Sam's Tasty Art

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, considering it only took an hour.

From Joe Olson's lines .

Thank goodness for the Avalanche drawing session---it's the only thing keeping me drawing things outside of regular work these days. Th...

I wish I could post more, but I'm so busy at work right now. But here's something I did in our figure drawing session. It was meant ...

From our figure drawing session. This one look closer to 15 minutes, then I spent a few adding in the highlights after I scanned it in.

Sorry for so few posts lately. I've been extremely busy at work, and we've been in the process of moving at home (we've actually...

. . .to my favorite faces on our local NBA team. I wanted to spend more time refining the likenesses, but I decided I'd better finish it...

A quick image for the Avalanche blog . I would like to spend more time on this, maybe later.

A collaboration with my five-year-old son, Abraham.

This one was turning out pretty good, I just ran out of time. This was about 90 minutes, all digital.

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...