Sorry I haven't updated in a while.

I've been drawing tons of storyboards for my new flash cartoon.

Just for kicks I posted one of the frames. I'll be drawing and scanning the rest of them this evening.

Eventually, all of the storyboards and concept art for the project will be available on this site, once the cartoon is finished in February of next year.

My new resume is online now as well, for those of you that care. It's nice to be able to write the word "graduated" next to my Masters program entry. That program was the longest 2 years of my life.

I'm currently settling into my autumn funk. It's both cold and wet here in the north east...

To those of you who are reading this in southern California, well... I'm jealous.

I'm sure the sun is shining in San Diego. And the women in old town are cooking up fresh tortillas at the Coyote Cantina.

Ah, if I close my eyes I can almost hear the Mariachi music echoing through the Bazaar Del Mundo, and taste the fish tacos at the Tin Fish.

California que sueña en tal día de los inviernos

Human anatomy is a mighty difficult thing to render accurately. It's even tougher when it's female anatomy.

That's why I use tons of reference when I sketch the female form. I always get the proportions wrong if I don't. The shorter torso, the longer legs and the angle of the hips are always sure to confound me.

If I'm not carefull the sketch can end up looking like a man in drag. Laugh if you want but I see it all the time with artwork that actually makes publication.

The sketch itself is of no one in particular. The reference for the pose and structure was a great photo of Gwen Stefani from this months Esquire insert. I'm not a fan of her music really... I'm more of a Sheryl Crow kinda guy.

I'm betting that someone over at plasticmarlin will see fit to censor this image as well...

I'm voting for a halter top and some jogging shorts. Maybe a peasant blouse and some capris?

This is a 3D model of mine that is still very much a work in progress.

Once it's finished it'll serve as my generic base male model anytime I need to create a male human for a client or personal project.

The model was created using 3DS Max version 7.

Once the model is completed he'll need to be texture mapped, which essentially means "painted".

I currently have 2 other models that are at the texturing phase. Both of those can be seen in the work in progress section as well.

I've been avoiding that part of the process in anticipation of 3DS MAX 8 and it's all new "pelt mapping" technology which is supposed to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes an artist to unwrap a model so that it can be painted.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry, you'll be seeing the unwrapped model on this site soon after I receive my copy of 3DS MAX 8.

Essentially, the model will look like I've skinned him in anticipation of turning him into a rug.

Or, to put it another way, ever watch American Chopper? You know how they spend all of that time designing and building the bike, only to tear it all back apart again to have it powder coated, chromed and painted? Yeah, it's like that...

Those of you that have been paying attention will notice that the site has changed colors. Click through the active links and you'll also notice that I made good on my promise and added tables to every page. I even managed to fix the format problems I was having on the student docs page.

I also delved briefly into the fine art of cascading style sheets to create the new banner. I understand now why they are so widely used and adored. They make it much easier to control color, font size, etc.

This fellow on the left here was a late night doodle on Saturday. Since the site is still kind of light on artistic content I grabbed the paper off of my drawing table and scanned it in. It's now the first entry in the new sketchbook section.

I promise I'll post more artwork soon.

Let me know if any of the links are broken or if any of the syllabi in the student section won't download or are pointed to the wrong file.

Goodnight!