Coraline Panel at the Gallery Nucleus

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it's been a more than a week since the event..but thought it'd be fun to show some pictures of the panel of Coraline, which was awesome to go to. most of the visual development team was there sharing their art that they contributed to the movie. also i found on the character designer steve lambey's blog, was the whole panel discussion on youtube! so check out the goodness if you're into this kinda stuff. anywhoo, i'm working hard to get some stuff on the blog..sorry for those who been waiting.

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-m00k!

Work In Progress pt. 2

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here's the continuing progress of my painting. i added shadow and more little details to the piece. i also did a color study of the piece, just to fool around. but yes hopefully i'll get it done.

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m00k!

Work In Progress - PS painting

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so for the past couple o days i've been painting on photoshop. i love photoshop but i hardly paint on the darn thing. and as it be, i wanted to paint. you see, i look up at my two friends, bobby and ivan's work alot. these two young cats are very talented at what they do and it inspires me to paint as good as they do. sooooo, here's my work in progress, it'll be done in the next couple o days. any comments and critiques is greatly appreciated.

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m00k!

bus stop sign prop design

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so i'm cleaning my hard drive and desktop and i found this and thought it'd be cool to share. it's the bus stop sign that i used in my demo reel for graduation. i really like doing prop design. my friend ivan suggested i should do more of it. i'll have more stuff in my portfolio that i can show. anywhoo here it is

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m00k!

Robin, Penguins, Joker..yeah!

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so my friends bobby, ivan and yours truly are doing a challenge over at out team blog "everwonder." we're doing up the characters in the world of the batman as we
see it in our noggins. i chose to do robin the boy wonder, the Penguin, and the joker. all did in my brown sketchbook again heh!

hope you likes

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-m00k!

outta my brown sketchbook

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so here's some stuff outta my sketchbook. if anyone knew me they'd know i love drawing on tone paper...i love it. anywhoo did a sketch of a man with a brief case, and the second drawing is something random..one of those drawings where i just drew whatever came to me. more drawings to come

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m00k!

brush pen sketch

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i hope everyone had a wonderful christmas or anything they celebrate for that matter. and i hope everyone has a good and safe new years. anywhoo, i did this sketch for fun using those dope pentel brush pens. just a little somethin somethin to whole you down with while i churn out some new stuff still

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m00k!

demo reel car explorations

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so it's sunday and it's two days after graduation. i'm still trying to believe that it's all over. no more school...i'm going to miss it, i know it. went to my friend (who also graduated with me) ivan's grad party. it was really really cool, good food, good company and good music provided by ivan and his band "the raga". thank you ivan! anywhoo, here's a couple of explorations of my (if you will) "main character" of my demo reel. i'll be working a lot to update my portfolio so be sure to come back to see some spanking brand new stuff. now it's time to conquer the world.

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m00k!

my little mook minions

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so these little dudes here are my little paper cutout toys that i will be handing out at my school's portfolio show. i got the template online and just threw my design onto it. turned out pretty good for my first time. my girl is the one making all of them for me, so shout out to my girl!! but yeah this is the first batch done..back to work

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m00k!

new "business" cards

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here's my spanking new business cards that i will be passing out at my portfolio show. these little bad boys look way better than my old one, i blocked out my phone number, heh just a lil nervous postin that up you know...but then again it's on my resume, so i can't win lol....anywhoo, i just hope they come just in time for the show though..oy yoy yoy. more art comin!!

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m00k

card board art

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so my demo reel show is tomorrow and that's when i find out if i pass. nervous times my friends :) anywhoo i wanted to share some art that i did on card board. i've always like drawing on them since i was a wee lad. but yeah i did this one in one of my classes last term. it's basically what keeps me going and what i like. so i drew my family and some of my interest. i've also made a new business card so i'll share that with soon.

until then

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m00k!

finally an update!!

well hello there amigo and amigas!!

first off, like many artist bloggers out there would say, i'd like to apologizing for the lack of post of me poor blogs. rest assure i will post new art for you soon. i am graduating in about a month, so my schedule has been jam packed with demo reel and i must say a little of laziness.

anywhoo, just like to share a photo booth picture i took with my twin brother, sister and brother-in-law at my cousins wedding at the beautiful aquarium of the pacific in my hometown Long Beach, Ca. the photo booth was a great idea to do and will have some great memories for my cousin and his new bride. congrats mark!! but yeah i'll be posting some stuff from my demo reel soon.

until then

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m00k

hey there people!!!

hola amigos and amigas!!!

sorry for the lack of post, as some of you know or understand school is taking a whole lotta time, but i did get some stuff down to show. anywhoo this is for my studio class. more character design for a project we're doing. i'm not to sure if i can go in length with it, but i can say that it's about magic.

What-else before i post the pictures...ah yes! i am pleased to say that i along with my wonderful girlfriend, has work together in making a zipperboy doll!!! if you don't remember who he is, he's posted here on this blog...so take a gander. but yes off of my design my girl did her "magic" i'll post some pictures of him real soon.

well here's the pics everyone

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ye ole m00k!!

kennedy v. deuce

hola mi amigas and amigos!!

here's another pass of "Kennedy" a character design project we're doing in my 3d Studio class. sorry if it's a little to pixelated...my bad.

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ye ole m00k!

bellboy work in process

hola amigas and amigos!!

so i'm sitting here at school right now stressing on my demo reel..only natural right? anywhoo, i'm working on a whole slew of characters for the m00ksville project and i decided i'll show one even though i'm not finish with it.

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ye ole m00k!!