aNother iPhone sketch!

Another iPhone sketch! 20 minutes while on the busride home. I keep forgetting i have this app.

SATF original sketches

me, grant, nick, and chris will be including original sketches for a limited supply of spider and the fly books. They'll be numbered and signed. The ones above are my contribution to the stock - it'll be neat to see the other guys! they'll be in an envelope, so you'll randomly get a drawing (can't pick) - but i think that adds to the appeal to it... everyone's sketch will be different if they opt for the limited ones.

we'll be selling these at wondercon this year - we have a booth!!!! but we got a limited supply :( i know a few of you can't make it but want me to hold a copy - i might not be able to do that just because of our low stock, but i'll see what i can do post wondercon in getting you a copy!

here's one of the pages from my section - i think grant, nick, and chris may have posted similiarly on their blogs:

Spider and the Fly

So this upcoming wondercon, a group of friends and I have put together a book! What started out as casual conversation during our brunches at GoldenCoffee Diner has turned into a really fun project for us all.

Grant Alexander
Nick Stohlman
Chris Carman

these guys are awesome, and a hoot to hangout with. We went through a list of themes and all decided to do something with Spider and the Fly, each putting in our own interpretation.

Here's the book cover! Hope you guys pick it up!

SGN's Skylinks Art

(above: MechPilot colored/designed by heather messegee, robots colored by Shaun Pendergast, designed by Albert Truong)

(above: UI frame colored/designed by Shaun Pendergast & Nichole Nye, MechPilot designed/colored by Heather Messegee, Mech garage designed/colored by albert truong)

Art for Skylinks Golf!


I've got the A'Ok to post some images :)

this is concept art from a SGN's Skylinks Golf.

another iphone train painting

iPhone painting of a caltrain dood. Finding painting with the phone quite fun.

painting on the iPhone! on the TRAIN!

I got this new cool app on the iPhone called BRUSHES :) and it lets you paint and sketch on the iphone. Wow finger painting galore! I took it for a test run on the train to and from work - shakey shakey choo choo train!


Train trip 1


Train trip 2

I love it to death :D but i gotta say - it's hard for me to draw and paint because i have nails (i play guitar), so i cant use the tip of my fingers :( i end up using the meaty part of my finger or my thumb to paint and it's the funniest thing - i can't see where i paint :D and sometimes it just comes out as a big blob in the wrong spot (most of the time :P )

This painting took two train trips to finish (2 hrs total).

I've seen some crazy cool kickass paintings from other artists with this app :) cant wait to do more!

Krisitian in the old days

ahhhhhh school...

memories...

A couple in class demos

It was the last day of class so i brought my laptop in to finish up some final work for the students. Happened to demo a couple quick sketches for them in photoshop as well.

It was quite fun - 3 - 5 minutes just to show the students that you can design by just blotting down shapes and pushing and pulling shapes in and out.

*sniff* i gotta admit, i really enjoyed hanging around with them every saturday. all of them improved so much since the first day. am gonna miss them.

Really Roughed

WIP to something hopefully not DUMB :)

drawing heads - needs a...

mirror! and feeling the expression!

Tron Glowy Test!

I'm on my Tron Kick!

:/

Doodle yay!

quickie doodle!

Portfolio review for Academy Art Students

Sept. 27th 6pm - 830pm
Bradley Hall
Academy Art University
Event: Nick Stohlman and crew Portfolio Review

Chuck recently invited a group of us to speak with students about our experiences after finishing our schooling at the Art Academy. It was a great experience and I'm so happy that Chuck made this happen. The school listed us as:

Nick Stohlman (Sega Studios, SF) - yay video games!
Grant Alexander (Pixar Studios) - yay tv & movies!
Chris Carman (Multiverse) - yay comics & video games!
Albert Truong (Fluid/SGN) - yay tv and video games!

Aside from giving our school experiences, we also talked about our work experience - what the industry expects, what makes a good portfolio, and the many pluses and minuses it has to offer. We were also living proof that "YES... you can get a job just doodling all day."

I think one of the biggest points we tried to emphasize was portfolio requirements - the do's and dont's. Starting out is hard - one advice was to have a diverse portfolio to show that you can tackle any job out there. But if you really want that dream job, you would have to spend a lot of hard work to tailor your portfolio in that direction. Make sure to get feedback from other artists, particularly ones working in your industry.

Illustrating is great fun, and sometimes at work I take it for granted - the fact that someone is *paying* me to just doodle all day still boggles my mind.

Here's good ole Chuck introducing us all.

From left to right: Little Nicky, the big Bert-man, Chrissy Fields, and Grantsy.

Here I am with my little mouse for the laptop cuz i had a slide show. Rub Rub Rub!

Oh Noes! I did a little Palin and mumbled incoherently for a bit! I didn't expect to see so many students? Must've been at least a hundred of you guys. Thanks to Grant for helping out and asking questions for me to answer :)

Some students took A LOT of notes :o

Others perused through our portfolios we brought.

"hahahaha Chris, you're silly!"

By the end of it, we had a long Q&A and got a chance to look at portfolios. I was really impressed. A lot of them were VERY good - lots better than what I was doing during their time. 

Wowie Zowie! Again, it was great experience and loads of fun. Thanks to Chuck and Nick for putting this together. I hope the students found our little shinDig helpful for whatever artistic career direction they decide to go into.

photos by Megan Wolfe

noodlin' noodlin'!

an hour or so of casual noodlin'

just relaxin' at home. gonna keep workin on this one. i likes snowy space stations!

should it just be a station? or should i put a little air ship thing in later?

here's a sketch of another mountain i didnt use for a base.

Lunch Doodle cuz i'm a dork

yay lunch doodle!

Meeting Doodle 572...

another meeting doodle: spaceShip!

Speed Painting 1

Sooooo i got jealous cuz SOMEONE has been doing some cool speed paintings (stupid Nick!)... i'm just following in his footsteps is all.

1 hour. HAD LOTS OF FUN :)

SGN Meetings

i'm an artist? what else am i gonna do at a meeting other than doodle????

Our meetings are cool though, they bring in snacks and beer :)

i'm still drawing chicks with huge heavy helmets.

I also still draw coworkers sketching with heart shapes around them. I do that everyday :P

OMFG #2

OMFG Clothed Figure 3 WITH CHUCK PYLE!!!

when i was digging through these, they were labeled under the reference folder. I was trying to remember who the frak did these drawings, then in the corner i noticed a signature and it was ME hahaha DUR DUR DUR DUR.

These were done back in 2003 in the good ole academy o' art COLLEGE!




CHECK THAT OUT! COLOR AND DESIGN WITH ALANA!!! FUGGIn' MANDALA! :D lol!

OMFG #1

OMFG

was organizing my external drive and RAN into a CRAPLOAD of old fan art drawings back in 2002 or somewhere rounds there!

HAHAHAHA FUGGIN' ANIME! and boy was i a PERV!