Portrait Paintings

It's been a long time since I've posted.  I decided to pursue a Dental Education and have been attending Virginia Commonwealth School of Dental Medicine since August of 2015.  It has not allowed  a lot of time for pursuing art, but occasionally I get some time to pick up my paint brush.  Here are a few things I have worked on over the last several years.  I purchased some guache paints, a water based paint similar to watercolor but more opaque and tried to do some small painting sketches.  The first is my maternal grandfather in his WWII uniform.  He suffered a heart attack two weeks after I was born and passed away at that time.  I never realized how much we look alike until I painted this sketch. The second is my wife's maternal grandfather, followed by my wife and my daughter. The other two are master copies.  

Medical Illustrations

Fine Art

I have included a collection of fine art.  A lot of this is from my time studying in New York City.

Blunt Dissector

Not too long ago, I bought a book on surgical instruments, as a reference, and decided to create some 3D clips of surgical instruments utilizing this reference.  Here is an Endoscopic Blunt Dissector I modeled and have been using to research lighting, texture, and camera motion.

Here are a couple of stills I created, playing with background color.

Normally I would take these stills back into Photoshop and put some final changes on them, play with the color and contrast, but I want to get this post up today, so here you go.

I have been playing around with my logo in Cinema 4D and thought I would post some of my work.

Digital Sculpting

I have been doing a little digital sculpting.  Here is a start on the human figure.

Drawing,

I have been revisiting the way I place marks down on paper to represent the world around me.  My wife picked me up a sketchbook a few months ago and I thought I would put it to use and have been doing a little sketching every night before I go to bed.  Here are a few of the things I have put on paper.  Some are master copies from artists whom I admire while others are creations out of my head-drawings from memory, and others representations of images I have drawn with my own style.

This Heart drawing is a master copy-I copied several drawings by Bill Andrews-A tremendous medical illustrator.  He was also the director of the graduate program I completed at Georgia Regents University.  I am hoping to develop the simple yet descriptive way he puts pencil on paper.

These were drawn from photo reference.  I am trying to employ the mark making the Bill uses to represent these images I saw.

 The blood vessels on the lower half are made up from my imagination.  I wanted to do a little memory drawing.  See if I could create believable images with out looking at references.

These were also drawn from reference.