Theo's art.

MOAR pastels!

2011-04-27T18:34:00.001-07:00

Some new stuff...

2011-03-16T17:09:00.000-07:00

Pastel Process

2011-03-09T15:58:00.001-08:00

So I'm taking a pastel drawing class this semester, and it turns out it's a very interesting medium. It's more forgiving than I thought actually, and it's colorful!
I decided to take pictures of my process since it's a new medium for me and I'm sharing it here. It's basically what I took from Bill Maughan's demos and explanations plus the addition of different colors, which he hasn't covered in class yet, where we're kind of still supposed to use flesh tones.
Bill's work: http://www.easelpainter.com/

Not dead, still breathing

2011-03-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

Been a while since I posted, so here's a couple new paintings, the nudes, from class with Zhaoming and then a painting of Hsin Yao I did last semester, which will inspire one of the characters for my (future) book project.

Thx for stopping by (san diego... lol)!

skinny knight vs giant mushroom forest protector

2010-11-06T21:27:00.000-07:00

I have a hunch on who's gonna win this one, but I won't tell you =]
It's kind of a step-by-step assignment, so for monday it's pretty much done (even though I'm gonna color them). Next week we add an environment.

Yep this is also for me book story fantasy thesis whatevs whatevs...

Fall update

2010-10-29T15:48:00.000-07:00

So Halloween is about to make everyone go crazy... On a personal matter I figured it'd be nice to stop taking the lazy pill and photograph some of the works I've been doing this semester. These are from portrait painting with Zheng Fu Lu and from situation and environment class with the amazing Zhaoming Wu, not to mention the awesome classmates from whom I've been learning quite a lot as well...
Anyways, hope these aren't too bad. Been trying hard to make my colored canvases look like actual paintings...

Princess Sophia

2010-10-04T02:02:00.001-07:00

For class and very likely for my book =]

Days of Peace and Pints

2010-09-20T19:56:00.000-07:00

Drawing from imagination is a pretty fun class, and Stephen Player makes it go smooth and interesting. This is a one point perspective exercise which I tried to make into an image for the Alenkhar story. My plan is to have 3-4 illustrations related to that by the end of the semester to which I can add the logo of the book and turn them into project covers or teaser image/posters for the whole project.

Sketch

2010-08-21T17:01:00.000-07:00

Long time without posting. This is a fun dude I kinda liked and decided to scan and share. I'm leaning towards coloring him in illustrator and try to get an animation feeling to him.

Fantasy Earth Contest Warrior

2010-06-17T10:53:00.001-07:00

This is a work in progress. Deadline for submission is 11:59pm friday, so I'll be finishing him on these next couple days... About 75-80%....

Would love feedback on it =D

Rogue Fanart...

2010-06-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

To pass the time... maybe 90% done I'll finish at some point and update it...

Alenkhar

2010-05-07T19:10:00.000-07:00

TGIF! Finals kicking in and the motivation is already flying ahead to the next semester. Cant's stop thinking about the story I want to write for creative writing class =]. And the best part of it.... being in Brazil with the folks and the bros while working on that !!!

These characters have a rough blurry but absolutely confirmed spot in my story =D. The portrait took a little longer to do since I tried to flesh and render him a little. The other dude is just a mess. Loving them both so far. Will surely flesh both of them out during the break. Little main character girls coming soon ... Thanks to my instructor Kristan Le (she's great) for the triple-pony-tail-karaoke-singing idea for the main character!!! LOL

Hope everyone has a great end of semester and a fun break!

* If u're asking urself "wtf where's the dude's arm?" The answer is I have no idea (yet)
**edit** Newer version for Shabbah the crazy giant god of something that I'm not sure what is... that he's god of... sigh

character silhouette

2010-03-28T15:34:00.000-07:00

The writing is supposed to mean "Cancer" in Greek. Gotta trust google I guess. I'm enjoying this b/w shape so I'm gonna flesh this guy out on whatever extra time I got between assignments. This will be added to what will hopefully become my thesis project which will include creating 24 characters, 12 for the zodiac signs and 12 for the chinese year animals. So yeah, any comments are welcome!

Hope yall students had a fun loving spring break and are ready to get back to it!

Girl with the Tattoo

2010-03-10T10:04:00.000-08:00

This was fun. The photo is horrible and was taken under artificial light at night. I've worked more on her feet, legs and hand, to create a nicer flow to it. I'll take a better pic soon and remove these excuses lines. =D

Charcoal yum yum

2010-02-22T01:32:00.000-08:00

this is an example of how to NOT draw hands... And I hope below is an example of how to YES draw hands, lol....

I'll put the finished version here once I take a pichurr.

Feet study. This was much quicker than the hands due to a boring essay I had to write during the weekend and also cuz I wanted to try being faster and less worried. I like the outcome.

In-class drawing. I'll be drawing this model again for the long 2 week assignment. Really dig the tattoo on her arm.

L8uh

blade mistress

2009-12-09T20:59:00.001-08:00

Or something like that.. this is more fun than I had in a while tho, and that's why I'm sharing the WIP. It started with a weird sketch that was inspired by 2h of deviantart browsing (which means it's 99.7% manga/anime oriented). She had a way bigger head/hair before I went over on the second round of detailing/paint-covering of her head.

I just like the fact it's just a girl and all I get to play with is the sexy and the "scy-fi-ish" part of it. Oh yeah. Another thing I tried was to keep the colors planned out before I went too crazy. Gonna be trying to work with dark and muted blue-greens and bright strong red-oranges.

*edit* Just called it done and here's the product. Don't want to be spending too much time rendering something that's just a concept study. I did enjoy it a lot tho =D.

Cheers! Have sum beers!

Erm...

2009-11-11T18:52:00.001-08:00

I had a teacher that said very loud and clear in class: "Don't make a blog if you don' t update it at least once a month. People will think you're dead. And that's a bad thing". I agree. Business can't go well if clients don't know you are alive to paint for them heh.

Along with other watercolor stuff that I'll post shortly. I've been working on this digital painting of a faerie. Random subject. Just wanted something that would make me sit and paint. I'm happy with how it looks right now, maybe I'll work on her hands a little. I'm open for suggestions.

Cheers!

Mastablasta!

2009-08-06T15:41:00.000-07:00

So I've done this work for a client in the UK!!! Very nice easygoing fella. This is an album cover for two rappers of my client's music record or something like that. Their sound is pretty cool and the album will be available for free download soon from what I understood. Anyways, it was lots of fun and here is a look at how it came out.

Noel Xmas Card

2009-07-20T19:27:00.000-07:00

I was blessed with being picked to work on this chrismas card. My client was very cool and specific so it went really smoothly throughout the whole process. This was my first official freelance in the U.S. after graduating, so I was kinda nervous about how it would come out, but I like it and so does my client, so yay for xmas!

The illustration has different color options for the kids clothes as well, and also a version without the heads, so that people can put their kids heads on top of the bodies =D. The headless version looks a little bit creepy so I'm not gonna post here =D.

Cheers everyone and a great summer.

Theo

Wanna Play?

2009-06-27T19:02:00.000-07:00

I'm currently starting to color this sort of pinup girl sketch at the beach. She looks like she needs a buddy to play!! LoL

Cheers!

Another WIP =D

2009-06-03T01:56:00.000-07:00

Anne Hathaway is just really gorgeous so I went after a nice picture of her to study from. I definitely need much more greens in her flesh to keep going, I just realized that the photo has her lit from the surroundings yellow greens, which make it harmonize. I might try changing it to blues tho...

Here ya go.

Hawt Wheelz

2009-06-02T03:02:00.000-07:00

Last week I was surprisingly contacted by a guy who's creating a new brand for car racing gear and apparel. He wanted me to illustrate a few characters wearing what would be the stuff. I think that at some point in his meetings with partners they decided to go with another artist (all I know is they had more than 3 to start with), but it's still a pretty cool setup to try and paint some pinup girls or just practice some "photoshopainting".

This is a WIP of something that I hope to finish soon. I'm liking her. I'm enjoying experimenting new techniques.

Eric Cartman or Stewie Griffin? I'm really not sure who's funnier.

Have a good break pplz!

Female Eriah

2009-05-17T21:50:00.000-07:00

So... A little bit sad, lil bit disappointed, but life goes on. School ends and the real deal is somewhere out there, I'm just trying to find it =]. For now, I'm trying to keep myself busy working for an old archived game project of a brazillian friend of mine. Maybe if I show him some cool characters and environments, he might get motivated to finish it off and all ... All and all it's good practice, and I'm trying blend a couple of different photoshop techniques with what I usually do, it's been fun so far.

this is how the progress is going. I still wanna work much more on the background and I feel like the main character needs to have some of her details read better

Springshow prayers =]

2009-05-04T14:02:00.000-07:00

This year I'm submitting 5 pieces to the show. Hopefully they won't all fail, but who knows. Even if nothing gets in, I still enjoyed working on and some of the results. Below is one of the submissions, which is a 20x30 print of some characters for the steampunk aladdin project.

Steampunk Aladdin

2009-04-22T15:21:00.000-07:00

So I've gotten those two characters that I was developing for a Prince of Persia concept, and put them into a steampunk aladdin concept. It's going really fun so far,
I'm happy to be working on it right now.

No sleep last night but I am almost fully satisfied with the results, with a few changes to make in some of the characters. That's how the prints looked for review in class.

doodle

2009-04-20T14:34:00.001-07:00

litte 20 min doodle while bored and tired of flash in illustration 3 class. Meh I kinda started adding saturated colors to make it fun but I'm not sure it wasn't enough... I'm just terrible with colors..

Final Poster

2009-04-01T22:44:00.001-07:00

So this is the poster after painful hours of illustrator. I don't think it stands a chance on the actual competition since it's so crazy and senseless, but it's a fun looking crazy piece lol. Go aliens! [and monsters]

Ennui

2009-03-24T01:38:00.000-07:00

This is a piece I'm working on for my Honor's portfolio class. It's about a sonnet by Sylvia Plath: Ennui. I had a fun time trying to come up with some sort of interpretation for that sonnet, it's something very unusual to me to try and illustrate something like that, but it's been fun so far. That's my color comp. I might do the finish in oils, the wacom tablet is starting to hurt my hand =P.

Added a new comp which I will probably be working from, if approved. This one gets back the idea (not shown here) that I had on the thumbnail stage, where the trees are all aligned and kind of suggest a prison cell. Kazu said he prefered it that way, and I think he has a good point.

Portfolio class

2009-03-20T14:26:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a "my version" for the characters of the new prince of persia game, by Ubisoft. This would be the prince, or almost that, I might add some more work to him if I get the time.

* Added a 'sorta' finished version of the princess, Elika.

- Yes, I know. -

Haight Ashbury street fair

2009-03-09T21:39:00.000-07:00

So for illustration 3 we got a cool assignment which will be submitted by our teacher Gordon Silveria to the Haigh Ashbury street fair poster competition. It will be finalized in Illustrator (or I'll try to). Some craziness, some hippieness, some whateverness. I think it's got a point. Or not, but still having the point of not having one, maybe.

Games, fun, drawings

2009-02-05T00:08:00.000-08:00

Besides making up bad jokes and drawings, I also really enjoy playing video-games. That might be one of the few things that I'm not that bad at =], like shooting three pointers maybe, or slam dunking in the good old days heh (that was fun)...
Anyways, I'm trying to get my pieces to kind of focus in a portfolio for the gaming industry, so from now on, I'll be trying hard to bring the class concepts/assignments to be something that could be appealing to those companies.

Blizzard's World of Warcraft is a big hit and there's about a dozen million of players around the globe, including me, who enjoy pretending we're badasses with cool powers, or badass shields good enough to keep us from being completely crushed by a giant dragon's bite. Well, here is the drawing for this assignment, I had a lot of fun putting up details and trying to make the characters very different from each other. I made it into a "WoW" theme, trying to bring up that challenge and see if I could match up with the beautiful art standards of that game.
I should have the painting of it done before next tuesday, so I'll post it here, as well as some turnarounds and stuff.

Cheers! Have a beer!

**edited**

I've added a couple colored images, one with some color and a very rough background, and the other a little more finished with the background worked into something with a little more shape and story to it. I'm liking it. Tomorrow I'll put some more hours in it to really finish that one and move on to the next challenge =P.

ILL2 final

2009-01-25T22:43:00.000-08:00

Yep a bit late on this one. Anyways, i was going trough some stuff and I felt good about this project. I hope I can move from that to something a lot further this semester, which is my last official semester, so I gotta come out somehow with some good stuff.. Anyways. This was a project that kinda lasted for 3 weeks, counting character creation, concept and all, and one week to make that cd cover in watercolor (the cover is actually a photo of the watercolor with some leveling of values in photoshop). Oh, and forgive me for some bad english mistakes like "deers" as the plural of deer, live and learn I guess!

In ILL3 I'll be working mainly with computer and that does make me quite happy. Hope to see some familiar faces around! Later =]

winter break!

2008-12-22T17:52:00.000-08:00

YAY!!! Right now I'm writing from a classy United Airlines lounge waiting for my filght to Brazil on business class!!! I got the upgrade for free as an excuse from them, I guess, since they made me lose my connection to Sao Paulo yesterday... I really wish I was already there over all this free drinks and internet stuff... maybe the seats will be really nice on the plane and I'll change my mind, but w/e, I feel a bit special..

Anyways, the semester was awesome and there's so much to upload here, and most of it I just left at home in SF, and will only put it when spring semester starts. Right now I managed to treat up my final painting for figure painting class. It was a very fun 3 class assignment and I felt overwhelmed with the work since it was my first time painting on that size, which is 30x40 inches. There's still a lot of openings for work on that to make it look better, but I am pleased with the overall look of it and the color palette. I also really loved the models and their poses, it's just really nice and added a lot to the storytelling aspect of it.

Enjoy!

Change

2008-12-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

I changed the colors of the blog cuz I was tired of the other colors. I hope it doesn't look too much like poop now. I like it. It feels like western/cowboy/leather/traditional to me, which makes no sense cause i'm not western, not a cowboy, don't wear leather and I'm definitely not traditional. I do like horses tho, a lot... Who cares? The pope? I don't know, maybe I care and so forth I changed. The title is also new and it was really hard to come up with, believe me. So many paintings to put in here, and such laziness to do so... I wonder which will win...

I should be doing homework so I guess I'll get to it... DALE GREMIO!!!

Angelina Jolie

2008-11-11T15:44:00.001-08:00

This was an assignment where I both had fun throughout the thinking process as well as I learned a lot about rendering with watercolors. There are so many mistakes showing through the piece, but still it reads, and I think that's the beauty of watercolor, making those mistakes look nice and not try to overwork them.

Anyways, the assignment was supposed to tell a story with a few elements, so I have a poster that tries to summarize the important things in the Angelina's life right now.

Ellyl

2008-10-09T02:23:00.000-07:00

This faerie-type thingy is a creation of a friend of mine from brazil, and I had the job to design and now paint it. I think the project is not really ongoing right now, but still i wanted to paint this for a few reasons. First, to practice a little bit of the skills I am getting in class and see if I can apply them on a different medium and subject (been painting ladscapes and nude figures a lot). This is quite a bit stylized and mostly if not fully from head (the drawing was done quite a while ago).

It was fun, and quicker than i expected. So there ya go...

Master Copy

2008-09-26T15:44:00.000-07:00

today I turned in my master copy, which was done from a Bouguereau painting entitled "Evening Mood" (google it! =D). My version of it looks something like below. I'm happy with it, but once again, with more time into it, the piece could look a lot better.

More from Italy

2008-07-15T13:27:00.000-07:00

This country has been awesome so far.
I finally took pictures of more paintings and what I did is I created an album on picasa for the paintings so just click on the link below to check them all out. Soon I want to take pictures of the sketches I've been doing also, I just want to get a little more done before I post it.

Ciao!

Italy paintings

2008-06-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

So today I was finally happy with my painting. It's a very long way to go still, but it's a start. I guess that it was the most fun and successful of my paintings so far because I used the background more as information of value and color then any sort of details.

Italy has been great and everywhere you look is just gorgeous and people are also really nice. Today this old lady who lived in a house where we were painting came and offered her bathroom for people to use and also served us coffee! I didn't have any coffee because it was so hot!!!

Anyways, here are my first 5 paintings from italy, the top one being the one I talked about.

First pictures from Italy

2008-06-21T09:33:00.000-07:00

So I created an album on picasa today, where I'll be storing all the pictures I take during this trip. Picasa seems to be really easy to use so I hope everything goes right. I got a lot of pic from Perugia and some from Corciano, where I'm staying. These places are unbelievable.

Italy 2008

faerie tatoo

2008-06-06T16:52:00.000-07:00

This is a drawing I'm working on for a close friend's girlfriend (who's really cool and obviously I'm also friends with). She asked for a pose kind of hugging her own legs. I'll send her this link so she can approve it for finish and color.

fresh start

2008-05-27T00:20:00.000-07:00

mm...
yeah umm.... I've tried a bunch of things when it comes to, like, putting some of my stuff online. All the students from school seem to be using blogger and, i have to admit, this does seem very nice and simple.
I'll start here by posting my final for Illustration 1 class, which I was very happy with and is probably going to be used as an illustration for the book that I'm starting to sketch.