Greatest Rap Battles of Villany

Here's a fun project I composited for my day job. I was given an edit of this rap battle with all the characters on green screen. I took out the green screen and dropped in backgrounds that the illustration department made. Then I looked in a big, beautiful stock footage library of smoke, blood, rubble, fire, blood, explosions, blood and some blood. Then I added it together, changed the colors around and made it look like the characters weren't dancing and singing on a green screen stage.

It was a real quick deadline but super fun. My favorite part is when Frank Underwood pushed Joeffery in front of the subway. At first I added so much blood that it shot out onto the camera and big gorey chunks were stuck to the screen. The director, Noah (real talented guy, wrote the whole thing too) and the producer walked over to watch the shot. Simultaneously the producer said "disgusting..." and Noah said "perfect..." It was a good day! Unfortunately for the clients sake we had to dial back the gore, hahahaha.

Horses are the Worstest

Actually they're not that bad.

Purple Ensemble

A cool cat from Scott Schuman's "Satorialist" series.

From the desert

I thought I'd do more drawings at Coachella. Nope! :)

Blots

Composition/Color Study: "Only God Forgives"

Composition/Lighting Study: "Drive"

Composition/Color Study: "Only God Forgives"

Back to basics.

Louis Theroux is back!

I couldn't be happier.
Check out his newest episode "Louis Theroux's LA Stories: City of Dogs"

Formula One

I did a quick Formula One sketch to keep my weird obsession at bay. If you think you might be interested, let me recommend a few movies to you :)

Senna - Really great documentary about the beloved Brazilian racer Ayrton Senna. This is a great film by itself, I can't recommend it enough.

Rush - A pretty decent movie. It's definitely entertaining and holds your attention. The ad campaign was terrible. I didn't know what it was about until after a few friends told me to see it.

1 - Possibly the worst title for a movie. Good luck trying to find this one online. Forgetting the name, it's a good documentary if you're into Formula One. It's about how engineering and safety evolved in the sport. The pacing is slow, feels like something from PBS. If you watch Senna and Rush then you may want to see this.

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Rembrandt at the Norton Simon

At the museum today I got schooled by Rembrandt.

Putin Friday!

I watched a few Putin interviews. That man exudes arrogance.

Beautiful day in LA

Took a stroll through the Huntington Library gardens today. That place is so pretty I foresee a annual pass in my future.

Animal Robot

Last night for dinner I was craving fish & chips. Lucky Baldwins in Pasadena has the ones I like. I went for fish and a pint, it's what guys do.
The waitress saw my sketchbook and asked if I was part of the 'sketch club?' "No, but now I'm curious." She said they were outside, I grabbed my pint and sneakily made my way outside to scope things out. I wasn't very sneaky because I heard someone call my name immediately stepping foot outside the door. Who other than the talented Victoria Ying and her equally talented husband Mike Yamada! They were joined by the amazing Arthur Fong and background master Juan Garrido. It was a very nice surprise!
After squeezing myself into their club, Vicky started a game where everyone has to write down what they hate to draw. Naturally I wrote 'Horses.' F- horses.
The paper I drew out of the hat said 'Animal Robot,' and I was quite happy to draw the most logical of all robots, the possum!

"Super Dog to the rescue!"

My 2 year old nephew is a whiz kid on his Strider.

Bubble Gum Dude

A bubble gum dude I encountered during a people watching adventure.

Buddy Visit

My pals, Dane and Colin visited for the weekend. We had a grand guy time. Sunday we went to Los Angeles Gun Club and were reassured we would all stick together during the zombie apocalypse. Well, at least stick close to Colin because he can shoot a fool in the face from far aaawwwwwaaaayyyyy!

Rust Cohle isn't playing

This likeness of Mathew McConaughey disappoints me. These things happen - on to the next sketch!

True Detective is a good show

Titan Falls Commercial Stills

Rarely do I get to post about my day job. Like most people in the entertainment industry - everything I touch is covered by some non-disclosure agreement. But in this rare instance I am happy to present two stills from the Titan Falls campaign!

I know they are nothing amazing, but in the short time I had to do them, they were a lot of fun. You can see how I started with a bare model and then painted grime and dirt on top of it.

I hear the game is massively fun. Thanks for checking this out!