Sam's Tasty Art

I was experimenting with color in this morning's drawing session, but I could never get the skin tones to work quite right. I feel okay ...

Some drawing session paintings just work, and others I decide aren't worth posting by themselves. The smart part of my brain says that m...

For those who were guessing, the version I'm noodling around with is Prokofiev's Cinderella . My wife and I went to see the ballet h...

I wanted to give people a peek at how I develop my character designs---lots of drawings, writing ideas in the margins, thinking about how to...

I went to the drawing session this morning and tried to apply some of the things I've been learning lately from the tutorial sessions by...

Some guys at work have been doing these studies during lunch, and I was happy about the way this one turned out, so I'm going to post th...

I want to spend a lot more time adjusting how the values work on this thing, but I need to post something.

Another one for the Avalanche blog . I'll post a progress shot for the other guy soon.

I'm working on this for the Avalanche blog. I've been really busy at work and haven't had much time to do things for this blog, ...

I did this picture of our newborn son for his birth announcement. I'm not usually good at drawing babies or kids, but I like how this on...

Shape is my favorite design principle for good reasons. Two of the most essential laws of design are unification and contrast (and no, I can...

Concept art I did early in my schooling: I just graduated from BYU (Animation Major), and it’s a relief to be done. I'm going to miss a...

This is for the Avalanche Blog . I was going for that construction paper cut-out style of design I see so many artists do, but this one was ...

For some reason, sometimes I have an easier time paying attention in church if I'm drawing. Maybe it keeps me from being fidgety, and I ...

This started out as a caricature, then I reined it back in as I was painted---that's why there's so much proportional weirdness. I a...

This is a tribute to Mattias Adolfsson's wonderfully entertaining creations.

This was for the Avalanche blog again. I've always been bothered by the so-called species of "Brownies," because I like real ...

The designs of Baz Reynolds have been a great inspiration to me, so I picked his style to do my final character for the design workshop. I ...

We've been doing a character design workshop at Avalanche, and it's been fun. Unfortunately, I've been in charge of organizing t...

After many conversations with artists about the merits of style in art, I believe that a misconception exists among many artists: the idea t...

Also for Don's class. This was a brushes assignment: I was supposed to create some new brushes and paint a picture using them. I wanted ...

Originally this was an assignment for Don's class, but I was having so much fun with it that I thought it would make a good topic for th...

Trying something a little different with the model this time---a little more stylization re-posing to bring out a more design-oriented drawi...

Did this for a paper texture assignment for Don's class. I'm happy with most of it, but the mud could be better. It was still a go...

I decided to work on improving my use of color, so I've started bringing my laptop to the live drawing session on Fridays. Doing a caric...