And A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

bored as usual , still in the holiday spirit . Hope everyone had a good Christmas. Been looking at a lot of models from the moko website!! (they are all hott!!!) lol . Anyways they have lots of good fashion reference and what not. Enjoy

Merry Christmas

This one goes out to my all my family and friends. Especially my family , I couldn't do it without you guys.

To all my supporters , thanks for everything . You guys make it worth while.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR,

lets keep pushing!!

Kalen

Practice

can't go too long on these holiday breaks without painting something : )

Round 1

So I took a stab at making some God of War type environments. AJ and Paul gave me some really good insight. Definitely kicked my ass in critiques. So I will be doing another batch of these types of Enviros in the near future

; 3

and also excited for the movie

after doing film studies i had to make an attempt to do my own kind of fanart. Anyways onto more paintings that will not have blue glowy lines : )

Tron Soundtrack Awesome!

Tron Soundtrack is awesome!!! So I had to do a study lol , will probably do my own tron inspired enviro today

Im on a boat!

Just a little practice for the evening , trying to take my time in the beginning process so I have stronger foundation while painting. Learning some interesting things :) . Enjoy the journey

Warming Up For the Day

A little painting to start the day. Weekend was awesome . I had the pleasure of hanging out with Paul Richards (aka Auto Destruct) http://autodestructdigital.blogspot.com/ during the weekend . Definitely one of my fav artists so it was quite an honor to chill and enjoy each others company!!

anyways onto the week!

Tangled Study

Tangled is an awesome movie. The design, colors , animation , etc is very well done. So i had to do a painting based off the awesome movie. I tried to do this while the movie was fresh in my mind lol. Anyways it was a pretty quick study . 1 1/2 hour total. enjoy

Movie Study

Stefanie showed me a trailer of the new movie Riding Hood that's coming out. A little skeptical cause I heard the people from twilight made this one lol. However, from the trailer there was some cool cinematography shots. It really caught my eye so I had to do a study from the trailer : )

also did some from battle los angeles as well. I am still pretty new at this , but I am learning a lot. The movie looks pretty interesting as well

It's Getting Cold

So I got a lot of positive responses on my green knight. So I had to continue the series

Blue knight is my fav so far . Red knight is great but he is too overpowered lol . My blue knight has max agility and magic so I just turtle all day and cast magic!!

anyways which one should I do next?

Waterfall Study

Trying out some different ways of painting and lighting. Inspired by the amazing Dennis Chan! His work inspires me for days!!

Anyway, thanks for all the love and support guys . Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Concept Club Painting

Painting I did at concept club , just studying different ways of coloring and painting

Art Test I did for a Game Company. The position was a "Speed Painter" position. I am not really sure what it entails but I assumed I had to do these fast lol . Anyways enjoy

Bright Future

Tried to do something a little more colorful . Inspired as usual by Sze . The colors were a little inspired by Odyssey to the West. I haven't played their game but their art looks tight. So I will probably have to play it now. Anyways Enjoy

Painting Jam

Since a lot of the guys are have been going in there own separate direction of late. ( Aj at sony , Edgar , Danny and I moving to Spain Soon , Teddy in LA , Mio at Hasbro, Nino and Le in anahiem ) It was only fitting that we meet up again and just paint together like the old days. These were some of my fondest memories learning Conceptual Art with these guys. Back then we had no teachers and we just kind of taught ourselves how to do it lol. But I owe a lot of my success ( as little as it may be thusfar) to these guys and I will never forget what they have given me. These guy are pretty much family in my eyes and I hope that never changes. Hopefully we will all meet again soon!

So here were some of the paintings I did from our Painting Jam. Haven't painted clouds in a long ass time. So I took some inspiration from the cloud master Makoto Shinkai and just had fun with it . Along with painting some other things. It was fun to paint just for the sake of painting :)

Practice

Paper Blue Study

Paper blue study as usual. Trying to break down some of his paintings . As usual I fail but try and try again lol. Anyways One day I'll meet that dude . Enjoy

Sepia Study

Did a sepia study this morning. Heavily influence by Ryo-ta . Check out his blog he is a boss http://rakugakijikan.ninja-web.net/ . Anyways Thanks for all the Castle Crasher love. I will be doing some more in the near future. However, For not Its off to Vegas tonight for the weekend. Maybe I'll do a vegas painting before I go

Market Study

Man my values are terrible!!!! Gotta work on that ALOT. Currently Studying some Jaime Jones and Theo Prins works . If I could paint like their styles combined I would be a pretty happy guy lol . Anyways Enjoy

Green Knight

So asked me to do a painting of the green knight from Castle Crashers so here it is!

I haven't touched the Green knight at all. I am at the moment working with the Blue Knight. I put stats all into Magic and Agility so I just turtle all day with Magic

I took a way different approach then my previous painting. I tried a more illustrative style with it and I like the way it came out. I pictured him being surrounded by his poisonous gas which i felt could be highly flammable lol , but I tried to keep it as close to the design as possible.

anyways you can download a hi res version of it if you want. If there are castle crashers groups here , feel free to suggest it and what not! . Anyways take care yall

Enkore and Boogiezone!

So I had the amazing opportunity to work with BOOGIEZONE and help with the creative process of making their new booth. It was presented for the first time at the first Enkore Dance competition this last week. It was great to see how much people liked it

Working alongside talented artists like Chris Chien and Stefanie was a blast. Big thanks to Elm Pizzaro for letting me be a part of it

I worked on the backdrop that stands behind the cardboard cut outs that Chris made. And I always worked on the fliers that were passed out as well! Here are some pics from the event.

Castle Crashers

so Stef and I have been playing this game and we love it!

so many hilarious moments in the game so I thought i'd do a tribute piece

The Orange one is her , she loves her owl cause it always brings her food so calmly in an epic battle.

The Red one is me. I love his broken lightning attack, plus my bat always has my back eating the heads of unsuspecting minions

More...

Kinjaz Anbu Black Ops Studies

did a study of Kinjaz . I always liked the ideas of dancing ninjas. It would be such a cool character design.

Ne ways just a quick study of from one of their trailers. I look forward to seeing them at encore

if you haven't watched their first vid check it out here : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZkvxfHd40

Warm Up Study

Warmin Up

Spain and Stef

A lot has happened of late . As of the moment I will be taking a concept position at a game studio in Madrid, Spain. I will be moving out there with Edgar Cardona , Daniel Garcia , and my Stefanie will be accompanying me as well. It's a great opportunity and I am looking forward to living and working abroad.

Sometimes I am so consumed in my art I forget to do the simple things. So this picture is for my awesome girlfriend stefanie who puts up with a lot of my nonsense and inspires me to be a better person. Anyways love you very much

Uncharted Redesign

So my past couple of images is an Uncharted Redesign that I am working on. There is no reason for it. I just love the game and wanted to try my own take on it.

Ne ways enjoy. There is more to come. I have few more concepts to do then Drake will move on to a different part of the world. I am thinking Egypt!