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WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

I have been living in a cave, trying to make this finally come to a finish. Enjoy.

Update Because California

Its been a really busy couple of months. I'm now back in California. Boulder has been my home for the past several months. I got side tracked on art for a while because I started to train for climbing and was really into that. But I did manage to do a bunch of art pieces on the side. Mainly gifts. I do have a bunch of sketchbook stuff for later.

At first I drew some of my friend's family for a Christmas gift. She moved to Boulder and was a little homesick, so I drew her folks and sister to make her feel better.

I painted this on a plank of wood for a secret Santa gift exchange I did. The theme was three random words: Dinosaur, Liar, Raven. So I painted a siren that had the head of a raven and parts of a dinosaur. Sirens sing sailors to shipwreck so they are in essence lying to their victims. And I painted it on a plank of wood that I burned and beat up as if it was part of a ship that crashed due to sirens. I had a lot of fun doing this piece.

My friend Sherod I met out in boulder. It was his birthday and he wanted me to draw him. So i put Al Capone's hat on his head.

My climbing training team. I wanted to give a gift to my two coaches as a going away deal. It was really challenging to get everyone's completions correct! But very rewarding. I miss that crew already.

I drew a portrait of my friend Cassidy for his birthday. He likes monsters and scary things, so I made him ugly. It was really fun to work with.

And finally, I didn't do this piece but it was my gift I received from my old teacher Dave Yee, I was really lucky to have him as my secret Santa because this gift is AMAZING!!

More stuff to come, but I need to get a little bit situated in life first!

More stuff!

Haven't updated in a bit, so heres a bunch of stuff:

These were just some sketches that I drew up for a friend who wanted some drawings to accompany his poem for his creative writing class. It was fun to work on. The one with the kid reminds me of my friend Tim Tang's drawings. He is an amazing illustrator, you should checkout his work. 

I felt the need to mess around in photoshop a while back, so I scanned a drawing of the bird guy I did earlier when coming up with the design and did a quick paint for fun. 

It was my friend's birthday, she told me she wanted to be a cartoon character, so I tried.

The other painting we bought at a garage sale that I painted over. Its silly, but was fun.

And this guy. I finally animated him and added some effects. Learned a lot about organizing files in flash and cool little effects to enhance stuff. Took a while to do, but was worth it. On to the next one. The design of this guy, by the way, is from these guys. The drawing/animation is what I did.

Also the film is coming closer to a finish so hopefully I can get a teaser trailer or something up sometime.

Project Vomit

So, here is what I've been working on for a while. It took a lot longer than I thought and got complicated real fast. But heres a more or less finished version.


And heres a small preview of what is coming up next:

Now, this isn't my design idea, but I did draw this one. Its these guy's idea.

Oh and heres a logo I did for my friend recently:

You can check out their website here. They're working on an online radio group called Serious Bears. If you're interested, you should check it out!

And one last thing. My friend, Marty Cooper, did this back in college. He would go to garage sales and pick up paintings for some cheap price, a dollar, if you will and would paint something on top of them to make them interesting. So my house made came back with this painting and I pained the space invaders on top. Fun!

WIP

So here is a preview of what I have been doing in flash. This blue guy was my first attempt at using flash since one time in highschool. Taught myself an overwhelming amount.

As I got more comfortable, this is what I came up with. I plan to go and make some character actions for this guy.

More sketches and some paints

One more. Its one of my favorite Buckethead songs.

Gonna teach myself flash using this guy:

Heres a sketch dump. More to post later.

Birthday 2x

This was an oil painting I did for my friend Jose. He likes weird things. It was originally a sunset painting I messed up, but I didn't want to lose paint. Happy birthday senor, Jose.

For a friend.

This was painted for a very close friend of mine, shes very special to me. It was her birthday last year and I was trying to finish it before the school year started, but that took over so I never got to finish it until now. Its a crappy photo, but looks nice in person.

Summer 2011

Summer 2011 from Nikita Taranduke on Vimeo.

So begins a new year. A rough start, but 2011 was filled with good memories. Plus, 2012 is a whole new chapter to begin. Here are a pinch of memories from 2011.

My Demo Reel!

Here it is as of current status! Enjoy. 


Not anymore! Its been updated.

Last painting of the semester.

Here you go, this is what happens when I am allowed to use the whole color pallet. Rainbow sherbert smear explosion.

Tree

Heres a painting I did for a class. Turned out not bad. The actual size is pretty huge. 5 by 4 feet or something. I don't even remember anymore. Anyway, I learned a lot working on this thing and hope to continue more illustrations in the future. Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh and this is oils on canvas (that was hand made by myself, stretched and everything).

I am alive. I just live in a cave for this semester.

Here is a sneak peak at what is too come at the end of the semester!



Along with some paintings. Stay tuned to December. Theres no sound/music, its just a teaser.

Munny Thingy.

Myjah bought me a Munny a while back. We finally got around to painting them today. Turned out awesome.

Zach

Zach, from the time I knew you, until the time of your passing, you were an amazing person. You were an amazing friend. I don't understand why this happened to you, but I still keep expecting you to just show up one day as a surprise. I painted this to remind everyone that you'll always still be here, with us. Keep climbing, buddy.

CSU Summer arts program

So this is what I managed to pump out in about two weeks at a program called CSU Summer arts. It was an amazing time. We worked hard, like... really hard. But in the end it was all worth it. The story and animation were all done by me. The music was done by Ryan Adam Rey. He did a great job. I met some awesome people during those two weeks and we formed equally awesome friendships. I'm sure I will see them in the future.