The Crow

Quick Sketchies in Photoshop

For the most part, they suck. But they're really quick (20 minutes) for me at least, and I gotta start somewhere, sometime.

Park Sunshine Session Vol:2

Come see me and Elvin at the "Park Sunshine Session Vol. 2," the highly anticipated follow-up to our "Beach Sunset Session Vol. 1!"


And that's the flyer that I finished literally just now.

Come check us out! We would love to have you come!

Ramenboy, Meet Photoshop. And Ramengirl.

Smooth Insomnia Mix

www.megaupload.com/?d=Q9ET8MOB

Thursday night... or should I say Friday morning.
I know the title might not make any sense, but I'm starting to have a slight case of insomnia. But with a little bit of progressive, slower, smoother vocal trance tracks I could ease myself a bit to shleep mode.

And I'm sorry I haven't been releasing sets lately. I try to release one a week but with my ridiculous schedule the only time I find to do these kinds of things is late past midnight. There were a few messups here and there, but nothing too bad this time (at least I hope not). And I honestly think I am getting a little bit better!


But if you're having trouble getting to sleep, maybe this would help, like it did me! Give critique, leave comments, post your thoughts... I really want your input! I probably know where I messed up already, but it's always better to have it there written in black and white. As always, I hope you enjoy the set.

Your's truly,
Wilson

Tracklisting:
1. Kaskade - 4 AM (Adam K & Soha Mix)
2. Deadmau5 - Clockwork (Cosmic Gate Remix)
3. Dakota vs. Marco V - Johnny the Unprepared Fox (Tsunami Mashup Mix)
4. Armin Van Buuren - Rain
5. Rex Mundo feat. Susana - Nothing at All
6. Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hweitt - Not Enough Time (Club Mix)
7. Oceanlab - Miracle (Martin Roth Vocal Mix)
8. Ferry Corsten - Made of Love (Super8 & Tab Remix)
9. Armin Van Buuren feat. Jaren (First State Smooth Mix)

Running Time: 1 hr. 4 min. 25 sec.

Johnny the Unprepared Fox was one of the first three mashups me and Elvin did together. Most of the credit goes to him though, he's like the mashup genius in my opinion. Or maybe it's because he's been spinning for the longest time now. :P

Elvin and Wilson Presents Tsunami

Me and my buddy Elvin have officially formed a DJ duo together called Tsunami.
Here is our business card...

Front

Back

Logo


Come check out our first official gig!

Beach Sunset Session Vol. 1

Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009
Time: 4:00pm - 11:00pm
Street: Playa Del Rey, CA 90293
Location: 8255 Vista del Mar , Tower 51


(Btw I did not do this poster. I believe Hanz [HD] did it. :])

Me and Elvin are spinning from about 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Come check it out it's a free event! (But of course tips or donations would be nice. :P) We'll (maybe) have roughly 150-200 of our new business cards to hand out, the first attendees will have the chance to get their hands on them!

Entertainment Portfolio - Episode 2

Post number two, or episode 2 on my ACCD Ent. Portfolio.

I totally forgot about making a titleblock for my portfolio. When I finished putting together the thumbnails to look at, I realized i did so without the titleblock, one of the most important aspects to an Art Center portfolio. But I started that just now and I made the "Dororo" title using the pen tool in Illustrator. Now I just have to make the rest of the titleblock.


Still working on Hyakkimaru. But i did thumbnails of his face in a neutral 2 copic markers and a brush pen.

These were really fun and quick to do (less than 3 minutes each) but they let me figure out what kind of personalities can be achieved with which faces. I really like the first seven, but I'm especially digging number 1,3,5, and 6.

Thumbnails for Ent. Portfolio

First quick five minute thumbnails for Hyakkimaru, the one who was sold to demons by his father. In the live action movie the blade Hyakkimaru used to kill demons protruded from his left arm. I wanted his character to be covered as much as possible, but for that reason his left arm garnered more of that. More details about him later.



Some demon concepts.

I promised I'd get some up as soon as I get my hands on a scanner right? Too bad it's a scanner from work so it's not practical for me to upload my figure drawing stuff here...

Sketched with an office pen (except for the one done with brush pen), and arranged in Photoshop.

By the way, from this point on, this is where I really need critiques, as this is for my entrance portfolio into Art Center's Entertainment program. Many thanks!

More to come.

Yesh.

Fight!

Entertainment Portfolio

Finally found a story/concept for my entrance portfolio into Art Center's Entertainment department. I'm loosely basing it off of Dororo, a story about a boy whose Japanese warlord of a father sold to demons in a pact for power. And that's all I'll say about the story for now cause it's complex. Haha. But you should take a look at the live-action movie. Some of the effects are a bit cheesy, but the storytelling and cinematography is great.


Working on thumbnails now. As soon as I get a working scanner in order I'll have them up. One character at a time.
:]

Work Stuff

I haven't really been working on any art lately.
Say for the graphic design related things I have to do at work now.
Even though it's not much too look at,
I feel like I have to put up something new,
that you can actually look at, and not just read.



The consistency of the images I used in the posters
(say the fruit for example),
were not very... let's just say... consistent. Lol.
But whatever.
:P

Yea. Kinda lame.
I should really get back into drawing traditionally especially.
I feel like my skill level is going to crap.
> <

College System Sucks

Fuck PCC registration. Seriously.

Busy Much

I've been super busy lately, but that's a good thing since I feel like I'm being a LOT more productive.

I just got a full time job at Fong's Graphics and Printing around two weeks ago. Wow. It's been that long already. At work there I've been pretty much been organizing and backing up ridiculous amounts of files, and now I'm working into making stock posters for them. Yay. :]

And just yesterday I just started working with the crew from RADisRAD (http://radisrad.com). All the guys are pretty chill, and it was fun talking to them and finding out more about them. I also got to watch them to screenprints on shirts and stuff. I only had one year of screenprinting class in high school, but we only did prints off of linocuts pretty much. But by working with Randy and the crew, I get to learn about printing on fabrics. And I got to help him out with his new line of characters.
(But shhh. That's a secret. :P)
Here's Randy's blog if you guys are interested. http://radisrandom.blogspot.com/

To Do List For the Summer::

1. Number One Goal: START BEING PRODUCTIVE!!!
2. Get a paying job.
3. Be a better trance DJ, build up library, and get more gigs.
4. Join the RADisRAD crew.
5. Draw a lot more and get better at traditional media.
6. Work on those Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator skills.
7. Make a DJ logo for yourself, one for Elvin aka "Jellybeanx," and one for you together.
8. Make a logo for Conrad's "454 Productions" film company.
9. Make a logo for Kristen's "Game Meets Girl."
10. Work on Brian's t-shirt design for Threadless.
11. Get your driver's license.
12. Register for next term/semester classes at PCC, ACCD Night, and Concept Design Academy.
13. Build up portfolio for entrance into ACCD Entertainment Design in Fall 2010.
14. Help Cheng with his art-ness.
15. Work out more, and try and be not so skinny I guess.
16. Be a better freehander, and get to GOD status.
17. Sway a cute fobby Asian girl and make her yours. Win. :P

But yea. Life is pretty good coming out of high school. :D

It's A Dude Named Ben

he just looks like someone who could be called ben.

Character Portrait in Photoshop

Environment Painting

Business Card

YEAAA I FINALLY MADE ONE!
epic win.
just gotta get it printed now.


this is supposed to be the front.

and this the back.

also for some odd reason the second image is a lot lower quality,
i'll fix that in a bit.

On the Other Hand...

So high school is over and done with,
and summer started for me.
i started out with going out and hunting for jobs with a friend.
so far its been pretty fun and lame at the same time.
(the lame part was just getting rejected, everything else was cool)

i've also enrolled in adv. figure drawing at concept design academy.
it's a great place, and i'm really enjoying my time spent around it
4 hours of figure drawing on friday nights,
and to back it up,
i'm starting to attend figure drawing workshops at nucleus in alhambra (three hours)!
i just had my first workshop there a couple hours ago.
(close to the end though my stomach started to ache and i could barely focus.
it's all good though!)

so i'll definitely have more figure drawing up at the very least!

Bleargh

been a while since i posted any actual art on here.

i've been so eager to try and do just that,
especially after a friend shared some photoshop tips with me just recently.
so i've been experimenting mainly with brushes for just now.

this is based off of ashley wood's apparel concept for halo 3.
(another artist to add to my list of inspirations; his pieces pertty crazy.
i think he has perhaps the most unique style i've ever seen.
if you haven't seen his stuff, go.



if you zoom in on this it looks like unintelligible monkey scribbles tried to make art.
but from futher away it looks fine, so i must be doing something right!
:P

(I'M SORRY ASH!!! D:)

the Finale

wow. i haven't posted since the 31st of May.
really sorry for the lack of artwork as of late especially.
i've been pretty busy with school.

but at this point,
i only have 17 hours before i walk across a stage to recieve my diploma,
and finally be done with high school.
but i don't really feel excited, or scared.
just relieved.
i guess it hasn't really hit me yet.
but i'm going to expect myself to wake up
around 8 on monday morning, expecting to go to school,
then going "wait. now what?"

but, it doesn't feel too long ago that i graduated from middle school.
and now i'm leaving high school.
i'm not scared of graduating,
but the fact that these four years of my life have gone by in a flash,
really freaks me out.
time goes by almost too fast for me to catch up with.

but i'm definitely going to miss everyone i've met over the past few years.
no doubt about it.

on a different note,
i'm enrolled in Concept Design Academy's Adc. Figure Drawing class!
yay! (it's going to be my second figure drawing class ever)
theres a blog for it, but i think its restricted only to our class members.
but i'll make sure to put up stuff from it!