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This is Peaches, the Brachiolopette that represents “Science Sort Of…” – the folks that interviewed me about The Morae River. You can listen to my interview about the project –> here.

More work coming soon along with a new (and late) website for The Morae River.

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Just a quick post of my progress…

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This beastie here was done for ConceptArt.org’s C.O.W. – something I don’t usually get to participate in but I found some extra time to work her out.

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This one is for another CGhub Creature Challenge - The Dazzling Prancer. I’m really enjoying drawing these guys and might keep them around for some personal projects.

Meanwhile Im currently working on getting some private commissions done – a tattoo design and a brachiolope. I’m doing both in pencil and I’ll be posting work for both in the coming days.

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Character study for the day….

So here is the final for my re-take on Snarf. This was done for CG hub’s Creature Planet Contest. I’ve been experimenting with starting and finishing pieces in the computer. I’m really pushing to keep my “penciled look” though all of it.

I’ll also be exploring some prehistoric work for a bit. I started with the Raptor and dropped the subject but am interested to pick it back up again.

Here is a sketch for a saber toothed tiger. Also coming soon in the prehistoric section: a brachiolope. – for some friends.

Snarf is © to Warner Bros.

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I like them all lined up…

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So after talking to a friend of mine (who happens to be a Thundercats fan) I decided to take another shot at Snarf. This time, trying to really capture what snarf is. Anyway this is the sketch and I;ll be moving to final from here. You can view other takes on snarf on CG Hub’s Creature Planet Challenge.

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I need to get away from neck frills…

sketch for today.

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I might do a small series of profiles…this has been fun

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Sketch for the day…

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Small sketchie that I really enjoyed doing. I don’t paint in the computer much but I’m slowly taking to it.

Here is a work in progress for CGhub’s Creature Planet contest:

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Its a redesign for Snarf from Thundercats. I’m not really into fan art but I couldn’t resist! Anyway, we’re making head-way on the Morae River’s new webpage so that should be up soon. Expect new work on brynnart.com

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I’ve been working on “A Social Dispute” lately, trying to get it finished. It’s taking more time then I thought it would. Needless to say: comics are hard. I’ve always had a profound respect for the people who produce them but trying them myself has made me really realize the amount of work it takes to produce s sequential story. I’ve had the privilege of working with Matt Silady on this endeavor and he’s been helping me along as I stumble around in this medium. I’m hoping to have the second page up soon.

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Re-visited this drawing with a new take on color. I like him better now. Expect more work up on brynnart.com in the coming weeks as well!

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Working on a new species for The Morae River. I’ve been focusing on humanoids for the last couple of weeks and I needed to get back to this new species. She’s been sitting on my mind now for a while and I’m excited to get started. Yes, this is what the beginning usually looks like (lots of side views, oddly) and while I don’t usually like to post these sorts of sketches, I am really wanting to share more of my process. Hopefully, it will inspire me to create more sketches to push things further.

This particular species is from the Shenzabl Plains, a realm not yet explored or defined as of now. If you’re a follower of the Morae, you might know what family ( and perhaps genus) this species might belong to. I am still trying to decide where she sits in the grander scheme of things – as far as who she’s related to but I’m leaning toward Barduspedids. Which is a newer term not present on The Morae River blog. I’ve been going through my writing, trying to clean things up and so far its proving to be quite the task.

I’ll be moving back to humanoids once this species is posted to the blog. I’m now shifting my focus to culture building for the next few weeks. I’ve had some ideas floating around for the last year or so and I’m beginning to write and sketch them out. This is not related to The Morae River in anyway. As far as I am concerned, there are no indigenous tribes that inhabit Solturna or even Orcura. This particular culture, The Alatu, are completely separate from anything I’ve created thus far. I’ll be posting sketches and writing about them soon.

Anyway, I’m off to do more sketching…

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A new piece in the works. I’ll be posting the final to this soon. I’m trying out the process of designing a culture around this particular character.

In other news I’m currently working on the Morae River’s website. Its turning out to be a huge website with lost of different menus and pages for each species. It’s taking a lot longer than I anticipated but I think once its finished it will really showcase the work quite well.

Off to the studio to draw for a bit…

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New piece on BrynnArt.com

Look out for a new one – “Flight” coming soon…. As well as pencils for my up and coming comic “A Social Dispute”

One of the best animated shorts I’ve seen in a while. The drawings are gorgeous and the horse is just so perfect. Check it out and enjoy!

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A new piece in the works – “Rust”. Here is the sketch for it. I’ll be uploading the final soon. Brynnart.com is also getting a make-over today. I’ll be launching the new site tomorrow morning.

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Assassin Devil for ArtOrder

Assassin Devils are © Wizards of the Coast

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.

New work up on brynnart.com today. I found out it went “live” this morning. You can see all of the images at Wired Magazine. click on these for larger views…

I’m still working on some new renditions for the Morae River blog. I’m hoping to have the Black Mardik up soon. I’m hitting some snags here and there though. I thought perhaps I’d show a Black Mardik with prey, but of course I have to design the prey and all that goes with it; thus the process gets longer…

Anyway, Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you enjoy your New Year too!

A six page sequential piece I’ve been working on. The sixth page is excluded. These are the sketches for it. Expect to see the finishes in The Morae River’s online store soon!

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In progress post of the new species of Mardik that will show up on the blog soon!

Here is some info on the species:

“The black mardik is the second largest tree climber in Yabun forest as well as the second largest mardik. These mardiks are social and live in large troops of up to 30 members. The whole of the troop is made up of smaller family troops, each governed by a dominant male and female. Dominance is decided through some intimidation but is mostly carried through bloodlines and offspring. This species is the most numerous species of mardik in Yabun Forest. While each female only has one cub at a time, she can give birth up to 6 times a year. Black mardiks are great mothers and even better babysitters. The entire troop collectively looks after the young that is produced over the year. Because there is so much help with looking after young, breeding females can focus their attention on feeding and having more young.”

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Something I won’t finish

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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As you might have noticed, my blog has been moved here, to FishHook Studio. FishHook Studio wasn’t really being used so I decided to keep my sketches here. Most of my conceptart work as well as random sketches will be housed here. You can also stay updated on whatever I’m doing via twitter, if that interests you.

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I’ll be posting the finish of this along with others on the new and improved brynnart.com soon!

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did this for a friend…

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An old sketch I found on my computer. I thought I’d color it to get warmed up for today…

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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.

APE is around the corner and Im getting excited to be around an amazing collection of people this weekend. The Morae River book won’t be ready for APE but It will be here for the show at the end of this month. Its really starting to look finished now and Im excited to hold it in my hands. I will have prints and a few smaller items for sale at my table this weekend. If you like comics and art, I recommend you come out and see whats up. It’s going to be a really great event!

The Morae River exhibition will also be hosting a donation which goes to RiverNetwork.org, an organization that helps restore rivers in America. Im hoping it all works out, I should be receiving all the paperwork soon to make it “official”.

Midterms are almost over but are taking up more time than I’d like. Im ready for this semester to be over…

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Haven’t painted (traditionally) in a while…so I did a little something in gouache and acrylic…I was inspired by a recent demo

no photoshop this time… well, except “levels”…

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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….

Two commissions for St. Mary’s Magazine to accompany an excerpt from the short story by Lysley Tenorio, associate professor of English and winner of a prestigious 2008 Whiting Writers’ Award. The story was called Monstress. Look for them on the website too. I’ll post the link later…