Egg Farm

Day 2: creation of the firmament.

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

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

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

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

Here's some of my art that I've done for my day job that I enjoyed doing.
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ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: Forgotten

Here's my submission for Illustration Friday this week.

Do you Doodle?

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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?

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

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

Girl in chair

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

T-rex

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).