Brandon Starr's Art

New Castle Illustration!

2011-11-03T11:36:00.000-07:00

Finally had the time to scan this and get it up. Not the best scan, but it will have to do for now. It's always a pain scanning large illos. Hope you all like it.

Princess with Eider Duck

2011-05-10T06:41:00.000-07:00

Final two Skateboard Decks

2011-02-26T00:46:00.000-08:00

Ok, I finally finnished these up. Day 6 is probably my least favorite so far. That day is very wordy, which meant I was very limited in my composition. Plus I rarely like the way I draw humans. The links to purchase them are below: http://www.zazzle.com/genesis_day_6_skate_deck_skateboard-186342741224490398

and,

http://www.zazzle.com/genesis_day_7_skate_deck_skateboard-186880967376982128

Cars

2011-01-03T13:52:00.000-08:00

Here are some car studies I've been working on. The last one is a quick study I did in Flash based on the sketch in the upper left of the second image.

Animated futuristic background

2011-01-03T12:51:00.000-08:00

Two versions of this. First a static version so you can see what it looks like when it's not moving. Then an animated video version.

Rat enjoying tea.

2010-10-21T17:34:00.001-07:00

Illustration Friday: Beneath

2010-10-07T09:23:00.001-07:00

More Skateboards

2010-08-22T21:38:00.001-07:00

Hello Everyone, here's the next three skateboards in my series. I know it's been a while, hopefully it won't take as long to get the last two done.

They are as follows,

Day 3: Creation of the Plants

Day 4: Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars

Day 5: Creation of the birds of the air and sea creatures

All the boards in the series so far can be purchased at my zazzle store here: http://www.zazzle.com/starrart/gifts?cg=196387112256446263

New Mural

2010-06-14T12:53:00.000-07:00

My good friend Craig and his wife Rebekah commisioned me to paint a Haida style black bear on the wall of their beautiful home in the Angeles National Forest. They're going for a Rustic Lodge look and the mural should fit in nicely once they have the rest of their decor in place. I was able to use a projector that Craig had to project the image I had created in the computer the week before. This saved a ton of time. I'm not sure how I would have successfully freehanded a mirror image on a wall without a projector to be honest.

Egg Farm at night

2010-05-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

This is my night version of the Egg Farm I posted earlier here: http://starrart.blogspot.com/2009/04/egg-farm-complete.html

Island Telegraph station

2010-05-03T09:25:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday: Ahead

2010-04-29T10:44:00.000-07:00

The zombies were slow enough, i could stay ahead of them.

Mermaid

2010-02-26T16:49:00.000-08:00

I drew this at lunch today.

Illustration Friday: Adrift

2010-02-17T12:57:00.000-08:00

On a post-it-note.

Illustration Friday: Focused

2010-02-02T18:06:00.001-08:00

Illustration Friday: Clumsy

2010-01-26T09:23:00.001-08:00

Not a lot of time lately. Hopefully I can come back to this and at the very least clean it up a little.

Monday Artday: Mystic

2010-01-13T10:48:00.000-08:00

Did this for the Monday Artday blog theme of "Mystic". These things creeped me out as a child.

Stitch

2009-12-28T22:21:00.000-08:00

I did this in watercolor today for our good friends Joey and Rita. They took Cristina and I to the D23 expo for my birthday this year so I wanted to give themsomething cool for Christmas. We had them over for dinner tonight. Cristina made us a delicious turkey meatloaf and potatoes.

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-25T03:49:00.000-08:00

Egg Sign

2009-11-10T12:18:00.000-08:00

I did this for the Monday Artday theme of Chicken that actually ended yesterday. but better late than never.

Illustration Friday: Blur

2009-11-10T09:30:00.000-08:00

Sorry, posts have been fewer lately, I've been busy at work and at home. The theme this week was "Blur", so I decided to try and do the blur between fantasy and reality in a child's mind.

Illustration Friday: Frozen (with fear)

2009-10-16T15:58:00.001-07:00

In deciding to keep with my Halloween themed posts this month I took the IF topic Frozen and did a illustration of frozen with fear.

Illustration Friday: Flying

2009-10-10T01:34:00.001-07:00

I had already started this witch on broomstick, but the Illustration Friday topic this week inspired me to complete it. Still some things I would change, but for the time being it's complete.

Today's Sketch: Another Black Cat

2009-10-05T13:15:00.000-07:00

This time in Pencil.

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: Germs

2009-10-02T17:48:00.000-07:00

I'm guessing most everyone does something swine flu related for this, but I couldn't think of anything else.

Today's Sketch: Black Cat

2009-10-01T13:45:00.000-07:00

Happy October Everyone!

Illustration Friday: Pattern topic

2009-09-25T15:28:00.000-07:00

Here's a young monster wearing his favorite blanket (complete with flower pattern) as a cape.

Illustration Friday: Infinite

2009-09-18T13:03:00.000-07:00

So much for Sketching everyday, I guess this week I've been busier. Here's a new Illustration Friday sketch. Didn't take much time on this at all, and not very happy with my idea. If I come up with something better, I'll post it.

Illustration Friday: Welcome

2009-09-11T14:06:00.001-07:00

Quick one today for the IF theme "Welcome". Messed up with the horn and the doorway. Maybe I'll fix later if I have time. EDIT: Did a quick little photoshop, and his horn is no properly behind the doorway :)

Daily Sketch: tree

2009-09-10T15:31:00.000-07:00

Sketch of the Day

2009-09-08T17:27:00.000-07:00

Sketch of my wife explaining something with her hands and alternative hands next to her.

Happy Anniversary Honey!

2009-09-04T14:49:00.000-07:00

Five years and she's still super excited to see me when I come home from work everyday. I am a lucky man.
Scribbled this at lunch (there's a little hot sauce by the hearts).

Birdhouses

2009-07-18T20:41:00.000-07:00

These are a couple pages from my sketchbook.

My First Oswald Shirt!

2009-05-19T13:33:00.000-07:00

I'm super excited because Cristina just called to let me know the first Oswald tee I did for Lucky Brand is (finally) on sale now at their website and maybe in their stores too. http://www.luckybrand.com/Disney+s-Oswald-the-Lucky-Rabbit-T-Shirt/LBJ00278,default,pd.html&selectedColor=154x220

Egg Farm Complete!

2009-04-04T20:39:00.000-07:00

Here it is, this may not be the final variation, as I'm waiting on some feedback from my trusted fellow artists over at the mattart.com forums. But right now, I feel done.

Egg Farm

2009-03-19T09:09:00.001-07:00

Day 2: creation of the firmament.

2009-02-24T06:23:00.000-08:00

This is day 2 of Creation. This one took me longer than the first, despite the fact that I already had the frame made from day 1. The wave owes a lot to The Great Wave, by the japanese artist Hokusai.
the link: http://www.zazzle.com/day2_of_creation_skateboard-186448571805961489

Skate Board Deck

2009-02-21T09:36:00.000-08:00

I designed this for my zazzle store and posted it for sale early this morning. I plan to do one for each of the seven days of creation. This was a lot of fun to work on. Check out the actual deck here: http://www.zazzle.com/genesis_day_1_skate_deck_skateboard-186121987130558229

Cristina and I at EPCOT

2009-02-15T20:36:00.000-08:00

I did this for Cristina for our anniversary this last year, but at the time I accidentally forgot to include wedding rings on our fingers and also had given her an odd stumpy arm, then the PC I had saved it on crashed and I only now got around to making the corrections. It's suppose to depict us on our honeymoon at Walt Disney World. We had a lot of fun on that trip.

Cloud Photo

2009-02-08T19:34:00.000-08:00

I've been taking a ton of cloud pictures lately with my google phone (it's super convenient 'cause I can upload them directly to the web). This is one of my favorites. Check out the others in my Picasa web album at: http://picasaweb.google.com/brandonstarr Be sure to check out the clouds album and the Newport Pier album for some good cloud photos.

My Day Job

2008-11-26T12:49:00.000-08:00

Here's some of my art that I've done for my day job that enjoyed doing, and the links to it in case you want to buy some. There's other stuff that's already out of print that I enjoyed doing as well, that I'll have to post when I get a chance.

Here's the link to the White Rabbit:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=10&startValue=31&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=15273287&parentid=W_APP_TEES_GRAPHIC&sortProperties=+product.marketingPriority,-product.startDate&navCount=288&navAction=poppushpush&color=

And to the Cheshire Cat:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=10&startValue=91&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=15572274&parentid=W_APP_TEES_GRAPHIC&sortProperties=+product.marketingPriority,-product.startDate&navCount=336&navAction=poppushpush&color=

And the tree friends:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=10&startValue=1&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=15746332&parentid=W_APP_TEES_GRAPHIC&sortProperties=+product.marketingPriority,-product.startDate&navCount=501&navAction=poppushpush&color=

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: Forgotten

2008-06-11T13:12:00.000-07:00

Here's my submission for Illustration Friday this week.

Do you Doodle?

2008-06-05T17:31:00.000-07:00

My wife bough me this great book called Do You Doodle by Nikalas Catlow. Each page has a different doodle for you to complete. They're great excersises for when you need to draw but are having artist's block. This is the first page from my book. I think you can tell what I drew and what Nikalas drew.

Another Kitchen Revision

2008-06-03T21:46:00.000-07:00

OK, here's another revision to my kitchen layout for ACME animation. Boy this blog is all over the place lately. These revisions are my attempt at showing more story in the layout. I hope you all like it.

Illustration Friday: Baby topic

2008-05-30T16:15:00.000-07:00

OK, I know this illustration is nothing spectacular, just a quick sketch of a baby bunny. But this is my first step in attempting to get back in the habit of drawing regularly outside of work and posting more often. So I'm going to try and do the illustration friday challenges every week. This weeks topic is baby.

Mural

2008-05-25T23:57:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,
I'm sure I tried to recruit almost everyone who reads this blog at some point to help complete this mural for our good friends Nick and Amber and of course their baby Gwen. Well here are the results. We did get some help from both Nick and Amber's parents and one of their friends whose name I can't remember. But the majority was painted by me and Nick, and my lovely wife Cristina. Amber really wanted to paint, but she was pregnant with Gwen at the time (but I think she did some secret painting anyway when we weren't around). The whole project took a long time. I sketched all the artwork onto their walls freehand since we had no opaque projector, then I numbered the colors so everyone who wanted to could help us by doing paint by numbers. Then I went over most of it again to add some details. We finished it a week before Gwen showed up.
All these pics were taken by my beautiful wife by the way.

Artwork for the CG Challenge

2008-05-16T14:22:00.000-07:00

I can't believe we're in the middle of May and I haven't posted since January.
Well hopefully everyone will enjoy this one. I did this for the latest CG challenge posted over here http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/ which is supposedly "inspired by "Uplift War", a book by David Brin", though the only real requirements were that the entrants show human and alien interaction and use digital media. The winners of the challenge haven't been picked yet, so wish me luck.

Merry (belated) Christmas!

2008-01-06T20:25:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas Everyone! We got our card out a little late this year, since our puppy Bailey ate the first batch that was delivered to the house. Cristina wanted a Peanuts themed card this year, so I obliged. The final version of the card (which must be on the other computer because I can't find it) said Merry Christmas in the upper left corner, and had the scriptural quote from the book of Luke about Christ's birth which Linus presents in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on the backside.
My apologies to anyone who didn't recieve a card this year, hopefully next year our pups apetite for paper will have subsided.

Kitchen Layout

2008-01-06T20:20:00.000-08:00

Hello Again! This is a kitchen scene I did for the online animation tutoring site AcmeAnimation.org It's a really great site where you can download tutorials and worksheets and submit work to be reviewed by professionals. And I believe it's also free to students, and only a slim hundred dollars annual for us non students.

Another Post!

2007-08-24T08:38:00.000-07:00

Yes another post in less than a week! This is another one for my rocket ride idea. I'm thinking this would be outdoors at the top of the first lift hill.

2007-08-22T12:26:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, I know it's been awhile since my last post, but luckily for you I had jury duty for two days this week and managed to finish up this jungle sketch (and beat a couple races in Diddy Kong racing on my nintendo DS but that has nothing to do with this). Anyway so here's that jungle sketch I finished and I'll try to repost when I find the time to cleanup the seam between the pages a little better. EDIT:I updated the image this morning.

Chikens in a Wharehouse?

2007-05-12T23:00:00.000-07:00

Yep, Chikens in a wharehouse. This is another idea I had for a scene for my rocket ride. I wanted it to conclude with the rockets crashing through a wharehouse filled with crates before ultimatley crashing into the quintisential stack of explosives and a series of blacklit BANGS! and POWS! So I started drawing crates and realized crates by themselves are pretty boring, but crates with CHICKENS, now that's a fun ride. Anyway, did this last week, showed my wife, and she said "I don't think they store chikens in wharehouses honey". Oh well.

Signs

2007-03-13T09:11:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of the signs I put together recently for my portfolio.

Girl in chair

2007-01-08T16:02:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to finish more things that I start, so here's a photoshop rendering I think I'm done with.

T-rex

2007-01-08T15:05:00.000-08:00

Hello again! This is one I finished up during lunch here, but I might tweak it a little more when I have time at home. I love drawing dinosaurs, and have been doing so most of my life (I think it's my older brother Shane's fault). At one point I even convinced my highschool friends to help me build a lifesize velociraptor in my bedroom as well as a juvenile t-rex head, but that's a whole other story (I'll have to see if I can find pictures of those).

Secret Santa

2006-12-24T22:01:00.000-08:00

This is something I did really quick to decorate a gift my wife was giving to her "Secret Santa" at work.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

2006-12-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

This is something I did in watercolor when I was very young. I scanned it tonight only because I plan on using it on my website (which you should check out if you haven't at brandonstarr.com) in my "About Me" section. UPDATE: My website is complete!

Water Tower

2006-11-04T21:22:00.000-08:00

Here once again is another quick scene from my rocket adventure ride.

Scaredy Horse

2006-10-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long. We've been busy moving into our new place and have just been generally busy lately, so my apologies on the lack of posts lately. Anyway here's a horse and some other frightened animals. What are they frightened by? Well my plan is to have them as part of my rocket ride and thus they are frightened by the rockets flying towards them.

Random Can Can Girl

2006-07-30T09:23:00.000-07:00

Here's a random Can Can Girl. This came from me listening to the soundtrack of the Golden Horseshoe Jamboree on the Disneyland 50th soundtrack set my wife bought me last christmas. Like most of the girls I draw these days, I think she resembles my wife in some ways.

Building Facade

2006-07-17T09:28:00.000-07:00

This is my building facade. I have this idea for a rocket type ride that smashes through building facades. Kind of like the old soap box racers from Knott's Berry Farm, only as a suspended coaster.

For My Wife

2006-06-25T21:16:00.000-07:00

My wife asked me almost six months ago to do an illustration of her hiking with Mickey to commemorate the fact that she now works under the Adventures by Disney division of the Walt Disney Travel Co., and well I finally found the time to finish it. She hasn't seen the completed version yet, so I have my fingures crossed.

2006-06-12T21:44:00.000-07:00

Here it is, I think this will be the final version. All I have to do now is release it to the forums and wait for critiques. Anyway here it is.

Girl in the rocket

2006-05-31T21:26:00.000-07:00

Here's a girl I added to the rocket who will soon be joined by a boy. She's inspired by my wife, and the boy will look kind of like me.

Bear in Tub

2006-05-31T10:06:00.000-07:00

This is a sketch of a bear in a bathtub that I drew yesterday. This one makes me smile.

Some Fun Stuff from my free time

2006-05-21T14:56:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone this is what I've been working on in my off hours lately. The building is obviously not done yet, and I'm going to add people riding in the rocket at some point.

My first blog

2006-01-09T14:16:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! My name is Brandon Starr, I am a professional Illustrator and this is my blog. I plan to update this blog regularly with whatever I happen to be working on or strikes my fancy. I also have a website at www.brandonstarr.com which you can visit by clicking the image

And this is the banner I will be using elsewhere to promote my blog: