D&D Art Order Challenge

Recently I decided to enter the D&D Challenge on The Art Order. I only found out about the event a week before the deadline, so I didn't have much time to come up with something, but I really wanted to try something new. My entry is for Creatures, and I chose to do a tribe cook based on pre-done character references. Creatures are somewhat out of my comfort zone, but it wasn't as hard to do as I'd thought. In fact, I really had fun. I'm going to definitely enter more of the challenges on The Art Order. :)

Animation Studio character designs

A couple of very simple characters for my 2D studio class. The flying pig was my first choice, but it didn't match the audio I'd chosen so I'll probably use it for my second project.

WIP - Horse Model

Something for 3D Animation Studio. It won't make it into my graduate demo reel, but I might put together a 3D-only reel after graduation, simply because I have a lot of material.

I'm not striving to make this horse super ultra-realistic, but I don't want to go the cartoony route either.

[video] Illustrators of the Future Win

This was a nice surprise to receive in my inbox!



I entered the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers/Illustrators of the Future contest in 2008/2009 as just one of the many scholarship opportunities I'd gathered as a highschool senior. When my submission got enough kudos to move onto the next stage, that was cool enough for me. But then I found out I'd be illustrating the short story of another contest entrant and that I would, along with about 15-20 other writers and illustrators, be getting published in Vol. 26 of Writers of the Future. It's a pretty substantial science fiction/fantasy anthology. I feel extremely honored to be included with such a talented group of people!

Unfortunately, I didn't get to attend both the workshop and the awards ceremony for the vol. 26 winners. It was held in 2010 and I'd just begun entering my core classes at college--I didn't want to interrupt my schooling. (Plus, I couldn't afford to stay in LA for a week.) My parents and I didn't think too much of it until we saw this video last week and realized that no, this awards ceremony was actually a huge deal. And now I feel really bad for missing it. (I'm still broke, though.)

But here's the clip with Simon Cooper, whose amazing, enthralling short story 'Confliction' I got to illustrate, and my own segment that I was not present for. I was wowed that they actually showed my other submissions, too!

Commission: Chaos-Master on dA

Here is a commission I finished recently.

Ice Cream

I made this one day when I was craving ice cream but didn't have any in my freezer.

Looks ALMOST good enough to eat, right?

I am getting some weird shading on my bowl, which shouldn't be happening because it's completely smoothed. The bumpmap might be the reason. Or something completely different. I'm still working on it. (Same with the spoon. Spoons have such weird material!)

Life update + Here there be dragons...

Apologies for not posting in a while. I've been doing random art for people as well as personal stuff for myself, and trying to get the hang of LOTRO while polishing up a ton of animations and branding stuff for my portfolio. Less than six months until graduation!

Here's a commission I finished about a month or so ago. 

And ironically 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. I did this for my school's branch of SIGGRAPH.

Hopefully my next update won't be in two months...