Rad's blog

Happy year of the dragon

2012-01-23T19:18:00.001-08:00

sketch break

2012-01-20T17:03:00.001-08:00

short film

2012-01-17T00:03:00.000-08:00

Two of my friends Zane and Lyle are making a short film so I was hanging out with them drawing some characters. The russian is only slightly modified from a design they already had

smoke

2012-01-15T23:20:00.001-08:00

Part 4

2012-01-15T22:01:00.001-08:00

part 3

2012-01-15T20:56:00.001-08:00

darkness

2012-01-13T11:42:00.001-08:00

Night

2012-01-11T17:46:00.000-08:00

Skeches

2011-12-01T18:04:00.001-08:00

Shape design demo

2011-11-15T23:36:00.001-08:00

Here is a shape design demo for my life drawing class:

Francesco goes to hollywood part 4

2011-11-11T15:15:00.001-08:00

Been a while but finally did the next part. Read the first 3 parts here: 1 2 3

Gurren Lagan

2011-11-07T17:08:00.000-08:00

Kiki

2011-10-31T11:35:00.001-07:00

Mouse drawing

2011-10-28T10:09:00.001-07:00

Lately I've been drawing with my mouse instead of my pen. It's kind of fun

Neon fan art

2011-10-26T20:56:00.001-07:00

I've been wanting to do some anime fan art. I'll start with this doodle:

Life drawing

2011-10-04T13:33:00.000-07:00

I've been teaching life drawing up at cal arts so I've been getting some practice in during lunch. these are 3 minute poses

Mickey

2011-09-30T15:34:00.000-07:00

Gonna have my figure invention class try and draw Mickey, so I thought I would practice him first. he's got to be my favorite character to draw. So round and squishy.

more playing

2011-09-26T11:36:00.000-07:00

I would love to do a little short in this style just for fun. I think I may try to think of something.

playing with brushes

2011-09-23T18:00:00.001-07:00

This isn't actually for anything, just playing with some brushes to board with.

sketchies

2011-09-22T12:11:00.001-07:00

Morning warm up

gesture with Dave P.

2011-09-12T14:14:00.000-07:00

Dragons fan art

2011-09-09T15:48:00.000-07:00

Little warm up sketch

Attack

2011-08-26T15:22:00.001-07:00

Gesture drawing with Dave P.

2011-08-18T17:11:00.001-07:00

Carrie

2011-08-05T17:40:00.001-07:00

Carrie liked Yuki's dress so I made one for her.

More Yuki

2011-08-04T17:44:00.001-07:00

Yuki 7

2011-08-04T15:10:00.002-07:00

Kevin asked me to do some Yuki 7 fan art. She's really fun to draw, here is the first one.

Ok, I'll play along too

2011-08-03T16:28:00.001-07:00

Taco truck 3

2011-08-02T17:34:00.001-07:00

Taco Truck

2011-08-02T00:30:00.001-07:00

This if for my friend Dan who just started a blog

Tour photos

2011-08-01T18:16:00.001-07:00

Jasper Turncoat

2011-08-01T12:21:00.001-07:00

Tour photos

2011-07-30T19:16:00.001-07:00

Plastic Walrus stuff

2011-07-30T13:27:00.000-07:00

Figured I would post all this stuff here as well!

Plastic Walrus

2011-07-28T16:01:00.001-07:00

A few friends and I are going to do some long form (manga style) stories. Check out our progress on the Plastic Walrus blog

Daily drawing 10:

2011-07-21T01:48:00.001-07:00

I'll be at booth 1943 this weekend!

Random doodle

2011-07-20T16:47:00.001-07:00

Daily drawing 9: The kill

2011-07-20T01:45:00.000-07:00

Kogi truck

2011-07-19T11:26:00.001-07:00

Daily Sketch 8: The approach

2011-07-19T00:26:00.001-07:00

Whap!

2011-07-18T17:24:00.000-07:00

Figure drawing with dave

2011-07-18T13:18:00.001-07:00

The Frenchman Henchman

2011-07-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

Daily sketch 7: Unicorn tat

2011-07-18T00:37:00.000-07:00

A combined effort today by me and Carrie.

Daily sketch 6

2011-07-17T00:36:00.000-07:00

Comic villain

2011-07-16T20:08:00.001-07:00

Quick first pass at the villain of my short comic. He eats babies because he thinks it gives him the power of youth.

Daily Sketch 5

2011-07-16T16:37:00.000-07:00

I'm doing an assignment along with my class. I'm planning on doing a little 3 page comic. Just sketching out some ideas and playing with the style

Daily sketch 4

2011-07-15T17:07:00.001-07:00

summer time

Daily Sketch 3

2011-07-14T11:15:00.001-07:00

Wonder woman

2011-07-13T17:13:00.000-07:00

couldn't resist another one!

Daily sketch 2

2011-07-13T11:32:00.000-07:00

I can't wait for comicon!

Daily sketch 1

2011-07-12T11:34:00.000-07:00

I want to do a quick daily sketch for a bit. here is the first one.

Book signing at Meltdown

2011-07-12T09:44:00.001-07:00

I'll be doing a book signing at Meltdown tomorrow wed July 13th 6-8 Come by and say hello.

paintin

2011-06-27T00:17:00.001-07:00

was watching "Duck You sucker" Inspired by one of the characters

more doodles

2011-06-24T11:02:00.001-07:00

morning warm up:

and another meeting doodle:

gesture class with Dave Pimentel

2011-06-20T14:35:00.000-07:00

Dave teaches every other Monday at work!

And a doodle from a "Dragon's 2" meeting.

Done and done

2011-06-17T14:40:00.001-07:00

Here you go Megan

mer-tat

2011-06-17T13:40:00.000-07:00

Piano

2011-06-17T10:15:00.001-07:00

more doodles

2011-06-17T01:03:00.001-07:00

still warming up...

2011-06-14T14:09:00.001-07:00

Morning doodle

2011-06-14T10:59:00.001-07:00

sketching

2011-06-08T19:27:00.001-07:00

went to a weekly sketching group last night and drew some stuff:

Carrieagle:

Butter and vampire toast BFFs

Also went to the zoo on Saturday:

figure drawing

2011-06-08T13:41:00.001-07:00

I haven't been to figure drawing at work in abut 6 months, but I finally went today.

Gerbil farmer

2011-06-06T16:09:00.000-07:00

bad habbit

2011-06-05T22:52:00.000-07:00

banattle

2011-06-03T17:22:00.000-07:00

New comic

2011-06-03T12:15:00.001-07:00

At some point, I would love to do an anime style comic. this of course is just a joke.

first 2 pages

2011-06-01T11:17:00.001-07:00

Finished this comic the other night. Anthony holden was nice enough to write the janpanese lettering for me!

Cow face and cupcake

2011-05-25T12:46:00.000-07:00

Here is another back and forth drawing between me and Carrie. My buddy Leighton and I like to go out and eat weird things like live octopus and brains. Yesterday we tried cow face and tongue burritos.

so Carrie sent me this.

and I drew this.

Cintiq love

2011-05-24T13:43:00.001-07:00

I was having a rough time working on my comic, so I drew this:

So Carrie sent me this and we drew back and forth:

And here are some other drawings I drew for her:

Lady drawing

2011-05-24T11:18:00.000-07:00

I drew this drawing of a cupcake dancing for my girlfriend and she said it was a "Lady" drawing.

So I made it more manly

Gesture drawing with Dave Pimentel

2011-05-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

Dave teaches gesture drawing at work during lunch.

Page 2 in progress

2011-05-11T02:34:00.000-07:00

I don't think I will be sleeping at all this month :O

Morning warm up

2011-05-10T10:23:00.001-07:00

Inspired by Will Finn's post

And Final colors!

2011-05-08T21:41:00.001-07:00

I wanted to brighten up the colors a bit Here is the final page. Now just 15 more to go :)

progress

2011-05-08T00:50:00.000-07:00

Still playing around with the colors. the grandma is going to be speaking Japanese.

What I'm working on

2011-05-06T02:42:00.001-07:00

the colors look a little muted when I compress it for the web, but this is what I'm working on now. hence the lack of post.

New comic

2011-04-28T10:42:00.000-07:00

So, you can finally order this book that I worked on here

Cover by the extremely talented Gunt

More design work

2011-03-28T16:37:00.001-07:00

Inking test

2011-03-23T16:49:00.001-07:00

Trying some photoshop brushes to ink.

Off to school

2011-03-23T10:40:00.001-07:00

girl

2011-03-22T14:56:00.001-07:00

Francesco goes to Hollywood (Part 3)

2011-03-18T10:42:00.001-07:00

Francesco goes to Hollywood (Part 2)

2011-03-17T11:29:00.001-07:00

I'll have to post the photos for this part later!

Francesco goes to Hollywood (Part 1)

2011-03-15T10:16:00.000-07:00

This is my friend Francesco from Italy. He is one of the funniest people I know and the other day, I took him to Hollywood.

Health exam

2011-03-09T11:05:00.001-08:00

I was inspired by Megan's little true stories on her blog and decided to do one myself!

Sharpie doodles

2011-02-22T10:05:00.001-08:00

If I draw on paper, I almost always draw with a sharpie. It's sort of the closest thing to the Photshop brushes I use to storyboard.

batman comic

2011-02-06T02:27:00.000-08:00

I would love to do a batman comic some day, if I have time I'll color this.

Harley

2011-02-05T18:28:00.000-08:00

Januel wanted Harley too:

batman

2011-02-05T16:18:00.000-08:00

Sharpie doodles

2011-02-05T15:40:00.001-08:00

another test

2011-02-04T23:47:00.001-08:00

Playing around with the girl's design a bit

Color bg test

2011-02-04T18:03:00.000-08:00

Inking style test

2011-02-04T13:56:00.001-08:00

reworking a design

2011-02-03T20:56:00.001-08:00

Upshot

2011-02-02T15:36:00.001-08:00

the fashionable girl

2011-02-02T11:21:00.000-08:00

Girl bot

2011-02-01T18:31:00.000-08:00

As per Januel's request

My desk

2011-02-01T15:19:00.001-08:00

My computer is always freezing so I keep some paper and a sharpie to doodle while I wait for it.