy with it.

refbot

I reffed a photo from GIS. it was looking kind of boring so I turned the girl into a robot.

I've been working on a picture for a contest that I missed the deadline on. oh well, I'll prob finish it eventually.

monster speedpaint

I did a quick paint over the sketch. I've been watching "The Mechanics of Color with Richard Keyes" and I think it's helped me immensely. I know now that having  cooler colored figure in the foreground creates more contrast than just the tone by itself.

asst. sketches

today I did some sketches from various references. fat people are a pain in the ass to draw.

monster test pose

damn, it's too late for anything involved. I did do a quick non-ref test pose of the monster before bed. as you can see, I haven't decided what to do with the legs design wise. he also has very dainty feet for some reason.

another monster

I tried another sketch of it at a 3/4 view. I way overused textures to the point where I think it's now a bit too muddy, but it was fun nonetheless.

referenced sketch

normally all of my stuff from ref. is pretty bad, but I'm kinda happy with this one. I tried to create soft features using only a hard edged brush and I think it worked out all right.

Monster Design

I've been following along the a creature design tutorial by Aaron Sims from gnomon. he has some really great ideas. here's what I have so far. I have a habit of forgetting shit so I turned an easy 15 minute sketch into an hour long game of erase the underlying pattern because I used a really distinct pattern and forgot to create new layers. I was erasing too much of the lineart so I'm just going to redo the whole thing later. I like the creature itself so here it is:

Drawin' fox news

I have a really nasty spider bite on my ankle which requires me to go to the hospital daily to get the hole in my ankle repacked with gause. I was stuck there again for three hours and what do you guess they were playing on the TV in the waiting room at a military hospital? why, fox news of course! so I spent the time drawing douchey hair and fake smiles.

I DO, in fact, have a blog

      Now that everyone I know has a blog besides me, I think it's finally time to jump on this bandwagon until it collapses under the weight of so many passengers. It will mostly be used to document my progress with digital art but seeing as how I'm about to move to Hawaii, I may throw a few photos up here as well.

   If you stumble upon this blog, please enjoy. I'll try not to emberass myself too much. I'll start this off by adding a (mostly finished) digital painting.