Spring 2009 - Previs

Hey Everyone,

Haven't posted any of the work that I had done last semester. I took one of Dana's Special Studies Animation Class, and managed to work on some Visual Development work. Since alot of it is still color based I wanted to build this portfolio up. Some of it is new work and old ones that I am building on. Two are from films that I worked on it Dana's class, Buki and Meteor.

Enjoy!

Into the Distance

Carnival

Buki

Fence


Meteor

Plein Air Painting

I know it's been awhile, been getting portfolios ready to send out...

This was done at Mormon Rock, Cajon Pass, CA. Brigham and I go out painting every week. So stay tuned for more paintings. Was planning on going up to Big Bear Lake to do some painting but it's been so foggy and I hate driving mountain roads in the clouds and fog.

Sketchbook drawings

Sketchbook Edition

This is a page from my sketchbook. Just drawing different things, exploring ideas and concepts. Had a lot of fun doing this page. Enjoy!

My Pirate Couch

A couple of weeks ago I was at Claremont Graduate School, looking at an art opening and seen this couch outside the Artists' studios. I thought it was cool. My pirate couch!

Color keys and Background

Thought I'd upload some art...

Issue 26 - Painter Magazine

In the current issue of Painter Magazine I have another tutorial on Brush Creator. I was a fun assignment on creating and manipulating brushes in the Brush creator. Fun Stuff.

Picture Time from the Kustom Kulture show

Okay so I finally have some pictures up from the show. It was a good show, had alot of people go through, about 2200 people, according to the door counter and minus the repeat visitors. Thank you to all my friends, family, fellow students and people I just don't know, that came during the month it was up.

The next Big show will be for my Grad Show for the completion of the Masters program, so mark your calenders, Saturday, October 10th 7 - 10pm.

See you all then!

Inscore's (hope you enjoyed your date Aaron), folks, Grandparents and more all looking at the work. I had a couple of displays of my work for Painter Magazine on display. Wanted people to be able to see some of the other work I do.

My friend Hahn - thanks for coming and hanging out!

My Dad and I in front of Bring it by Saturday which is inspired by all those times of working on the car with him.

Marco Jessica and Krista at the end of the night.

Thanks for all the hockey tickets.

Official Corel® Painter Bookazine Vol. 02

I picked up the new Bookazine from Corel Painter. It features some of the past tutorials and features from the Magazine. Two of the tutorials that I did are in there. The Vintage Travel Poster from Issue 19 and Adding People to a Landscape from Issue 20.

Thanks to Painter Magazine, Jo Cole and April Madden for including me!!

Hey all...It's been awhile since I uploaded anything. Had an art show that went really well and alot of other exciting things going on. One was I just got my computer back. I was in my studio and the cord got wrapped around the wheel and I backed up to do something and yanked my computer right off the desk. So I've been using traditional mediums for awhile now. Everything is back up and check back shortly for new posts.

Kustom Kulture Show

Hey Everyone
Now that school has commenced, I just wanted to let you know of a show that I have going on. It is in the Titan Student Union at California State University, Fullerton. This show is in preparation of my Final show for the Masters in Illustration which will be in October.
The Center Gallery features seven pieces from the Hotrod and car Kulture that I have been working on. Also features three displays of the work that I have done for Painter Magazine.
Hope you all enjoy and I look forward to seeing you.

January 20-February 20

Reception: Thursday, February 19, time 6-9pm
Center Gallery(714) 278-3915
Located on the Main Level of the Titan Student Union, the Center Gallery features a number of temporary exhibits of various media types each semester. The Center Gallery provides student artists with valuable experience and recognition in the campus community.
Spring 2009 hours

Monday-Thursday 7am-10pm Friday 7am-9pm Saturday 8am-5pm Sunday Noon-10pm

Painter Magazine - Issue 23

Here is a tutorial that I did for Issue 23, it was creating a rainy cityscape using the

style of Jeff Rowland. It was a fun tutorial with an excellent cover by Marta Dahlig.

Enjoy!

Here is an example of Jeff Rowland's work...

Carnival

At the Ink N Iron Festival last June, there were stilt walker there. I really enjoyed drawing them, and the Kustom Kulture that is the Carnival.

Cholo and his lady

Here is a new one in the ongoing kustom kulture illustrations.

Thanks Melissa

Pull 'er forward.

My dad saw this scene at an automotive shop and told me the story so I decided to illustrate it.

so here it goes...

My dad takes the truck into an automotive shop to get some electrical work done. When he walks up he sees this scene. An Old man has a ladder in the bed of the truck and he is telling the kid in the truck to pull the truck forward as he paints.

My dad is always wanting me to do an illustration of these stories....so here you go pop!

SCBWI - Illustration Competition

Two kids get dragged to a Thanksgiving dinner and what do they see.

Enjoy.

Get your 3D glasses

Just messing around with a piece in 3D.

Issue 22 of Corel Painter Magazine

Here is the newest tutorial that I did for Panter Magazine. This one is on Tonal Value. It was fun they wanted me to do one of those "Cool Tall ships paintings I do." Thanks April.
It's also on the front cover.

Into the Distance on permanent display!

So I just received a correspondence from Mary, the Arts Administrator for the City of Redmond. She said they want to purchase "Into the Distance" for exhibition on a permanent basis as part of the City's art collection. This was piece was one of three I had in the Digital Arts festival, that can be seen below in past posts. It's a pretty good feeling. Thanks Mary.

Digital Arts Festival Photos

Hey everyone, here are some pctures from the Arts festival I was in up in Seattle. I got Three pieces in the festival and they framed them for me, which was really cool of them. They will be at the festival and then they go to the city hall for a month or so. Thanks to Aunt Ruth and Uncle Ron for the pictures and letting me know about the festival.

Painter Magazine Tutorial

Here is the current issue of Painter out at Newsstands right now. Go and get your copy and see how to add people to a landscape.

Digital Arts Festival

Entered this festival over the summer. And I'll have three pieces in the exhibit. Into the distance, hood ornaments, and london docks. They even framed the work for me. And after the Festival it will be on display at the Redmond City Hall. Redmond is just east of Seattle and home of Microsoft. It would be a nice place to work after school is done! I love it up there.

These are the ones in the show...Thanks to Mary for liking my work and having me in the show.

And a special thanks for Aunt Ruth for letting me know about the show.

Article in the Costco Today

The Costco Today did a great article on my work and process. It was really written well, thanks to Erin Andersen for doing the article.

The Costco Today is a magazine that is distributed to all the employees in the United States. It has a reader base larger then some of the top selling magazines.

Illustrator.ai

The beginnings of Illustrator. Forgive the my genesis into illustrator, for I just started. 

Primer Nationals

Did my second Hot Rod show this over Labor Day Weekend. Which was rough to because I was finishing a tutorial for Painter Magazine also...

... Had a really good time, meet a lot of good people, and made some money which is always good. Thanks to Rick Suit for the photos since I left my camera at home.

Airmail from the Australia!

Here is the article from Deadbeat magazine. Pretty good, I was really pleased with what the Aussie's wrote. Good job Deadbeat and thanks!

Previous post is below....sorry for the delay, took a month to get the magazine, hope you all enjoy!

Painter Magazine Issue 19

Hey Everyone,

Here is the second tutorial that I did for Painter Magazine. It was fun to do and to do something different than the personal work that I have been doing. Stay tuned to Issue 20 also. Hope you enjoy and go out and buy a copy.

Deadbeat Magazine

Hello Everyone!!

In the current issue Deadbeat Magazine, they did a feature on Me and my work.

DEADBEAT is a quarterly magazine featuring the best of the best in kustom kulture globally. The magazine features the best hot rods and customs, the most beautiful pin-ups, the coolest lowbrow artists, tattoo artists and bands.

Hope you all enjoy and go buy a copy!!!

The Red Car

This was an Illustration done for the book 'The Red Car' by Don Stanford.

Hope you enjoy. You can also see it in Issue 18 of Painter Magazine.

Painter Magazine

In issue 18 of Painter Magazine, (a British Publication), I did my first tutorial. The tutorial is on Colour Control, I had to sample paintings that I had already done; Captain Morgan and the lady, Into the Distance, The Red Car, and the Devil Doll piece are all featured in the issue.

Also look forward to Issue 19 and 20 also. I have the Feature tutorial in 19 and smaller on in 20. The tutorials in 19 and 20 feature new artwork created for the tutorial. Thanks to Jo Cole and April Madden at Painter Magazine.

More Backgrounds

Here are some Backgrounds that I have been working on the past few months, Hope you enjoy them....

- Hallway-

- Hopi Village -

- canyon -

- Purple Mountains -

- Whitefish Wharf -

All paintings drawn and painted by Brad Sutton aside for 'Whitefish Wharf'

initial drawing by Josh Rivera, revised and painted by Brad Sutton

Ink N Iron - Queen Mary - 2008

Well, my first show is behind me. Had a great time, met a lot of cool people, and sold a lot of art. Thanks to Wes, James, Kent and all there spouses for making me feel welcome.

Painter Magazine out NOW!!

Painter Magazine Issue 16 is out now with the feature of my work; and you can get it at Borders and Barnes and Noble, or any place you get your magazines at. I was also asked to do a Tutorial that will be in Issue 18, and it will be the main tutorial, so stay tuned for that also.

check below to see the actual article

Bonneville

The great Salt Flats!!

Painter Magazine

Great feature on me in next month issue of Painter Magazine. Natalie Johnson did a great job on the article. Out now internationally, in the States May 22nd (or so). How you all enjoy!!

Special thanks to Cliff Cramp for blazing the trail!

Devil Doll

Devil Doll, or Miss Colleen Duffy which ever you prefer. She is a great singer and has a great onstage performance. Check her out.

Bring it on Saturday

"Bring it on Saturday" is a painting I did that has major influences from my Dad. When ever my car would be having trouble on monday, he would tell me to bring it on Saturday and will take a look at it!!! That's a week away, I never understood it!!!

Also, I always remember sticking the tools in my pocket and they would be way to big. There's other little details.....but that for me and my Dad. Hope you enjoy!

Image of the Day

Happened to be googling my name and found that my piece of House of Usher was an Image of the Day on the Ballistic Publishing website. Never new anything about it. I sumitted to the D'Artiste and the happened to like this piece, pretty cool.

London Dock

Background done for my backgrounds.

You like how I phrased that!

Railroad Depot

Hello ya'll!! Here is another BG I did. The original layout was by my friend Josh Rivera and I changed alot of the designs of it. It was in the middle of the city with building behind it. Having seen There will be blood a couple times, I like the feeling of this man made stucture in the middle of the wilderness. Enjoy!

Looted Beach

Here is a BG of a looted beach. I am working on building up my Backgrounds portfolio. This was one of the regular illustration I was working from the book The Buccaneers of America. It used to have a ship sailing off into the distance.

The Coronado Lady

So this is the piece that I will have in the Surf Beat Show on the 15th of March. There are alot of really good people in this show and I am so humble to be up on the walls with the caliber of people. Well...........I hope you enjoy the piece.

Surf Beat Show

Hello there! Here is a show that I got invited to be in. The guy curating to show saw my work on myspace and liked my style. Thanks Tom!!! You can go to these links to see more info....

www.thelightgalleries.com

www.myspace.com/surfbeatgallery

I'll post my entry later tonight. Thanks and come out for the show.

Cheesecake recall

To those of you who saw the Cheesecake pinup there was a recall on the cheesecake. Hopefully you do not have memory burn from the incident.

Different type of Pin up

This piece was done for a friend of mine Anthony Vega. They like Las Vegas and this was a picture of his grandma.

Plein Aire Painting

Just a little Plein Air paintings created these past months.

Painting at the Little Corona, thanks to Katie and here class for the picture and the company.

Little Corona, Corona Del Mar

Back Bay Newport, Newport Beach

Back Bay Newport, Newport Beach

Crystal Cove, Newport Beach

Johnson's Pasture, Claremont

Johnson's Pasture, Claremont

Winery Buildings, Rancho Cucamonga

The Process

Start with a good subject, taken at the Route 66 car show in San Bernadino.....
...... Sketch up a new kind of design.......

......lay in some tones to figure out the lighting.....
.....start with the color.....
......figure out some sort of background....
......flesh out more of the details....
......adding more background....

....finalizing the Picture with the final touchs, so that way the Ol' timer can ride!

Art show in Little Tokyo

This was a little art show that Doug Sirois and I were in. Had a good time and a great learning experience. Even sold a piece also.

Master Doug getting all his prints ready in front of his space
My wall

Doug and I discussing art.

Wacky Wedding

This was an Illustration Competition that I won though the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. You can see all the details and the other winners by clicking on the link. http://www.scbwi.org/contest/illustrators/Contest23/current.htm

Plundered pirate spoils and other loot

Greaser stuff from last semester.

The original hood ornament for this one is posted in the June section.




Started doing greaser artwork. Been going pretty good, I got published in either Car Kulture Deluxe. It will either be the to with the girls or the Hood ornaments.

Revised Dueces

After the flogging stopped and the scrutiny had stopped I finally fixed the composition and color.

Deuces

Two Lovely lookin' sisters from the Ink and Iron. There original picture is under June.

Ink and Iron at the Queen Mary

A great couple that posed for me at this years Ink and Iron Festival.

Cheers!

Ink and Iron Festival

The Ink and Iron Festival, Queen Mary, Long Beach. An excellent weekend, Great Music and People. And thanks to all the cool people who let me take reference photos of them for future Illustrations, you guys rock.

Cheers!

Printed up some cards

Did these pieces and made cards and went to the Ink and Iron Festival at the Queen Mary this Weekend!

Cheers!

"Duck, Duck, Goose"

Well everybody the summer started off pretty good. This was the Winner of the Illustration competition for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. It was a great honor to win and I am greatful to the SCBWI for choosing my piece.
Cheers!