Explosions in the Sky, Radio City Music Hall

79th Street

Times Square..or somewhere close to it

Via 57th Street

Spring St, Soho

Artists Help Japan

Slept very little last night.  These haunting videos we've been seeing are heartbreaking and make it difficult to rest easy.

Thankfully , there are no shortage of humanitarian efforts out there to contribute to.

Also, a portion of the efforts for the Art Blocks for Ghana will be donated to "Artists Help Japan."  That's pretty rad.

Art Blocks for Ghana - Los Angeles

Here's a piece I did for the Art Blocks for Ghana event this weekend LA.  If you're in the area, it will be at the Gallery Nucleus . Go check out some amazing art for a great cause.  As of this writing, tickets are still available.  A big thank-you to Rachel Tiep-Daniels for setting it all up and letting me particpate!  Here are some photos of the show in NYC last weekend.

Little FYI:  All of these fine folks were lifted from John Singer Sargent paintings...  If you fancy yourself a Sargent aficionado, you may recognize them!

New Art Center, 8th Ave

@ the Art Blocks for Ghana show.
Check out the blog to see some of the great pieces that were on display!

My first feature film

Today, animation on Rio is officially a wrap!  

Congratulations to everyone who worked on this film.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out this preview,

there are no spoilers I promise.

1 American Lane

Hi 2011!  Here are some drawings of lovely co-workers I did last year.  

New cube-mate and I-Phone photographer Isaak, actually I did this one last week.

 Graham !  Visit his blog and tell him to update more.

 McG and her gargantuan jar of Cheeseballs

Anim PA & Exterminator of the Undead, Rach Richmond

BJ  "Showtunes" Crawford

For the archives, here are more BlueSkyers Here and Here

Union Square

Professor Thoms, NYC

Bill

Yesterday I caught news that Pacific Northwest artist, and arguably the best teacher back at the Art Institute of Seattle, William Cumming passed away at the age of 93.  This is how I remember him ; he was constantly in his sketchbook and he loved working with young people!  I'd stay after class and he'd share his enthusiasm for Degas, Turner, Renoir with me.  He'd always mention that he wanted his students to build the confidence to someday have their work hang right alongside those masters.

Find out more about Bill's life and work here!

"Fine art is a war, I hate fine art with all its fuss and crap. Fine art students are brought up in a spirit of contempt for people. Of course I paint for the market. So did Rembrandt. So did Titian. It's high time we quit compartmentalizing art, and leave graduating students thinking they need a grant to make a living."

St. Marks, East Village NYC

Made it down to the East Village after an epic 3-day birthday celebration.
Love the hair!

Also,  Bobby Chiu contacted me a while back to contribute to the http://artistsketchbooks.com/ collection.  So look out for my app hopefully sometime soon.

Also Also,  I decided to put up a bunch of Design stuff I've done onto a separate blog site.  It's a bit sparse and very much a work in progress, but do check it out if you're keen 

HERE!

Feedback is always welcome.

Happy Birthday Momma Pontillas!

Yesterday was the birthday of one the most adorable people in the world.  My mom is a single parent and I'm a single child, so growing up we just had each other.  I made the cross-country trip from Seattle to NY with her a year ago today.  She checks this blog every day for updates, leaving supportive comments but they never go through :)

She loves loves loves Filipino folk dancing and was always dancing around the house, but generally is too shy to do it in public.  It is the cutest thing you've ever seen.

Happy Birthday Mom!  I love you!

Florence & the Machine, Terminal 5 NYC

SoHo, Broadway & Prince St

Coolest cat in the city.

Harlem 125th Street

I met her last Sunday morning, We took the same train back up to White Plains from Harlem.  She's an avid film lover, and her favorite nostalgic of all time is the Empire Strikes Back.

125th street.  This is the train station most Blue Sky peeps from the city take to work in Greenwich, CT.

27th St & 6th Ave, NYC

At the window, texting and waiting.  The second time we passed, whomever she was texting had arrived and they looked like they were fighting.

Ratatat, Terminal 5

Ratatat- Bob Ghandi

The Temper Trap, Terminal 5

The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

Grizzly Bear, Governor's Island NYC

Grizzly Bear- Two Weeks

The Cure

Probably what she's listening to.  

I couldn't sleep this morning so I woke up and drew.  One of my best friends here, Joe Lee and I are working on a book w/ art based on people & places in New York.  Crunching on this movie, I've been slackin' big time but he's been doing some absolutely killer stuff! Do yourself a favor and check out his Work ! Ironically enough, Joe had never heard of the Cure before this year.  Whaaaaat. Oh those crazy Aussies!

Rio Animation Crew Shirt!

I recently did this design that luckily got picked for our animation dept. crew shirt for the movie I'm working on, Rio!

Here are a few other designs I did that didn't make the cut!

Sweet!  Okay back to work!

New Music

Just a simple sketch I did tonight for an Art Blog that Garrett and some of the other animators at Blue Sky started this week! This week's theme was braaand new.

The Conductor

The Getaway Guy, and he wields a big shovel.

Done for the current topic over at the Draw Force blog!

Schoolism: Fleshing out Prof. Jetsam Khandro

Stephen's Schoolism class ended last week, but I wanted to continue fleshing out Prof. Jetsam Khandro for our Dr. Jekyll /Mr. Hyde assignments.

The Makalu & Prof. Jetsam Khandro

(Hyde & Jekyll, respectively.)

Easter Sunday

Schoolism: Assignment #9

 For the last assignment we were to redraw Jerry Loomy, the character we first did in lesson one, cleaned up and colored. Also place the first one we did from lesson one next to it. 

  
My reference:

Pete's dragon

Schoolism: Assignment #7, Expressions and Attitude

Yu-Na Kim

Double McTwist

 

Anyone else getting Olympics withdrawals?  More to come.

Schoolism: Assignment #6, Fleshing out "The Makalu" / Turnarounds

 

Stephen's Drawovers