My BART Journal

Here are some of the people I've seen over the year's riding the BART. They come in all shapes and sizes, colors and creeds. What a wonderful melting pot I live in, you never know what kind of character you'll sit across from. Hopefully you just have a sketchbook in hand to capture their personality.
Enjoy!

Alien Body WIP v4

Alien Body WIP v4, originally uploaded by jjutt.

Ok so i revisted the body, and i wasn't too happy with how it came out even though i had my reference. So after showing it to a few friends I started to see what they where talking about. Sometimes you have a feeling about something but you just can put a finger on it. That's why it's so important to get feedback to put you back on track. I took their notes and applied it in PS. I would love to read more critiques and comments if you have them.
Thanks

No Exit

**I changed the name of my BLOG so please redirect yourself to www.jjutt.blogspot.com

This character is based off a lovely painting from Keun Chul called No Exit. With all the texture and history of his strokes that he puts into his characters (especially his monsters) I knew it would be fun to try to translate into Zbrush

see the original painting here: http://keun-chul.deviantart.com/art/No-exit-60510112

1hr 30mins
Zbrush
Photoshop

Late Nite Alien Face

just went off on a tangent again in Zbrush last night. Lots of fun. All color done in Photoshop along w/the obvious text and background.

no reference

The body is still WIP but if your curious you can see where it's at here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjutt/3256538372/

just went off on a tangent again in Zbrush last night. Lots of fun. All color done in Photoshop along w/the obvious text and background.

no reference

the body is still a WIP. Go see it on my Flickr page
www.flickr.com/photos/jjutt

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

late night doodling

late night doodling
Originally uploaded by jjutt

still drawing! i will never forget my 1st true love, The Pencil.

light study_below

light study_below
Originally uploaded by jjutt

After finishing Dog The Bounty Hunter I realized that I never light my characters from below...so I thought this face that I sketched out earlier in the day at my friends house would be perfect. I am pleased w/the result. His facial features where all inspired by this awesomly wrinkly man i saw on the BART this afternoon. It was very painful for me to look at him knowing i had no sketchpad at hand so i studied his features without trying to look too obvious knowing that i would be able to get my revenge later.

SpeedPainting_dog the bounty hunter 45min

SpeedPainting_dog the bounty hunter 45min
Originally uploaded by jjutt

What started off w/some drum and bass music turned into a 45 speed painting test. I had a lot of fun w/this one. No rules just draw, shade, hightlight and erase. I started w/the eyes and nose and just branched out from there. I really wish i recorded it, so you could see my workflow. I didnt want to use the eraser at all, just black & white for adding and subtracting the form. It's really starting to feel like sculpting which i am really excited for!

As I look back at this character i try to decide where all the influences came from and i think i figured it out. I was looking at a book earlier in the day about an artist named Akira Toriyama (DragonBall etc.) and i love how human he made his animals look. So that i belive is why i added the dog ears and fat lips/teeth. The cape could have come from the same reference but i believe that is just that fact that i like super heros and haven't drawn fabric in a while. Earings are just cool to add on to any character and the same goes for the patch too. Wrinkles are a lot of fun and add so much history to a character. Then if you notice i tried to add scars coming from the patch which where drawn w/the same approach for all the wrinkles just a bit sharper and more inbetween.
Have a MEGA day.

oh yeah, after all said and done the name was the last thing that came to me.

mudbox09test

mudboxtest
Originally uploaded by jjutt

My good ol' chum Rodney Brett sat next to me in the computer lab after he was done teaching his class and asked me "Does Mudbox2009 work on your computer"
I said " I don't know, let's find out"
What later ensued was a frustration of learning a new program but after some persistance and refinment I was able to achive this 2 million polygon bust from the default head it gave me.
I would say that sculpting in mudbox09 is like drawing w/my left hand (mind you I am right handed). But by God it sure looks beautiful w/ real-time ambient occlusion, depth of field, and specularity from the lights.
So in conclusion you can make this in less than an hour.
Good day to you all,
JJUTT

Ugly Mug

Ugly Mug
Originally uploaded by jjutt

What started off as a profile sketch turned into a zbrush sculpt and textured to look hand drawn, then muddled around in Photoshop to get this result. I was trying to blend a combination of filters to make it feel like the sketch I started with.

Yeeee-Haww! ! !

horse_PSedit
Originally uploaded by jjutt

just a study of muscles for a hourse. I learned that their shoulder blades and rump are really what distinguish the muscles from human anatomy. I tried to pose it but it turned out a lot harder that it sounds.

Let's Go!

this all started on the drive to LA. When my share of the driving was over i decided to see how my laptop would handle Zbrush. It wasn't that bad, i mean slow, sure but i think i got something cool out of it. So that was enough to make realize that this 4yr old laptop still can produce which is great, especially when your mobile.I woke up this morning at 5am, turned on the radio to NPR. Then decided to revisit this guy to figure out how i could render his wireframe in Zbrush if at all. I couldn't figure it out at first, so i just went and rendered out different skin looking matcaps and fancied it up in Photoshop.Finally i messed around w/so many and figure out this method
1.)Turn on the Polyframe view
2.)Preferences>Draw set the following:

• PFrame 100
• Pf Color White
• PFill 0

3.) Set the canvas to pure black and turn on Render>Flat

Lastly i dolled up the render in Photoshop again. I couldn't help myself

TOYSREVIL's I LIKE TOYS: 1/6 bruce lee: fist of fury edition by enterbay

TOYSREVIL's I LIKE TOYS: 1/6 bruce lee: fist of fury edition by enterbay

2.5hr Speed Sculpt

Speed Sculpt from Joaquin E. Jutt on Vimeo.

In Memory

i finally revisited a bust i started a few months ago in memory of my Grandfather Juan Rivas. I spent 4hrs fixing proportions and add details of wrinkles. He was 89yrs old and the sweetest man i ever knew, he passed away May 3rd of this year. i miss him. i should of done it while he was alive but i guess i was to busy w/school at the time. I kind of dont want to show my family members until he is textured, has hair, and his suit of course. He gave me the best family any man could ask for, all his children went to college and raised great families of their own, i love them all so dearly...i just have to fly over to Chile to see them..or i can just use SKYPE! man that program is awesome its the next best thing, i feel like im talking through a window when we use it. And of course it's a zillion times cheaper. so thats all for now i hope you all have a nice thursday.

webcam faces

webcam faces
Originally uploaded by jjutt

just goofing around on my brothers webcam. i want one so bad, talk to relatives and friends from other sides of the planet would be pretty fun. heck draw w/them too. oh the possibilities...

took them in PS so they could face each other nicely, then added some blood just because it looked like they could use it and i used a red pen anyways.

* another interesting thing is that my brother has duel monitors so thats why they all turned out 3/4 views rather than the typical face looking into a webcam.

Anatomy Arms

Anatomy Arms
Originally uploaded by jjutt

drawing stuff like this makes me feel as in shape artistically as these muscles. And of course makes me want to work out more so i can see some definition on myself which will get me more familiar w/the body. Long story short, it's a win-win situation.

Break it down!

I asked my friend KNOW if he had suggestions for my blog and he said "might be good for more interest to show progression shotsor the sketch more images and content the better. Maybe free downloads of brushes and content."

New Edition

here he is, my latest creation. isn't he just beautiful. its hard to know when to stop. i wanted to add a photo of a warehouse in the background but, i wanted to keep it simple with the cartoony feel. i don't know if adding the glass was too much but it framed him so nicely. Just getting in shape w/the wacom. i need to do some animal anatomy next. oh joy! have a nice friday, and earn that weekend!
ps: kung-fu panda on DVD SUNDAY! a must buy for anyone who loves good story telling and animation + character design etc. 0OoOO special edition >_<
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oh yeah! last but not least! (i know its a lil late) You might recognize him from such films as '300'
some actually said "it's award winning" :D about an hour.

Harmony + Computer = WACOM

Wa for Harmony or circle, and Com for Computer.
Its been quite some time since ive been able to play with a wacom on my home computer. Now im barrowing a 9x12 which is sooo fun. i need to practice a lot to catch up w/the world. So today i did just that. Baby steps, baby steps. Enjoy

Born 2 Draw

So if your curious what my right hand has been up to i will show you. No 3D sry. It's always a good time to draw :) Oh yeah lets clap it up for our new Pres. On that note i came up w/a political cartoon idea: MC KANE (McCain posing as a thug DJ trying to match Obama's coolness) So here are some random doodles i did on some worksheets:

Mark Gonzales

excerpt from Krooked Kronichles:

"This is New York City, live. Anything goes...if you want to be a throat slasher, a night stalker, you want to be a skateboarder. I think if your gonna do it, do it to your utmost capability. If your gonna do noes wheelies, do a noes wheelie bro! If your gonna be a cop arrest somebody, if your gonna be a cop use your night stick if your gonna be a mother be a nice mother. If your gonna be a dad...run away. (chuckle)"

-Mark Gonzales

ballpoint pen + watercolour + colour pencils (it's been too long)
"Love life, and life loves your back, with a few injures." - yo

Mo' Sketchbook

So i finally am getting the time to play with my Prisma gray scale markers (20% 40% 60% 80%) which means i'm revisiting my old sketchbooks to try to bring my doodles to the next level. So here they are! It was a lot of fun and i plan to keep going further with other sketching.

The Peace Robot i did the other night at my friend KNOW's house after looking at his Ashley Wood art book. Ashley Wood has an amazingly rapid style with form made from a chaos of quick strokes that makes badass robots and beautiful women.

The All Gangly dude was drawn at a 4th of July party last year. I don't remember who the gentlemen was but i do remember trying to distort his posture as much as possible, and i ended up getting some good comments to my surprise. I feel like his wrists are broken, and face isn't fitting on his head but none the less it was a unique character. Oh yeah and the sticky is something i did way back that was just hanging on my desk. I belive it fits better in the book.

The word POOP was me just fooling around showing that i can draw trendy (comedy central) type faces .Not so much the type but the packaging around it with a cleche splatter and arrows plus an extrusion of text to top it off. The rest where just silly faces like a Muppet detective a drunk party boy and a enlightened hippie.

The last one was full of BART passengers and one man from the airport in NY.

Photoshop was used to alter the war/cool gray Prisma color pass.

i've been having some fun in my sketchbook lately. the one on the left was illustrated during a long BART ride, which is always fun as long as you got a pen and paper. So many types of people on public transit and most of them don't care about someone doodling in the corner.
Now the strong man on the right was done at a friends house while we were watching UFC. The hands where the trickiest part since i had no reference but it was fun making a extremely ridiculous strongman. My English friend Roger said the muscles reminded him of a "frog" which i can understand, the dude looks like he has no skin so yeah...have a nice friday nite, i'm gonna try to get going to MURMUR

paz

animals

Thanks to Ken Hultgren for showing me the action and construction analysis. I hope to have more to show you in the following days/weeks.
I just finished an Ashley Wood inspired robot that i am in love w/at the moment. Last night i was at my amigo Gabe's house and i was looking at his awesome art books. I take another look at Sencilla Fanta and it inspired me to give it a shot. So today i colored it with a 60%warm grey and 20% cool grey Prisma marker. Now its ready to scan and f*** with in photoshop. until then hommies

peace out

oh yeah watched the VP Debate and i belive Palin brings nothing to the table. A 'soccer mom' can not run the country.

Another Zombie

a quick 10-15 minute concept i did for my brother who needed some help coming up with a concept for a zombie. I love messing around w/zombies because they come in all shapes and sizes, whether they are a former basketball player or some average Joe white collar worker. They're so fun because you can take a zombie as far as you want, like in DEAD SPACE which i am soooo excited about! That link has a lot of inspiring work to show which is probably the reason why i was able to sketch up a concept so fast. I'm told by my brother that this zombie is going to be used for a Metallica music video but we'll see. For the edits of this guy I want to show some bone and maybe have a flab of flesh hanging off from a wound.

G_KIM

G_KIM
Originally uploaded by jjutt

She sent me this photo and it instantly made me wish i was there with her that day riding bikes down Venice beach...but i feel that i was there. I say that because i called her while i was at Stinson beach for my dad's birthday.
I did have a lot of fun that day, jogging down the shore, rock climbing, throwing the Frisbee, and of course wrestling w/my Papa. I'll have to post those photos next.
Hearing the wind from her side of the phone call transported me. I could see her riding past the sand with a phone in one hand keeping us together.
(Now that's sort of the back story that went into the making of this digital collage of photo edits. I originally just started with one photo but the image is just so beautiful to me that one hardly seemed enough. For such a gorgeous photo that has so much life. Thank you PS for helping me get my color across)

<3

mas cosita

I should always put up a new post before i go to sleep (good habit i'd say) well anyways what im trying is that this
OUTRO from Joaquin E. Jutt on Vimeo. is what's new

ABSENT

for the past few weeks I've been telling myself that i would add a new post to my blog. Now today is finally the day, i mean a few weeks ago i gave this blog a face lift but i did'nt have the time to write or show yous guys/gals what I've been up to.
my final project class is almost over and i should have a demo reel, website, resume, business card, and hopefully a job to show for it. Site is practically done just needs to be uploaded to my server. Resume is nice along with my card, i designed it all together to be packaged nicely. (i should upload some pics when they're all printed together so you can see all the TLC that went into it) I am working on my outro for my reel currently, the intro is pretty much done take a look for yourself!

Demo Reel Title Intro TESTv3! from Joaquin E. Jutt on Vimeo.