Figure Study

I took the watercolor/gouache workshop last weekend, and I wanted to keep practicing with the medium. It's been 2 years since I've done any figure painting from life, so today I went to a 5hr workshop in San Rafael.

Watercolor & Gouache Workshop

What a fantastic weekend Thomas & I had up the coast in Mendocino. We got a chance to get away from our daily lives of photoshop painting and use real paint for a change.

I worked with gouache a bit, and struggled with watercolor. It was really enlightening learning From Erik Tiemens to take advantage and really explore the combinations of both mediums.

I won't ramble on about how amazing the in-class demos were or the exercises (check them out here on Erik's blog).

Here are studies I did from the class. The first piece Erik helped me out by masterfully adding the finishing touches.

Another Game!

Two games shipping for me in one year. Right after finishing up on Monkey Island: Special Edition sometime in March, I jumped onto LucasArts newest IP game. Check it out the anouncement and game footage on GameTailers.com.

10 years later....

This month marks the 10 year anniversary for me at my job.

A couple months ago this book was published Rouge-Leaders- The Story-of -LucasArts. The book contains quite a bit of concept art by great artist of the past, and some awesome people I work with currently.

To have lived through a decade of a history book makes me feel ancient.
I can only hope that I've grown as a video game artist over the course of those years. I didn't think I'd be here as long as I have, but I'm still having fun and doing new things each day.


In chronological order, here is a sampling of key art from some of the games I worked on. (all images copyright by LucasArts ).

Art work for Auction

I'm finally posting art! This is sort of work related. A bunch of us at Lucas Arts were asked to transform blank Mighty Muggs into Star Wars art to be auctioned by The Make-A-Wish Foundation. These one-of-a kind Muggs will be on display at San Diego Comic-Con.


http://starwars.com/vault/collecting/20090713.html


I've never painted on plastic before, but this turned out to be really fun.
I had the white,blank, Mighty Mugg sitting on my home desk for a while. My little 1 1/2 yr old girl loved playing with it. When I finally got around to painting for the auction, and showed it to her, her whole body started shaking. She yelled out, "Oh, Wow!" and started clapping and giggling.
Now, I wished I didn't have to give him away, but it's for a great cause. We named him Tusky. I hope Tusky goes to a good home.

The Secret of Monkey Isand Special Edition

I don't know who visits this blog, since I haven't posted in forever. Thanks to everyone who has visited!
It's been an intense year, adjusting to being a working mom. I haven't had any time to do art outside of work.
Fortunately, I've been working on some really fun projects, and one of them being this one that announced today!

Spring

The record amounts of rain we've been getting in Northern California, and staying indoors all winter long, has made me really anxious for spring to arrive already!! Here's a pen & ink sketch (colored in photoshop). A tribute to my favorite season --Spring.