Zootopia
Zootopia
Sophie.
Riley.
“Pen to Paper: My Imaginary Friend” is a collection of 25 short stories by students at 826LA and illustrated by professional artists. The book features more than 70 original pieces of artwork from artists within the animation, illustration, and comic industry from companies such as Pixar, Disney, Nickelodeon and DC Comics.
Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grworks/pen-to-paper-my-imaginary-friend-childrens-book
I was recently asked to be part of this upcoming show from GRWorks in Collaboration with 826LA to support youth arts in Los Angeles. Artists contributing alongside myself include…
Blažo
Bobby Pontillas
Bruce Smith
Carrie Liao
Chris Sasaki
Cory Loftis
Daniel Arriaga
Everett Downing
Jeff Turley
Joe Mingoo Lee
Joe Pitt
Josie Trinidad
Katia Grifols
Lissa Treiman
Matt Nolte
Pam Tu
Patrick Osborne
Robert Kondo
Scott Watanabe
Shiyoon Kim
Tony Akins
Willie Real
Opening reception will be held on Sat 4/27 from 3-7pm in Downtown LA.
The Journey Inward
These are about nine months old. It was a take on ” Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ” i did as a trainee at Disney Animation. I had some great mentors and fellow trainees Carrie Hobson and Guillaume Fesquet.
There were some hard growing pains with these two paintings, and they hurt like hell, I’m not gonna lie. You think they’ll get easier or you’ll reach that plateau, after all the struggle and improvement theres going to be a great reward, but the rewards are small, and you have to enjoy them along the way.
Im not a huge fan of blogging for a lot of reasons, this is why im constantly deleting my own. Since I’ve always felt like an art community misfit, tumblr seemed like a departure from the blog sphere of link lists, clicks, and critics.
I’ve always thought “you’ll get what your worth…if your worth a damn”. Since I stepped foot into art college I set out to make it. Since then I’ve never felt like I was part of the art community, and I doubt that I ever will. What I do know is like most of us I stay up night after night trying to make something Im proud of, and prove to myself that I deserve to be where Im at.
Nine months ago I came to Disney Animation as a trainee trying to define myself as an artist, and in the end fell short. In a round about way I was given a second chance, and thanks to a group patient and nurturing artists, writers, and directors, I was given a platform to try again. Passion is an irreplaceable feeling, it can’t be traded for any title, prize or recognition.
Work hard, be kind to people and amazing things will happen.
I made this to document that idea.