Tim Burton Painting Demo

Hello everyone. A week or so ago, Ryan Wood and Mark Behm shared their painting process on their blog, so I was inspired to do the same. This is a video showing my process when painting digitally. I painted this using a Split-Complementary Palette, a limited palette yes, but you will see that you can get plenty of colors from such a palette, and the nice thing is that it creates a mood as well as harmony within your painting. Hope you enjoy. The music is The White Stripes, I really like their new album a lot. Many thanks to Thierry and Bobby Chiu at Imaginism Studios for helping me get this video up and running so I can share it with everyone here.

On the hunt

If all the animals of the world were cute and cuddly, would we still see the act of 'hunting' the same?

This is a piece done for the Calgary Expo art book this April.
I wish I had more time on this one but I like the idea.

Things have been quite busy these past few months... many great and exciting things happening this year.

- Marcelo Vignali will be starting registration for his Schoolism class on Drawing Fundamentals soon.

- Kris Pearn will be starting registration for his Schoolism class on Storyboarding soon as well.

..and did someone say something about vinyl toys?? Coming summer 2008 :)

Very exciting times... and more news to come!

New Designs

Last February 2007 I was hired back at Disney Television animation to redesign the second season of the Replacements, The first season had already be designed and is still showing on the network and I believe the second season will start airing next month some time. The objective for the redesign of second season was not to completely change the main characters so that they weren't recognizable as first season, but to streamline the look of the characters so that there weren't so many angles which made it hard ro animate and of course simplify them more. I have seen a few shows already and must say that they look alot different from first season and I am pretty happy with what we did. Alan Bodner the art director had a hand in changing the backgrounds and color styling of the show as well. Alan and I worked together on Clerks the animated series and Kim possible. he was also the art director on Iron Giant. So as a designer for this show we are given 2 weeks to design an episode, we first get a script and then a breakdown of all the characters that need to be designed. So during the first week I will rough out all the characters the way I want to draw them. once there approved by the director, I will then clean them up on the second week. I prefer to use a Mars graphic 3000 duo brush pen. that is my favorite. it is made by Staedtler. Anyway, here are some of the new designs that will be appearing.

Memory Sketch

a couple standing in line at the theater that stood out to me.

Deval Patrick

Deval Patrick, for The Weekly Standard. Got a call to do this job late Thursday afternoon. Worked a bit on it Thursday night, final due on Friday . . . all in all took me about 12 hours to complete. This quick of a turn around pushes me in many areas, definitely a challenge woth the while.

Just wanted to also remind folks out there that my second online course for Schoolism starts April 3. Check out the Schoolism Blog to see students work from this semesters course as well as other Schoolism courses.

Online art classes open for registration on Schoolism

Online art classes open for registration on Schoolism:
Character Design by Silver - March 25, 2008
The Art of Caricature with Jason Seiler - April 03, 2008
Digital Painting Techniques with Bobby Chiu - March 25, 2008
Coming Soon...
Storyboarding with Kris Pearn
Drawing Fundamentals With Marcelo Vignali

VISIT OUR SCHOOLISM BLOG to see our students work

Here's a little sketch of a pug I did for a Christmas present this year.

Just a reminder for those in the SF area, we'll be at the WONDERCON this weekend. Table AA93-95

Life Drawings and Wondercon Feb 22-24!

Hi everyone,

Every week, I've been tagging along with Bobby to his life drawing classes here at Sheridan College, and currently they are focusing on costumes. Here are some from this week that were really fun to draw. Hope you enjoy!

These range from 2 - 10 mins.
18 x 24 in, pastel and conte on manila paper and newsprint








Also an announcement for those in the San Francisco area...
Bobby Chiu, Thierry Lafontaine, Stephen Silver and I will be in San Francisco February 22-24 for the Wondercon. Bobby, Thierry and I will be sitting at tables AA93-95. I'm sharing my table with Bill Presing. Love his work!
Hope to see you there!

Kei