Sketchcrawl San Francisco

I just moved up to the bay area last week to start work at Dreamworks PDI. One week down and it's been pretty awesome so far. This weekend I went to my first sketchcrawl in San Francisco. It was a lot of fun. Here are some of the skecthes I did:

and goro

another page

Hold me, like the river Jordan

I spent most of yesterday watching MTV's marathon of Michael Jackson's videos through the years. I like drawing from the TV so I did these doodles of him as I watched him dance...man can he move. The Olivares family are big MJ fans, My mom raised us on MJ. I think we must have his every TV appearance archived in our VHS collection. I have a Michael Jackson playlist that I listened to a ton this year when I was working on my film and wanted to get into the groove. There's no one like Michael. His music is untouchable. He was such a innovative, inspiring, and passionate artist.

childrens book progress and processsss

So it's my summer vacay right now. I'm spending most my time being a blob and relaxing. I'm getting kinda bored now so I think I'll spend a little time with this color book project I started at school. Here's some of the process thumbsnails.

livingroom

here a little drawing I did back home at the livingroom cafe.

B O

this is my big sister
brooke

figure painting class

here are some paintings I did this semester in my figure painting class.

&

the lovely miriam nagi

Thesis Film, Anchored

here it is, my thesis film...I've been working on this for the past year and a half and now it's finished and I'm graduating tomorrow.

Luke 15:3

Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

When I was first trying to come up with an idea I had the parable of the lost sheep in the back of my head. I really wanted to have a story that was founded with some message or parable. I had a hard time coming up with an idea based of this, and then I just started working on this idea of a man and origami cranes based off a digital painting I had done. The idea sorta fluidly came together after than point and I think that original message kinda worked its way back in. I just really wanted to create a feel good story that I could share with people that might have some emotional value. And I wanted to show how in people's roughest times if you don't focus on the negative God can show you, and use people to show you, an overwhelming hope and faith.

I found these early early sketches

anchor of doubt



and rope of hope:



hope you enjoy!

character design interview

The character design blog asked me for an interview! Here's the link:

Childrens book continued

Thought I'd post my next page for my children's book. My story takes place in a Peruvian shanty town. My girl collecting colors lives in the bright pink one. I think its pretty much done...I could keep getting lost in all the houses but I think I'd like to move on to some more pages.

and here's some of my process:

childrens book

this is the first page of my children's book. Not sure whether or not its done. There's not text yet, but I'll get around to that later. This is my girl who collects colors. She's chillin in her house with her piles of objects of the same color.

india class doodles

thesis preview

thought I'd post a still from my thesis, it's all a work in progress...but it'll be done pretty soon now. april 6th...can't wait.

its me

self portrait for painting class

realpaint

So I'm taking a figure painting class. For the longest time the only painting I've been doing has been in photoshop...so this is a nice change.

character doodles

here's some rough character exploration for my children's book class. I'm working on a story about a Peruvian man or woman...(haven't decided yet)...who collects colors.

merry christmas missionaries

Two of my friends back home are currently away from home serving missions.  I've been working on these little digital paintings for each of them for christmas.

one in Tennessee

and another in Buenos Aires

inventor iguanas

I is for Inventor Iguanas

more alphabet book to come...