Are we gonna have some fun tonight?..

His name is Ino...

Hello there,

Sometimes, as a warm up, I start drawing with a few random brush strokes having no particular ideas in my head. It's always fun to see where your spontaneous intuition can drive you to.

So, it goes like this...

Ballerina — final drawing, two color doffferent takes...

Ballerina — process...

A little bit about the process...

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Wanted to paint some alien...

Wanted to paint some alien-ish creature, I started with a piece of jammed paper.
So there you go, an alien enjoying a deep see water...

My Granny is 95

My dear Granny Olga is 95 today.
What a life. What a lady.

The Legend Of Tembo – visual development

I spent 11 months in Port St. Lucie, FL working as a Visual Development Artist on this full feature animation -- The Legend Of Tembo -- a great project that should have made a beautiful epic movie. Unfortunately, Digital Domain's Tradition Studios in Florida went bankrupt and this production was closed.

What's left is one year of a priceless experience of working in a super talented, professional and family like team. Much love, Tembo Family!..

I know that everybody in the team misses Tembo a lot. This adorable kid elephant who got lost everything in his life and ended up being far-far away from home, dealing with a new and strange world; he grew up in a huge war-elephant, despite all circumstances stayed true to himself and his own roots, figured his life-path out and also found his way back home.

Doodling...

CD album design...

A friend of mine, who is a good poet and a song writer, asked me to work on a CD design for his brand new album "49 Novembers". Here's what I've done... (At the tray side some of the titles are missing, b.c. those songs are being recorded and their titles haven't been confirmed yet).

...I was showing my son some Photoshop brushes. This is what we ended up with...
 

For Maria's 18th Birthday, my youngest daughter...

My youngest daughter -- Maria, she looks puzzled here by what Life has to offer. Well, what I was doing when I was 18 y.o.? I was taken to the Army... to serve my 2 obligatory years. After that, I went back to the Art institute... and I remember I had no f...n clue what I'm gonna be doing, who I'd become...

I totally understand you, Daughter, how it feels now. Looking back, I'm thinking... what a journey!...

Sweety, I believe in you! You are talented, you have a very cool personality. Your journey is going to be AWESOME!!!

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Love you,
Dad

Long time, no posts... been busy-busy :)

Hello there!
Here's my little sketch that I did while our server was down.

In Florida!.. For good...

A major thing, I've moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida

Working at Digital Domain's new full feature 
animation facility -- Tradition Studios;
doing Visual Development on The Legend Of Tembo
It's a very exciting and promising project!..

Here is an official teaser-poster

Life Drawing...

At the end of my latest life drawing class I asked my students to do a few fun sketches, exaggerating poses and pushing proportions to get character nailed.

This is what I did...

People around me...

You'll be missed, Bev!..

A great woman, Beverly, who'd been working for our studio for years, has retired.

I was asked to draw a funny portrait of her, for her...