these are a few of my favorite things part 2

Part 1

Artem Shumnik

Aron Wiesenfeld

SoufianMengad

Brom

Min Yum

Chris Rahn

Chris Rahn

Kev Walker

Craig Elliot

Sergey Kolosev

Daniel Cruit

Eduard Visan

Dean Cornwell

Christopher Moeller

Hikari Shimoda

Jaime Jones

Jaime Jones

Igor Oleynikov

Jeremy Enecio

Henru Paul Motte

Jim Murray

Joel Corcia

John Singer Sargent

Justin Sweet

Mike Bierek

Kekai Kotaki

Fernanda Suarez

Koji Morimoto

Michael Kutsche

Moebius

Wayne Reynolds

Richard Wright

Ross Tran

Harvey Dunn

Sergey Kolosev

Steve Prescott

Thayer

Kai Carpenter

Todd Lockwood

Vasili Sorin

Vytautas Laisonas

Mark Zug

ZdzislawBeksinski

Summer '13, Part 2

So it's like the middle of summer right? It's already over half gone? That's cool I guess. I'm pretty much working/arting every day so time flies but at least I'm getting something done. Half of which I can't show because of NDA and the other half because I am ashamed. ASHAAAAMMMED. But here we are: 

Massive Summer Blog Update Number 2: CDA Edition!

CDA is suuuuper sweet. My teachers are next level and I'm learning a ton from James Paick, Joshua James Shaw, and Dan Cooper (and his assistant, also named Dan) Here's some work from those classes:

Key Frame Illustration

Working on this little number, chosen from the following thumbnails. We were assigned to use an existing IP and create a key frame/storytelling image. Here we see Tajic come across Varolz while running the maze. In this scenario, Varolz may have the home turf advantage. Next step: color!

Environment:

We've mostly been playing around with thumbnails/quick comps. Here are some of the rare few that aren't completely terrible haha

Painting, these are all approximately 2 hrs (apologies for the terrible photos):

should've subdued the chin on this one so the temple could be the brightest part...

the lovely and talented MJ

our roommate, Jarrad

I'm afraid my iphone isn't much good for these color paintings, although this one wasn't very good anyway :P

Summer '13

So...long time no blog...

Lots of stuff has happened lately, good stuff too. Time to share that with you guys :)

So, this summer I'm still working on Heroes' Tale. A lot of it is under NDA, but today, one of my cards/illos got spoiled. Behold the Rot Beast:

This guy was super fun to work on. Who doesn't like painting gnarly, slimey, sinewy monsters? Here's some of the sketches I sent Chris, drawn in my toned sketchbook:

SPECTRUM

I went to Spectrum Fantastic Art Live this year! I wish I had blogged about it when it was fresh on my mind, but even now, almost a month later, I can say that it was probably one of the singular most inspiring, fun, and fulfilling experiences of my young life. I got to stay with the ever gracious Eli Allen, who was an extremely generous host. My friends Evan Monteiro, Cameron Asao, Sishir Bommakanti, Danny Samuels, and Vincent Nappi were also in town. It was great seeing everyone again and hanging out for an art-packed weekend. 

Needless to say, there were some unforgettable moments...

Not even going to pretend I didn't rush to this guy's booth first thing when the doors opened....cheesing waaaaay too hard next to Chris Rahn, my favorite MTG artist (ok ok tied with Kev Walker). Really nice guy and totally chill. 

Allen Williams, Concept Art Gold Award Winner, Personal Hero, and Teddy Bear of a Man

This guy is second to none with a pencil in hand, check him out.

rk post, picked up a sweet Lightning Angel print from him :)

Phil Hale-ing with Cameron

Sushi with the boys after the first day

the awards ceremony was held in the scenic Midland Theatre

pooped after a longweekend of Spectruming, chillin in the Aladdin

I also got to sit and chat with Steven Belledin, Tyler Jacobson, Dave Dorman, Craig Elliot & Armand Balthazar (two industry veterans and straight up bosses), Jon Foster, Dan Dos Santos, Irene Gallo, Donato Giancola, and Justin Gerrard, as well as meeting countless others. Everyone was really courteous and helpful, and gave out great pointers for future portfolio-building and art-life-living. I would like to personally thank each and every one of them for making my weekend a memorable one! Definitely inspired to submit to next year's Spectrum, too. 

I took the time to link all those guys, so check em out!

oh yeah, and now I'm in California attending the Concept Art Academy with MJ, Carla, Allie, and Kyle. My teachers are killlller (James Paick, Joshua Shaw, Dan Cooper) and I'm having a blast and Pasadena is perfect and I want to move there. Here's a shitty iphone photo of my first painting of the summer :->

Promise I'll break my posts up into more bite-sized portions from now on 

<3 Vic

Mog, the Nightmare

New card from Heroes' Tale, I like how this one turned out :)
Which reminds me, Heroes' Tale has reached it's Kickstarter goal and will officially go into production! Congrats to Christopher Merlino, Andrew Theophilopolous, and the HT team.
I'm going to be a printed card artists, a dream come true :)))

Pretty much jumped in directly from the thumbnail, took about 6 hours.

For those of you interested, here is the brief, the thumbnails, and the process. Enjoy :)

Mog, the Nightmare:
Mog the Dreamer was one of the strongest guardians in the forest second only to Nallafrax. As Mog slept his dreams would make the forest grow lush and beautiful. Whenever great danger would threaten the forest it was he who would be on the front lines of the defense, and so he was, when Ulek made his move… Now Mog is a prisoner in his own body. He is no longer known as Mog the Dreamer instead he is now known as Mog the Nightmare, one that destroys everything in his path. Some say that Mog weeps for the damage he causes, as rain clouds follow in the wake of his destructive path.

Chris liked these but wanted the Mog #2 to be viewed from the angle of Mog #1, and he wanted it to be set at night with a bluish palette. I made the changed and sent in this one:

and then, I painted