Contracting Work - Bocker the Labradoodle [logo]

Initial first sketches based on really ROUGH sketches my boss had made.  

Snout length comparison

Full body draft

I believe this was the final draft before taking it into illustrator

Concepts / Ideas

Some random ideas ive been doodling and working on to practice my photoshopping skills and messing around with texture brushes. Just some studies and random things. Please do not copy or use these assets/images. 

Chickies! Poor poor chickies.... 

Work in Process, zoomed in area of a greater sized map.

Archery.

Apples in a barrel.

Sad Homer is Sad.

Some recent images done after hearing that the signs down by the road need to have signs on the back of them informing customers that we thank them for shopping at our store and to come back soon! Who can resist a sad face like that!? 

Also comes in a white background with black lettering.

We Install Water Heaters

A series of 9 signs [7 if which are showing] done in 3 days which they overshot and thought I should get this all done in 10hrs after i quoted them a week. For the Baltimore, Maryland District of Home Depot. Please excuse some of the grainy or poorly taken images till i actually get to the depots myself. The first in the group was the original of all of them and the rest followed months after. You'd think after doing this for my district manager though, that he would remember my name by now... Can't say I'm not a little disappointed. 

Practice makes perfect...

Here are some things ive been doodling up in my spare time for a project... Playing with atmosphere, perspective and texture brushes.

Getting in with Christmas!

Ive noticed now that it has become a trend of me to wait a little in between posts to show the things I've done in the past couple months. Ive already visited with the family and have been getting back into my doodling habits, especially now that the atmosphere in the store i am at has been a little dead lately [especially during Ravens games...]. So here are some things ive done for the store as well as my co-workers. Granted some of them are not very original, but all and all, were done for the sake of the kids. Anything related to Hello Kitty or Disney can obviously go to them as far as credit. Call it fan art as you wish... it was not 'sold' but as i said before...a gift. 

Anyway! Lets have at it shall we?

Finished Product of Elf on Reindeer head shoot for Hardware event.

P.A.S.S. a note for customers to remember to change the batteries in their smoke alarms.

Black Friday promo sign, and offically [sadly] has been painted over.

Hey Fellas! [this is a little sloppy but it was needed ASAP]

Candy Canes [Before] 

Candy Canes [After]

Savings!

Icicle Lights not included.

a Tribute to Cuddles.

spray painted. 

Spray paint gets everywhere unintentionally. Good thing it all cleans up well! 

Hello Kitty with Antlers.

Christmas Gift "Brave"

Christmas Gift "Tangled"

Quick Sign for Drill Sets before Black Friday. [Time: under 5 mins]

Speed paint!

Some things I have doing for quite some time now with my art. I learned to draw, I learned to use a wacom tablet, and i picked up many many different techniques to get the end result that I wanted. Granted this has taken me YEARS to do, I was halted in creativity to try and see a way to push my style a bit further,  i just didn't understand how. Ive seen concept after concept and had wondered how people were to get creative enough to do these painting so quickly. Eventually I had my eye opener when applying for an internship with a company . "Do up four thumbnails of environments wide ranging in their location." with an jaw dropping video by FZDSchool on youtube. I cant say I wasnt a bit overwhelmed but I was given a chance to strut my stuff and I was going to give it a shot! What did i have to lose really? Someone saying "no, thats not what we're looking for."? So during this little exercise I managed to learn some things that I always wanted to [because my cruddy little school did not have courses like these like I wanted.] Eitherway, these are the results for my first tries at speed painting... keep in mind I have a lot still to learn and grow upon but ultimately thought I did alright with this!

Each took me about 45 minutes to complete... except the thumbnails which were very quick!