the coffman blog

2011-04-27T00:34:00.000-07:00

Going Batsy

2011-04-23T02:12:00.000-07:00

Kaiju Pet Shop

2011-03-27T22:26:00.000-07:00

A little Painting of Steven the Bat, based off the character by Bwana Spoons.

2011-03-26T01:36:00.000-07:00

Tea Time!

2011-03-18T14:43:00.000-07:00

Creature

2010-12-08T16:30:00.000-08:00

A little drawing based on characters by the amazing Bwana Spoons. I love collecting his toys and paintings. Globby and Steven the bat are 2 of my favorites.

2010-10-10T16:21:00.000-07:00

Monster Cut Out

2010-07-08T23:33:00.000-07:00

2010-06-24T20:55:00.001-07:00

Shake-speared

2010-05-24T18:48:00.000-07:00

Vikings. Had these drawn for a while and just took them to vector.

2009-12-29T14:11:00.000-08:00

Toy gallery opens 12/31

2009-08-19T19:18:00.000-07:00

art unleashed is the humane societies annual art auction. here is my donation for this year, painted on a beat up old skateboard deck. The event is august 28th. This guy looks like he might be related to my 2007 donation (check august 2007 if you want to see his brother).

2009-06-01T20:36:00.000-07:00

day dream scribbler...

2009-04-22T20:04:00.001-07:00

play-on wordage

pet peas

rocking horse

optimus lime

2008-10-18T13:15:00.000-07:00

old school sculpt. here is a maquette i made from a character design by nino navarra. this was done about three years ago while we were in school together. it is about 90% done, i never got around to smoothing it out or adding a lot of the final details.

2008-09-11T21:26:00.000-07:00

DUCK gallery updat:
thanks to everyone who came out, here are the pieces i did for the gallery. the show is up through the end of september, go check it out if you haven't yet. the first photo is various views of a toy for the show it is titled "Alien Ab-duck-tion" the second is a series painted on credit cards of ab-duck-ted specimens. the last photo has the 3 skatedecks i painted for the gallery with a fun viking/duck theme. enjoy the photos, but they look much better in person!

2008-08-31T22:51:00.000-07:00

and another silly idea... i mean important diagram.

2008-08-30T23:08:00.000-07:00

a page from a book of very important documents, or just a silly idea.

2008-08-21T21:41:00.000-07:00

here is a preview of my work from DUCK!! a gallery that a group of friends and i are doing. i will post all my work later, after the gallery opening which is sept. 5th at d-structure in san francisco(just in case you want to attend).

2008-08-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

it is time once again for the humane society art auction, art unleashed. all proceeds from this event go directly to homeless pets at the humane society of greater kansas city. this year i was a bit strapped for time and the event kinda sprung up on me. anyway, here are my two donations for the event. one is a drawing of my dog, bugle, and the other is a quick painted scribble of an idea that i thought was funny. the event is august 22nd, here in kansas city.

2008-06-22T21:27:00.000-07:00

kansas city may not have many good sports teams, but they do have some badass chicks on skates. their roller derby teams are awesome, and so much fun to watch. thus, here are a few sketches.

2008-03-02T08:11:00.000-08:00

here is something a little different than my usual. i usually draw a lot of crazy nonsense, referenced from life of course, but interpretted with my own imagination. however, here is a sketch straight for exactly what it is. on occassion i do this just just because it feels refreshing to draw something that feels more real, for lack of a better word. i also think that's why i am inspired by artists like Egon Schiele and Barron Storey, even though my work looks nothing like theirs.

2008-01-27T16:00:00.000-08:00

last week was sooooooo cold...like in the teens cold. this weekend it finally got "warmer", i never thought i would be so happy just to see temperatures in the 40-50's.

2008-01-07T21:19:00.000-08:00

tiger rider

this has been sitting on my desktop for over a month, so i thought i would finally post it. an aquabats piece inspired by a song off their album charge! made for you in flash's vectory goodness...unless of course you prefer the quick and dirty pencil on paper version.

-coffman

2007-11-18T21:02:00.001-08:00

a few memory sketches. i have been running into a lot of interesting, odd, and fun looking people when i am out walking my dog. thus i decided to start doing some memory sketches of some of them. i think i drew them more interesting from my memory than i would have if i was drawing them from life.

2007-11-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

chain gang? or a game of follow the leader? i'm not sure which one it is yet to tell the truth. i had this idea for a while and just never put it on paper until now. with this piece i wanted to see how fast i could paint with vectors, before this i was very specific with tracing my drawings. however i think i like the final output here better because the final piece doesn't look as sterile, or precise as many vector drawings do. that said there were still some areas where i did go back and put in the specific shapes i had drawn.

-coffman

2007-10-26T20:09:00.000-07:00

a little bit about my process on this one... along with a few images to help explain it. my initial drawing(see bottom image) was too crowded, too even, kinda boring, etc. etc. thus i turned to photoshop to help me out, where i shrunk the characters within the scene, added a few foreground elements, and stretched the canvas by 25%(a trick learned from barron storey). then i took it into flash and painted it up quick in a flat vector style similar to that of pascal campion (check out his work it's awesome).

2007-09-08T21:46:00.000-07:00

i was working in flash when i became distracted, next thing i knew i had created the most sugary sweet array of mystical vectors the world has ever seen... oh, and a few drawings too.

2007-08-26T10:37:00.000-07:00

the kansas city humane society art auction was on friday(the 24th) and i am super happy that my work alone raised about $500. i submitted 3 pieces one seen here (which is tiny 5x5 in) along with the dog lunchbox, pictured a few posts back. the 3rd was supposed to be last years submission and it can be seen in a very old post(aug 2006) it is the kids with their pets, painted on wood.

2007-08-22T20:08:00.000-07:00

just me messing with levels, erasers, crumpled paper bags, and a rabid beaver.

2007-08-07T21:20:00.000-07:00

after months of nothingness, a new post has arrived. yeah it's another one with a dog.

2007-04-19T20:36:00.000-07:00

don't let those sad puppy eyes fool you, bugle is a savage 8lb. beast of fury and destruction.

2007-02-18T11:37:00.000-08:00

a donkey's dream, another flash illustration that may eventually lead up to a story...some day.

2007-01-15T12:58:00.000-08:00

soapbox dreams

me playing around in flash...

2006-12-10T00:05:00.000-08:00

just a couple of mermaid drawings...

2006-12-05T21:44:00.000-08:00

people keep posting drawings inspired by 80's movies, on their blogs. i have yet to see one from the neverending story... thus i give you falcor.

2006-12-02T22:59:00.000-08:00

back to the mythological creatures; the cerberus is a giant 3-headed dog, as you may also remember from harry potter. i however think a 3-headed dog would make a really cool pet. enjoy.

2006-11-17T22:21:00.000-08:00

an aquabats villain, the cyclopsis, putting in a contact.

2006-11-17T21:52:00.000-08:00

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2006-11-17T21:50:00.000-08:00

some sketch pages on the low end of the thinking spectrum

2006-11-05T21:23:00.000-08:00

some chinchilla designs i did a while back. i really like the simple design...maybe i will animate them one of these days.

2006-10-28T22:49:00.000-07:00

tiger shoes are finally done...again not the best picture.

2006-10-13T21:50:00.000-07:00

the centaur was my next creature from greek mythology. i added a little twist by making them rednecks.

2006-10-09T19:57:00.000-07:00

greek mythology has a few boars listed(calydonian,erymanthian) so i thought i would just draw a page full of boars and let you pick and choose between them.

2006-10-06T20:48:00.000-07:00

one left shoe...still need to figure out how to paint the right. oh and it's not the best picture, that's a navy blue shoe.

2006-10-03T22:20:00.000-07:00

creature #2 from greek mythology is an argus. it is a giant with 100 eyes.

2006-10-01T21:04:00.000-07:00

i decided to illustrate a series of greek mythological creatures, so here is the first. it is an amphisbaena, i decided to get rid of the legs on the finished version to keep it more streamlined and snake-like.

2006-09-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

tim burton sketches i did a few months ago.

2006-09-16T17:21:00.000-07:00

i received tons of get well cards, gifts, posters, flowers, and everything else your mind can imagine. thus, i decided to post here on my blog some of the "homemade" cards and posters that i received. thanks to everyone for your support and care. this particular one was sent from tons of people in SHM, 218, and lots of other friends.

2006-09-16T17:19:00.000-07:00

pretty much all the people i work with at hallmark

2006-09-16T17:18:00.001-07:00

sent in from andy g

2006-09-16T17:18:00.000-07:00

sent in from theary and lawrence

2006-09-16T17:17:00.001-07:00

sent in from jesse

2006-09-16T17:17:00.000-07:00

sent in from frances, jeff a, and phil

2006-09-16T17:16:00.000-07:00

sent in from martin

2006-08-06T23:00:00.000-07:00

a painting in progress...and a not so good photo of it. i'll repost it when i am done, with better lighting.

2006-08-03T22:12:00.000-07:00

sophorn told me to post something new... thus a drawing of him. p.s. grow the goatee back.

2006-07-09T00:02:00.000-07:00

unicorn shoes that i painted for megan, because unicorns are awesome.

2006-07-08T23:59:00.000-07:00

here are some kangaroo character designs i am working on just for fun. i will probably post more of either the ideation drawings or more spreads of each character in the future.

2006-06-22T18:44:00.000-07:00

a snapshot from the film that i am slowly (very slowly) working on. you can see some more of the characters in one of my earlier posts.

2006-06-18T21:36:00.000-07:00

this weekend i went to the kansas city zoo. i hope to go back soon and get some more drawings done.

2006-06-13T17:28:00.000-07:00

not quite notorious

2006-06-04T21:01:00.000-07:00

- i know, the spot on the eye is a bit cliche...

2006-04-26T22:04:00.000-07:00

some odd random drawings

2006-04-23T17:53:00.000-07:00

drawing people at the usual, barnes&noble

2006-04-11T22:20:00.000-07:00

characters revised and made into vectors for flash animation. they have been simplified a little and i limited my color palette quite a bit, although the color may change as i get more into the project.

2006-03-13T19:06:00.000-08:00

random drawings of random people at barnes&noble.

2006-03-12T19:29:00.000-08:00

just your average, arrogant, womanizing astronaut.

2006-03-04T22:32:00.000-08:00

these are a few character designs that i am working on for a short film. it will eventually be animated in flash, or a combination of flash and drawings. more then likely, the designs will be transformed into a wide range of vector shapes, with a flatter look then the paintings shown.

with this character set, my idea was to have a simple and graphic external shape, while the internal designs and character features were kept softer and more friendly. let me know what you think.

-coffman

2006-02-22T21:12:00.000-08:00

a fun start...

so this is my first posting on a new blog, which i began after certain people kept asking me to start one. i am an artist and that is primarily what i will be using this blog for. most of it will be either character designs or drawings from life.
here is my first post a recent drawing of a random guy i saw at barnes and noble, he was reading a magazine about music.

pianoman