Artrage and stuff!

So it's been awhile since I've posted here!

Sorry about that... but I've been mainly using my Tumblr (StopSassi), as of lately.

I've been even thinking I might just use that as my main website... not sure...

Anyways... I've been pretty busy these past few months between working, and life stuff... but I have been still making progress on #TheWhiskeyChildFilm and other art stuff.

I've been really lovin' Art Rage lately.

Here is a one hour study I did!

This was a piece I contributed to the Muppet Collab (which was started by Zwoltopia)...

The Cosmic Fish (Duo)!

I also wanted to include this ink drawing I did for a tattoo commission for my co-worker's fiancé!

Nothing too special...

I think I might be moving out to California in the next few months... More on that later...

Infinite Corpse Comic

My Infinite Corpse submission got posted today!

I found out about this site through my friend, Eric Zettlemoyer.

Naturally, I followed his comic!

Ordinary Christmas Cards!

I've never made x-mas cards before and I wanted to leave a "good" first impression on my friends and family.

Some Girls

Hey there! It's the end of the month and I figured I'd post some girls I did over the past month or so. 

I've been pretty occupied with life and working on my current project, "The Whiskey Child."

I am almost entirely done with the boards/animatic and next Saturday, Shane and I will be getting into the studio to record a better quality audio track for the music.

I've very excited about this project and the people who are also working on it. I hope you understand that this is what I am currently making a priority.

Anyways, here are some girls! I was trying to a new render style as well as challenging myself on drawing some females. I usually don't!

P.S. This first one started out entirely different... but I'll admit I've been playing Pokemon a little more than I'd like (who am I kidding).

Inktober 2013

Hey there! This month, I ended up doing the Inktober challenge. I wasn't intending on doing it originally, but it just kinda happened. Honestly, I felt so-so about half of these, and the other half are mainly rough storyboards for the, now dubbed, "Whiskey Child" project.

I used markers and pens (dying ones at that!) mainly throughout this challenge because I am broke. I wish I had a well of ink, but nooope! Here are a few of the ones I enjoyed from the batch!

It's inspiring to look at what everyone else did last month too, but I did it mainly for fun.

Take a gander here to see the rules!

 
 

Mid-Metamorphosis

More concept art for my prehistoric world idea.
You may remember this guy from my first post.

I was craving to do more environment based work, so I sketched this up, scanned it in my computer and voilà!

Sorry for such a short post, but I'm not planning on doing more concept art for the project in the near future and I wanted to post this before I move onto the my main priority. I am starting to nail down some storyboards for my Outlaw project. I am hoping that I will stay more consistent and get that project on the road as soon as possible!

Finished my Latest Puppet!

Finished my latest puppet! Now I can FINALLY start to do some animation with her! The stitching for the clothes took FOR-EEEVVVVVVERR… so glad I did it though…

Stay tuned for some animation tests in the near future!

First Girl Puppet and Trying New Things! (My work in progress so far.)

SO... I started this puppet awhile ago, but finally got around to finishing it.

Here are a bunch of progress shots leading up to the final product!

It all started out with these design sketches.
As time went on though... I had a better concept for what this character would do, so I changed her clothing entirely.
But the next step was to plan the armature.

I made slight changes to the armature to be more practical with what materials I was working with. Also, I felt the hands itself needed to be larger so the pantomimes were easier to read.

 Then I started to build out the form with aluminum foil, as well as added the placement for the wooden bead eyes.

 Here, I have added the sculpy already and baked the puppet.

 For this puppet, I wanted to try using latex, so there was no leftover armature wire to see.
I had to hot glue cotton balls in all the areas I wanted to cover, so the latex would stick.

 Here is a shot from after the latex was applied. I tinted it with acrylic paint.

A picture showing the "hair" hot glued to the strands of armature wire.

 I also had to make clothes for this puppet.
Above, I have stabled my fabric to a pattern I designed for my puppets underarmor/spandex.
Below are a couple pictures showing before and after the pattern was removed.

                       I ended up hot gluing the spandex layer to the body.

Now I had to work on the outer layer.

Started to sew the final headbands, sweatbands, and leg warmers.

 And here we stop at my current process!

It still turned out a little rough, but I was more focused on making something I could animate with, while trying out a new process.
It should look good in motion!

Also, this isn't completeld yet. I am currently adding more detail as we speak!

I'm very excited to show you the final product and to start animating! Stay tuned.

Live Wedding Painting + Some Older One Hour Paintings

I was recently commissioned to do a live painting of a couples wedding ceremony.

I had no real evidence that I could complete the task, besides showing my post of my One Hour Paintings. Luckily, it was the exact style they were looking for... and they were willing to trust me if I felt confident enough.

The final product.

 The day was June 15th, and location, Greystone Fields in Gibsonia, PA.

 Here is a picture of my set-up.

I did most of the work there, but I took it home to add a few more hours worth of painting.

The happy newily wed couple!


OKAY!

 The second half of this post is just going to be older one hour paintings I haven't posted here yet.

This one is actually a one hour painting I did digitally in Photoshop!
I gave it restrictions by only using one brush, no UNDOs, and I painted it all on one layer.

And the one below ISN'T a one hour painting... just a watercolor landscape I did one evening.

Character Designs (Outlaw)

Just doing a little character design with watercolor.

Here are some more concept pieces for my "Outlaw world."

My "Sand Slug" concept.
You might remember him from this older piece I did.

Then there is another main character I have been developing...

I've been leaning towards having the story told from his perspective instead of the Outlaw.

There are a lot of ideas stirring around for this project... I am taking it one day at a time, but I am feeling good about it!

One Hour Paintings

Last Thursday, I wanted to try something different...
So, I went back to my roots and painted some impressionism!

This was about an hour and a halves worth of work.

Then it hit me... maybe I could try to give myself a challenge and do timed paintings for a week!

I really enjoyed doing this, so I may continue to keep painting... we'll see!

I actually did TWO paintings this day of the same spot. The first was really early, about 6 AM.

Around 2 PM, I decided to do another one… it was lightly drizzling… so i figured, “why not.” But, I only got 15 minutes in before the downpour hit me though.

I noticed it dried and thought it was cool how the rain altered the painting.

All of these were one hour sessions only, aside from the rained on painting (which was 15 minutes) and this very last one.

The last was only 43 minutes because I got off work late… and it got really dark outside!

I could not see anymore!