New D&D work

So I am finally posting some stuff. It has been a while. Here are two new piece that just went live for D&D. Again I got to work with Senior AD Jon Schindehette which is always a pleasure. The pieces are called The Traveler and The Bronzeknuckle Brothers. More to come soon I am sure.

New D&D work

Here are a few piece I did for D&D a little while back. They just went live so I can post them here now. Again I got to work with Jon Schindehette, the Senoir AD at D&D and as always it was a pleasure. Check out his blog ArtOrder. These piece appeared in Dragon Magazine Issue #381. There is one more piece I did along with these and it will be forthcoming.

Space Roman

Another Comp of the day. I love Roman stuff and I never really do much Sci Fi (not sure why). So I wanted to do something like a Space Centurion.

Comp of the Day

Maybe I will start calling these Composition of the Day even though I havent been doing them daily. Anyways here is another. I am trying to do more compositions based on value.

DoD I guess

I haven't had much time lately for Drawings of the Day, but I had a little break so I did one. Thought I would bring more value in.

B&B

Funny logo I did for my buddies Joe and Luke.

Beren the One Handed

"Get you gone, and fly!" cried Beren; "for here is a fire that shall consume you, and all evil things."

Hurakan Challenge

Fingolfin and Morgoth

Thus died Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor, most proud and valiant of the Elven-kings of old.

DoD

Another Roman

Quick DoD

Dragon 379

The Art work I did for D&D's Dragon Magazine has gone live today! For these I got to work with Jon Schindehette, the Senoir AD at D&D. He is a great guy and a pleasure to work with. Here is a link to the spotlight he posted on his blog. ArtOrder: Friday 0918

You can find a preview of the actual issue here. Dragon Magazine Issue 379

Here are the images I did and clips from what they look like in the article. They appeared in an article for Dragon Magazine issue 379, titled Cleric Essentials: Wisdom of the Gods by Logan Bonner

Finally

Alright so got this baby onto board today. 18 x 24 but a little less with the boarder. Just couldnt get the image size right at kinkos but no matter. Gunna start painting this thing tomorrow, FINALLY I know. Things have been slow.

DoD

This one's for Joe.

Drawing of the day

Culdesac/Backpage Pilot

So, long story on this one. I did this stuff a ways back and for some reason never posted it, probably cuz it is a pretty different style from my current work. Anyways, my friends Joe Bereta and Luke Barats did a pilot for a sketch comedy style show on NBC. Their website Baratsandbereta.com has all their comedy work to date and they are both down in LA now working their butts off. For the Pilot I did a number of illustrations that were meant to fade or dissolve out into their live action counterparts. The effect was pretty cool. The pilot was set up as a comic strip and each new sketch was a three frame comic in a newpaper called The Backpage. This is Culdesac was the original name for the pilot. Milkman vs. Mailman and Neighborhood Watch are the only two sketches available for view right now. They are minus the dissolve from the illustrations. Check out their youtube page also.

Drawing of the day-plus

Certainly am going to do more on this one cuz it is way fun. Probably be multiple drawings of the day for this. Drew in photoshop this time. If anyone wants to donate to my cintiq fund you are more than welcome.
Anyone got a name for this thing?

Drawing of the day

Oh how cute!

Sils

Oðin

Quick Oðin sketch. Pronouced Othin with a TH like in "the". Come on people, haha. Johannes, you know what I am talking about.

Drawing day 2

Another quick roman drawing. I think I may stop with the roman, haha.

sketches Ps

I came across these sketches Rich Anderson did in what looked like pen and ink, but they could have been in photoshop as well. Anyways they inspired me ( and by all means I give credit to Rich Anderson) to attempt the look in photoshop and I had a lot of fun. I am certainly going to do more of these, and probably add some more values in.
This is still day one though on the drawing log so these don't count I guess. haha

drawing a day

So I am gunna try to do a lot more drawing and attempt to post a new good looking one each day. I feel my drawing practice has gone down hill as of late and seeing as drawing is one of the most important thing, something must be done about it.

Here is day one. A Roman soldier.

Jersey Devil

So the older cover concept I did sucked so approached it again with a slightly different composition. Here is a value concept and full pencil for it.

Some life drawings

Here is some stuff from my last class at the Academy. The great Bill Maughan's directed study.

I live!

So I am alive and doing stuff. I have been working on some commissions but I cant post them just yet. So I wanted to throw up some other stuff for fun, sketchbook stuff and what have you. Just to make it look like I am doing something, haha.

A little Ahab portrait I really wanted to finish up and finally did. Basically another photoshop practice. A cover I am working on my for my friend Eric Johnson, just a value comp right now. And finally a fun sketch I liked.

WEBSITE!!!

So I finally put a site together. It isn't very fancy, actually it is rather plan. But it works for now with my limited ability.

www.tylerjacobsonart.com

Spring Show

We had the opening for the Academy of Art Spring Show 2009 last Thursday. It is located at 601 Brannon in San Fran. It will be open for a few more weeks so go check it out if you can. I received two awards for MFA Illustration. First place for MFA Traditional Illustration (Grendel's Death) and Best in Show for MFA Traditional Illustration (Ahab Hunting Moby Dick).

Portfolio Pages

I wanted to post my portfolio pages so people could see what the book looks like. I plan to put one together that is just paintings as well. This one has all the work in did for my thesis and a little more.

Ecroché

So here is my Ecroché from class. I estimate it took me about 80 hours. Really fun and huge learning experience. He is 32" tall. More sculpting will be in my future.

Business Card

Finally made them. Just got them in the mail today.  Dont actually have a site yet, but I have the domain so that is a start. Need to figure the rest out asap.

Painted up

Just painted up a character.  I am on the way to do a few more, but this is the first one.  Trying to Polish everything upfor my Portfolio.

Stuff

I have been messing around in photoshop cuz I dont use it that much and I want to get better.  So i put some new stuff together for my port including some concepts and ships and a crazy alien head.  None are related in any way really. Oh well.  Stuff it is.  

Detail of the Pequod

Here is a little detail of the deck of the Pequod.

Last Two

Here are the last two traditional paintings for my Thesis.  One is a portrait of Lestat and the other is a redux of a painting a did digitally a while back of Macbeth climbing up to the witches.  

!!!Update!!!

I recently had all my thesis paintings professionally photographed by an amazing guy.  So I have replaced all the crappy photos I took personally with the new ones.  Feel free to give all the paintings a second look because the new photos truely represent the paintings much better.  Thanks you.

Death for the Beast

Last Ahab paintings

Last of the three Ahab paintings.  Might be a my favorite one.

The White Whale

Moby Dick designs

The Hunt _ Finish

Some quicks

Here are some quick portraits I did recently.  

Drawings and such

So some new stuff, just so i have something to post.  I have been packeting out the Pequod and there is a drawing for my Lucifer project that will probalby be left out of my Thesis.  

Some new pieces

Here is some new stuff.  I finally got this Ahab one done.  Need to work faster in the future.  And I also got the Grendal one finished.  Might need a little more work but we will see.  I need to move on.  

The Long Way Out

So the poster I did, (which is way down on this blog) for my friend VJ's (Vincete de Jesus de la Vega II) short film "The Long Way Out", showed up on PosterGeek.com. Here's a link. http://www.postergeek.com/posters.php?id=13029

Melkor early concepts

More Lucifer concepts

Lucifer Concepts in progress

Grendel and Ahab final Comps

Macbeth and Banquo

Recent Comp Ideas

Ahab on the Deck, Grendel faces Beowulf, and a comp for Macbeth

Grendel

Grendel Character/Creature work

Thesis Character work

Captain Ahab Designs

Ork

A quick sketch turned Corel painting. Probably put some more work into and repost later on. Works as a concept sketch for me at this point.

Macbeth and the Witches - Traditional

So I decided to do this one traditionally. I liked the digital version alright but I really wanted to get in and put some real paint on it. 24x30

Just added a little more to this one.

Finished Figure Piece

A finished nude female for my Figure Painting class. Check out Zhaoming Wu's work here (My teacher for the class). http://www.zhaomingwu.com/

New Portraits and Figure work.

Here are some new figure paintings and portraits. Most are unfinished but will be reposted when finished.

Macbeths Climbs Up

Here is another Illustration for Macbeth. He is climbing up a stony stairway to talk with the witches. It needs a lot more work but there is where it is now.

Poster Work

I just completed a poster for my friend VJ's thesis film titled The Long Way Out. Apparently it will actually be flipped horizontally for the final poster with text. But you get the idea.

Macbeth Finish

Ok here is pretty much my first digital piece. You can see the drawing for it down below.

Macbeth Climbing Changes

OK i changed a few things, not much. But it works a little nice this way.

Macbeth Climbing Up

Ok so here is that image of Macbeth Climbing up to where the Witches are. Of course it is the much tighter version. Still needs some fine tuning here and there.

Macbeth Fine Tuned

ok so now it is more hammer out and fine tuned. I shrunk and adjusted some stuff here and there and added some background elements and foreground stuff. I think it is ready for paint.

Macbeth Redraw

Ok so I redrew the Macbeth and the Witches image with a bit better reference. But it is only in progress. I still want to add in more details here and there as well as background elements.

Macbeth Concepts

Here are some comps for the character of Macbeth for my thesis. Just some prelims for two paintings.

Concept Sketches

Here are some new fun drawing concepts. Good practice for concept art I guess.

Landscape

Here are few Landscapes from my Landscape painting course I took with William Maughan. Great class and great teacher.

Study

This is just a small study I was playing around with. The reference comes from a roman armor reference book.

Situation and Environment Final

So here is the final piece for Situation and Environment and the drawing for it. It is an illustration from Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.

More Situation and Environment

Here are few more.

Situation and Environment

So here are a few pieces from my Situation and Environment class with Tomutsu.

My Illustration Blog

So this is my Blog. I have never had one before so this should be fun. I will be posting my work as it comes out. To start I will post the stuff that I thought I was successful with from last semester at AAU. Enjoy.