Daily Study Group

I started up a regiment of daily studies that I'll be streaming for at least an hour everyday in an effort to keep my skills up and keep progressing as I try to get regular freelance work and start working for better clients. The idea for the study group came from the Crimson Daggers Study Group and after a talk with CJ Marsh on a Google Hangout Session.

One of the original formats to the Crimson Daggers groups appears to have been daily live stream study sessions where people worked on various lessons and focuses while broadcasting their practice live and talking about their thought process while pushing each other to keep focused and progress.

So CJ and I have started the Daily Study Group through the Crimson Dagger's forum in an effort to recreate that focus on doing studies and exercises in a group and sharing ideas and lessons learned.

Here is the Crimson Daggers thread for the group, and for those that don't want to click the link can read the information below:

Daily Study Group

The Structure: Everyday an hour study

When: It's up to you, but CJ, myself and a few others will be livestreaming our sessions daily and talking though them so that you can watch them later and follow along. 

Where: This thread and the links provided below.

Miguel's LiveStream: http://www.livestream.com/mciii

CJ's Livestream: http://www.livestream.com/cjmrshpaintordie?t=144638

Daily Lesson Plans: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Al8d...sp=sharing

Miguel's Photo Study board on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/coronadoiii/photo-study-board/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the plan is, we do the daily lesson and anyone that follows along is strongly encouraged to make their own live stream video and share both the daily study and the process video, also be sure to talk through the video and discuss your thought process. 

Here is my study from the first day (January 3rd, 2014):

You can follow along with the first study by watching the youtube video below and working along side me (virtually).

Please join our study sessions and contribute your own videos to the cause, or feel free to just follow along with our sessions as we'll be posting links to our images and sources for every study we do.

Now for some new work to show:

Massive Black Workshop LA

I travelled, I learned, and I am refocusing my work after attending the Massive Black Workshop in LA this past weekend. It was my first workshop, my first time meeting a lot of these illustrators in person, and I was able to put my work in front of other professionals and get their feedback on what I need to work on and where to focus.

Along with the new input from my peers, I have also returned with the desire to pursue illustration over concept art and really buckle down on a career in freelance illustration for the time being.

I made two videos about my time in LA and go over what it was like and what I have learned. You can find these videos here:

Lastly, I made this video about my online resources and wanted to share that too:

Kid Chameleon designs

Kid Chameleon is a game for the Sega Genesis that I used to play all the time, it was notoriously hard (as most 80's-90's platformers were) and it had over 100 levels. The premise of the game is that there is a new virtual reality game that has opened up and kids that were playing the game were vanishing and you (Kid Chameleon) had to play the game to free all the lost kids/teens.

The game is WildSide and the Boss is "Heady Metal".

Here are some of my paintings. 

I'll keep making some more concepts and pick a few key compositions to expand upon and create a few fan art pieces.

Promo shot and some new images completed!

Okay! Our promotional teaser/trailer was shot last Friday and I've since met with the editor and gone over the footage. Everything looks great and the shoot went well. For more information on the Vampyres Project, follow this link!  

Here is a process image for your eyes to look over and another set of vampire make-up concepts. The top image is fairly large in order to be able to see some of the actual process detail.

Vampyres Project update

This Friday (November 8th) we will be shooting out proof of concept for our vampire short film! I created a series of new ads for our Facebook campaign and I'll be working on some more Storyboards today and tomorrow.

Tonight is a fitting for our vampire actor's teeth and prosthetic.

Long time no post!

Here is a Halloween update! I'll post another update with a collection of the Drawlloween's I've done for the month, but for today, here is a poster for Vulture Cult!   

And here are some speed paints from the Facebook Spitpaint group:

Drawloween update, and a new Cyber Dead

Drawloween has been going strong this week. I'm still working on a Spiderman Vs Venom piece as a finished polished illustration.  

Here are the last three Drawloween images including today's.

 

I also got another Cyber Dead dude painted out.

The Cyber Dead, Drawloween, Spiderman

Several images from the weekend and today.  

I've been doing one speed zombie a day for practice, but I'll be switching over to some full character stuff soon.

 

Also, with the month of October beginning I'll be drawing a monster a day as part of the Drawloween Challenge.

And finally, here is the first in a series of Marvel characters I'll be illustrating for fun.

Studies, sketches, and Vampyres updates.

So at the beginning of the week we decided to pay for some Facebook advertising to boost our page's exposure. The ads have paid off with our "likes" jumping from 130 to 391 in about two days. The ads take images from our page and run them on the sidebar of people's profiles. We targeted the entire United States and specifically anyone who had "liked" vampires, Dracula, TrueBlood, Interview with a Vampire, Lost Boys, and other known vampire franchises. Here are images we've released on our page:

Besides Vampyres, I have been back to my morning studies and sketches. I'm also planning on going to the Massive Black workshop in December.

Update on Vampires, and sketches

We launched the official Facebook page for the vampire project. After taking it live, we jumped from 30 "likes" to 130 just before bed. In honor of our first 100 "likes" we released a poster concept early. Along with that concept we also released a progress picture of the vampire prosthetic for our proof of concept.

The last image we've released is a wardrobe and make-up test Josephine and I did last week to begin building the visual look of Violet, our story's protagonist.

We'll have more images to release on Friday, our Facebook Page is the best place to catch the images early. Spread the word about our project and the more people we can draw the more media we can release at faster pace.

Thanks for following my work and the work of Josephine and myself, below are some sketches to sketch out.

Vampires Project

Hello world! I've just added my blog back the the site and wanted to update people on what is happening here in Austin, TX. Josephine (my girlfriend) and I have started development on a vampire short film project. We are releasing images once a week until we finish up work for a proof of concept video.

The first image was released last week on Facebook and my other web profile pages.

Along with this first image I'm releasing an animated .gif image today and will be continuing to release more images and development news on a weekly basis.

Here is the .gif along with the frames used to make it!

Thanks for following the project, more to come later!

-MCIII