Crispin and the Great Tree

Jan, 03 2011
By Jay
Book, illustration, new commission, news, Portfolio
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A new book that I illustrated 9 black and white interior illustrations and a color cover is out and available for sale on Amazon.com! It’s a great fantasy read for tweens and above. Unfortunately, I get no royalties off the sales, but if this book does good there are 15!! more books to illustrate and P.S. Naumann wants me to do them.

Story synopsis.
In 1930, a young boy named Crispin, who is seven-and-a-half years old, disobeys his parents by entering the forest and climbing the towering great White Pine tree he can see from a window in his home. However, he soon discovers that the great tree is suffering from a galloping deadly disease. To save it, he must set out on a quest, which he has only two days left to achieve.

Busy Bumblebee – Process

Nov, 21 2010
By Jay
demo, drawing, illustration, personal work, SCAD, teaching
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Gotta new documented process of my traditional paintings. It was a quick demo I did this Fall quarter at SCAD. The students have to do some sort of “manimal” (part human part animal) This is what you get when Yaritza Burgos (AKA “Bumblebee Man” from the Simpsons) gets a “Bee Movie” body and finds a job.

Prismacolor Pencil transfer to Strathmore Illustration Board. 10″ x 7.5″ image area. Taped off with Blue Safe Release tape.

Acrylic and Ink base colors. Watercolor was used for the clouds that I don’t have a picture for.

Oil wash made with Dioxane Purple and Permanent Green Light thinned with Gamsol.

Dried oil wash removed with kneaded eraser revealing highlights and unifying shadows.

Prismacolor pencil details. and color shifts in certain areas.

Final flatbed scan color corrected with touched off with digital signature.

Details reveal lots of great texture and variations in colors.

Whole process took about 8 hours, but not all at once.

Before yours and her very eyes

Nov, 16 2010
By Jay
demo, drawing, illustration, personal work, process, SCAD, teaching
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Made this little video of one of my many painting methods. Painting was created with acrylic, watercolors, an oil wash, Prismacolor pencils, and gesso in about that order.

Video was created with iPhoto 11′ slideshow. Limiting options but works OK. Real easy once you do it once right. This was my first time doing the slideshow.

Shannon Elizabeth Portriat in Painter

May, 06 2010
By Jay
demo, illustration, personal work, Portfolio Center, process, teaching
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One of my favorite sexy actresses. Totally created and drawn by hand in Corel Painter 11 using the sponge tool in the background and a few pastels sticks for her face. Click to to see details.

Decathlon Poster Process

Mar, 23 2010
By Jay
demo, experiments, For Sale, illustration, personal work, Portfolio Center, process, teaching
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New work!

A 16″ x 20″ poster I did as part of a demo for my Adobe Illustrator class a Portfolio Center. I just finished it today. I thought it turn out pretty good. Whada you think?

This part was done in Adobe Illustrator CS4.

I then copied certain grouped areas from Illustrator into a Photoshop document and created a series of Smart Object layers. Then I added various textures in the layers masks of the Smart Object layers.