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In 2016 I ran into a guy named Derrick while I was in New Orleans on business. We talked for a bit and found out that we were both artists. He mentioned that he was a musician. We ended up ...
Lupe Fiasco’s Defenders of Dreams
I had a decent opportunity working on a show recently with RawArtists.org. The Roseland Theater was the home to the show. Although there were maybe too many artists, the show went ...
Should you be a Raw Artist?
As we work to develop our talents, we find ways not only to strengthen our weaknesses, but to define ourselves. All men are not necessarily created equally, but we are all given ...
Totem Art
Matisyahu has been the background music to MANY of my art sessions, road trips, and lets face it, everything I do. If I were to make a CD with the most influential music in my life, Matisyahu would ...
Salmon For Matthew Miller (MATISYAHU)
For the remainder of this year I have two major projects planned, a children's book, and paintings to use for comicon. The topic that I have chosen is Marvel/ Nintendo Mashups. These are ...
Nintendo/ Marvel Concept Series
In June I received a phone call from a previous client who had seen my "Grass Cutter" ZELDA Fan art I created in May. He wanted me to use that style, but with Mario Kart as the subject. It ...
Mario Kart
Kingdom Hope/ MLS Super Star, Steve Zakuani met with me regarding a series to be sold to help benefit his foundation. These pieces are an artistic rendition of key aspects relating ...
Portland Timbers Kingdom Hope Series
This series was created for 3 of the Portland Timbers (Max Urruti, Norberto Paparatto, Gaston Fernandez).
Each piece was developed around certain aspects of the players' personalities. ...
Candy Line Characters
I was recently approached by Jake Gleeson (Portland Timbers Goalie) to create a series for his home. after a few meetings, we decided on a Star Wars/ Marvel Mashup.
Combining iconic characters ...
Star Wars/ Marvel Mashup Series for Jake Gleeson
Now that I am back in Portland, I work right next to this amazing piece of architecture. Sadly it is known as the suicide bridge, because of its association with multiple suicides and attempts. I ...
Vista Bridge, Portland, Oregon
The last couple of months I have gotten really into customizing and sculpting vinyl toys. I have really tried to build these kidrobot munnies up a lot. Have a look. Sculpting Like ...
Sculpting Like Crazy
This week I started the “Introduction to Digital Painting,” course with Andrew Hou (Schoolism.com). The course seems fairly straightforward so far. A lot of button commands and other review ...
Turnpike Sketch
Kidrobot and Threadless.com announced a t shirt contest a few weeks ago. The only rule was that you had to use the bot character (head or full body) and no other characters. Here is my submission. I ...
Kidrobot/ Threadless Contest
Today I had the opportunity to work on a pencil and paper piece for a friend. She is a big “Frankenweenie” fan and really wanted this image. I had a lot of fun playing with these characters. It ...
Sparky
Recently I donated a 16×20 painting to be used as a charity donation for a silent auction. The proceeds were to assist with local youth group activities. The winner of the auction was able to choose ...
Oquirrh Mountain Temple Charity Piece
This week’a course was on layout. We were assigned to take 5 pieces of clip art and draw them into a scene. 3 of the five were dogs, so I decided I wanted them working together to escape. Here is ...
Schoolism Drawing Fundamentals: Assignment 4
This weekend I finished my second munny project. It is called “Miss Direction.” She is a blind kitsune nine tailed fox. Her tails are arrows like signs and point with words accompanying each ...
Miss Direction- Kidrobot Trikky Munny
This week’s course was about the power of perspective. We learned about 1, 2, and 3 point perspective. I am still learning and have a few questions regarding starting points, but all in all I feel ...
Drawing Fundamentals: Assignment 3 (Power of Perspective)
Earlier this week I made it over the the Soho location of Kidrobot in New York City. The shop had all kinds of amazing art and really inspired me to step up my work. I picked up three of the blank ...
Turnpike- Kidrobot Sculpture
This week’s assignment was an exercise in values. There was an option of which image you wanted to draw. I chose the lion. The idea was to define the image using value/ tone to really create ...
Schoolism Assignment 2
©BrentCheney2013Today has been a busy one! I started scribbling on a pad at work the other day and lined out this Droigon. I liked it so much, that even though I have a ton of stuff to do this ...
More Creatures for My Army
Here is the assignment: “Alright, it looks like we have some people that are interested in participating in the weekly sketch challenge. The first topic I’m going to choose is “bad hair ...
FB Illustration Group- Weekly Sketch Challenge 1
Well Summer is here, and with that, I have begun my classes at Schoolism. The first of my classes is “Drawing Fundamentals,” instructed by Thomas Fluharty.The first class was instruction on how ...
Schoolism "Drawing Fundamentals" (Instructed by Thomas Fluharty) Assignment 1
Please illustrate the following line of text:“It was a bright sunny morning as Koki left for school but today he thought he would take a different path…what he didn’t ...
SVS’s first class: Illustration For Storytellers- Assignment 1
This is almost done. I wanted to throw up some updates. This will not be final print quality as it is more of a sketch assignment, but I still wanted to give the image a bit more life. Now that the ...
School of Visual Storytelling Assignment 1 update
The time has finally come for me to start my first class: “Illustration for Storytellers.” The first assignment is:Illustrate the following line of text: “It was a bright sunny morning as Koki ...
School of Visual Story Telling- Assignment 1 pt1
Banshee’s have always intrigued me. They do not sneak up on you, they let you know they are coming from a mile away. They fly, they kill, and they are immortal (well unkillable undead). They are ...
Banshee development
Here is the progress and final piece I made for a friend who requested a “Skylanders” painting for her son’s room. This is a 16×20 acrylic on canvas. Skylanders ...
Skylanders Scene
A friend of mine recently asked me to paint a picture for her son. They are moving to a new home and she wanted something special for in his room. The subject? SKYLANDERS. I didn’t know a lot about ...
Taking Requests
Recently a friend of mine turned me on to this really awesome online art school. I have never taken courses and wanted a good alternative to a formal illustration degree from an accredited school. ...
Schoolism.com- My Post Grad Studies
I am creating a line of new characters to use for a future project. The Golden Tanuki is the first of this group. Golden ...
Golden Tanuki
Here we are, three weeks into my practice using the Wacom Cintiq and painting in Photoshop. Having no real background in art other than as a hobbyist with some high school courses, I feel like I am ...
Figure Complete, background to come this week.
Here is a current project. I wanted to make a really sinister looking carnage image, so here is the rough base.
More to come. ...
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Today I decided my sketch project would be a creature design. My creature? A Tortle.I have a couple of background elements I would still like to add to this piece.More to come.Enjoy. ...
Tortle
Today I wanted to practice a bit more and draw up a full figure from head to toe. Keeping bodies in proportion has always been challenging for me, but when I use a reference, there is never an issue. ...