Chimp Haven

I had the privilege to do some charity artwork for Chimp Haven. It's a wonderful non-prof organization dedicated to providing sanctuary to chimpanzees. These intelligent greater apes have been used in medical testing, show business and rescued from being pets in unfitting homes now call Chimp Haven their new residence. The place is wonderful and does amazing work with both caring for the chimps medically and emotionally... for the rest of their lives. There was even a surprise baby named Tracy! How cool is that? These are animals deserving of our respect and Chimp Haven is a fantastic place to support.

Puddle Pug

So this year I participated in Reddit Secret Santa on Reddit gifts. They match you with someone randomly, locally or internationally. So on November 25th I was matched up with someone from Ontario Canada. She didn't have much information to really go on besides the fact that she likes pugs, frogs, knitting and hates meat.

So being the validation seeking person that I am, I decided to paint something. I hope that I am good enough to not make this a weird... "uh, thank you... I'll hang it somewhere nice." and later discover they only hang the painting in the bathroom when you come to visit. Awkward.

So yeah, this poor (or lucky depending on your perspective) girl gets a painting of a very concerned pug in a frog suit, on a pond. A book of knitting patterns of cute things and a fancy new Moleskine sketchbook, which I personalized.

I hope this is a good gift. I love hand made things and I would probably freak out if I got an awesome painting from someone, but then again I am an artist so I appreciate that kinda thing.

So anyway.

The loot.


The Painting


A dramatic reenactment with the artist.

I should practice more.

My bestest friend in the whole world (that has a vajayjay) has been on a master painting kick. She wanted to be even more of an awesome painter which is nuts because she's already SO good. Anyway, she directed me to Dice Tsutsumi who is a painting ninja for Pixar as well as Blue Sky Studios. Im basically copying him so I to one day can hope to be a painting ninja too. I mostly draw here at Imagineering and rarely get an opportunity to do any sort of finished work. As one can imagine if you don't use it you lose it with painting too. So its time to go back to basics. The apples I painted are the tutorials found at Dice Tsutsumi's website... Try one for yourself!

Process!

It's been AGES. I recently scored CS5 from work and I really am loving the new brush features. It's been a long time since I've done a portrait of any kind... this one happens to be me. I worked from a photo (before you think I'm more awesome than I actually am) just to try out how the program works. I miss painting things...

BAM! Action shot. It's missing a few frames... SOME websites don't like more than 10 images.

I am much to lazy to make one in photoshop.

Useless

A pox on all those that schedule meetings at 8 am. I'm barely cognizant at noon as it is.

This guy will never get a date

Sometimes people are ridiculous. I imagine this guy arriving at a date on a pony.

Work Teim!

This is generally what happens to me at work. Such is the way of life.

Enjoy the craptasmical quality contained therein!

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

So recently I've become obsessed with the Sarah Connor Chronicles. It's not particularly good... but its not bad either. I got invested in the world and have been watching it on Netflix... and then it was over. The show was canceled but my unhealthy girl crush for Cameron the good terminator (played by Summer Glau) lives on.

I think I am going to try to do a drawing a day. Lets see how long that lasts. I intend to make them super silly and like.... sorta crappy. I'll call the series "today in shitty drawings".

R.I.P Norm Schureman

When someone asks me who has been my biggest influence as a designer I can easily say it was Norm Schureman. My time at Art Center was full of 3 memorable instructors, Norm Schureman, Gary Meyer, and Bob Kato. The person who most drove me to THINK through what I was drawing was Norm. Not only was he was my teacher, but an incredible friend and last night he was taken from the world stupidly and much too early. He will forever be in my heart as one of the most inspiring, kind, loving, generous spirits I've ever known.

Next attraction I design old man, that ones for you- Taking it to the next level.

My love to Fati, Milo and Kian.

Like never before...

I am painting little color compie kinda things left and right... I don't even want to do my job now. Just paint itty bitty paintings on my DS. I think this may be becoming a problem. Hmmm.... But anyway. Here are just 2 fun ones I did recently. Enjoy em!

3 Legged Kitteh.

Dedicated to my sisters 3 legged cat Waffles.

All things considered... I can't really show what I do at work since it takes like 5 years to build anything at Disney... not like a game or movie where you get to show your concept work relatively quickly. I just generally don't have the time or stamina to work on MORE work when I get home. Evidently unlike other jobs, mine leaves me mentally and physically decimated. So I don't. I post small sketches that take me about 20 minutes each. It's nice, but leaves me horribly out of practice. So having the nintendo DS as a pocket paint pallet has been awesome so far. I can imagine someone getting really good at painting just by always having something handy to observe nature or what have you.

It's also nice to have a gallery to auto-post to as well. Link: http://colors.brombra.net/ A lot of the art is pretty bad but there are a few gems in there. If you don't already have a DS and a Modded DS at that I highly recommend the Cyclos DS Evolution from ModChip.com It has a really nice operating system and you don't have to do anything besides drag and drop files into it from the provided USB drive. Plus as an added bonus... if you care- you can get the mod chip that matches the color of your DS.

What I learned yesterday is that keeping a DS painting loose is much more compelling than trying to paint tight... and issue I have always had. So the bottom of the painting and the hair I think is awesome. They eye's are kinda shaky... like I was trying to hard.

DS painting pt. 2!

Ooh... I am getting better!

DS paintings

Okay... so I have jumped on the modded DS band wagon with great fervor! I mean really when there is a FREE program like Colors! out there WHAT artist can possibly resist the draw? I ask you... no laptop, no messy paints, no big anything? A pocket sized digital paint pallet you say?... SOLD to the lady in the unicorn shirt. Here are my first and second attempts. Not bad... not bad. No layers and no undo!

Here is a link to my Colors! site. http://colors.brombra.net/author.php?page=1&id=908

Yucatan

It's been ages... here have some sketchbook.

They were all drawn from life on site... The frog actually fell on my head while I was peeing. NICE! Weird side story.... this frog is sort of a grayish green with darker gray green stripes. Every single night one of these was outside of my door, in my bathroom on my wall. Just one. Everywhere I went. No one else had a frog stalker. I think he was good luck.

Grand Floridian

On a simi-recent trip to Florida I couldn't help myself from drawing the average American. who can blame me?

Expiditions

Eat your heart out National Geographic!

I am not the greatest of photographers.... and I have a sneaking suspicion that my camera has a setting where there isn't as much grain... but alas I can't figure my little canon out. I really wish I would have been paying attention in my photography class... something about an f-stop. Hiss....

I like to live in America!

Soooo... I will post some drawings from my sketchbook when I get them all scanned and fancied up. As a grand total of maybe 3 people actually look at my blog I can probably take my time and no one will notice. In the meantime enjoy some odd photos of my Trip to the Yucatan.

Owed to a mother

A personal doodle. Only I get to know what it means... I wonder if anyone will recognize her. I just like it.

Stop bugging me!

This is a funny sketch I did of my office mate Nick Comorre. It's spot on. He always says "no" or, "I don't care". It's his way.