Friday, December 11, 2009

Story boards for the intro to "Contact!" (the alien story - a.k.a. "Zort and Blop come to Earth")




















"... and we must go back!" . .

"any volunteers?"

anyone?

. . . . and no one wants to - except a little purple guy (Blop) who hasn't been able to see what's going on. when the general asks for volunteers, he raises his hand. No one sees him because he's so short - so he jumps up and down. Still no one sees him. So he starts climbing up the guy next to him (Zort), who makes a commotion and they are both assigned to go back to earth. That part is not yet drawn out.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

website update

I've been working on my website/portfolio a lot lately. There are a number of never before seen pieces over there. Check it out. www.jasonpruett.com

Sunday, November 29, 2009

next caricature - Yukio Hatoyama

another political caricature for The Diplomat - these things are fun!

Monday, November 23, 2009

CTN-X and Don Bluth

The CTN Animation Expo was amazing! I talked with Don Bluth and he told me "I like your line but drawing is less about shapes and character and more about emotion. you're holding back - don't put pen to paper unless you feel it. your drawings will 100 % better. - email me and let me know how it goes - I want to know" -- so I'm working on that - here's one of the first sketches I made after I got that advice.

I was also able to discuss this with Blue Sky legend Greg Couch, who expanded the idea. Everyone was ridiculously nice and there were a lot of industry pros who wore badges that said "speed talent" - which meant they wanted people to come up to them and ask for crits and advice.

There were really too many great people and things to discuss here - if you didn't go - go next year (if you're into making art for animation) - it was like 2 years of college condensed into 3 days - plus all the connections (and amazing new friends) you could hope for. I left exhausted.

Friday, November 13, 2009

caricature of India's Prime Minister

So - I've gotten some work for the Australian-based based magazine The Diplomat . This is the first assignment - a caricature of India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to more editorial work.

you can see the caricature in context here.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

digging up old stuff


I dug this old thing up - and made some small improvements
I gave the heroes - earthy colors, villains - blacks, reds, grays

Thursday, October 22, 2009

wizard and elf

a friend of mine made an animated short "the wizard and the elf" I designed these two characters 2 years ago. Recently he learned to use flash - he can't draw - so he had me draw all the parts that would change - and he animated it.

here are a few of the things I did. I did oh so many more - if you would like to see the short - go here

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

environment sketches


some environment sketches

Monday, October 19, 2009

lighting/color options


Saturday, October 17, 2009

moving tests

so . . .I recently got CamStudio - a free screencapture software. and I have been experimenting with what to do with it - I started by filming me drawing - but moving between pictures in photoshop was more interesting

video



video

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

try not to puke


Monday, October 12, 2009

Alien talks with the animals



squirrel's eye view

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

the checklist - aliens come to earth

Aliens come to earth to check on the life here. They've been here before - and they're seeing if what they've seen is still around. Also looking at new life.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Fingerprints


an idea I had a while back that I just decided to throw out here. this could be a fun show or book.

Friday, October 2, 2009

3 bears

Thursday, October 1, 2009

gun sketches


Tuesday, September 29, 2009

new fish

I had a page of fish - very flat and thought I should do some stuff in 3/4 viewyeah - I changed them a bit - but that happens when you start looking at things from other angles - you realize you could make them more interesting by changing them up a bit.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

crazy guy house - side and front view


on top of the mountain -

Saturday, September 26, 2009

mammoth sketch

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sea Monkeys


Sea Monkeys - "The A-Team of the Ocean."

An idea I had for a TV show - based on the name of those little brine shrimp they sell as toys. What kind of peril would cartoon monkeys get in if thrown in the sea?

Monday, September 14, 2009

cyclops - redone

After talking with Ryan Wood and Todd Harris, I finally admitted to myself that the cyclops was going to have to change - the whole project started out more realistic - and is moving more stylized.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Penelope Turnaround

So - I'm slowly designing for the Odyssey. Here's Penelope - Odysseus' wife
Thank you, Mark Behm for your encouragement and advice.

some animal designs


some sketches

Thursday, August 20, 2009

cyclops turnaround

Friday, August 14, 2009

polar bear dressed as grandma


Monday, August 10, 2009

Grizzly Bears

I went to Yellowstone last week. Saw some bears in the wild (Grizzly and Black) but these sketches were drawn from photos taken at a bear and wolf habitat in West Yellowstone.

Friday, July 3, 2009

aliens meet giraffe

Sunday, June 28, 2009

circus bear

this bear balances on balls and mauls people. I don't know. it was for http://artorder.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

contact! - whale


so I had this idea - the aliens that meet the crazy mountain man who offers them roadkill . . . . the road kill doesn't mean anything to them - so in order for it to mean something - they befriend the poor thing before it gets killed. - but why are they here in the first place? I thought . . maybe they've come to check up on earth - so there's a montage of them seeing lots of animals - here's them with a humpback whale.

. . . the mammoth is no longer around (they haven't been here in a while)

Friday, June 12, 2009

rocketeer redo - the plummeting father

the new versionthe old version
it needed higher stakes, more tension, more motion and depth. It has one focus, lots of diagonals and points and a sense of "will she make it?" - with the old one, the cloud and swoop really soften the tension, so does not knowing how far he has to go before he hits the ground. and it's a bridge - he'll probably hit the water (not that that's any less deadly at that hieght - but I guess it could look like a crazy team high dive).

Monday, June 8, 2009

creature sketches

Friday, June 5, 2009

nickelodeon-style props


At the Academy of Art Spring Show I spoke to some folks from Nickelodeon. They liked my stuff - just wanted me to redo my whole portfolio in their style (hey, they have a bunch of styles). They recommended I apply for either a PA (what?!) or prop designer. I've been busy with a bunch of other things - but here's the beginning of some props in "their style"

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

graduation today!


A sketch I did at graduation. Someone said "do a self-portrait." So I threw this down real quick. You know how I do.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

where the old crazy mountain man lives


kinda Dr. Suess-ish - the mountain, anyway. above the clouds.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

old cars

some cars and motorcycles from a few years back - when I was finishing up an industrial design (product) degree at BYU. I wanted to try some trans stuff. so I worked it into a toy I was designing.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

the fish version wolf as grandma

Sunday, May 3, 2009

boxer



not very intimidating - but at least he doesn't have a "glass jaw" (mostly because he doesn't have a lower jaw)

Friday, April 24, 2009

1800s portraits

some "photos" for Holmes' wall

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

sherlock's study

here is it with right angles
and here it is with lines that aren't so perpendicular

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

taking my own advice

I was giving someone advice on overlapping forms - don't look like you're avoiding certain things - this will make the illustration more interesting and give more depth. and then I looked at this piece and realized I had been avoiding the beard. so I took my own advice and moved the wrist up, overlapping the beard. and it's now a much stronger piece. and it no longer bugs me (that mountain man's left arm had always bothered me). - I also dusted him a a tad and gave him a better hole in his pants - that was also bugging me

Thursday, February 12, 2009

pagoda


Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Underworld of Illustration




This is a story I came up with after watching Greg Manchess' demo "Above the Timberline" - he mentions ninja training and I got to thinking, "why does Greg Manchess need ninja training?" This is where my mind went.
I just had to get it down - so it's pretty sketchy, but the story's there - enjoy.
note: I got the permission of those depicted before posting this

Friday, January 23, 2009

Wonder Woman


this week's Artjumble subject was WonderWoman. I've been drawing Know-it-all Nancy pages - finishing that up - and I wanted a change - do more realistic things. Mix things up a bit.

She has this rope thing - I didn't know what to do with it - so I had her jump roping.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

baby hellboy


this week's Artjumble topic - hellboy. I was going to use a picture of a baby as reference and just paint it - but then after altering the photo to make it usable I said - "what the hey" - looks good like this.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

movie sketch and inspiration

I took a frame from Forest Gump and I sketched it. - then changed the hue (in photoshop) and got inspired to do a zombie sketch. fun stuff!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

self-portrait - digital additions


Monday, December 22, 2008

suburban house


evening and night

Friday, December 19, 2008

some trolls

I hadn't drawn with markers in a while - and hey - it's a lot of fun! I need to do this more often!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

me and my world


a self-portrait. oil. 24" x 30" - I don't know if you can tell - but I'm painting fish and creatures.

Monday, December 8, 2008

cooking


here's "cooking" - that you could call this cooking is funny to me.

Monday, November 24, 2008

orange hair



so here's the 2nd week of the 2 week pose.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

doggy


a quick doggy

Monday, November 10, 2008


a new head painting. This is more rendered than I usually like to go, but I thought I'd try it out.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Duck Man


here's a drawing from last year.

Monday, October 6, 2008

first color head




Monday, September 29, 2008

new head

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Dada Fish


drawing fish for conceptart.org's "Deep" challenge - it reminded me of the ol' Magritte painting

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Ruppert the Squirrel


Just wanted to kick this thing off real proper like