Sam's Tasty Art

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pajama Gladiator Post-Mortem

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Nicktoons Network has Pajama Gladiator posted up for a day so people can vote on it. Hurry and watch it before they take it down. Things I ...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

There's Always Room for Jell-O

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Maybe I was an impressionable kid, but old Jell-O commercials seem to stand out as one of the most successful celebrity marketing schemes, e...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

How practice makes. . .pretty good.

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You'd think after designing characters professionally for years, things would start to come naturally, right? Well, you're. . .proba...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Which witch?

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Halloween has always been a favorite holiday, not because of costumes or candy, but because of the excuse to draw pictures of witches, pumpk...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Friday drawing

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Yeah, nothing special today, but I haven't posted for almost a week. In other news, the other night I watched a show on the Discovery C...
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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Monkey collaboration

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My 3-year-old drew this monkey, and described to me the anatomy ("Dose are his kneees, and dose are his feet." "What are thos...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Lifey Drawey

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Today our model was Chris Wingert of Real Salt Lake. Someone suggested that I shouldn't do caricatures of models that are capable of bea...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

He-Man Characters

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Adam Ford and others are working on some re-takes of He-Man characters , and they assigned me to re-draw Teela . First of all, He-Man epito...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

Two completely different approaches to life drawing.

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Sorry for the lack of posts this week, school started and I'm still trying to get on top of everything. The girl is last Friday's ef...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Snow Monster

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Another one for the Avalanche blog . Someone just asked me where I got the idea from, and I told him it just came to me. What I didn't...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Something different, but why?

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I tried to abstract the figure in the drawing session on Friday, resulting in this sort of strange hybrid between cartoony and real. Even wi...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Ice Cream

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My wife tells me that for a blog named "Tasty Art," there are far too few tasty tidbits of actual food. So, I redirect my faithf...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Cover, declared done

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I'll probably make a few minor changes to this in a few days when it starts to bother me, but for now I've hit that wall of "I...
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Yippy

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Only had about 15 minutes to dedicate to the drawing session this morning, so this is what you get. Usually when I do these things I use col...
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Monday, August 04, 2008

Part 4: Recomposition and the Muddy Stage

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I always hit this ugly point in a painting. All of my careful planning and thought appears to start unraveling at this point: I start seeing...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Part 3, Prancing Pirates

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A very early progress shot of my revisions to the pirates. I brought them closer together so they read as a unit and re-posed them so their ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Part 2, or "What the crud is going on here?"

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I'm starting to realize that I shouldn't have picked such a complex picture to start with. But like I said, I'm committed, so I...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Fixing Old Art, Part 1

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I keep resolving to post more, but the resolution barely survives past the post where I make the resolution. So, this time I'm going to...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Work in Progress, Just for fun

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It's been a week, so I figured I'd better post something. This isn't done yet, but at least it's something to look at.
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Friday, June 27, 2008

Good drawing session

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I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, considering it only took an hour.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Coloring

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From Joe Olson's lines .
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Grayscale

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Thank goodness for the Avalanche drawing session---it's the only thing keeping me drawing things outside of regular work these days. Th...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Friday Painting

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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 ...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Another quick caricature

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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.
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Meager offering

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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...
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Concept artist, illustrator, and animation faculty at Brigham Young University.
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