Joe Ranft

What up, my people. This month, I decided to dedicate my post to an amazing artist that passed away, Joe Ranft. Anyone in animation knows who he is. He was a part of Pixar's "Brain Trust". A terrible loss for the animation world. This is a caricature of Joe done with blue col-erase and graphite. Until here!




Stephen

PS

Go Lakers!!!

RIP Joe

Spiderman

Hello, once again. I'm doing pretty well this year, I would say. Posting fairly regularly. I wanted to post this one earlier, but this was the first in a new sketchbook and I'm always so pressured to make the first page good so people will want to keep looking. Haha. Anyhow, I did a bunch of thumbnails but I never got to one that I liked. Then I finally decided that I was putting too much pressure on myself, so I just went for it and had fun. Hope it is satisfactory! I did this one with Red and Blue Col-Erase, Copic black and French Grays, and graphite. Hope you can dig it!



Stephen

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Go Lakers!

Happy New Year, Sketch book dump

Hello, again. Umm.... Happy New Year!!! Haha, wow that sounds bad. Last time I posted, it was friggin' 2009, and now it's 2010.... Awesome. ANYHOW, I have come to the conclusion that I'm not very good at this posting regularly stuff. Just not. BUT, maybe this year will be my year. So let's start this year with a sketch book dump. Here are a few pieces that have been lying in my sketchbook. More to come...eventually, haha. Til' here!











Stephen

PS

Go Lakers!

Meanwhile, while rendering...

Yo yo. I know it's been some time again. Haven't really had the time to actually post anything. Things have been busy at work. GOOD busy. Anyhow, here's a piece that I did while rendering some things. My co-worker has this awesome Hellboy toy on his desk next to mine so I thought, why not. Done with the usual traditional materials I use: red col-erase, copic blacks, copic french greys, and white charcoal. I hope it is satisfactory. Til' next time!



Stephen

Ahoy-hoy!

Greetings, once again. It hasn't been too long this time I don't think. Although, plenty has happened during the time between posts. I mean PLENTY. No need to elaborate though. Those who know me, know what's happened. Those who don't, thanks for showing up heheh. Anyhow, on to the post. This one's been lying in an old sketchbook for quite some time. I've been wanting to run it though and clean and color so here it is. Enjoy!



Stephen

PS

GO LAKERS!!!

Thoughts and Rorschach

Hello, again. So before I launch into explaining this piece I would like to shed some light on what I've been up to and what's been happening lately.

I recently graduated college. Woohoo! It felt that way for about the first two weeks then I began to find myself being extremely bored very often regardless of all the art I was producing. At one point, I wanted to make a phone call using the house phone, so I walked around my house for about thirty minutes to discover that we didn't have a house phone anymore! Makes sense though, who needs one with all these cell-phones nowadays? Then after many profound things going on in my brain, I started to doubt my value as an artist.

BUT! Good news. There are things in the works and they are beginning to look up. I'll be posting up soon, hopefully, on how things turn out. But for now, on to the post!

Very cool character from Watchmen. Reading it again lately. Trying to refresh memory for the movie soon to be released. Lying in sketchbook for a while. Thought it time to post. Materials used: HB Graphite Pencil, Tombow Brush Pen, Prisma Color Markers, White Charcoal. Must take note of charcoal smearing if left in sketchbook for too long.

Peace (haha)

Stephen