Porpitude Blog

Blog Change

2011-11-23T17:00:00.000-07:00

I am in the process of revamping porpitude.com and part of that includes a blog hosted there. I will be using that blog for my personal and professional work as well as "Gag of the Week" posts. This blog will become an informational blog geared towards tutorials, reviews, critiques, etc. I encourage you all to check out the new porpitude.com and blog there, but feel free to continue to follow this one if you are interested in the processes and techniques of illustration and visual development work.

Thanks for all your support and comments!

Poor Swamp Thing

2011-11-22T18:38:00.001-07:00

It's not easy being green.

Cannibalism

2011-11-15T19:13:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I have strange ideas pop into my head that I just have to draw...this was one of them.

Convenience

2011-11-08T17:58:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I think dogs really do have it easy. :)

Adam & Eve

2011-11-01T15:30:00.001-06:00

Millennia later men are still trying to figure out the correct answer...

Ewwww!

2011-10-25T23:53:00.001-06:00

Lightsaber-toothed Tiger

2011-10-18T02:37:00.001-06:00

I'm thinking of doing a series of prehistoric animals of the Star Wars Universe.

Wicked Witches of the Old West

2011-10-11T14:29:00.000-06:00

My new goal is to post a gag drawing every week. Here is the first in the series. Hope you all enjoy!

My Job

2011-09-21T18:25:00.000-06:00

Audrey's preschool teacher asked us to fill out a questionnaire about what we do for a living and to include a photo or drawing of us doing it. I thought, since I draw for a living, it was only appropriate that I draw myself drawing...myself.

Chicken

2011-01-14T16:29:00.000-07:00

This is an oldie but a goody. It fit well with Illustration Friday's theme this week, so I thought I'd toss it up here.

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T00:56:00.002-07:00

Meet Carl

2010-12-20T10:31:00.000-07:00

I was working on our Christmas card this year and had some leftover paint that I didn't want to go to waste, thus Carl was born. Carl is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison for aggravated leering.

Finished Ocean Piece

2010-12-18T17:34:00.000-07:00

Here's the finished piece for the ocean scene.

Ocean thumbnails

2010-12-13T21:23:00.002-07:00

Thumbnail color studies for the ocean voyage scenes.

Color Key of Viking Village

2010-12-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

Here is the Color Key I worked up from the thumbnails. I still haven't added the Viking houses (they will be in the center).

Color Studies of Viking Village

2010-12-13T21:19:00.000-07:00

Here are the thumbnails of the Viking Village (or surrounding areas).

Finished Color Key

2010-12-13T21:17:00.003-07:00

Here is the finished color key I worked up from the thumbnails.

Sven Color Studies

2010-12-13T21:16:00.000-07:00

I've been working on the color script for Sven lately. Here are so thumbnail color studies.

Fab Jack-O-Lantern

2010-10-28T21:19:00.000-06:00

I'm not into conventional Jack-O-Lanterns, so this year's pumpkin carving was of my favorite band in a memorable pose.

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2010-08-12T00:17:00.000-06:00

It's been a while since I posted last, I've decided to make up for by posting way too much all at once. These next few posts are all animation assignments, including some of my first experiments in Maya.

Animatic

2010-05-15T14:47:00.003-06:00

So I started boarding "Sven" and I took the boards from one of the sequences and made a brief animatic out of it. An animatic, for those unfamiliar with the term, is sort of a pseudo-animated sequences that uses the storyboards to show the timing of a sequence. A lot of animatics now will also include 3D elements to show where objects will be in space and what sort of camera angles/moves will be needed. Since "Sven" is traditional 2D animation, though, my animatic is more lo-tech.

A Break From Sven

2010-04-24T13:34:00.007-06:00

I found this sketch that I did awhile back and decided to start coloring it. I thought I'd post up the progress so far. I'm starting to notice that all the doodles I do are of sad guys or old men...or old sad men.

Sven in Technicolor

2010-04-21T17:34:00.004-06:00

Some more sketches for 'Sven' and some color ideas, too.

Sven's Parents

2010-04-06T01:10:00.002-06:00

Sketches of Sven's parents and adopted Mexican mother.

2010-04-06T01:06:00.002-06:00

More Sven character sketches and exploring Sven at different ages....plus some sea monsters!

More Sven Sketches

2010-03-25T14:59:00.002-06:00

Exploring more Viking characters.

Sven Sketches

2010-03-20T07:44:00.002-06:00

More sketches for "Sven the Mexican."

Sven Sketches

2010-03-07T23:30:00.001-07:00

Here are some sketches of Sven and some of the other characters.

Sven the Mexican

2010-02-17T21:25:00.004-07:00

I am excited to announce a project that I am undertaking with Casey Stadler, a friend of mine from BYU-Idaho. It is an animated short film that we will be creating based on a story that she wrote a few years ago called "Sven the Mexican." This will be a long undertaking but, hopefully, we will be able to take the finished film and submit it to some film festivals. I don't want to give away the story too much but the above is an illustration of the title character done by Casey. I am very excited about this project and I think it will turn out to be a hilarious short. Stay tuned for more.

Snow White and the Seven Bootleggers

2009-12-21T01:33:00.005-07:00

We had an assignment to illustrate a scene from Snow White with the Queen/Old Hag peering in through a window at Snow and the Dwarfs. I decided to do my own take on that scene. This version is set in Prohibition era New York and the Queen is the Chief of Police peering in through a two way mirror window at Snow White the flapper girl and six of the seven bootlegging dwarf gangsters. Where is the seventh? Well, it seems that Dopey was finally ready to talk.

Head Drawing in Pastels II

2009-11-30T03:01:00.003-07:00

Here's another one, this time using an analogous split-complimentary color scheme (blue being the obvious dominant color).

Head Drawing in Pastels

2009-11-27T13:14:00.002-07:00

Here's a first for me, a head drawing done in color with pastels. I think it turned out ok.

2009-11-17T15:07:00.001-07:00

An assignment for a class. I had to create two characters that demonstrated twist and motion. Originally I wanted to make them two wrestlers or something, but Pirates are just more fun. Who doesn't love puffy shirts?!

2009-11-17T10:47:00.001-07:00

Some more head drawings...anyone recognize the model for the second one?

Hands

2009-10-27T02:02:00.004-06:00

I've finally moved on from head to hands.

Head Drawing 4

2009-10-24T23:14:00.001-06:00

Here's another.

Head Drawing 3

2009-10-11T22:12:00.003-06:00

Another old guy for the head drawing class. I had a choice between this guy and a woman in profile, but this guy was too interesting to pass up.

Head Drawing 2

2009-10-05T01:31:00.001-06:00

Another couple of head drawings I did for class.

Scruffy

2009-09-24T20:51:00.003-06:00

Again I find my thoughtless doodling entering the realm of weird old men. I think this is the kinda guy that ends up moving into a camper on some backwoods area with only his double-barrel and hound dog for company.

Head Drawing

2009-09-21T01:10:00.003-06:00

I'm enrolled in a head drawing class this semester and it's interesting to go back to this style of drawing after so long; usually if I do figure studies it's just small thumbnails sketches in a notebook. Here is a second attempt at a head assignment last week. I've also included a more "Joe-ish" doodle of this guy--just for fun.

Pitch Boards

2009-08-06T14:19:00.003-06:00

Here's some pitch boards that I did for a story I wrote about a man named Skipper Pickle who encounters some life-altering gelato at a small Italian Cafe.

Other Characters

2009-08-06T01:11:00.003-06:00

I decided to name this alternate version of the "Hundred Acre Wood" the "118.37 Arpent Copse."

Here are the other characters that live there. Their names are Trigger, Hamlet, and Rabid.

Turnaround

2009-08-05T00:45:00.003-06:00

Here's a turnaround sheet I did for the character below.

Silly Old Bear

2009-07-29T23:05:00.006-06:00

Here's a character I just finished tonight. I call her Lamia and here's the tagline for the image:

"Sometimes, unbeknownst to Christopher Robin, Pooh would wander off the Hundred Acre Wood to the neighbor girl's house where they played more sinister types of games."

More Batman Boards

2009-07-27T01:11:00.005-06:00

I reboarded a Batman scene that I had done last year. I like some of the changes I made, but I'm not sure that anything could ever be as cool as my original opening frame, I'll have to post the original at some point for comparison.

Storyboards

2009-07-26T19:15:00.005-06:00

Here's some storyboards I just did for class. If they look familiar it's because I did a variation on this same story last year when I was in this class at BYU.

Mike Mignola

2009-07-26T00:54:00.004-06:00

This last assignment was to create a character in an established comic book style. I chose Mike Mignola the creator of Hellboy. His style looks so simple, but it was a real challenge to try to duplicate.

Michel Gagne

2009-07-23T10:07:00.008-06:00

We had an assignment to create an original character in the style of an established artist, I chose Michel Gagne. This guy's stuff is great because you can't tell if it's something cute that he's made creepy or something grotesque that he's made cuddly. There a certain quality to it that makes you want to be revolted and say "awwwww" all at the same time. Anyway, here's the character I did.

Frogs

2009-05-16T13:35:00.004-06:00

So my final is finished...finally. It isn't cleaned up and colored, but the animation and sound are all there. Let me know what you think.

Sucker

2009-04-27T19:46:00.006-06:00

I'm pretty sure this is a self-portrait of what I will look like when I'm ninety years old. I did this to give my self a break from animating my final project of this semester.

Just a Doodle

2009-04-20T21:52:00.004-06:00

I doodled this guy a couple of weeks or so ago and decided to toss some color on him tonight and post him. I think he just needs a hug and a cup of cocoa.

Intricate

2009-03-12T00:52:00.005-06:00

Here's a really quick doodle I did for Illustration Friday. The theme is "intricate" and I thought about all the 'intricate' details of our country's economic system and, more especially, the methods which we use to attempt to stimulate growth. I wanted the doodle to look crude, but I think my coloring is too heaving and it looks muddy now. Oh well...maybe it's more appropriate that way.

Pencil Tests VI

2009-03-10T00:59:00.004-06:00

For this animation I had to create a scene from 3 expressive key frames. I based this off of an illustration I did a while back. The illustration was a sequential 3 panel piece that showed a man drinking from a bottle and then discovering it is laxative and then running off. I think it translated well into an animation.

Pencil Tests V

2009-03-10T00:54:00.003-06:00

Here's my full head turn. The frames need to be cleaned up, but I think the action is nice.

Steve

2009-03-01T17:56:00.003-07:00

I'm trying my hand at fonts now. This first one is pretty crude, but I kind of wanted it that way.

Steve.ttf

Head Turn

2009-02-24T08:57:00.005-07:00

This one isn't really a pencil test per se, but it was my last assignment. This is a flat, stylized 2D head-turn. The character design is borrowed from Pixar's short film "Your Friend the Rat."

Sacks of Flour

2009-02-18T11:59:00.003-07:00

This assignment was to show anthropomorphic sacks of flour in action. My favorite is the "flour killer," I thought it was very Bill Watterson-esque. In case you are wondering how a sack of flour grows eyebrows and a beard...it's mold.

More Figure Drawings

2009-02-18T11:55:00.004-07:00

Here are two more. The top one is my daughter (isn't she cute).

Figure Drawings

2009-02-18T11:50:00.003-07:00

Here are some figure drawings from the last couple of weeks. The assignment was to "hi-lite" the stretch and compression areas of each drawing. Red indicates the stretch and blue indicates the compression.

Pencil Tests IV

2009-02-18T11:00:00.005-07:00

This is my favorite so far. It's still fairly rough, but eventually I'll redo the the body animation to make it more fluid. The assignment was to make a flying creature in 3/4 view. Everyone did a bird or bat so I had to do something more...Joe-ish.

Pencil Tests III

2009-02-18T10:24:00.004-07:00

Here's a flag waving. I'm not overly pleased with it; it's supposed to run on a loop, but it looks way too repetitive right now. I'll re-post it when I've worked on it some more.

Pencil Tests II

2009-02-10T20:36:00.004-07:00

Here's my favorite one, so far. It's a cannonball test animation; the assignment was to convey the feeling of a cannonball coming toward you and landing in front of you. I want to finesse my camera shake and dust cloud eventually, but it was a pretty good first pass.

Pencil Tests I

2009-02-10T20:31:00.003-07:00

I thought I'd go ahead and post my pencil tests that I'm doing for my animation class. This first one is a balloon floating across the sky. The assignment was to make it feel like a balloon through movement, but the shape had to be just a plain circle (no tied end or string). I'm not super pleased with it, but my instructor thought it was pretty good.

Christmas Project

2009-01-06T23:25:00.003-07:00

I haven't posted in a while because I have been wrapped up working on Christmas projects. I'll post some of them on my blog as I get them reformatted for the web.

The first one is an action figure I did for my brother. The initial sketch was fairly detailed, but due to constraints of the material and time I was forced to simplify.

Big Nose

2008-11-13T23:30:00.006-07:00

Today I decided to put everything else on hold for a few minutes so I could just draw with my daughter. This is what we drew. My daughter was more impressed with the pencil sharpener than with the drawing, though.

Detach

2008-08-16T13:41:00.006-06:00

This week's topic for Illustration Friday is "Detach," which seems kind of nebulous to me. Even though I usually try to do a new piece for the topic, I felt that this worked well for how I pictured "detach." Camping, hiking, and especially skiing are my ways of detaching from whatever might be bugging me at the time. This piece was a 5-10 min oil study that I just love. Sometimes you don't mean to make anything special and it turns out well.

Sail

2008-08-13T20:44:00.005-06:00

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale..."
So, I tried to push myself and see how fast I could pump out an illustration for this one. So I spent from last Friday till now trying to come up with an idea and then about 20 minutes drawing this and coloring it. I am not super happy with the color job, but better to have it done, I guess. I think the idea is still good, though. Maybe this will become one of those ideas that I revisit later when I am more patient and focused.

Poof!

2008-08-01T13:52:00.005-06:00

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Poof!" This hits especially close to home for me, since I experience "poof" on a daily basis. This is my morning routine.

Sketchbook

2008-08-01T13:14:00.004-06:00

I just scanned in a bunch of stuff from my sketchbook. I thought I'd post one of the pages here and if you want to see the rest you can go hit up my gallery.

Old Wrinkled Man

2008-07-30T21:43:00.005-06:00

For some reason I love drawing old wrinkly men; they have such personality to them. The big noses, the sagging jowels, the huge domed craniums, and the drooping earlobes. There is such experience, wisdom, and years and years of hard work behind leathered sun-beaten faces like that. This one I did as a doodle on some scrap paper but decided to ink with a brush and throw some washes of color on it. It almost gave it a Chinese look.

Horse Boy

2008-07-08T03:33:00.005-06:00

My daughter and I just finished reading "The Horse and His Boy" by C. S. Lewis. I don't know any other 18 month old that asks for C. S. Lewis over Dr. Seuss for a bedtime story.

It was fun to read it again and it made me want to do an illustration for it. I think the colors are overly saturated, but if I keep noodling on it anymore I might go crazy.

A Potter Painting

2008-06-04T20:04:00.003-06:00

I gave myself a goal to do an illustration every other day. I do the thumbnails and the final drawing the first day and I tone it and color it the next. Here is my first one. I feel like it is unfinished, but my wife says to stick to my goal and move on. If you have any suggestions on how I can finish it please let me know.

Wide

2008-05-16T19:12:00.005-06:00

This quick little doodle was done for the Illustration Friday topic "Wide"; looking at it now, however, I think that this would more appropriately fit the topic "Bizarre Genetic Experiments Involving Prominent Members of the Republican Party." Maybe it's just me, but this guy looks like a cross between Cheney, Bush, and McCain.

Monkeys

2008-05-11T15:48:00.004-06:00

I started these for my wife a year or so ago, but things got busy and I didn't finish them until recently. I'm still not super happy with them, but they're cute. They are expressions that our daughter made as an infant portrayed by monkeys (since that is her nickname).

Be Mine...OR ELSE!

2008-05-10T10:52:00.004-06:00

It was back around Valentine's day when I did a doodle of this guy. I thought, "He may look mean, but I'll bet he's a tender guy underneath those spikes." So I gave him a lacy little valentine to hold to show that he is just sensitive and misunderstood.

You're Everything That A Big Bad Wolf Could Want

2008-05-08T18:15:00.003-06:00

Here is another "Little Red Riding Hood" character design. Definitely inspired by the Sam the Sham song. Here the wolf is a "lone wolf" who stops in at the local greasy spoon "Grandma's Place" and meets the cute waitress "Lil' Red." Originally I had him giving her a toothy grin complete with subtle wolf-man fangs, but the closed mouth smile seemed more his style.

Batman Color Key

2008-05-01T01:15:00.004-06:00

Here's a color key I did from a Batman storyboard panel I drew as an assignment. I wanted to push some odd colors into the sky to intensify the moment. It was fun to push around acrylics again.

More Sidewalk Chalk

2008-05-01T01:14:00.003-06:00

Here's another sidewalk doodle.

Wrinkles

2008-04-28T10:39:00.006-06:00

Here's a chalk drawing I did for the Illustration Friday topic "wrinkles."

Sidewalk Chalk: Not Just for the Kids

2008-04-22T00:36:00.005-06:00

So I have spend a lot of time outside with my daughter drawing on the sidewalk with chalk; next to going to get the mail, it is her favorite thing to do. I have really come to love drawing with chalk and charcoal on the sidewalk. Here are a few of the drawings I've done with her.

Jack Spratt Could Eat No Fat....

2008-04-22T00:28:00.004-06:00

These are designs for Jack Spratt and his wife for a film idea I came up with that was sort of a fractured Nursery Rhymes kind of thing.

2008-04-22T00:24:00.003-06:00

Here are some more of those African character designs I did a while back.

Musings of Simon Cowell

2008-03-26T16:19:00.006-06:00

Usually I reserve my blog to showcase current projects and sketches, but today I am going to digress and blog about something that has been on my mind a lot lately.

It occurs to me that the rising generation in America is more privileged than any previous generation. That being said, they are also, arguably, the most damaged. Why are they damaged? I think this goes so much deeper than bad media, over-indulgence in fast food, video games, television, or even the rise of cell phones. As a society we try to blame our maladies on these things all the time and consequently we ignore the real problem. The problem is that we don't want to take the time or effort to teach them anything.

It's easier to plop a kid in front of a TV show or movie than take them outside to play or read with them. It's easier to tell a kid that there are no losers when they come in ninth, rather than explain to them that sometimes we don't excel and need to work harder and practice more. It's fast to pick up KFC or McDonald's rather than have the kids help you make dinner; it's far easier afterwards to toss the wrappers in the trash rather that have the kids help you do the dishes.

This mentality of "it's not worth the effort" has lead to a generation of over-indulged, lazy, irresponsible people who have an exaggerated view of themselves. I don't think it is coincidence that this same generation has had a dramatic increase in cases of A.D.D., A.D.H.D., and other behavioral problems. This hit home very suddenly this week as I was teaching an art class to a group of sixth graders.

I posted the work that had been done that past week up on the blackboard to critique it. I first asked d the kids what they liked about each piece and I got many responses, but when I asked what they thought could be improved about the pieces they were hesitant to speak up. I began offering my own suggestions for improvement. Some of the kids were defensive, others appeared hurt or offended. I can understand disappointment with critique, everyone experiences that, but by sixth grade I think you should be able to handle suggestions for improvement without becoming irrational. It was time that these kids learned that.

Today I sat them all down and asked them to tell me what "critique" meant. No responses, no hands, just vacant expressions. I asked them if they knew what a "critic" was. One hand. The response was , "I know a food critic says what restaurants are good and bad." Good, we had a starting place. We talked about why that would be important. I asked how many watched "American Idol." All the hands shot up (along with a lot of whispers about which contestant they liked best). I asked how many of them knew who Simon Cowell is. More hands and more whispering, mostly negative comments. I asked why they don't like Simon. "He's mean." "He makes people cry." "He doesn't say anything nice about them." Now we've hit the nail on the head. In their minds critique is an attempt by to make someone look foolish or feel bad because of poor performance. This seems to be most of America's view of anyone who offers critique.

I think Simon Cowell is pretty much always spot on. I'll admit that he can be a bit abrupt in the delivery of his critique, but he wouldn't be doing those singers any favors by coddling them.

Red Riding Hood

2008-03-13T22:41:00.005-06:00

Here are some character designs I have been working on for "Little Red Riding Hood." The top one was very inspired by the simplistic graphical designs of Cartoon Network. The second one was more of a herald back to the Chuck Jones Roadrunner and Coyote type of animation.

Grandpa & The Bear

2008-01-11T16:36:00.001-07:00

This was a personal project that I used for my final last semester. My grandfather always tell us grandchildren about the time he was chased up a tree by a bear while he was working in Idaho for the Bureau of Land Management. It's a great story, but I knew that as a cartoon it might be a little scary unless I embellished some bits (like the part at the end when the bear was shot or the fact that the bear was indeed trying to eat Grandpa). So I altered the story to be more little kid friendly and storyboarded it out. I really wanted to make this feel like the era that it took place in so I opted for a very retro 1950's style. These images are character shots of Grandpa and the Bear.

African Dog

2008-01-11T16:31:00.002-07:00

Last semester in my storyboarding class we did a project based on a myth that teaches why man lives as long as he does and why he goes through the phases of life that he does. I had a lot of fun designing characters for this story and wanted to do it in a sort of African, tribal, cave-painting kind of style. This character is the dog (which we later traded out for a jackal instead), I'll add this and the other character designs to my website. They include God, a man, a donkey, and a monkey. I really enjoyed this project.

I Love Photoshop

2007-12-21T10:13:00.000-07:00

So Photoshop has all these neat filters and effects that are supposed to do all these cool things for you like make lens flares, make things look chrome (that's a fun one), etc. If you can't tell I am being fairly sarcastic, the filters usually make things look lame. Until recently, though, I couldn't figure out another way to achieve the look that I wanted any other way; that has all changed. With this piece I just used some custom brushes, custom textures, and a lot of layers to achieve the aged photo effect. I am particularly pleased with the wood behind the photo, however. None of that is a photo that is all brushes and textures. All told this piece consists of 4 photos composited together : The dancers, the foreground, the background mountains, and the sky. All the other elements were created.

Character Designs

2007-11-26T22:24:00.002-07:00

I should have posted this a long time ago. These are some character designs for a story that I wanted to pitch to Disney as part of a storyboard class I am taking at BYU right now. The story and characters were later scrapped and we went another direction, but I still love how the style looks. I'll add all the character sheets to my character page on my site if you want to view them.

Presidential Race 2008

2007-11-26T22:20:00.002-07:00

So I was just doodling and it wasn't until I was finished sketching this guy out that I realized how much it looks like Mitt Romney. Even though I am not a Romney supporter, much to the dismay of the majority of my right wing Republican extended family, I liked this picture so much I thought I'd post it.

I may even do caricatures of all the front runner candidates.

Family Portrait

2007-11-26T22:17:00.001-07:00

I drew a picture of my Brother-in-law Robbie during Thanksgiving. It's simple, but I like it and I think I may do the whole family.

Bored

2007-11-26T22:08:00.001-07:00

Here's a sketch I did on my Brother-in-law's tablet PC one day a while back when I was bored. I don't know why the fat guy is dressed like French aristocracy from the 1800's, but I bet that's the reason that the skinny guy is freaking out.

I call him Lavell

2007-10-13T02:18:00.001-06:00

Here is a sketch I did recently in my sketchbook. It's an old guy that seems to vaguely resemble someone that most BYU Football fans should recognize.

My Amazing Class

2007-10-13T02:09:00.001-06:00

I am teaching a class of 5th and 6th graders art twice a week at a local elementary school. Some of these kids are just amazing. I gave them the assignment to use simple shapes to create recognizable animal silhouettes and they did fairly well. Then I gave them the assignment to make Halloween decorations for the school party and most of the class promptly forgot everything we had talked about with shapes and went back to trying to noodle out details and shading on a really poorly drawn skeleton or jack-o-lantern, but one girl surprised me. She did a simple paper cutout of a mummy in a coffin that was so fantastic because of it's shape that I had to draw it in my sketchbook. Here is roughly what it looked like. I think it's pretty sweet (especially since it was designed by an 11 year old).

Hillbilly Character Design

2007-09-12T01:04:00.002-06:00

I did this hillbilly character design for a class that I ended up not getting into. I like it, though, so I thought I would share him with everyone. Let me know what you think.

Emergency

2007-08-10T14:36:00.001-06:00

I wanted to do a new illustration for this week's Illustration Friday, but this one was perfect and I don't know if I'll have time to do a new one.