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Zoe "final"

2012-01-17T01:36:00.000-08:00

Finished the Zoe character sheet that is due later today. Had to nearly pull an all nighter since I picked up yet ANOTHER last minute motion graphic video that consumed my weekend. This one is awesome though cause the wife designed it :D plus having GE in my portfolio was too good to pass up.

Anyways enjoy the sheet

Other character sheets and Zoe refined

2012-01-11T22:10:00.000-08:00

The class was split 6 and 6 between frank and Zoe. He was my "favorite" but I felt that my Zoe would push me more since she is a more "realistic" character which i don't' do very often....

Frank is a volunteer firefighter. With a jacket on loan patched up with duck tape he acts like a hard-ass in front of the other firefighters. But when he gets into the heat he shows his true teddy bear character. Frank is passionate about helping all living things.

Here's the first pitch for Zoe. My professor wanted me to do some variation on her face since he felt it was very pixar-ish. I did about 5 new faces and landed on the second concept you see below. I am happy with her and looking forward to feedback tomorrow :D
Here are the revisions I made on Zoe. Next we move to color...but before then I am going to do some research on her accessories..some goggle and glove design, the little things y'know.

Idna Rough Character Sheet

2012-01-08T22:41:00.000-08:00

First Character sheet is done in rough sketch. after we critique in class I will refine then do a color rendering of the chosen character direction. Stay tuned
Idna is a professional organizer specializing in Hoarding. (Guess where that inspiration comes from.) She is a cheeky British woman who will lose her calm demeanor in the blink of an eye only to revert back to her cheerful smile and diligence. She is also a stickler for enforcing strict organization rules based upon size, color, purpose, and even name of your household objects. Although quite temperamental her overall attitude is bright, and positive.

Character Silhouettes

2012-01-07T20:28:00.001-08:00

Pick your fav

First project from my advanced character modeling class this quarter. I'm amped for this class even though I am in WAY over my head. Basically the class is as follows.

1. Design character from silhouette drawings, min of 25.(Never done this before and that shit is hard until you wrap your head around it)

2. Refine character in style-sheet.(no prob)

3. Render character in color. (no prob)

4. Model from super sculpy. (Luckily this winter break I experimented :D)

5. Model character in Maya (Never used this program OH NO!!!)

5. Detail in ZBrush (We will be learning yes!)

6. Paint CAD model in Photoshop. (Should be no problem)

7. Final rendering in Maya. (hopefully it's similar to Alias...)

But yes this should be a great portfolio piece so stay tuned I will be posting all my character development as well as sketch book exercises.

The refined character (I had to choose 3)

Scultp day 1

2011-12-27T08:06:00.000-08:00

Worked Christmas eve on it and got quite a bit done. Good start :D

Progress

2011-12-24T12:50:00.000-08:00

Bulked out and ready for clay.

Armature ready for bulk and clay

2011-12-23T21:20:00.003-08:00

Yet another new project. I really need to finish this one though cause I want it for my teaser :D

Happy Holidays

2011-12-21T15:36:00.000-08:00

To everyone :D My attempt at the style of Willie Real

Busy busy!

2011-09-18T10:19:00.001-07:00

Hey haven't posted in while cause I've been real busy. Seems like everything always happens at once!

So I am working on a mural commission for a guy up in NY I will post as I complete. Basically it's of him and his 5 family members as Sith Lords. Enjoy :)

My mind officially got blown!

2011-08-30T15:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Inkling.aspx

Crazy Wacom and your technology...amazing O_O

Tweeter

2011-07-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

Just a fun piece for the next issue of a friends indie zine. I haven't done an illustration using Illustrator for some time so it was fun to get back into vector work :)

Sketch dump

2011-07-19T15:16:00.001-07:00

Just a collection of sketches over the past 2 weeks from my sketchbook. I went home w/out any computer but had fun with paper and a felt tip :)

Slug Moster Thing

2011-06-29T09:09:00.001-07:00

A friend of mine introduced me to Stumbler where I found http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/

I started just messing around and my doodle eventually turned into this. Fun tool.

Free Illustration

2011-06-17T14:41:00.000-07:00

Two days ago I was contacted about being an illustrator on a children's book ages 3-5. YIPPIE! I was sent a small brief and was asked if I could come up with something. Below was my submission...done for free.

They told me they went with another illustrator. there goes 5 hours I'll never get back! I told them to contact me again int he future if they have a book that is more inline with my work. hopefully it won't be in vain.

Salesman Pete Completed!

2011-06-15T11:44:00.001-07:00

Finally completed the background for this! Kept the cityscape simpler than I originally started but i didn't want to take away from the characters. Also after seeing a wall hang for a new animation by the Salesman Pete/meet Buck crew I decided to flip the orientation and it worked SOOOO much better. Enjoy :)

Now I need to product a non fan art of this quality for my portfolio...

Indiana Jones

2011-06-13T19:21:00.000-07:00

Just some brush pen practice.

Another Bijou!

2011-06-10T22:35:00.001-07:00

Sketched on paper then inked digitally. :)

I made the google image search!

2011-06-07T19:40:00.000-07:00

So I was planning on doing another Citroen sketch and I started looking for reference images and there was my last sketch! Woot woot I made it onto the first page I'm so proud.

80% meme

2011-06-02T14:23:00.001-07:00

So I found this meme on deviant art where you draw 10 of your favorite characters and those who can guess 80% can become your friends...so are you all my friends?

Highlight below to see the answers :)
1. Aladdin
2. Shaun from Wallace and Gromit
3. Marty McFly from Back to the Future
4. Daggett from the Angry Beavers
5. Tony Chu from Chew
6. Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
7. Bronx from Gargoyles
8. Indiana Jones
9. Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
10. Michonne from The Walking Dead

Bouncing ball

2011-06-01T01:22:00.000-07:00

Just a quick little bouncing ball with a mind of it's own :) Busted it out in about 15min just rough to start to learn my stretch and squash. New it's to refine, apply to character/objects other than a ball, and master....simple right?

Bouncing ball "pencil" test from efmuok on Vimeo.

All colored up!

2011-05-26T00:19:00.001-07:00

Originally this was b&w but I decided to add some color. very subtle still.

Finally a page!

2011-05-25T16:27:00.000-07:00

Completed a random page from my comic...been about two years I've been sitting on this and I'm taking my unemployment time to execute some work.

Jack getting better

2011-05-13T11:27:00.000-07:00

It's getting there.
I'm thinking I am making him too realistic not cartoonish enough. I am learning a lot though and that's what this is about.

Jack model WIP

2011-05-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

So I've spent the last two days watching tutorials online for the modeling program Blender. It's free and will introduce me to polygon modeling which is TOTALLY different than surface modeling which is what I've done forthe past 5 years. It's driving me fucking NUTS!!!
That is what I was able to get done today, it's a good start but there are some weird surfaces and he kinda has a monkey mouth, hahaha. Needless to say I have learned very little and it's going painfully slow.

Here's to my next attempt!

Citroen Bijou Sketch

2011-05-08T00:59:00.000-07:00

So now that I am going into animation...I need to begin to draw things I previously refused to such as cars. Some may find this surprising seeing that every Industrial Designer and their mother loves to draw cars, but not Jeff. Well I do LOVE old cars. So I decided to draw probably my favorite vintage car, the Citroen Bijou in the the style of on of my favorite artists, Willie Real.
Sketched with a colored pencil then inked with my brush pen. I am still learning how to use that freaking thing! I can't seem to get the flow right so my lines are, how about we go with "textured" :)

P.S. I just got a new medium tone sketchpad and I've been having lots of fun with it including a Chew fanart and a fanart of an Indiana Jones fanart I just bought the original of! I will post shortly.

Salesman Pete WIP deux.

2011-04-27T23:42:00.000-07:00

Here's the bad guy and his vacuum. It's coming together now I just need to create a background that I haven't thought about...

I'm not 100% happy with the sleeve tattoo yet and I may rework it after I complete a background...I'll see.

Saleman Pete WIP

2011-04-26T22:13:00.000-07:00

So my newest fan art is underway. I've reworked the comp so many times but I finally found one I'm happy with. This is going to take me a looooooong time. But now that I have the time to dedicate I have been so happy with my recent work. The sketch and color so far has been at least 10 hrs cause I am slow and experimenting. Please enjoy and check back for the final.

For those of you, I'll assume most, who don't know Salesman Pete here you go.Freaking amazing.

Salesman Pete from Salesman Pete on Vimeo.

My NEW new desktop

2011-04-24T01:25:00.000-07:00

Man I am on a fan art roll!!! It's probably all this unemployment that's giving me the time to actually spend on the pieces I've had in my head for awhile. I was really excited about this one so I did it today in one sitting O_O probably took me about 10-12 hours from sketch to completion. Phew! I need to work on my speed.Hope you enjoy this, it should bring back memories to any of you 90's kids out there.

Season 1: Episode 2: Up All Night

The update

2011-04-22T20:04:00.000-07:00

So I am much happier with this one and now I have a new desktop. Sorry Sylvia!
It's more hectic but I got Captain K'nuckles in there and a big ol' pile of candy as well.

Fan art time

2011-04-22T01:48:00.000-07:00

So I've been trying to find a good The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack wallpaper for months now and I couldn't find anything I liked. So I decided to create my own :) Hope you all enjoy.
After seeing it on my computer I felt the composition just wasn't working...Bubbie and Flapjack are both facing in the same direction, there's no overlap, and it is too symmetrical. Here's a quick edit I did but it's too late now so tomorrow I will fix it and re-post. And maybe add Captain K'nuckles....

Apartment partaaaaaay

2011-04-02T22:02:00.001-07:00

Just had out apartment warming party tonight. It was a blast! Looooong day of cooking/cleaning but Linda and I always enjoy hosting parties :)Now please enjoy some tasty photos of the food I cooked for the party:)

Spinach and artichoke dip, with parmesan, mozzarella, and cream cheeses.My friend SillySylvie is from Cincinnati and brought over some Skyline chili so we turned it into a pizza. Nom, nom.

French bread with cream cheese, fresh dill, capers, and smoked salmon.

Spaghetti with home made white wine sauce along with some home made meatballs rolled by hand with love :).

French bread with garlic, olive oil, buffalo mozzarella, tomato, fresh basil, and prosciutto. These went FAST!

The missing dishes not shown because we were too busy eating were two more pizzas. One was a simple mushroom and cheese for my friend Alex. The second was a margarita pizza cause it's my fav :). Sauce was home made but I was too busy to make my own dough again. Next time peeps!

Henri Toulouse Lautrec & Burlesque dancers

2011-03-27T19:15:00.000-07:00

Last night Linda, Sarah, and I went to the Henri Toulouse Lautrec exhibit at the High Art museum.
We showed up on a beautiful foggy night
When we first arrived there was about an hour until the burlesque show so we checked out this...interesting band. To me it was literally just noise, screaming, and feedback but hey some people are into that.
The whole Museum was themed vintage french for the event. Here's Linda and Sarah sitting down in the lounge next to the concert stage.
The burlesque show was okay. I am too short and people wouldn't let me to the front to take pictures so this one was blind as I held my camera over my head. hahah.
After the show there was a 45min clothed figure drawing session. I actually preferred this more even though my drawings didn't come out very good.
Finally the main event! They had these "actors" walking around themed that would interact with you. Here are some photos of the girls and the accordion guy. :)
It was so cool to see these pieces in person, I'm totally psyched Sarah clued us into this event.
And my kick!
Ciao people.

I'm free!

2011-03-27T17:57:00.002-07:00

Free of overbearing workloads, stressful meetings, impossible deadlines, incompetence, depression, and hypertension. I did sacrifice a shitty salary but it's been worth it! My mental and physical health is much more important than a paycheck; for now at least :)

Here are some photos of my last day of work celebration. We went to Top Flr in downtown ATL. They have THE best macaroni ever! i know it sounds silly but seriously that shit is AMAZING!
Here's the whole gang hanging outside after we ate. Jim is mysteriously missing i think he's one of the blurs walking in the back.
During my time in between work and school I am going to spoil myself and actually enjoy life with my wife :) I've turned my portfolio into SCAD and I'm waiting to see how much money I can get. I am also going to to take this time to continue life drawing, from life drawing, and begin teaching myself Maya!

More nudies

2011-02-27T00:17:00.000-08:00

Figure drawing again :)

To help with my confidence I sketched with a brush pen tonight. This was scary at first because once that line went down there was no going back..but in the end I loved the gestures I was getting. So shout out to my friend Sarah who gave me the brush pen!

Completed Walk

2011-02-19T13:33:00.000-08:00

Finally done! I will be editing it down to just the singing sun section for my final portfolio.

F*ck You With a Smile walkcycle from efmuok on Vimeo.

I am unhappy with the hoodie strings...they don't bounce right. Next time

Face Shape Excercise

2011-02-17T22:38:00.001-08:00

So part of my portfolio will be character design. Below is an exercises where I took a simple shape and created a character from it. I had fun with the theme :) Enjoy.

bots turn around

2011-02-04T18:58:00.000-08:00

Here's the first turn around I've completed from a CAD file. This is one of the concepts from my senior project back in school. But I think that it can apply possible as some character work for my animation portfolio so I'm going to make a page for it :).

bots turnaround from efmuok on Vimeo.

Jack's done!

2011-02-03T22:25:00.000-08:00

Still on schedule! My jack turnaround is complete. To be fair it's only a partial but it's enough information :) Now I'll concept out a few facial expressions and scenes then he's ready for color/ the portfolio.

Jack sideview

2011-02-02T21:26:00.001-08:00

Working on a turn around

Space Boy Jack (needs a real title)

2011-02-02T08:45:00.001-08:00

This is a concept for a children's book I hope to write for my new nephew Jack Massey!

Jami, Jack, and my sis

So it's just a concept now but basically it'll be about a boy, Jack, who through his imagination goes into the depths of space and collects alien specimens. Think Calvin and Hobbes meets Star Trek...I dk it's a work in progress.

Animator Jeff?

2011-02-02T08:30:00.000-08:00

To my 9 followers...I'm very excited to announce that I am going to be going back to school for animation! I've been working now for three years designing toys as most of you know but it's been...difficult for me to say the least. I should have known something was wrong when even back in school I didn't find industrial design sketching or fancy product renderings something to strive towards, I always found myself following amazing illustrators and animators instead.

That being said I have applied to SCAD Atlanta and got the opportunity to talk to the animation professor in charge of the graduate program. She was excited with the work I showed her and saw some potential and encouraged me to enter as a grad instead of for another BFA which made me real happy :) I'm going to be super busy for the next month because I have to enter my portfolio for scholarship review and I have a lot of catching up to do before I start school in six months.

Learn Maya,flash, improve my life drawing, actually complete some concepts I've had in my head, storyboarding, read a book on animation principals, and the list goes on and on...

Stay tuned, I need some help. I have joined a life drawing group here in ATL and I will be posting my drawings. Hahah I haven't done this since soph year at SCAD I am so rusty!!!

Computer Trouble

2011-01-02T20:51:00.000-08:00

New comic is posted and it's the first appearance of Tom :) wonderful.

Have fun.

New comic FINALLY posted

2010-12-26T16:21:00.001-08:00

Man between work and the holidays it took me two weeks to get this one out. There goes my strip per week goal!

enjoy :)

Lazy holiday card

2010-12-24T23:46:00.000-08:00

Click for animation

I needed a holiday card but I was too lazy to create something TOTALLY new since I just remembered to do it the day before x-mas...So I took the character designs from my new comic strip and added a little animation.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Web comic page is up

2010-12-11T01:22:00.000-08:00

Decided if I'm gonna do the web comic thing I'll get the appropriate forum for it. Just launched the page tonight check it out here and follow me :) Thanks everyone!
F*ck You With A Smile web comic

first strip is complete!

2010-12-09T17:24:00.000-08:00

Hsuan kinda walked into this one :)

f u with a smile

2010-12-04T23:51:00.000-08:00

A new venture I'm looking to take where I will create little comic strips about stuff that happens in my life. This is a way for me to try and laugh about some of the stressful shit going on and appreciate all the funny things as well. How am I going to create little comic strips when I can barely post to this blog?
...I don't know but hell, I'm going to try!

Website Banner Progress

2010-10-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

Shit is going down so I haven't had a whole lot of time to work on this cause I spent all weekend at work :(

This is the first pass of the vector art. I still have to add some background detail to the pin up paper and the books, stuff like that. Also the colors are arbitrarily chosen so I will go back and fine tune that to make it look all nice :)

Website Banners

2010-09-29T21:58:00.001-07:00

Some concept sketches for a friends website. I did the original illustrations for her and she's doing a relaunch :) She liked the old ones enough to ask me to do the new designs as well so yay!

Comic book is back...

2010-09-08T23:15:00.000-07:00

So for now I am inspired to reboot my comic book...that was never really started.

I've been reading The Walking Dead so I'm up to speed before the show starts this month and it is effing AMAZING! Anyways below are my refined character pencil sketches w/ color in
PS and then some thumbnails I did about a year ago for some panels....I think Adrian still needs work; he's supposed to be kinda emo but now he's freaking EMO. I will rework him but I am very happy with Piper :)

I blocked out the words to not spoil the story :)

Evelyn Evelyn

2010-06-23T10:21:00.000-07:00

Introduced to me by Linda...check it out.
Just a rough sketch in my new sketchbook given as a gift to me from our intern after his trip to China. Thanks man. :)

All of my characters look the same...guess that's why I'm not an illustrator hahaha

Hit Girl Flats

2010-06-09T22:49:00.000-07:00

Hit girl fan piece is coming along slowly...all the flats are completed I just need to add some cell shading to it. :)A detail shot for you...Here's the panel that I'm using from the comic.

What painting is it this week?

2010-06-09T22:44:00.000-07:00

Another one of those children's paintings....this time it's far more playful..here's the actual paintingI saw a Dōmo-kun then Linda pointed out that the character in the painting is a cyclops...so now it's a cyclops Dōmo.So I did this digital sketch right after my meeting...I'll go back and add color sometime.

Little children are creepy...

2010-06-01T22:11:00.000-07:00

Or maybe I'm the sick oneWe have this meeting room in the office where on the wall is about 20 or so small paintings done by local elementary school students. One of these paintings freaks me right the fuck out! So in today's meeting I decided to interpret what I see in the painting. Lucky for the parents of the child it's probably just a little girl playing in a field of dandelions...but I see a scary blue skinned zombie girl.

Upon closer examination it seems sitting across the table from the painting was confusing. Turns out is a dinosaur in front of a lake...hahah I am the sicko

Zombunny...

2010-05-02T19:58:00.000-07:00

Finished... Just can't get motivated to really make a piece over a year old good. I stopped because I didn't like it much. Maybe time for a new one. I'll see.

Zombunny Returns

2010-05-01T00:52:00.000-07:00

Most of you wont know but I went on this little kick where I was doing these little illustrations each day of this zombie bunny. I did it just for fun and would keep each piece under an hour.

Anyways, my friend and coworker Matt finally finished a fan art of my zombunny about a year or so after I stopped drawing him, haha.

But anyways, it is a sweet piece and I think the first fan art of my work so thanks. It also got me missing the undead rabbit so I went back and saw that I had an unfinished illustration, one that I was doing in illustrator.

I think I'll try and finish it out this weekend and post.

Core 77 Feature

2010-04-28T21:02:00.000-07:00

So tonight I was just sitting online and Zarni messaged me and told me I was feature on Core77's home page today, hells yeah! Glad he caught it because I rarely check into my Coroflot and almost never stop by Core77. Because most of you wont read this tonight I grabbed a screen cap...should this go into my portfolio?

Tattoo Concepts

2010-04-15T21:57:00.001-07:00

I haven't posted it here but people at my work have seen some of my concept sketched for my tattoo.... I think #3 might be the final one. It's a merge of a few concepts liked by both Linda and I :) Number 2 is getting into the invader zim territory so I'm not really digging it.

The critera...
- Robot
- Tell a story of my life (personal sorry people!)
- Oddly enough it had to be cute or playful
- Highly graphic

Long Time Coming

2010-04-13T13:54:00.000-07:00

Today's meeting was uber boring. Recently we've been very busy so I haven't had time to sketch during our meetings since I actually had to work O_O

red and black pens

...influenced by the amazing Willie Real and Geoff Peterson...OH YEAH!

MITW Completed!

2010-03-24T19:54:00.000-07:00

Finally I am finished! Well, until the client makes a change ;) But seriously she really liked it so hopefully Linda will lay the text out for me and we'll be completed. I'm actually really happy with this one I think it improved lots since last year.

Also, the festival people talked about maybe making t-shirts with my little ent on them so that will be cool. I want so badly to sew up some plushies and sell them at the festival but I already have so much on my plate. Work is fucking nuts with 17 new toys I'm responsible for designing and or managing out, I've started a second secret blog (if you're interested private message me), I still need to finish Bernie's poster, I just moved into a new apartment this past weekend and I need to find some time to repair/clean the old one, I've only lost about 8lb of my 30lb goal, trying to play more guitar, and I'm less than 1/2 a year away from getting married. Fuck me.

Anyways, how's life for all of you my five readers?Good that's awesome! In light of the festival I shall share with you my other, other, blog, well vlog?

I suppose this one isn't so secret but here I am, efmuok, being an emo fuck. (Now my handle is exposed!) But I don't play in front of people anymore...well not without my web cam so you won't find me playing at the festival only watching:) ciao people!

Sunflower Girl

2010-03-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

So I actually did this digital painting as a gift for Linda's folks. I'm pretty sure it's not their style but Linda liked it and it'll be hanging in her room in Taiwan, hahaha.

I actually really like this painting even though the girls ear is way low...need to go back and fix that. Lets be honest though, I probably never will because I'll move forward onto a new piece. Maybe that Wicked fanart in my brain? Anyways, I went from sketch to painting in one night before we flew out to Taiwan so I'm happy for it being a speed piece.

Plus it looks good on my wall as well!

MITW Update

2010-01-25T18:29:00.000-08:00

Whadup? So I have a quick post tonight on the Music in the Woods poster. I waited a week or so for some feedback on my thumbnails...and heard nothing, so I went ahead and started on concept number 6. It was one of my favorites and was well received. So I started painting it and of course when I was like 50% finished I find out that they like concept 3! WTF?! Well here's my progress so far and i think i will do both 3 and 6 because I like where 6 is going and I think it'll be a better poster!

Concept 6 Progress

Music in the Woods

2010-01-18T20:56:00.001-08:00

Yes, yes I know it's been a long long time since I've posted. I'm sure all 5 of you that might be following my blog are probably dying to know "Jeff what have you been up to?" Well things have actually been busy.

Being that I'm engaged, this winter break I took my second vacation to Taiwan to put in some face time with the future in laws but more importantly RELAX. Fuck I was seriously stressed out at work and a little depressed. I'm much better now :)

Where's whitie?

Also I was e-mailed to build a website again this year for a Harvard law school club since they like what we (Linda, Ming, and I) did last year. So that's some extra cash I will need for sure to filter into the wedding...or maybe some tattoos. But no, mostly likely to pay down my credit card after that ring O_O shit's expensive!

Finally, I'm trying to lose about...30lbs for the wedding. I was doing pretty good before the Taiwan trip, I had lost 9lbs but I need to get back into my routine. Jon that means I can't eat all that fast food then falling asleep on my sofa.

Now onto what this post is about sans my boring introduction...

The Music in the Woods! Lets see, how to explain this? Linda's studio manager is friends with the person that runs the solar music festival in Greenville SC; Music in the Woods. Last year they held a design competition at Linda's work for the graphic designers to design the poster. I entered with Linda even though I'm not technically employed there and like a couple of assholes we won...haha but this year the festival organizers would like to use my little tree ent guy as the "mascot" for the festival so I'm doing the poster again. Here's my process thus far and I'll make sure to post as it progresses.

So I began with a bunch of quick thumbnails...Then chose my favorites and sent them over to Linda to check out. After that we both agreed that 3, 6, and 9 were the strongest to pursuit.

Thumbnails

The difficult thing is that they want to list all the bands...last year there was about 15 or so. The list must also be editable in a PDF format by someone who isn't a graphic designer. Basically they want the bands in a very simple column and then a map with directions...

Last years poster

So from there I took concepts 3,6,and 9 and whipped up some cleaner digital sketches to send off to the MITW people to review. I personally love 9 because I have in my head how I want to paint the sky...but 6 is my second favorite! 3 is just an update to last years poster.

Concept 3

Concept 6

Concept 9

Hope you all enjoyed and check back because I plan on updating more often. We've started our wedding planning and I'll probably post up some stuff.

I'm back....and engaged. Holy shit.

2009-09-12T22:16:00.000-07:00

Yeah it's true.....I popped the question and she said yup. Well it was more like a "Yes you idiot of course!" I think anyone who reads this blog has access to face book so check out my fiancé's page to see the proposal. And wow that sounds so fucking weird to say....fiancé. Anyways, i will post this gif I made to embarrass her. ^_^

Blogger doesn't support animated gif so click here!!!

Now onto the post. A friend of mine contacted me about a tattoo he wanted. I've know this guy my entire life so I'm stoked he asked me to help design it. This is the first concept.

His request was very broad so it left lots of room for me to sketch which was great. I knew it had to be a tree that was alive but starting to die with some falling leaves and that it would go on the side of his torso (ouch!). I hope he digs it and I'll continue to post as it gets updated. I wasn't' sure if he wanted color/shading or not so I sketched with a pen to keep strong line work that color and chiaroscuro could build off.(chiaroscuro...yay intro to drawing class!)

Doodoo what you want

2009-08-11T18:53:00.000-07:00

It's sketch-a-meeting tuesday time! Man how the dull repetative week flys. Enjoy this post and please...never work simply for a paycheck

Can you find the hidden message?

A day in the life of efmuok

2009-08-06T22:58:00.000-07:00

My sketch for this weeks sketch aerobics homework :)

it was done quickly but I think it might be fun to clean it up a bit with some color...and if you repeat this 5 times you get a week in my life.

P.S. I just noticed that I am missing my beard in one of the panels...haha oh well.

I'm a cat!

2009-08-02T20:32:00.000-07:00

Lucian is always up to no good when it comes to changing our bedsheets. Typically we resort to locking him out of the bedroom where he sits and whines because he wants to play under them.

He starts by bolting into the bedroom when he hears us shaking the sheets and dives under...

"Ooomm. They're warm and smell good!"

As we cover the bed he keeps running under the newly tucked sections eventually resulting in this

Lucian come out. "No!"

Please? "No it's too cozy!"

Now once fully under the sheets if you try to pull him out he starts running away on his belly, meowing, and growling at you all "No! Leave me alone!!! I'm hiding in here go away! O_O!"

He was pretty rambunctious that night and I later found him staring at his own shadow when I went to feed him before bed.

"Meow. Peter Pan was an idot!"

Sketch Revisited

2009-07-30T18:42:00.000-07:00

This is a sketch I did awhile back. Decided to turn it into a speed painting exercise. Enjoy.

Is your creativity supported or stifled?

John

2009-07-29T22:26:00.000-07:00

I'm going to revive my blog as a mean of continuing my effort of completing an illustration or sketch per night. This is my first post in almost a year!

Mi nombre es John