BLUE CHRISTMAS

. Happy Holidays! This is the ogre Santa arriving in the Shrek household on Christmas Eve; an early concept piece painted for Shrek the Hall...

Painting process for The Prince of Egypt

. . Color exploration. . . Color key. . . Completed background painting. Layout by Armen Melkonian. . . Final scene as it appears in the mo...

. . Flowers from last Summer. Charcoal. . .

. . Painted for Road to El Dorado (2000) in acrylic. Copyright DreamWorks Animation. .

. . . . Sci Fi_ish sketches in acrylic. And since we're on the subject, how about another round of Science fiction recommendations from...

. . Mike. Watercolor and gouache in a 12"x 16" heavyweight craft paper sketchbook. .

40 MINUTE STUDIES

. . . . . . A long drawn out portrait study is good practice but sometimes the shorter poses are equally so. They force you choose which ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

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. . Mike. Charcoal and white carbothello pencil on strathmore charcoal paper. . .

. . . . Here's a color rough and the finished scene painted in acrylic for the animated film The Road to El Dorado (2000). Copyright Dre...

. . . . . . Photoshop roughs. . .

Color Design Workshop on Nov 8, Ten week Head Drawing Course Begins Oct 20

. . If you're in the LA area and want to refine your color and drawing skills, you're welcome to join me for a couple of upcoming ev...

. . . Fun with acrylic. . .

. . A painting I did for the animated movie Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron . This scene is set in Bryce Utah and was designed by our fabu...

. . Karen, compressed charcoal on newsprint. This is a 40 minute sketch using the same approach described in the previous post. . .

Head Drawing Demo

. Clark Allen. Compressed charcoal on rives lightweight paper. This demo will specifically address the challenges of representational life d...

. . . . My class is studying the rendering of facial features in light and shadow this month. Grouping and simplifying is usually more effec...

. Something I did many years ago to figure out how to use india ink. .

. . . . This is a scene from the Prince of Egypt. It was designed by layout artist Guillaume Bonamy . I did the preliminary color sketch (to...

. . Brandt. Gouache in a craft paper sketchbook. . .

Composition Workshop on Saturday August 16th

, If you're in the LA area and would like to refine your composition and painting skills, you're welcome to join me for an upcoming...

. . Watercolor demo from class last week. . .

. . Pond in Angeles Crest Forest . Watercolor on Arches cold pressed paper. . .

. . Eva. Gouache in a heavy weight craft paper sketchbook. . .

. . Something I painted for The Prince of Egypt way back when. Copyright DreamWorks Animation SKG. . .

. . Paul. Classroom study in oil. . .

. . Jenny . .

. . Rajive. Watercolor on heavyweight craft paper. . .

. . Class demo. We were looking at making a quick, simple statement of a costumed figure with shape, value, color and composition. . .

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