afterwork artwork

new job

2011-04-25T11:12:00.001-07:00

Just wanted to say that there will be more art very soon! There's been a lot of downtime because I've been working a lot, and also because I just got myself a new job! woo!

I'll be starting at 38 Studios as an Environment Artist this Friday. Once I'm settled into my apartment (hopefully not too long after) I'll start posting more art. I have a lot of plans to keep improving, and I'll be sharing stuff along that journey. Stay tuned!

ga.org hourly #1 plus another scarlett view

2011-02-05T17:59:00.000-08:00

wasn't happy only seeing the front view of her. I actually think the front view looks better without hair. so silly.

couple scarletts

2011-01-25T22:33:00.000-08:00

omigosh

milla milla

2011-01-19T21:01:00.000-08:00

more random stuff

2011-01-07T15:41:00.000-08:00

couple more things I've done for practice

alex

2010-12-19T18:56:00.000-08:00

again, I know. but he asked politely.

David

2010-12-09T15:56:00.001-08:00

danielle

2010-11-28T16:27:00.001-08:00

portrait of Danielle,

2010-11-15T18:59:00.000-08:00

Self 11/9/11

2010-11-08T22:54:00.001-08:00

portrait day nov 1st!

2010-11-01T22:58:00.000-07:00

apparently. also, it's totally still nov 1st in PST.

sienna

2010-10-11T20:44:00.000-07:00

portrait based off sienna miller, but me not getting anal about matching the photo or proportions 100%.. just wanted to be creative with this and practice working with a palette. this one was a little too obvious though. I think I'll try a black and white one next and then a monochrome then maybe two colors again.

10/10/10 self portrait

2010-10-09T22:45:00.001-07:00

done in art rage 3

another update

2010-04-21T22:26:00.000-07:00

I really, really didn't like how the arms were looking. turns out they were much longer than they should have been. I'm still not a huge fan of the angle at rest, but it's just for sculpting.. I'll pick a different arm pose next time I suppose. I added hands , fixed the arm proportions, and tucked in the skirt in the time I had tonight. I'm gonna re-sculpt both arm cloths next.

rome dude

2010-04-19T21:10:00.000-07:00

so I've been making this guy for practice. guess it's about time I posted it. I still have a lot to do though, so I might as well make a checklist for myself.

Still gotta do:
Hands
Rest of helmet
sculpt and place the skirt thingy
redo the cloth on the top half of the body (basically the arms), probably the pants as well.
touch up legs (haw haw)
shoulder tassle things
face detail
bracelet things
overall cleanup
and i'm sure there's more. but it's getting there.. good practice too.

some sculpting

2010-04-08T07:21:00.000-07:00

trying to not suck :\

Kate Beckinsale

2010-03-21T14:43:00.000-07:00

it's been way too long since i had a chance to art

DB Base Mesh

2010-02-25T21:19:00.000-08:00

started a base mesh for a soon to be sculpt

Christina Hendricks

2010-02-18T19:48:00.000-08:00

damn this chick is pretty. first of a couple, I'll assume. 80 minutes in Art Rage, 5 in Photoshop

Colored Tam's thunderdome + older stuff

2010-02-07T17:11:00.000-08:00

Tam did some incredibly bad ass linework for the Candyland thunderdome we have going on right now and I decided to offend her by attempting to color it. Check out her version here!

and an older portrait i did two weeks ago and forgot to post.

Ellen Page Again

2010-01-25T19:29:00.001-08:00

Damn you

Art Rage again.. cintiq colors were a tad off, but whatever.

Dave's Girl

2010-01-24T22:05:00.000-08:00

trying to learn how to sculpt. yeesh, as if the program didn't crash enough on its own!
tried a quick polypaint over it as well.

art rage

2010-01-24T14:27:00.001-08:00

thought i'd give it a shot. it's pretty fun for paint. short one, maybe 40 minutes:

sculpting

2010-01-17T21:34:00.001-08:00

kinda used me as reference for the front view a little but also went and just did whatever.. really needed to practice some sculpting. gotta do this normally..

Still Life

2010-01-14T22:40:00.001-08:00

first still life I've done since college. a bit over an hour. damn those grapes.

Ellen Page portrait

2010-01-13T00:04:00.001-08:00

it's been too long since I've done one of these, Yeesh!

about 3 hours-ish

rachel mcadams portrait

2009-12-15T22:56:00.001-08:00

two hours

Drew Barrymore

2009-12-06T17:15:00.000-08:00

for thunderdome. took about 3 hours total. hair took an hour alone because I was putsing around with it, as well as other last minute tweaks.

Squier Bass

2009-12-06T12:05:00.001-08:00

finally finished this bastard.

Assorted Portraits

2009-12-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

yes, I have been doing stuff. All four are 20-30 minutes.

another self portrait

2009-11-01T14:55:00.001-08:00

did another quick one. i'll do a long one when I get a chance and I'm in the mood.

Self Portrait Drawing - October 30th 2009 from Brent LaDue on Vimeo.

self portrait

2009-10-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

did a quick ~30 minute drawing of myself.

and the video:

Self Portrait Drawing - October 28th 2009 from Brent LaDue on Vimeo.

2009-10-22T19:34:00.001-07:00

Catherine Zeta Jones Drawing - October 22nd 2009 from Brent LaDue on Vimeo.

self

2009-10-20T23:01:00.001-07:00

I need to start doing more self portraits. here's a line drawing of one. 20ish minutes, kinda slacked.

Video:

Self Portrait Drawing, October 21st 2009 from Brent LaDue on Vimeo.

alex again

2009-10-19T23:16:00.001-07:00

he said to draw him, so I gave him a half hour.

speed theron

2009-10-16T21:34:00.000-07:00

about 90 minutes, it's pretty meh

Jennifer Webb portrait.

2009-10-12T19:42:00.000-07:00

thought she was pretty so i drew her.

lots

2009-10-06T17:31:00.001-07:00

mommy

2009-09-05T12:26:00.001-07:00

okay here's the one i'm gonna call done

motherly update

2009-08-26T18:43:00.000-07:00

another hour or so.

Thunderdome and Mom

2009-08-25T17:56:00.001-07:00

I did the creature 'AxeBeak' for this months thunderdome. Here's just the line then my colored version. I'm not too happy with the colored version (actually, I like the body, but I don't like the skin or head or beak), but I didn't want to spend too much more time on it. It was a good experimental piece though. Thanks for the motivation, Abdul. :)

Also, started on the line drawing for the portrait of my mom.

Life Drawing 8/8/09

2009-08-08T16:25:00.000-07:00

had an ok day. yes I know about the legs in the first one. hahah.

finished coloring

2009-08-05T16:16:00.000-07:00

calling it done. was a lot of fun. Thanks to Todd Pickens for letting me color his drawing :D

Coloring Practice

2009-08-02T00:09:00.000-07:00

this was NOT drawn by me. This was drawn by Todd Pickens (http://www.shapesandlines.com/) - a fantastic artist that I've had the pleasure of working with. I love this drawing and wanted to see it colored as well as get some practice.

This is about 1/3rd of the way colored, I plan on rendering much more detail and contrast. Right now it could work as an anime type thing I suppose (hey I think it looks cool!) but I want to push it much further.

please excuse the super quick and dirty rim light - i just wanted to see how it would look as well as remind myself not to forget it later on :D

colored

2009-07-30T20:33:00.001-07:00

yay, now time to model.

other design

2009-07-26T20:23:00.000-07:00

probably going with this one. gonna color it next.

blink costume idea 1

2009-07-24T22:11:00.000-07:00

for the comic con challenge 09. not using this design. mainly a color style test. never tried it like this before. it's kinda neat. still some issues.

some more stuff

2009-07-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

been doing random drawings and such lately, guess i'll post those here.
was gonna play D&D for the first time this weekend but it didn't pan out. either way a couple of these spewed from that.

yes.

spewed.

the other is Danielle's eye.

Thanks for looking.

been some time

2009-07-16T21:30:00.000-07:00

i've been doing stuff. here's some.
I started my first master Copy. It's Lady Agnew by John Singer Sargent.
Here's the line then the initial color block in.
also, a naked chick. about an hour on that one.

Alex

2009-06-11T07:23:00.001-07:00

he told me to draw him so i did

PLANET X

2009-06-08T22:00:00.001-07:00

2009-05-28T19:09:00.001-07:00

body

2009-05-26T22:45:00.000-07:00

tried another body study, this one was about an hour-ish?

had one started that I didn't really like, then tried again. just trying to keep it very rough, this is practice for blocking out masses of color quickly.

soon I'm going to do a really long one, maybe 6 hours.

John Locke & Jeremy Bentham

2009-05-15T20:43:00.000-07:00

So season 5 just ended in LOST.

God dammit. I don't know what I'm going to do until January. I guess I'll start doing portraits of all the main characters, starting with Locke. Why the hell not, right?

Whatevers Drawn, is Drawn

2009-05-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

I have looked into the eye of this painting, and what I saw was WIP

2009-05-15T17:23:00.000-07:00

bout 80 minutes?

don't tell me what I can't draw

2009-05-14T22:15:00.001-07:00

cosby

2009-05-12T22:04:00.001-07:00

trying to practice getting a likeness. bah.

a 'waste' of time

2009-05-06T22:17:00.001-07:00

is it just me or am I getting worse.

I need to do a serious 4 hour one when I get the chance. uck.

Sean Connery

2009-04-24T22:56:00.000-07:00

quick connery study

one thing I think I'm going to start focusing on is being able to get a likeness in a shorter amount of time. Once I learn how to do that better then I can continue to focus on painting. I'd rather be able to focus on PAINTING when I want to do that vs. worrying about the proportions first.. so I figure if I get good at getting a likeness and proportions right now i'll get through it faster later!

don't ask

2009-04-24T18:51:00.000-07:00

holy shit, I forgot the theme.

DOH.

Marion Davies

2009-03-30T21:19:00.001-07:00

2009-03-29T15:41:00.000-07:00

2009-03-28T01:13:00.000-07:00

2009-03-24T21:20:00.001-07:00

2009-03-22T21:17:00.001-07:00

apple

2009-03-09T12:28:00.001-07:00

another quick apple during my lunch break

2009-03-08T17:28:00.001-07:00

2009-03-04T20:50:00.001-08:00

figure study ~1hr

2009-02-27T20:44:00.001-08:00

2009-02-02T20:05:00.000-08:00

2008-12-21T23:03:00.000-08:00

2008-12-20T22:52:00.000-08:00

color temperature

2008-12-20T21:39:00.000-08:00

playing with new learning's about color temperature

and now for something completely different

2008-12-20T00:01:00.000-08:00

self portrait

2008-12-18T20:05:00.001-08:00

here we go.
this was in progress, right after blocking out and started to mix colors

2008-12-17T18:59:00.000-08:00

2008-12-17T17:11:00.000-08:00

snow mountains

2008-12-16T19:03:00.001-08:00

messing with colors

2008-12-16T14:49:00.001-08:00

playing catch up

2008-12-16T12:12:00.000-08:00

This is me trying to get better at art. I'll be posting stuff as I do it from now on. these are from the past months. I know, I need to do more. Expect more.