Mazatlan Mexico

Optimo Hats: The Rubusto

Gladiator Character Gear Variations 1

Working on some ideas for what this guy will be wearing. I don't want to cover too much because I want enough of his ugly face, canines and blotchy skin to show.

My first idea was a traditional jaguar helmet, I moved counter clockwise from that.

Gladiator Character First Round

This is my first ZBrush sculpture, it's for a class I'm taking with Bryan Wynia at the Concept Design Academy.

The assignment was to create a Gladiator, not too many more restrictions, so I decided to make him a Mayan gladiator since I've been wanting to make one for a while!. I know I didn't go with the traditional square chin brute. I wanted to make something more unusual and exotic yet still threatening. This guy would be tall, pretty slender, and muscular. I wanted an animal characteristic, so I did quite a bit of research. My choice was the Xoloitzcuintle to go with the whole theme, and because they have such interesting skin and patterns. I will upload my progress as I move forward.

Viking head sculpt for prop

This is my first sculpture ever (other than a ceramics class in JC), I took a class a couple months ago with Jordu Schell. The workshop was five days long, the first days were demo by Jordu, then we each got a bag of WED clay and went at it. We then took a plaster mold of our sculptures and cast them in latex. The end result was a latex mask which we could paint. I intend to make a 7'6" frame out if PVC to put the head on and make a brute-viking bouncer to put by my door next Halloween. I would like to experiment with hair punching for a beard and the head, and I have parts of a viking costume from a couple years ago with an actual metal helmet (will post pics)... I'm sure our friends and their kids will get a kick out of it..... Now all I need is some spare time!.

Character Design

Here's another sketch I did for a Creature Design class with Jerad Marantz at The Concept Design Academy back in November. I also intend to keep working on this one...

Creature Design

These are rough sketches I did for a Creature Design class I took with Jerad Marantz back in November at The Concept Design Academy. It's not finished, but I intend to keep on working on it. My first round was the creature on the top right, the second creature I did after feedback from Jerad.

Dog Sketches - Animal Anatomy Class

These are sketches that I did in Photoshop for an Animal Anatomy class I'm taking with Joe Weatherly at the Concept Design Academy. I wanted to synthesize the gesture drawings into more abstract shapes I could use later for making characters.

Robby Vient Promo

This is a flyer/file cover/business card I made for myself last year. It's a little tongue-and-cheek, but I wanted to market myself as a household name product. Hence the vintage cereal box/snake oil motif....

Flota Bibi

Flota "Bibi" or "Bibi" fleet is one of Mazatláns original sport fishing fleets since 1946. To me it is synonymous with the golden age of tourism in México and it is run by my friend Tadeo Hernández who is a great promoter of Mazatlán.