Brian Perez Design

Graffiti of My Girlfriend Friend

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:43:00 +0000

I wanted to do a quick painting of Rachel on her Facebook Profile and I did not know it recorded your strokes. I must say, it looks pretty cool to see how the painting evolves.

The Shatakk, The Living Below Redux

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:08:00 +0000

I painted this creature, known as the Shatakk (roughly translated into "Living Below") a while back which is included in my original portfolio. I decided to go back and see the outcome if I redid my old paintings. This took me three hours, beginning with Painter and then moving into Photoshop. I love the way Painter captures brush strokes from the Wacom, so much more responsive than Photoshop, although I love Photoshop.

Daniella and I

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:46:00 +0000

A little painting of my niece, Daniella, and I in my room. She's a delightful little girl, and she's pretty funny too! It's amazing at five months how much personality a little being can have.

Nokia

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:49:00 +0000

After a long day at work and no left over chocolate chip cookies waiting for me, I decided to paint something real quick before I get some shut eye. I looked over, lo and behold, there was my Nokia...

Castillo del los Mosca

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:20:00 +0000

I needed to get some painting out of me before I went to sleep. I had pictured a castle set by a foggy canyon and I went from there. I may take this one further and develop a story for it.

Castillo del los Mosca means Castle of the Fly, since while trying to paint this piece, a pesky fly was irritating me by buzzing around my head. Interestingly enough a window of opportunity appeared open to rid myself of this insect, and upon accomplishing my task, I looked back at my monitor and felt my piece is done.

An Alaskan Duty

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:19:00 +0000

I wanted to paint something with cool colors, and dim Sun. That's all there is to it. I needed to create something from scratch versus just copying something directly. I learned a lot from this, customizing my brushes accordingly, and fine tuning how I set up photoshop to work with the Wacom most efficiently.

I mainly wanted to try a different approach to digital painting: I really enjoy looking at juicy pieces that have full confident colors, as opposed to very transparent layers piled on top of one another. Sitting down and closing my eyes, I tried to visualize how I would go about digital painting in the same manner as I would traditional painting. This is a step in the right direction.

Watchmen Painting #2

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:16:00 +0000

Another quick painting from Alan Moore's Watchmen. Here we see the anti-hero Rorschach walking down a hallway in a dilapidated house.

Artistic Hiatus

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:56:00 +0000

It's been a few days since I returned from my unexpected month long vacation. I had expected to be in Puerto Rico for a week, but ended up being out and about for a month. I did not bring my art supplies figuring I will be back soon enough. Big mistake.

However, back home, I wanted to continue with my painting. For inspiration, I turn to Alan Moore's Watchmen: I merely painted the panels for practice, to let the stylus feel comfortable in my hands again.

Blacksmoke Paintings

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:18:00 +0000

Now...

Before...

Way Back When...

I have been trying to paint Blacksmoke for years. He is my own comic hero whom I have developed over the course of nearly my entire life. Slowly, but surely, I am getting better at digital painting, actually learning more from trying to touch up photographs. Since I draw, I try to draw while painting, when I have to more appropriately paint from the beginning. However, I must constantly stay in tune with my methods of illustration, which I tend to lose focus a little while painting digitally. The final painting here, I really tried to stay in tune with all aspects of my draughtsmanship and while slapping more juicier parts of color on the canvas.

The hardest thing about this character is that as I suck less with drawing, I revisit Blacksmoke and redraw him. So I am barely satisfied. However, I have been spending several months drawing him and trying to use my new techniques in developing the character. I do not post those drawings on here as I am scared of someone stealing one of my most precious creations.

Texture and the Ball Point Pen

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:06:00 +0000

From my last storyboards, I realized I had incorporated a combination of Anime styled drawing with a traditional Western style. Within my sketchbook, I began exploring this look, and attempted to add a sense of detail and texture I normally didn't think about. With my Star Trek drawings submitted to the late Perpetual Entertainment, I eagerly waited for my response. They told me how I needed to incorporate tightness, completeness, and texture into my drawings. So with this in mind, I began my self-motivated education towards achieving this.

The first picture a complete drawing from a simple doodle I had made at SCEA (as a game tester). I liked the drawing so much, except that it was on some blue scratch paper with other stuff on it. So I redrew it. The second my version of a Xenomorph to try to practice organic texture. I got carried away and worked on my Reaper character in the next two images.

The Girl From Yesterday

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:36:00 +0000

I haven't posted to my blog in a long time, and a lot of things happened. But primarily, I just simply stopped drawing for several months when money got real tight, and I had to work a lot. After a while, a friend bought me a sketchbook, and I was back into it again!!!

Here are the some of the storyboards for The Girl From Yesterday by Huy Vu. It is a quaint little tale about a guy who likes a girl who likes candy. He commissioned me to draw up some beats for his script so that he can present it to his class. I really learned my style of drawing and my method for creating storyboards. Though tedious, this project actually helped me out to get reinspired with drawing.

These are just few of the scans. Notice how the first few pages are really sporadic and not organized. As I carried on I developed my little system and the characters became easier to draw and work with.

The Maniacal Man

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:21:00 +0000

After getting the book, The Art of Midway for Christmas, I wanted to get back into painting more concept stuff. By using brushes that simulate the way I draw in real life, I have come one step closer to my goal. Here is a quick painting (probably 3 hours) I did of Steven Drowser, The Maniacal Man. I picture him as someone from a wasteland, but in an era reminiscent of steampunk with a Star Wars bounty hunter touch. I may explore this character further, creating more story telling poses.

eCards?

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:32:00 +0000

I have been working on a bunch of eCard designs for the owner of Seabowl. I need to make a BUNCH of stuff, so I have been really looking at a lot of illustrations and trying to get a varied approach...to make it appear as if all these are not done by one artist. I am really learning a lot by working on these; also I have been discovering which application works well for this environment: Photoshop or Painter. For me, it seems that painting is done in painter, but touching up, color, and layout is best done in photoshop. Painter gives that nice randomness that one gets from real life painting, so for that I am a fan. However, I still love my Photoshop!

The goal of these pieces is not to spend too much time on them, but to get a lightning fast process, while retaining a whimsical feel.

Star Trek Design: Franklin Class

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:19:00 +0000

Twenty years after Praetor Shinzon was defeated by Federation forces, a new starship was developed. Inspired by the recent attacks against core Federation territory, engineers at Earth Station McKinley created a new defensive battle cruiser, the first Franklin Class starship, USS Amerstein (Classification: NCC-1835-A).

Pictured above: Shape ideas/silhouettes, concepts from selected silhouettes, ideations of a preferred concept, and final design with color.

Capitalism and Oppression?

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:58:00 +0000

This is a painting commissioned by one of my coworkers. He had the idea of a mountain of dead bodies and Mr. Burns from The Simpsons holding the American flag. I drew some thumbnails out, and then made a quick comp in photoshop (also above) to show him. He said he would like more black in the painting, not to resemble so much hell, but just war.

I began about two weeks ago, but I only work on it twice a week for about two hours at a time...so probably about 8-10 hours so far. A few more hours and it will be complete and ready to go.

Venice circa 1900

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:32:00 +0000

I wanted to come up with a layout for a fictional Venice circa the 1900s. I wanted to get that beautiful orange flare that sunset has in this piece. Eventually I would like little kids running on the bridge with the cops chasing them, along with the extra 10 percent of life a painting needs.

Also included: ideations thumbs.

Fish Food

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:14:00 +0000

Remember the Shark Attack/Toxic Dump Line of Toy/Candies? One of the failed toys was just a dock with gummi candy fish, each with their own flavor and personality. Here is an old pic of the original ideations for the characters of fish. Enjoy

Magnon the Cave-Manatee

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:57:00 +0000

Panegia (scientists were close with "Pangea"), the massive super continent of the primordial times was full of life. A small tribe of prehistoric Manatees lived in the warm tropical waters of E'Kek (modern day Gulf of Mexico). However, when the cold came, the ice encroached. It surrounded them slowly as they went out on their normal lives, grazing for food, living, relaxing. Before they knew it they were surrounded by walls of ice, and their sea became colder and colder...and their light became dark.

100 million years later, the underwater cave which housed their glacier finally broke open because of oil drilling near the surface. And Magnon (pictured above during his first encounter with a motorboat) with his tribe were freed only to see the world they lived in no longer existed. Their adventure begins...

Maquette of Magnon (in a grumpy mood), ideations of the other members of his troupe, and Magnon's encounter with a motorboat.

The Ruins of Kardafa

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:34:00 +0000

Will the civilized world triumph over the classical? Perhaps, the destruction of one gives birth to another. Here you can see Kardafa, a classical civilization similar to Greece, shattered and torn, solemn and dying. In the distance, the Mecha, the world of tomorrow, a new order to old chaos. The cranes and machines pummel the stone arcades and pathways, and we see the doom coming closer. Or more appropriately, we are doomed, and we see the new encroaching. We see them come, and they see us vanish.

Photo Restoration Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:17:00 +0000

I found this small picture of my father when he was younger. It was badly damaged so I just used Photoshop to fix him right up. Now I just have to work on the rest of the picture.

Ambigrams...Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:18:00 +0000

My most recent fascination has been the design of ambigrams, inspired from the story Angels and Demons. The artist who designed the ambigrams is John Langdon. He has a very interesting site, and is very proficient in creating these works of art. Far from the super-computer based designs stated in the book, ambigram creation is very cool and provides interesting results. I have made the logo of a coworker's band, Malicious Wishes with the "M" and the "Wi" being a flippable design, and I have also made my name into one as well.

The Hunter's Lodge

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:14:00 +0000

This is a pencil drawing of a Hunter's Lodge with a special history:: He was a hungarian officer from WWII, who was downed in Africa. He had to survive with his trusty carbine in the wilderness for a month, when he came in contact with a mighty rhinoceros. Nearly killed, he killed the beast...which was white, with a long mane, and a long twisted horn. He was found shortly thereafter, with newspaper's detailing how he killed a unicorn. Then he set out to find the beasts that inspired all myths.

A Funeral Piece...Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:07:00 +0000

My friend's close grandfather recently passed away, and he asked me for the favor of drawing the different stages of his grandfather's life. I was glad to do it, though some of the reference materials were in horrible condition (i.e. old photos with cracks and faded). The family was enthralled at the piece, and I think to this day, the children all fight for the piece.

A Funeral Piece...Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:03:00 +0000

My cable guy, Don, once came over and saw some of my drawings on the wall while working on my internet. Impressed with my pieces, he asked me if he can commission me to draw a portrait of his recently deceased father. He brought a photo, and here you have it, a reverse charcoal drawing showcased at the wake.

The Native American Portrait

noreply@blogger.com (Brian Perez Design) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:56:00 +0000

This is a reverse-charcoal drawing I did a couple of years ago. It is from a photo, but I forgot who is the photographer. If you have any idea who the photographer is then leave a comment.