cartoon network

Cartoon Network Cinemedia from Chris Green on Vimeo.

Here's something I did some initial concept sketching for earlier in the year. This was for DK in Chicago. I had a day to sketch designs of how the interior of this storefront could change shapes to include in their pitch to the client to try to get this job. I first did a bunch of small thumbnail drawings. Then Chad, their cg art director, picked which ones he liked and I drew the three key frames bigger, that's the first image at top.
DK got the job, and so the next day I came in and in the morning they asked me to kick out a few designs for the exterior of the storefront.

the dead city at night

Messin around with gouache tonight. Had fun with this one. Expanding more on the world I've drawn some of in some earlier posts. This is supposed to be Denver in the future.

neon fireball guitar solos

click images to see super-mega-ultra-up-sized versions...

Earlier this year did some preliminary character design work on a project at Calabash Animation called Eternal Descent. These guitar god characters battle each other with guitar solos and lightning bolts and neon pink atom bomb feedback.

02/03/11...added some more development sketches to this batch.

kaleidoscope street

Here is another page in my sketchbook that started as a couple different thumbnail drawings next to each other. As I looked at them, I thought they might blend well together, and then I just kept adding on. Did not at all plan on the trippy multi-dimensional intersection. But I dig how it turned out.

girl in gloves and the red robot

Some recent stuff fresh outta my sketchbook.

Squid vs. Whale

The colossal squid vs. the sperm whale.

daniel jones

This is a brush and ink drawing I made recently for the surf film I'm working on, hangs upon nothing. This one got published in the last Surfer's Journal overlayed on a photo sequence of Daniel's brother, Mikala. I just made the mat this weekend.

Imperious Rex

Here is a portrait of Namor I kicked out over the last couple days. Inspired by some of the really impressive portraits I've seen over at conceptart.org recently, I decided to try and dip back into a type of more realitic drawing I really haven't attempted in over ten years. Trying to go back to the basics, and relearn or learn for the first time the foundations of drawing and painting.

I did most of this from imagination and looking at some previous sketches I've done of Namor. I also used a WWII US Army portrait of my grandfather as reference. He was seventeen or eighteen in the photo(he lied about his age to get into the Army to serve in the war), and had the looks of a movie star. In the photo he's turned the other way, and its a happy, proud looking portrait. I just used it for a bit of reference in regard to the nose, cheeks, eyes, and neck. This drawing doesn't look like him, and I didn't try to make it look like him. But the nose is pretty similar. I find that there is something timeless and magical about old photographic portraits. Hard to describe, but they just often have such a strong prescence.

In other news, my grandpa, still alive and full of kick, is now on facebook. He's beat me to it. I guess that means my grandpa is hipper than me.

Namor

silos

Exploring color ideas on translucent yupo. This translucent yupo stuff is pretty interesting as you can lay it over an existing drawing and do an overlay without using a lightbox. And it will also take watercolor without warping. It is tricky to use though! Ink does not dry quickly on yupo as it does not absorb. And going over an area with a wet brush that already has dried paint on it can lift that paint right off, depending on how you hit it with a brush.

the great stairway pt. 3

I'm trying out doing a watercolor wash over the drawing on translucent yupo. This is my first thumbnail color sketch.

the great stairway pt. 2

Here is the finished drawing. I blew up my thumbnail, transferred to marker paper. And did this with prismacolor greyscale markers and a .25 pilot hi-tec c pen. Also a little bit of pencil to help lay out a few of the tighter details. Pilot hi-tec c pens are my new favorites. I stumbled upon some in Indonesia this year. They are made in Japan, and hard to find here in the US. There are a few websites that carry them, and a few stores here and there it seems. Mainly in Japanese stores.

The image above is about screen size when clicked on. The lower image is 2x the size when clicked on to show more details. I drew this at about 24 inches wide.

the great stairway

Paper, marker, pen, and tape. And vanishing points. This is the rough thumbnail drawing of the current piece I'm working on.

gold dreams

This is the town I grew up in, a hundred years or more into the future. Kids still skate in the future. Some cops still get upset about it. Some kids get upset back at them. Yes, there's some Akira inspiration in this one.