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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.

His notable film roles include federal marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and its sequel U.S. Marshals, the villain "Two-Face" in Batman Forever, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, Agent K in the Men in Black films, former Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in Lonesome Dove, Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, a Texas Ranger in Man of the House and rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Jones has also portrayed real-life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes, executed murderer Gary Gilmore, Oliver Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter and baseball great Ty Cobb.

Below is the finished piece ( you can see the process shots on the last post) of Tommy Lee Jones playing Agent K from The Men In Black movies. I created a few custom brushes in photoshop that had a nice texture and painterly look to them. I have to thank Artist and art teacher Bobby Chiu for teaching me how to make these kinds of brushes, I took his painting course at Schoolism.com last year and learned tons. I shared a close-up that allows you to see some of the texture from the brushes.

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Tommy Lee Jones Progress shots

Here are some progress shots of my Tommy Lee Jones caricature. The finished piece will be posted soon:)

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Some sketchy ladies

These were some of Saturday's warm up sketches.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Crash landing in the forest

This is an update on the Forest Enviro concept. Left still very sketchy, but refined a bit in Corel Painter 12.

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Stylized z-brush sketch

A quick Z-brush sketch before bedtime. This one was loosely based on the Gorillas from Kung-fu panda. I carried it over into photoshop for some paintover work, but this was just practice so it remains a sketch.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Forest Enviro

A quick one before bed time. It started out as a speed painting, but I think I will spend another day refining it. Loosely inspired by the Halo franchise. I have to go back in there and refine the forest, and paint out and over the more obvious custom brush work, like the forground leaves. The Leaf brush gave me a good base though and filled in areas quickly.

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Z-brush class with Michael Defeo

I just started a 9 week Z-brush course at schoolism.com with instructor Michael Defeo. Very excited to take these classes, the instructor explains everything in a very user friendly manner. He has done character design for Blue Sky studio's Robots, Ice Age, Despicable Me and much more. You can see his work on his blog, some very cool stuff. http://michaeldefeo.blogspot.com/

The first assignment was to sculpt a rough character bust based on Defeo's drawing. We will be adding hair and other geometry as we go on. Below is the beginning of my assignment.

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I am an Art Director/ freelance illustrator working in the Movie, Comics and Gameing industries. I have also provided graphics for advertisement companies and clothing companies. I am Currently working as Lead Artist for Soul Interface Studios (SIS) and always willing to discuss exciting new opportunities.