Freakin' Technology! OscarCartoons.BlogSpot.com: April 2012

Friday, April 13, 2012

Artwork with purpose

For ToonCow.com. Subject: Failed Easter.

For SketchyMiami.com. Subject; Select a photo: Jade Deblaker

Today, Friday the 13th, my Creative Director is leaving the company. He's a good man and he deserves this.

I can't resist a good run at Bruce Timm. I admire his style and hope it finds it's way into my DNA.
Here's my try.

Friday, April 6, 2012

For Easter 2012 I created this image. I've always thought everything has a hierarchy, even among icons such as these. Just like Coke is the most popular soda worldwide and McDonald's is more famous than BK, so to are cartoon characters.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Continuing digital painting practice.

As the title states, I'm constantly trying to improve my digital painting technique as well as having a self critical eye towards my work.

I'm happy with this for now and will be ok with it for years to come but knowing what I wish to achieve, visually speaking, and keeping within my many styles of art, I'm still not there.

It's getting there. Less is more in this case.

Be patient and let practice, critique and time dictate where I'm headed.

Things I need to work on:

Cinematographic layout. Making sure all my angles don't always pull the picture too much in the same direction.
Story. I think when you look at this you know what's going on or what happened most recently. As soon as I was done with it I realized what would've been a better composition for the guys in the foreground.
Color. Originally I thought of throwing in a red flag of some sort or yellowish flames in the rear of the downed aircraft.
Vehicles. I definitely need work there. I'm an occasional sci-fi fan but have trouble connecting with my creative side when it comes to science fiction vehicles (without recreating something that already exists in Star Wars or some other flick I've seen).

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Some of my storyboards... ©

Misc. food

Monday, April 2, 2012

My Color artwork

This post includes all my color artwork. As you look through them you may notice the variety of styles my art reflects. That's on purpose. I draw what I like or what the client asks for.

This is another one of my Star Wars parody pieces.

3D conceptual art mockup of a furniture store.

An unlucky passenger. Conceptual.

Personal art for Peñarol.

My version of a Bruce Timm's animated Caped Crusader.

Boston Market

Things that aren't right. Concept.

My digital art for Captain America.

CatScan: The Movie 2001

When things are awkward. Concept.

Epic Badass (search Facebook).

Licensed concept for Scooby Doo ice cream

Me, Family Guy'd.

Concept art for auto parts store.

Quick vector art in Memoriam of Freddie Mercury. Personal.

College sketch. Colored pencil on black Canson paper.

My favorite Ferrari. 308 GTS. I used to watch Magnum PI for the car shots alone.

A friend who's a HUGE Dark Knight fan.

Nissan concept.

Holiday card For Major League Soccer 1998.

My digital art of Hulk.

Concept art for NHL Florida Panthers.

People ask me why when they see this. As in, how did you come up with your subjects? I didn't set out to take anyone apart it's just an image that developed in my mind and I put it to paper (digital). In a way it has to do with the sheer global power of McDonald's more than anything. But it is only ART.