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Leaves of Grass trailer

Finally, a "Leaves of Grass" trailer is out starring Ed Norton. I read that it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was considered a top film by Roger Ebert.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKDCh_YX6Rc

Sketching Batman

Just messing around in Photoshop while taking a break boarding BBB.

Some new work

Some work from my current Production Illustration class. A still life at the bottom I did on Sunday using Photoshop. And an interior of a large facility. It's still a work in progress.

Grey tone and color sketch

I've been trying some new stuff and copying techniques this weekend (James Paick-http://scribblepadstudios.com/home.htm - and Gustave Courbet) to try to get better at both environments and painting in general. Not perfect, but a good start. I'm also working on what Ed Li (Disney Studios) spoke about in a class I took recently, specifically dark over light and light over dark (check out NC Wyeth). I'm finding that you can have a fg, mg and bg, but two of the three should be similar in value. The mg can have more texture or less texture to separate it. Any combination of those seems to me to be a winning formula.

The two sketches took me maybe an hour as I have a baby behind me demanding attention by destroying our apartment, throwing our clothes in the garbage and etc.

The grey scale was done with marker and a General's charcoal white pencil. The color was done in Photoshop using an airbrush for the original Turquoise wash and then a wet brush for the warm compliment (learned that from a James Clyne Gnomon video). The greyscale darks are a 7 for the overall dark value with 8, 9, and 10 used to carve out darker shapes and shadows. The background is marker values of 2, 4, 5 with 5 creating the silouhettes and give me atmospheric perspective. In other sketches I did I used a Faber Castel "F" pen to knock out more, smaller shapes.

The class, "Sketching for Environment" was held at the Concept Design Academy in Pasadena. Cool place, cool people.

New gig

Just started boarding on this show. So far it's been the most fun I've had in animation and that's after thirteen years of going in and out of it. I think I'll stick around for a while this time.

Environments

I've been taking a class called "Environment Sketch" with Ed Li (Disney) and this is my final.