Sam's Tasty Art

Something else for the TS3 game.  Designing a toy is both fun and boring at the same time.  You have some interesting restrictions to play a...

Here's some unused concept art I did for the last game I worked on .  I might post more every once in a while just to keep things from ...

I said that premise should be the first thing you address, but someone's great comment made me think I should revise the part about it b...

I threw "premise" into the last post almost like an afterthought, but I should have talked about it first.  Premise is usually whe...

This is the first question I ask myself when starting a painting or drawing.  You can't make intelligent decisions on a painting until y...

As crazy as the version on the left seems, it's not far off from something I see fairly often: thoughtlessly placed colors and values...

Did this cover for the December issue of The Friend.   The next post on painting and design is taking a back seat to a bunch of other things...

I did a little work for this game, for which I will never receive any credit (thanks Mr. Guy-Who-Messed-Up-The-Credits).  I did a bit of wor...

Design is, in a way, a derivative of something that makes humans unique---tools. Wheels, ovens, pens, iPhones; these are all things that all...

Since most of my artwork these days is stuff I can't post, I'm thinking of doing a series of posts instead where I condense down the...

Considering how much I love doing environments, it's strange that I don't do them more often.  They do take a lot of time and they n...

I just noticed the a book I did a cover for last year has been released!  Working with Harper Collins was fun.  Probably the hardest part fo...

I think this one was around 70-80 minutes.  I didn't do a good job with the likeness, but I'm happy with everything else.

If anyone is thinking of signing up for this at the last minute, I thought I'd send out a quick clarification on what you're suppos...

Here's some line art I did recently for the students of my BYU class.  I'm trying to give us more time for painting, so we're no...

This was for another lunch project.  The assignment on this one was flat black and white values, minimal line work. It didn't take tha...

To be fair to. . .well, everyone, I'm not good enough to deserve teaching anything at this school. That said, I'm going to do a 3-...

Some of the people I work with are doing "lunch projects," where we use whatever time we don't spend eating during the lunch h...

There are already a lot of other online tutorials on lighting and surface.  Not only that, but Schoolism has some amazing artists and instr...

For the Avalanche Blog .

For some reason I liked this painting a lot better on Friday.  Now something seems off about it.  Maybe I didn't push the exaggeration e...

If you want to find me at ComiCon, I'm going to be giving live critiques at the Schoolism booth (#2042) twice a day on Thursday, Friday...

I'm attending ComicCon for the first time this year, so I thought I'd better produce my first art book also.  It's filled with a...

I haven't had much time recently to work on my own projects, but I want to thank everyone who gave critiques on the mountain picture.  H...

I've been sketching with pencil and paper a lot more lately, and trying to get some of the rust off.  Unfortunately, I'm not confide...