Drawing California

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Drawing & Exploring the Yucatan

My 50 page sketchbook from my trip is available in pdf format for my Patreon subscribers here

Three Artists Paint...

Every year fellow artists Matt Cruickshank, Mike Dutton and I choose a destination and head there to paint and draw. We just did our fifth annual trip together! Below is my latest video from our travels to New Mexico (+ the four previous trips).


Last year we went to Mexico City- an amazing destination to explore through paint and drawing.


Year three was New Orleans


Our second adventure was to Joshua Tree...


... and the first trip was to Yuma county in Northern California.

Pro-Create Film Studies: The Color Purple

I cut together my film studies from The Color Purple made on the iPad as I was familiarizing myself with the excellent & versatile app ProCreate. I found every shot Spielberg uses has an idea behind it; there is meaning and progression of the story visually through composition, movement, lighting & depth. He expresses what the characters feel and changes our emotions as we watch...

GESTURE DRAWING: Athletic male poses

GESTURE DRAWING: Female comicbook characters warm-ups

GESTURE DRAWING: Female Dance poses

GESTURE DRAWING: Turning the model's poses into Ninja Turtles!

GESTURE DRAWING: Creating characters from a live model

GESTURE DRAWING: 1 min poses from female model

GESTURE DRAWING: Pris from Bladerunner

GESTURE DRAWING: Quick warm-up sketches

Gesture Drawing Class: How I do warm-up sketches

Gesture Drawing

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STORYBOARDS

I opened an Etsy store to sell my original art at THIS link. Check it out.

California Road Trip 2018: sketching en route

New digital book!

I've put my FOURTH digital art book up for sale on Gumroad. An expanded edition of my art exhibition catalog JONES paints AMERICA with 25 extra pages from my sketchbooks. Download here

 

See all of my digital sketchbooks on GumRoad here

Glen Keane animation art exhibition

The Glen Keane art exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio, Bay Area. Also this summer the museum has a major exhibition on Disney's 'Nine Old Men' - the generation of animators that Keane learnt from. Worth a trip to San Francisco!

 Caricature by John Musker