Live Free

My island paradise ( inspired a little by Kingdom Hearts)

Always live free and do what you love my friend . that is all. Steffie comes in about 3 weeks . I am very excited for I have not seen her in 2 months , and it will be 3 months come august. I just wish the days would go by faster. This one is for her.

Forest N Things

Then and now

To measure progress in ones art is never easy. I think it requires a lot of faith. But regardless I think it can be done.So I took an old painting I did 3 years ago and tried to reinterpret it again.
This what I came up with, I felt my head was in the right spot in that time , but I could easily remembered how scared I was to take chances in my art , impress people , get a job etc.

So This time around I tried to eliminate those things in my mind ,
new one

old one

Hope yall dig

Live Streamin Morning Warm Up

So I woke up a little late this morning and did a little live stream warm up . I didn't announce it just because I wanted to simply jam to my music and paint , If I usually have to talk then I can get distracted from time to time and it takes longer .

But you can watch it here[link]

I will prolly live stream tonight and take on questions and all that good stuff

CS5 1.5 hours ( Still a little too long lol)

Enjoy

Some Art Therapy

So I started this a quick Warm up at work yesterday , Took random photos mashed em all together. I began to kind of like it so I took it home and finished it up .

Don't usually do sci-fi stuff haha but i like to do it , so more sci-fi to come , thanks to all who came out to the live stream to support ,

love you all

kalen

Live Streamin

Here is the painting done from last night's live streams , It was about 1 and a half of painting , and then I woke up this morning and spent about 2-3 more hours , so about 5-6 hours total. ( Still kind of long when I think about it , I could easily be faster, just need to concentrate a little more)

Sunset

Little landscape before bed

What Started as a Demo

What started as a demo for my co worker/roommate Rob. Became kind of a full colored illustration/concept.

Big ups to edgar for all his suggestions while painting this , he even drew a basic shape of the monster on that bridge and I took it to a rendered finish. This is one benefits about living with other artists , is how they can push you and challenge your ideas while painting. Not to mention all the inspiration they can provide as well

This one of the more complex pieces I ever done , I kind of wanted a final fantasy type enviro with lots of people running around , more of a thriving environment as opposed to my usual stuff.

This is about 8 hours total , kind of long in my opinion , I think I can be faster.

I will be posting the psd of this piece soon so you can check out all the layers,

until then , We are having a house warming poker even at our apartment , wish me luck!!!

For My Lady

For my lady , I am usually painting a lot more since she is back in the states getting prepared to move out here in august. It has been the longest I have been away from her so painting helps me keep my mind off the distance.

So anyway love you very much , and always thinking of you

Freelance Warm Up

A little warm up before I start some freelance ish , my attempt to be like dorje bellbrook ( one of my fav artist) haha , fail , ne ways hope all is well with everyone

k

So I finally got my computer set up , I am surprised it made it through the long plane ride. Everything seems to be in order so I did a quick painting test to make sure everything is good before I start taking on any freelance.

Anyways This took about 4 hours total in CS5 , it was all done with one chalky brush and some custom shape tools. It was only when I was about 90% done with that I began to add photo texture in the foreground.

I usually add photo textures in the middle or beginning , so this was a different way of approaching it. I will try more tests . Ill try to do some live stream tests to as well. Make sure everything is working on that end . Anyways , thanks for looking

Last Day In California

I can't put into words how blessed I feel to have friends that care about me so much. All these dudes came out to give Edgar,Danny, and myself their blessings as we make our journey to Madrid.

I have no clue what this new experience has in store for me , but I hope it will change me for the better. So I wanted to say thanks to all my friends , new and old. Over the course of 5 years these guys have become my family. They have all contributed something in my art with their , knowledge and passion. I know I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for these guys. 

So I will miss you guys , but it's not goodbye . For I know our paths will cross in a few years time. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING GUYS , I HOPE I CAN MAKE YOU PROUD!!

K

Human Planet Study

Been Watching Human Planet , I am all about that show!!!

Demonic Strong Hold

Comission

Copyright 2011. Copyright owned by Wendigo Publishing & Consulting, LLC. WendigoPC.com

Had a lot of fun with it

Concept Club Painting

Quick painting done at concept club , its crowded tonight!!! ne ways ttyl

kalen

FFT-Dark Knight

Been playing a lot of FFT lately , so here is a Dark Knight , they are so overpowered!!! lolol

Ship Wreck Warm Up

little 1hour warm up sketch CS-5 , I am sorry for the unfinished of these , these are kind of just random no fear paintings. So some of these may not be the best. : )

Organic Warm Up

warming up with some organic shape language , 1hr CS-5

Clouds

Clouds were awesome today in Huntington Beach so I took a photo and decided to paint it , it was really fun

Warm Up

Don't Ask , I was just messin around with photobashin lolol ( was never really my style), about 1.15 in CS5 .

Edwin Lord Weeks Study

been busy with work and world of dance ( which was a pretty fun time) . Had throw in some study time. Edwin is a beast!!

Cliff Beach

Trying out different ways to paint , Looking at the masters like Richard Schmid. Too much to learn not enough time in the day.

Sucker Punch Study

As a concept artist I will say I throughly enjoyed Sucker Punch . It's kind of like watching Ninja Assasin . You are not expecting some crazy deep story , you are expecting NINJA'S fucking up people. So in short everything I was expecting from Sucker Punch was delivered to me, and in some cases exceeded my expectations.

I was quite inspired by the environments that as soon as I got home I tried to paint some of the memorable compositions I saw. I will have to grab the art book too.

1 Hr CS-5

CLOUDS

As I was driving today to go work on my freelance , I noticed the clouds in HB were friggin awesome , I didn't have my camera on me ( shame on me ) so I took a picture of it on my crappy phone and started painting it up . Clouds after rains storms are the best , tank was an after thought lolol

cheers,

k

Warm Ups

I will try to do some kind of warm up each day for this week for fun , I'll just edit this post each day and what not

Rocky

Exploring with the shape tool

I kept all the layers for this painting so I am trying to figure out a way to upload it because I think it's a big file. That way you can guys can see how i did it. But I will be making a tutorial explaining my thought process as well, So stay tuned.

cheers,

k

Practice Speedie

speed paints , about 1-2 hours each CS5

Messin Around

Just got back from Spain , it was pretty cool . I shall keep yall updated on the whole moving out there to work thing . Anyways just wanted to painted something out because I have been busy freelancing .

1 hour ps cs5

peace

My Shitty Ruanjia Study

So apparently I need to move to china and learn how paint because I paint like a child lol . Anyways this was my first attempt at trying a master copy of a Ruanjia piece .

if you haven't see his work go to http://www.ruanjia.com/ and then cry yourself to sleep , anyways I learned a bunch of interesting things from this and shall do more : )

i-phone case!

So awhile back GrifMD from DevArt asked if he could use my Mirrors Edge piece for a print. I don't mind as long as people ask . I had no idea what he was printing it for , but apparently it was an i-phone case!!

When he showed me I was pretty amazed of how it came out , so I asked him to take some pictures of it so I can post it on my blog

i don't have an i-phone but this looks pretty damn cool if you ask me! I wanna get a case for my phone now : )

Thumbnail Test Paitings

thumbnail test painting

Hallway/Stream

Did another live stream to end the night , thanks to all who came out :) . You can catch the vid on my livestream . About of hour of actual painting lol the rest is me talking and messing around lol

I then took another hour or so and tried to render it out to show people how i take an image to a more rendered finish

Live Stream Concept Club Painting

a quick painting demo done for a student in class . about like 30 minutes total , something quick from the top of the dome and yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh enjoy lol

Practice Sketch

Live Stream !!!

Just did a live stream , THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT!!! it was soo much fun painting with peeps and answering questions , ill do one again real soon!!!

Speed Paint

Phenomenon Contest

This is my painting submission for the Phenomenon contest. I took an old sketch I recently did and redesigned it for the contest. I hope y'all like :)

FFT-Chemist

Always loved Final Fantasy Tactics , thought it would be fun to redesign the chemist lol. Trying to be like Clement Sauve and failing lol