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Finished up the Pygmy Esorifleu for CGHUB’s creature planets. These were lots of fun to do. I’m currently working on the next species for topic # 15 – Viscinian Scavenger. These are just some rough sketches of the overall form that I want the organism to have – following the guidelines provided in the prompt.

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This forum activity has been really good for me. It a lot of fun to help run but its also pushing me to try new things with creature design and even graphics. I’ve been producing the banners for the activity with direction from Shane Watson – CGHUB’s community director.

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In case you’re wondering, I did not paint the actual planet. I use Flaming Pear’s “LunarCell” to produce it. Creating a banner along with stats and a creature for the activity each week can be a lot fo work and so any shortcuts are vital to get things done on time. I did, however, paint the galaxy and produced all of the other graphics on the banners (except for the little icons on the top banner, those are winning entries) Anyway, This has been loads of fun for me and my partner in crime (co-runner of creature planets) - Ogi Grujic. As the activity progresses, I’d like to re-work the layouts of the planet banners and such but for now these seem to be working ok.

Like I mentioned in my post before, I’m wanting to share things that inspire me, things I find funny, and things that I think others should watch. This was a short that brought tears to my eyes. I love how animation is able to span gaps and make you care about lumps of dirt on the moon. Enjoy…

I thought a lot about The Morae River and what I want to do with it. It’s been dragging lately. Not because I’m uninterested, but more because it’s beginning to change. I’m not sure that I want The Morae River to continue to exist on the continent of Orcura. I’m thinking the river might be moved to an island. This geography might be more appropriate to where the world exists in relation to us. I’m also wanting to blur some information and keep a lot of things a mystery. Anyway, it is going to take some thought and some re-designing but I am excited to kind of let it change and tell me what it wants to be.

I’m working on some other things I can’t really mention right now but I will be posting some work in progress of a few things soon.

Good news! I will be participating in a show in St. Louis this July called Drawgasmic. Lots of really talented individuals are part of this exhibition andI’m really glad to be a part of it. You can find out more about the show here. I’ll be displaying the image “…And Then It Got Out” at the show. I will be for sale along with all of the other works. If you live in the St. Louis area come on out and see some awesome artwork!

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We lost a legend today. RIP Frank Frazetta…

From the New York Times: “Frank Frazetta, an illustrator whose  vivid colors and striking brushstrokes conjured up fantastic worlds of musclebound heroes fighting with broad swords and battle axes to defend helpless women from horrible beasts, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82″….Read More

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Sort of at a loss tonight. I’ve been experimenting with painting environments with no luck so far. So to take a break from doing that I painted some quick alien-ish heads to serve as avatars for this blog. I’m hoping to have some more work up soon. I might do more fun things like this for a bit. I’m needing a bit of a break to get some things figured out. I have a trip coming up soon so that should be good separation from my work right now. I’ve been feeling somewhat dry. Anyway, I elaborated one bust a bit for fun…

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Going through a bit of a stint right now in my work. I feel like there is a transition coming up. I’m having issues with exactly what I want my work to look like. The thought of becoming more marketable is always appealing but I’d like to try and stay unique in what I do. The computer has freed me up a lot and I really do enjoy working with it. I’m really wanting to dive back into some creature design I’v been thinking about lately as well. I always enjoy thinking up species and behaviors to write and draw about. The Morae River has been on the back burner for a bit and I’m ready to pick it up again maybe even move into some digital renditions of things.

In other news I’ve gotten my aquarium back in order. I’m thinking about  adopting some neon tetras and gouramis to live in it. I’ll post some pictures when I get them settled in the tank.

I’m giving a talk tonight at California College of the Arts for Bob’s Ciano’s class. If you were in the class you can retrieve your goodies at this link: Goodies for Students

Its a small package containing some photoshop brushes I found from Cghub and filters from Flaming Pear’s webpage.

The image has nothing to do with the demo. I just thought it was funny that someone tagged mudblood on some building in Oakland.

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So after my ridiculous post last night (which I’ve edited) I decided to put that thought on hold and get some work done! Right now – Fantasy!

“Wyvern Rider” and soon to be finished “Dinner with Gnolls”

more fantasy fun coming soon along with some sci-fi happiness!

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Started doodling today. I think I might finish it…I’m still figuring out the human…(of course)

Anyway, more work coming soon…

The New Year has been really great so far. Im currently working toward exploring the Shenzabi Plains for the Morae River project and its turning out to be a very interesting biome thus far. I’ll be posting new spceis as well as updates for the older ones in the months to come. (click these for larger views)

Trying to produce new work that isn’t related to the Morae River project as well. The images up top were for a community activity at CGhub.com. It was lots of fun and I’m hoping to get some more finished illustration like this one out soon. I thought I’d include the pencil with the finish. I will also be dabbling in humanoids a bit here and there to keep things balanced. Looking through my website I’ve realized its all animals

EDIT* Another piece new to BrynnArt.com – “Expedition”

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Expect more updates soon.

Here is another image of a small side project I’ve gotten into – putting moss into glass containers.

December is finally here and I’m officially finished with college! It seemed like forever and no time at all. I’ll miss seeing everyone in the program all the time. I really did have an amazing time but Im glad to be done with it…

On to other things.

I’ve begun more writing on the Morae River recently. I’m really wanting to dive deeper into families and explore different species and how they are evolving in the area. I’m starting with the mardiks and will be introducing three new species on the blog hopefully later this month. I’ll also be generating family tree graphics for the families I’m exploring. For right now I’m exploring Pernixids – the family that mardiks and balas belong to. Most of the species on the blog now will be getting makeovers and adjustments as I move deeper into Solturna. I’m hoping to generate more plant species as well and start to put them into families as well. Plants seem to get neglected…

The project has become a lot bigger and I’m hoping to shed some light on where Orcura sits in relation to us. Many viewers have been asking about it but I am a bit reluctant to give it all away at once. Either way, Im glad to be working on it again. It really is where my head is most of the day but I did need a small break to think about where I wanted to carry the project.

Expect new dinosaur work on brynnart.com soon as well as some other projects in January.

the photo above is one I took going over the golden gate not too long ago…I’ve only been over it twice in the 4 years I’ve lived in the bay area.

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Its been a while since I’ve updated! The Morae River was featured on io9.com recently. That was quite a surprise! The book seems to be selling pretty well so far, although I’ll be taking it down at the end of November. I initially wanted to take a break from the project but it really isn’t letting up – as in I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m assuming this is a good thing and I’ll keep working on the project although I’ll be slowing up a bit due to other projects.

Also, the Morae River show went great! Thanks to everyone who came out to see the work! I really appreciate all of your support! I’ll be opening a store online soon to sell some of the prints I have from APE. I’ll make an announcement through all of the various web portals I frequent once that is set up.

I’ll be posting some new work on brynnart.com and this blog once the art “goes live” so keep an eye out for that.

This Tuesday I’ll be giving a demo at CCA in Bob Ciano’s Typography for Illustrators class. I’ll be going through how I color animals for The Morae River in photoshop. I will be filming my process and will hopefully have it on here and HeyTutti.com. That should exciting, I don’t think I’ve ever talked about how I work so it should be interesting.

I’m starting to get some work done for “Tiger Tea” – a children’s book I had an idea for a while back. I had made a smaller dummy of the book and am now looking to finish it. I won’t be uploading too much work from it until the final sample book is created.

Most of my time is now going to filling up FishHook Studio.com which has been suffering from neglect. I might even drop it all together and squeeze it into brynnart.com to make things simple. I’ll have to think about it…

Other than that I’m just trying to get to December….

APE has come and gone. It was quite the event for us and I’m sad it’s over. Four of us shared a table: myslef, John Mathis, Annika Green and Jonathan Zajdman – all incredibly talented. Needless to say we had a blast and sold a good amount of work. I was surprised to learn that most people who came up to my table knew what the Morae River was. Thanks to all of you who came out to see me, it was great to meet some of you! It was great to know that the blog is being read by a few people out there!

Im currently working on getting things done for my show next week. Things seem to be moving smoothly so far and I’m lucky to have great support from friends and family in getting everything organized. Once this show is over the Morae River will be put on the shelf for a good month so I can take a break. I really want to work on some solid illustration work until next year. I’ve been itching to do some painting down in the studio.

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It seems as if I have 20 deadlines approaching all at once. The Morae River content for APE is coming along nicely and will be done in time for the convention. Its the book Im most worried about. It should arrive on Monday but That may not be enough time for me to look it over and order 10 more to be here by the time APE happens…heres hoping. The show at CCA will be the easiest part out of all of this. Its just printing, mounting and cutting up foam core boards. Its actually quite relaxing and fun. I am excited to see it all work out. Not to mention I have friends and family coming out to see the show up. I’m excited to see everyone!

Other than that, the semester is picking up pace and turning out to be a very difficult one. At this point I really would rather be drawing but I have to finish this last semester in order to graduate this December – which I’m more than excited about. I have a huge amount of reading to get done every week. Its all very interesting but I do have trouble with vocabulary.

I thought I had gotten off of coffee for good but Im back on it again due to all of this reading and writing I’ve been doing. Green Tea, while better for me, just doesn’t have that zing I need in the morning… pours herself a cup*  Cheers!

Another doodle. I took an old face and gave him a body.

Im currently laying down layouts for my show and its turning out to be a tight squeeze for all I would like to include. I have a lot of text that needs to be legible for the average sized person and so hanging everything at eye level is a good idea. This is proving to be quite the task. Printing all of the drawings and text will be interesting.

Im nervous about Tuesday. I don’t really like to fly. I’m always a wreck on the plane and I can never sleep through it. I am looking forward to some time to relax though. This summer has been pretty crazy and has gone by way too fast.

I start my final semester in exactly one week…

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Taking a break from writing about a new species to be seen on The Morae River.com soon. Im not sure what this sketch is accomplishing but I thought it was cute. ^^

We are half way through Pre College and so far things have been running somewhat smoothly. I was invited by Dugald Stermer to give a talk along with him and Ashley Benham about the illustration department and what it has to offer to students. We covered other things, such as working for clients and how illustration is turning out to be incredibly flexible these days.  I went well enough and I think the students really enjoyed Dugald and they asked a good amount of questions. Barron Storey was out of town for his show down in L.A. and so I took the students to the Cartoon Art Museum for the time we were at Yerba Buena Park. It was lots of fun and I suggest you go there if you live in the bay area. The show up now is pretty amazing. They all seemed to enjoy it and are turning out to be a very good bunch.

I discovered an artist today who’s work I instantly fell in love with – Claire Morgan. I suggest you explore her website and prepare to be amazed. I was speechless when I saw these . They are haunting and fantastical all at the same time.

I got a new bristol pad yesterday. I think its calling me over….