Posts Categorized: Dry Ink

The Moth Sketchbook

Posted 2013/06/15 by Sterling

For your amusement I present the unabridged contents of my latest sketchbook.

Stereo jungle painting

Posted 2013/06/14 by Sterling

Yet another stereoscopic painting experiment.

Under a banyan tree

Posted 2013/06/14 by Sterling

This was my final attempt at taming a set of unruly gouache colors. It’s not often that I yell at…

Jungle House

Posted 2013/06/13 by Sterling

Second attempt with my cheep gouache set. Still couldn’t get it to hold saturation or the darks.

Tracks Crossing a Stream

Posted 2013/06/13 by Sterling

A watercolor and gouache painting I made a few weeks back. I hadn’t used gouache in years but I found…

Hat Eater

Posted 2013/04/19 by Sterling

Having been without my Wacom Cintiq for solid two months I am relieved to be reunited with it once again.…

Banyan tussock moth

Posted 2013/04/17 by Sterling

I have been busy making a lot of iNaturalist observations. Lately I am into moths. This is a Banyan tussock…

Alibaba

Posted 2013/03/09 by Sterling

An illustration I made for a '96 Healdsburg High School Performance of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves.

In Search of the Raven

Posted 2013/02/03 by Sterling

This is a story sequence I created for Zeros 2 Heros. It is part of a mini series entitled Animism:…

Figure Drawing Night

Posted 2013/01/19 by Sterling

Got a chance to get out the other night and do a little figure drawing. Admittedly its been a while…

Dreaming of the mountains

Posted 2012/12/06 by Sterling

It has been raining on and off for the last two weeks. I have been here in San Francisco for…

Library of Celsus

Posted 2012/11/28 by Sterling

Randomly painted this Roman Library today while at lunch. Based on the Library of Celsus in the Turkish ruins of…

All lost in the Supermarket

Posted 2012/09/30 by Sterling

Thought I posted this one a long time ago but it seams to be missing in action. Not sure where…

Wakefield or Bust

Posted 2012/09/21 by Sterling

I have been working on a lot of technically demanding work lately and needed a messy break. Nothing does messy…

A Broken Home

Posted 2012/09/20 by Sterling

Wakefield and the gang seek shelter from the roaring tempest in the floating rubble of an abandoned home.

Robot Art Critic

Posted 2012/09/13 by Sterling

Now that the Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator has arrived on the scene subjective error in art analysis is a…

Signature cartoon

Posted 2012/09/13 by Sterling

Here is a fun little optical illusion. I found that its possible to sign my name in such a way…

Floating Down Main Street story panel

Posted 2012/09/10 by Sterling

I don’t know how but this story panel got lost in the shuffle. It is from the beginning of the…

Freeing the Martyr

Posted 2012/08/28 by Sterling

A few more Wakefield storyboard panels to add to the collection.

Escaping the House of Gold

Posted 2012/08/24 by Sterling

Added another Wakefield water-color doodle to my sketchbook last night. I penciled in a few more panels as well but…

Lost in the dusty archives

Posted 2012/08/21 by Sterling

Going though my files today I found this abandoned painting. I was intending to use it as the background art…

Loose women doodles

Posted 2012/08/21 by Sterling

Cleaning out my office this morning I found a few doodles on various bits of scrap paper. Thought I would…

ArtRage Character Painting: Mathew Goldberg

Posted 2012/08/19 by Sterling

Took a break today from the watercolors and made a quick digital oil character sketch in ArtRage. The character is…

Ideas are Dangerous

Posted 2012/08/17 by Sterling

"Ideas are dangerous" is the label given to a band of seafaring pirate monks in my Wakefield story.

Broken dreams

Posted 2012/08/14 by Sterling

A few more pages from my sketchbook. More Wakefield story doodles. I’m having fun with this sequence so I think…

Cardboard Wakefield

Posted 2012/08/11 by Sterling

For the record, I have had this wax pencil & cardboard doodle of Wakefield sitting over my desk for a…

Hong Kong iPad Commercial

Posted 2012/08/09 by Sterling

Saw my painting on TV today while watching the Olympics here in Hong Kong :)

A House of Gold

Posted 2012/08/07 by Sterling

A few more pages pulled from my sketchbook. This is part of an ongoing storm sequence from my wakefield project.

Red Rover

Posted 2012/08/06 by Sterling

In honor of the Mar Curiosity Rover safely landing on Mars this afternoon I thought it would be nice to…

Across the Threshold

Posted 2012/07/28 by Sterling

A few more water-color doodles from my current sketchbook.

Wakefield: leaving home storyboards

Posted 2012/07/28 by Sterling

I've doodled quiet a bit on my Wakefield project these last few weeks. One of the bi-products has been this…

The Rescue

Posted 2012/07/19 by Sterling

The Great Flood

Posted 2012/07/19 by Sterling

Feathered Tyrannosaurus Rex Painting

Posted 2012/07/16 by Sterling

My take on a T-rex with feathers.

Trains in the Countryside

Posted 2012/07/06 by Sterling

A few recent watercolor doodles pulled from my sketchbook.

My goofy Mug

Posted 2012/07/05 by Sterling

The final render of my ZBrush Self Portrait sculpt. I created the sculpt entirely in ZBrush primarily using Dynamesh and…

ZBrush Self-Portrait

Posted 2012/06/29 by Sterling

I'm working on ZBrush self-Portrait at the moment. I just finished sculpting in the hair and thought I would share…

Watercolor sketchbook

Posted 2012/06/25 by Sterling

Here is a complete posting of my latest water color sketchbook.

Monkey doodle

Posted 2012/06/25 by Sterling

Random Monkey fridge drawing.

The James Brothers

Posted 2012/06/18 by Sterling

More Train Drawings. In this little series Jesse James and his brother do their thing as they rob the Glendale…

Beach Oil Painting

Posted 2012/06/18 by Sterling

Painted on the beach just below our apartment here in Hong Kong.

The Little Red Caboose

Posted 2012/06/17 by Sterling

I’ve been listening to Henry Thomas’ Little Red Caboose song a lot lately. I keep thinking it would make for…

Dick and Don: The secret passage: Update

Posted 2012/06/11 by Sterling

This is an updated pass of a previously posted story sequence. I expanded the scene to include an underground lake…

Little Black Moleskine Sketchbook

Posted 2012/04/17 by Sterling

Fresh off the scanner here is an unabridged copy of my latest sketchbook.

Stowaways Painting

Posted 2012/04/10 by Sterling

Having missed their intended destination of Hawaii Dick and Don find themselves en route to Hong Kong. Several weeks into…

The Wrong Luggage Painting

Posted 2012/04/08 by Sterling

  There is a lot of back story to this painting but I’ll spare the details and just say its…

On the MTR

Posted 2012/04/06 by Sterling

Girl with White Hair

Posted 2012/04/06 by Sterling

Long live the King

Posted 2012/04/06 by Sterling

So here is the final render of “the King”. He was created entirely in zBrush and took about a weeks…

Dim Sum iPad Painting

Posted 2012/04/05 by Sterling

Painted this one on the 'ol iPad while at Dim Sum the other day.

More Painting Work

Posted 2012/02/29 by Sterling

Last night I was updating my portfolio and then this morning the phone randomly rang with a new painting commission.…

Zbrush Sculpt: Return of the King – rough

Posted 2012/02/25 by Sterling

This is a rough zbrush sculpt of the king I designed for Space Chimps. He is still a work in…

Sculpting a tree the old fashioned way

Posted 2012/02/21 by Sterling

While I am on the subject of trees... Here is a picture of a non zbrush tree sculpt. No way…

Alien Tree Zbrush Sculpt

Posted 2012/02/20 by Sterling

A quick tree sculpt I made in Zbrush. The base of the tree was made using zsphears and dynamesh but…

Zombie John

Posted 2012/02/14 by Sterling

Apparently I forgot to post this Zbrush zombie sculpt. I made this fellow back around Halloween and has been sitting…

Scruffy looking ZBrush FiberMesh Sculpt

Posted 2012/02/14 by Sterling

This is a quick sculpt I made in ZBrush using DynaMesh for the face and Fibermesh for all of the…

High Noon Storyboards

Posted 2012/02/14 by Sterling

The following is a storyboard sequence I created for a Zeroes 2 Heros project entitled “Animism”.

Hong Kong Harbor Time-lapse

Posted 2012/02/11 by Sterling

I managed to shoot this fun time lapse film of Hong Kong Harbor on New Years Eve with my iPhone…

Messy Hair with ZBrush FiberMesh

Posted 2012/02/06 by Sterling

This is my second hair sculpting attempt using ZBrush 42Rb and the new FirberMesh feature. The subject here is "The…

Red Headed Bloke Hair Test

Posted 2012/02/05 by Sterling

Testing Zbrush 4R2b FiberMesh for the first time. I made this fellow so I could test out the new hair…

Painting by the Waters Edge

Posted 2012/02/01 by Sterling

I’v started a new oil painting and have been working down on the beach near our apartment in Hong Kong.…

Preschool chalkboard doodles

Posted 2012/01/30 by Sterling

It was Silas’ first day of preschool today. It was a nightmare getting him out the door in the morning…

A City in Ruins

Posted 2012/01/21 by Sterling

Painted this while in transit to Hong Kong. Long flights feel much shorter now that I can paint.

Hauling in the Nets

Posted 2011/12/26 by Sterling

This afternoons iPad doodle is of fishermen pulling in their catch. My dad was a fishing guide so I have…

Whistler Mt. Doodle

Posted 2011/12/24 by Sterling

Just a quick iPad doodle, from memory, of the top of Whistler mountain.

Jolly old Saint Nicolas

Posted 2011/12/24 by Sterling

finished painting this years family christmas card. Peace and love to everyone out there on the internets.

The Girl in the Pink Pajamas

Posted 2011/11/06 by Sterling

By far the most difficult hurdle I had to overcome while sculpting this model was learning how to hold and…

Widowmaker

Posted 2011/11/06 by Sterling

A zombie widow sculpt I made in zbrush 4r2 using the new dynamesh sculpting option.

Peace in the Valley

Posted 2011/11/05 by Sterling

I painted this ArtRage painting on my iPad at B.C. Womans hospital while my wife was in labor with our…

Stanley Park Thumbnail

Posted 2011/08/19 by Sterling

Silas fell asleep while we were at the park yesterday. I had the iPad with me and made this thumbnail…

Mountain Railway Painting

Posted 2011/08/16 by Sterling

It was an exciting morning. I discovered that the good folks over at ArtRage added script recording to their iPad…

The secret passage

Posted 2011/08/15 by Sterling

This is a rough pass on a silly sequence from my Dick and Don project. The set up is that…

Don, Rough Zbrush Head Sculpt

Posted 2011/08/15 by Sterling

Recently, I have resurrected old characters like Don here to see what my adult self would do with them. In…

Wild Horses Doodle

Posted 2011/08/08 by Sterling

A doodling I made while listening to Cory Doctorow's lecture on copyright law at Siggraph Canada. With that in mind…

Messy Paintings with ArtRage

Posted 2011/08/03 by Sterling

Today we were testing speed and the painting apps mess factor. Not trying to make anything too special our goal…

Programable Paintings

Posted 2011/07/28 by Sterling

ArtRage Studio Pro is the newest weapon in my digital painting arsonal and quite possibly the most powerful. The selling…

Scared Dog Pose

Posted 2011/07/24 by Sterling

I spent a bit of time working in ZBrush Last week posing several old models. This dog model is one…

Hermit Crab Sculpt

Posted 2011/07/24 by Sterling

Herman is a hermit crab character based on a series of doodles I made in my sketchbook while in Hong…

Redwood Paintings

Posted 2011/07/21 by Sterling

I was on the road this last week. While waiting for delayed flights, meetings to begin, and hangovers to pass…

Beached House Painting

Posted 2011/07/06 by Sterling

Painted this on my iPad while on a road-trip up to Vancouver. Its imagery from my Wakefield project.

Underwater House

Posted 2011/06/28 by Sterling

Todays iPad painting is an underwater take on Wakefield's house. In the story Wakefield and company drift around the ocean…

Yellow Sketchbook #7

Posted 2011/06/28 by Sterling

Just finished Scanning my last sketchbook! There is a lot in here so I will have to follow up this…

Father’s Day Backyard Painting

Posted 2011/06/19 by Sterling

Made the long drive up to Cloverdale today to have a father's day BBQ with my folks. We picnicked in…

Healdsburg Plaza Painting

Posted 2011/06/18 by Sterling

This afternoon I found myself with the rare bit of free time on my hands and decided to make the…

Sea Serpent Drawing

Posted 2011/06/12 by Sterling

The massive sea serpent made short work of the whalers and their long boat.

Room with a View Painting

Posted 2011/06/10 by Sterling

An iPad painting of wakefield's underwater house. I made it while flying over the pacific ocean on my flight out…

The White City

Posted 2011/06/01 by Sterling

Above is an painting I have been working on for the last few days. Not Steadily but in short little…

Dragon Character Designs

Posted 2011/05/29 by Sterling

Below are some exploratory character designs from the "Dragon" project. Most of this designs are about four years old and…

Dragon Paintings

Posted 2011/05/29 by Sterling

Here is a collection of concept paintings I made for the Dragon project. All were painted in Photoshop.

Thesis Art

Posted 2011/05/28 by Sterling

I had a pretty clear visual idea of what i was going to make and jumped straight into the animation.…

Cub Scouts Pack 213

Posted 2011/05/28 by Sterling

"We spell scouts S-C-O-U-U-T-S which makes us a completely different autonomous organization." - The Scouut Leader An improvised comedy about…

Sketchbook circa 2002

Posted 2011/05/27 by Sterling

This sketchbook was made while I was a student at USC Animation. It is dated 2002. There are a lot…

Wakefield Art

Posted 2011/05/27 by Sterling

I really should have a lot more work to show for this project. It has lived in my head for…

Dragon Trailer

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

Dragon is the story of a poor street sweeper in an ancient Himalayan city who sets out to clean up…

Congaline boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

There was a time when Space Chimps was being tossed about as a possible musical. This was one of the…

Ham Goes to NASA boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

This is a lost space chimps one scene. The greasy salesman character, I believe his name was spyro gyro or…

To Catch A Falling Comet Boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

Comet returns to earth and Huston catches our falling star.

Jetpack Chase Boards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

These are the roughs for the big jetpack chase scene at the end of the Space Chimps 2. It’s particularly…

Looking for a Comet

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

In this scene from Space Chimps 2. Comet has taken off in a rocket and the rest of the gang…

Dick and Don Storyboards

Posted 2011/05/26 by Sterling

In this scene Dick and Don, two american tourist, have just escaped from prison, and discovered to their surprise that…