She went Hathaway!!!

Get it?? Hathaway like Thataway??? Right? Meh, whatever! Here's my study for the month. I have been super inspired lately to do more art thanks to a cool video I watched by Bobby Chiu on his Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKy8wNYGo6E I'll admit he lays it on a little thick sometimes but he's really good about peaking interest and conveying ideas in his videos.

If you come across this and have some feedback or suggestions or even wise words to help me get better at this process please, by all means, comment down below. I would love to get better at capturing likeness, but I don't even know where I should start. Your feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated!

Roadside baby!

 

Say hello to my new daughter Allie Christina Dockendorf, born 8:24 pm at 6 lbs 13 ozs, in the front seat of my wife's Toyota Corolla! My wife went into labor and we left for the hospital but we didn't make it haha! Here's one of the paramedics who helped us in the ambulance following the birth holding the baby. These guys were great and my wife and the baby are doing great as well. I thought stuff like this only happened in the movies but apparently it can happen in real life too. Thus the adventure that is my life continues!

Character Classes

So last year in May I posted some character classes I had been working on. They were meant to be exercises and not finished concepts so that I could work on improving my painting skills in Photoshop. The irony is I don't feel like that's how that worked out at all. With each illustration I felt like I was back-peddling trying to keep the style and overall feel of the illustration similar across each piece. As a result by the time I got to the most recent piece I felt it necessary to un-apply all that I had learned to make it match the other 3. I guess that's what I get for slowly painting 4 images over the course of a year.

Junk-Fu Released Today!

Woohoo! The most recent title I worked on Junk-Fu released today on Xbox Live, so if you have a Kinect at home go download this bad boy! IT'S FREE!!!

Jungle Elf

Did this as part of a "homework" assignment for a series of classes we have been participating in at work. It was a simple assignment, take a few assigned images and use them to create an image that the images inspired. I might post the images later.

Wow! Portrait study 2 days in a row? Thats a pretty good streak. I might have to keep this up. I feel like the likeness is closer than my previous attempts, however my digital painting skills still need work.

Debra Messing...

Haven't done one of these in a while...Likeness is still a struggle for me but these are really good exercises.