Capt. John’s Hops Cannon

Here is a cool little side project that was brought up recently.  A fine young man by the name of Steve came to me looking for an illustration of…

“a caricaturist version of (John) standing next to a cannon that is expelling hops.  I don’t care if you make a caricature or draw him anime style or anything, I just want to see it and go, yup, that is John.  The ship, pirate ship, sail boat, speed boat with a cannon, whatever you want to do.”

So here it is. Steve brews his own beers and develops labels for each of his brews.  This will be used as the image for this beer.

“Yeah? Well My God Has A Hammer…”

Assigned to paint a landscape environment, I wanted to do some work on “painting the air,” having a foreground middle ground and background.  Like the “Driver” piece in my last post, I had an idea, made some minor tweaks to the original sketch and this is what happened.  The changes I made were extending the image to be much more vertical by increasing the size of the giant in the background.  Some line work in the background will need to be softer in the final.

Driver

The lighting and color of Drive inspired me to try my hand at painting the shine of an intersection wiped across these faces. I decided to try it with this straight/hard edge sketching style I’ve been playing with. Not a whole lot of process to be shown on this.  I had an idea for what I wanted and, with the exception of some minor tweaks and value adjustments, this is what happened.  I’ll be painting this in greens and reds.

*update*
I intended to paint this in greens and reds. The green light at the intersection shining on the green interior of the car and the red light across from them shining on their faces.  However, after trying a number of color studies a decided to try and blue and purple interior and I knew it was right.

*update 2*

“What do you do?”
“I drive.”

“Anthem” Process

I’m working on a new painting that I’m calling “Anthem.”  The piece takes place during the national athem at a baseball game. I filled a page in my sketchbook of various ideas that I want to paint at some point, and this one stuck out enough to tackle first. I had a different version of this drawn up until the final sketch, but decided that the characters’ stature needed some tweaking.
I’ll do the color study this weekend.

Quick Storyboards

On my way out the door of PC, I was asked if I could draw up some quick storyboard sketches before the end of the night for a group who was taking part in a competition.  The group was working on a number of things for Church’s Chicken. They took first place. Congratulations!

Here are some snapshots of the storyboards.

Paint Studies

I figured I should throw out some studies onto the site that I’ve done but that I dont necessarily want to put in the portfolio section.

Enjoy!

Another Study

Here’s another study I had done that has changed a lot for me in terms of how I paint now.  The steps used are to 1.build in lights and darks first 2.wash over the lights and darks with your base colors and then 3.adding in a number of colors to make it more dynamic such as a hot color before diving into shadow or spots of color to give the base colors a new hue without painting over it.

Here you go!

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