danny draws

Drive!

2011-01-19T21:13:00.000-08:00

Finally have time to post a "Drive" update! Last summer I helped finish a book with Scott Robertson and Annis Naeem. It's filled with crazy military, salvaged, aerospace and sport themed vehicles of all types. The book was almost done by the time I hopped on, but I managed to do a good amount of work on it and luckily convinced Scott to give me a sketch page! The rest is about as detailed as I've ever gone and it was a lot of learning and a lot of fun. The image before the sketches is an example of the Modo models Scott gave me to then paint-over, put in an environment, refine and add design details. One of the best summers of my life, and now I'm back working at DSP for the year. So if you haven't already, go get yourself a copy of DRIVE!

ottovuoto

2010-11-14T11:34:00.000-08:00

This is some work for an independent study I did with Mark Goerner recently. It's based on a kind of modern day mafia story I've been developing. The focus is environments, specifically interiors and exteriors of architecture. I definitely plan on continuing this project later. And the last image is not related to the story (from another class).

socal digital painting showcase

2010-09-10T18:09:00.000-07:00

Here are some pieces for a showcase put together by Nick Pugh on digital painting held at the long beach aquarium starting this weekend. The gallery showcases work from Nick Pugh, Annis Naeem, Shaddy Safadi, Robh Ruppel and I. The theme of the paintings is how man and nature are successfully co-existing in the southern California coastal plane.

Syd Mead contest entry

2010-07-26T22:32:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Things have been busy and I'm trying not to be as much of a cave dweller these days. Comicon was crazy as always and now I'm starting to get more and more excited about this next batch of terms!

Finals!

2010-04-18T22:31:00.000-07:00

Last week of term!! I'll be interning with my friend Annis at Design Studio Press with Scott Robertson this summer; gonna be a fun summer! You can right click > "view image" to see any image a tad larger. Thanks for viewing!

Style Sketching dump!

2010-03-15T19:37:00.000-07:00

street sweeper ships

Here is some of my work from the past 3 weeks of viscom. One of my favorite assignments ever! The idea is to analyze sketching styles that are our favorites and dissect the elements we like, then mix them into our own style along with some experimentation. So, I'm not really paying attention to design for these, just trying to discover interesting aesthetics I can integrate into my own unique sketching style, and maybe make some happy mistakes along the way. This is an assignment I will continue my entire life.

Digital Landscape

2010-03-05T14:12:00.000-08:00

One of my favorite classes since Art Center started for me, I'm having so much fun and learning so much through digital plein aire painting.

viscom 4 : batmobile + speedpaint

2010-01-30T23:14:00.000-08:00

ggoooooddd break

2010-01-07T16:47:00.000-08:00

felt good to recharge this break and and get outside. didn't do much art but i'm excited to see all the homies again and i'm ready for a new term!

Misc. Finals work

2009-12-19T13:07:00.000-08:00

raaahhhhh

2009-11-21T21:50:00.000-08:00

break from homework - 15 minutes. @ top: just experimenting

creative i.d. + viscom + turd

2009-11-08T21:05:00.000-08:00

I think it's pretty obvious who we had demo for viscom last week :D

viscom

2009-10-29T20:08:00.000-07:00

more viscom 3 + creative i.d.

2009-10-23T13:41:00.000-07:00

viscom 3 + advanced perspective

2009-09-27T20:59:00.000-07:00

magic school bus

2009-07-28T14:54:00.000-07:00

starting off a new personal project: my own take on one of my childhood favorites "The Magic Schoolbus"! diz is the replacement of Ms. Frizzle's pet liz. diz uses his giant dumbo-like ears to glide, jump higher, and swim.

sketches!

2009-06-18T22:33:00.000-07:00

ships, etc

2009-05-18T19:38:00.000-07:00

btw, u can right click > view image and zoom in to see any image a little bigger if u like. ;)

quick studies + brush testings + stufFFFFfff

2009-05-03T23:16:00.000-07:00

monkey's crest + rapunzel redneck fortress

2009-04-20T01:09:00.000-07:00

paintns'

2009-04-08T21:33:00.000-07:00

viscom 2

2009-03-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

1940s VTOL fighter project (cont.)

2009-03-24T13:10:00.001-07:00

1940s VTOL figheter project

2009-03-17T14:09:00.000-07:00

alien race cont.

2009-03-03T11:50:00.000-08:00

testing testing

2009-02-24T13:36:00.001-08:00

alien race 'professor tweedle & tinkerbell'

2009-02-17T10:52:00.000-08:00

junk yard robot "sid"

2009-02-03T18:20:00.000-08:00

random sketches for project + treaded vehicle

2008-12-29T16:44:00.001-08:00

treaded vehicles

2008-11-15T13:27:00.000-08:00

form language + design process: space

2008-11-08T16:00:00.000-08:00

rock blimps:

cup computers:

fungus environments:

design process space (sketchup):

viscom thinger and some left handers

2008-10-14T07:50:00.000-07:00

random airships/robots

2008-09-13T13:44:00.000-07:00

here's some random sketches from between classes, homework assignments and fricken orientation.

i suck at wheels

2008-08-22T15:49:00.000-07:00

environment preserving creatures

2008-08-21T19:40:00.000-07:00

more arzul updates; random environment preserving creatures.... i know there's a name for creatures or bugs that eat bacteria and fungi i just can't think of it >.<

octobots

2008-08-05T17:27:00.000-07:00

octopus inspired robots. (inspired by form language fun club)

pig balloons

2008-07-30T17:18:00.000-07:00

oink

arzul creature

2008-07-15T20:32:00.000-07:00

i uploaded some stuff on the arzul blog; starting to work on creatures and different soldier's designs. robert should have some work up soon as well :]

android

2008-06-30T11:22:00.000-07:00

hopefully the judges on facebook graffiti no nothing about art so that i can win that friggin awesome mini remote control helicopter!!!!! [replay]

arm wrestler bot

2008-06-16T16:40:00.000-07:00

haven't done digital in a month - quick 1 hr arm wrestler robot.

arzul vehicle

2008-05-24T23:14:00.000-07:00

another vehicle for arzul, more views to come.

trepeximo

2008-05-23T12:52:00.000-07:00

tf3 - trepeximo concept [arzul]. pigment pen and copics.

giant robot caterpillar chase

2008-05-17T22:30:00.000-07:00

.... ya..

portfolio case

2008-05-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

this is my entertainment design portfolio case which i made with a sheet of 1/8" hard board, piano hinges, screw posts and of course 13x19 sheet protectors and the art.

heavy shipment

2008-05-10T14:07:00.000-07:00

trying to work on colors & comp. 1.5 hrs

car sketches

2008-05-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

even though it might not be pretty, you gotta let it all out sometimes.

color figures

2008-05-07T17:10:00.000-07:00

color figures...meh.

quick sketching

2008-05-04T21:56:00.000-07:00

15 minute page

prisma zombie

2008-05-03T13:57:00.000-07:00

figures

2008-04-30T16:58:00.000-07:00

figures from pcc; 1 minutes + 40 minutes.

cowboys

2008-04-28T19:52:00.000-07:00

1.5 hour study

eye

2008-04-21T21:18:00.000-07:00

eye speedpaint - 1.5 hours; still learnin.

caterpillar

2008-04-20T22:47:00.000-07:00

speedpaint, 30 minutes; just learnin.

tf5 scorpion

2008-04-16T17:44:00.000-07:00

my friend robert and i are on a new project based on a story he made up, called arzul. we have a new blog up for the project, and are thinking about publishing it all in a book when were done. should be around 100 pages.

bullrun

2008-04-13T17:19:00.000-07:00

I'M IN!!

2008-04-05T14:19:00.000-07:00

I got my acceptance letter this morning, after 5 1/2 weeks (:/), and I'll be in the FIRST brand new and official "Entertainment design major" at Art Center. Yeeesssssss. And now my good friend Robert is in aswell!!

Done

2008-03-01T12:44:00.000-08:00

WELL... im done. I applied for artcenter on wednesday... now i just wait. Here's some stuff from the last several pages of my project.

kabala's vehicle

2008-02-06T15:40:00.000-08:00

unrelated work 2

2008-01-27T22:51:00.000-08:00

unrelated work 1

2008-01-19T09:42:00.000-08:00

story + track + cover

2008-01-12T09:45:00.000-08:00

trixie + trixie's airship

2008-01-05T14:21:00.001-08:00

speed + mach 5

2007-12-30T15:17:00.001-08:00

dg and ros on core77

2007-12-25T20:35:00.001-08:00

Core77 has published an article on their main page of Robert and I's entertainment project blogs, THank YOu core77, you've made us two very happy little boys :D. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/18_yearold_entertainment_design_hopefuls_blog_concepts_hit_up_the_boards_8501.asp

kabala + chief zuma + sparky

2007-12-20T17:51:00.000-08:00