Dragon Birthdays

processing... beep beep boop beep boop ticka-ticka-ticka ching... boop beep boop digital paint... Here's a painting that I did not do for the new Pixar movie UP.

Digital 2006 Dev painting of rocks for the movie Up.

Digital Layouts I did for the movie UP, which were later painted by Lou Romano. The images in this post are copyright © Disney Pixar.

2012 Digital This painting was based on a sketch from this page which I previously showed in this post .

Digital 2011

I was digging around in my computer files and came across this little digital sketch I did in November 2010.

This is a little sketch of a chair in my living room. It probably helped the cubist angle that my daughter kept moving the chair and cushions around, and of course juggling family needs caused the relatively quick painting to actually span the entire day, so the light was never the same twice. The painting was done using the Brushes app on my iPad.

I was fortunate to be in the prerelease testing of the new Adobe iPad apps and they are very cool. I had a lot of fun doing these paintings using Adobe Eazel. The paint engine is this sort of water-colory medium that bleeds and dries and the interface is unique using a five-finger touch. There's also a button to send the image from Eazel directly to Photoshop so you don't have to email yourself a jpeg or something. A new file appears and your painting is on a layer. Pretty nice! There's also two other apps that connect with Photoshop that are pretty exciting. I recommend checking these out when they become available. From Adobe's website... Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav applications for Photoshop are also expected to be available in early May 2011, ranging in price from US$1.99-$4.99, on the iTunes App Store. One of my images made it into a promotional video for Eazel . And here's a little bit more about Eazel, Nav, and Color Lava .

Digital 2011 This is a little study for some ideas I've been working on.

Here's a paint doodle of Kurt toasting the holidays that I did on my iPad using Brushes .

iPad paintings 2010 Finger on Glass When I have some spare time (hahahahah) I like to paint on my iPad. Most of the people I know that use an iPad use a stylus because they want to draw/sketch more than paint. Yes, drawing with your finger isn't so great but I have no problem Painting with my finger. In fact, I like it quite a bit. Above are a handful of paintings I did on my iPad with the Brushes app for iPad. I love this app. Yes, I've tried Sketchbook Pro , I like it fine, it's a great app, but I'm drawn more to the simple directness of Brushes. It's a pleasure to use. (Though there are a few things I wish it had (Saturation Slider please!)) Also, one of the coolest things is you can play back your painting right there on the iPad and watch as it re-creates itself. Even better you can email yourself the "actions" file for the painting to your computer and using the free Brushes Viewer application it can re-render the image up to 6x high and...

This illustration was done for some friends that are getting married this month to use as their invitation. They gave me a lot of latitude with style and execution and it was a real pleasure to do. Thanks Heather & Ray! Print for sale at my web store here. The image was printed full bleed onto 100% cotton rag paper so the white areas had a nice soft look.

Hey Look! UP is coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow! Also, check out these blueprints... image above is a story beat-board I did for UP

My image in the print set... Lou's, Nate's, and Scott's pieces (respectively)... At this year's San Diego Comic-Con Scott Morse will be selling an exclusive set of 4 individual prints limited to 50 signed and numbered copies in promotion of our next Ancient Book which is on track to debut at next year's Comic-Con. The book will again be by Lou Romano , Scott Morse , Nate Wragg , and myself. The prints are on high quality fine art paper and will run $50 for all four images. These images won't appear in the book but are exclusive to this print set! Find Scott's booth (4800) here...

For the time being this painting is digital. That could change at any time without notice.

Recipe: Step 1. Turn off brain Step 2. Paint shapes Step 3. Season to taste Step 4. The end These quickie brain farts were done with Painter X

I don't normally paint with Photoshop but I was messing around with it. I decided to try painting with just the default round hard edge brush.