Yearly Archives: 2013

The Jimtown Store

Posted 2013/11/26 by Sterling

One of my favorite drawing spaces. The Jimtown store in Alexander Valley is a cozy bit of home. It is…

Jet lag painting

Posted 2013/11/08 by Sterling

The time difference between Hong Kong and the Bay Area is cruel. I’ve been at Lucasfilm for a week now…

zbrush Gibson Girl hair test

Posted 2013/10/25 by Sterling

A zBrush hair Render test.

Little Orange Sketchbook

Posted 2013/10/25 by Sterling

This is a small Moleskine sketchbook only 2.5 x 4 inches. Drawn in Hong Kong, it took just over a…

Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Posted 2013/10/22 by Sterling

This morning I had to go to central Hong Kong for a CPR class and brought with me a bag…

Prisoners

Posted 2013/10/21 by Sterling

Found out I’m headed to California next week for a storyboarding job. Started dreaming about the mountains and painted this.

Kalifia Digital sketch

Posted 2013/10/21 by Sterling

Playing around in ArtRage. This is Kalifia queen of the isles of California.

New image dump page

Posted 2013/10/16 by Sterling

I added a new page to the Art Archive today called the Image Dump. It is a random image wall…

Sketchbook Circa 2004

Posted 2013/10/16 by Sterling

This sketchbook spans 2003-2004. I was finishing my MFA in animation at USC and beginning work at Vanguard Animation when…

Sketchbook circa 2003

Posted 2013/10/16 by Sterling

This sketchbook was made while I was a student at USC Animation. It is dated spring to summer 2003. The…

Island Hopping

Posted 2013/10/15 by Sterling

Exploring the floating world.

Ship Graveyard

Posted 2013/10/13 by Sterling

Another Wakefield concept piece.

Inside the Hermit’s Lair

Posted 2013/10/11 by Sterling

A found object bedroom, with a glass ceiling made of old window frames.

Hermit House

Posted 2013/10/10 by Sterling

This morning’s breakfast doodle.

MTR iPhone Painting

Posted 2013/10/08 by Sterling

Dropped off my son at school and then got on the train to head home. Missed my stop because I…

Water hop Pencil Test

Posted 2013/10/07 by Sterling

Its been a while since I’ve posted any animation. Sat down the other day, opened up TVPaint and then just…

Flood Land

Posted 2013/10/03 by Sterling

Having spent the good part of the last two months drawing on a small portable tablet I was excited to…

Vineyard gouache

Posted 2013/10/03 by Sterling

Last painting at the family vineyard before packing up and heading to Hong Kong. Random fact, I crashed my brother’s…

Another sketchbook takes its place on the shelf

Posted 2013/10/03 by Sterling

Victory! Another sketchbook takes its place on the shelf. This one took far too long to draw. It was actually…

En plein air

Posted 2013/09/25 by Sterling

It’s nice to be home in Alexander Valley. The smell of the dry summer grass is intoxicating. I could hike…

Opossum Blues

Posted 2013/09/23 by Sterling

I was looking for blank paper in an old watercolor portfolio and found this little guy. I’m pretty sure he…

Wild animals

Posted 2013/09/23 by Sterling

Flying Goat Coffee in Healdsburg California has a few public sketchbooks on the wall. One of them asks for wild…

Bath house

Posted 2013/09/13 by Sterling

I was taking drawing requests and a friend asked that I draw a bath.

Berkeley Aquatic Park

Posted 2013/09/13 by Sterling

Traffic looked bad so I parked at the Berkeley Aquatic Park to do a little painting. The lighting was blah…

Behind the Winery

Posted 2013/09/03 by Sterling

Had a free day, so I packed the new gouache set and headed out to the family winery. The skeleton…

Ocean gouache

Posted 2013/09/03 by Sterling

No reference. Just a random seascape I made while playing guitars and doodling late night with my brother.

Gouache House

Posted 2013/08/31 by Sterling

I’m away from Hong Kong and working in Emeryville for a few weeks. Without the kids around I have extra…

The Grey Sketchbook: en total

Posted 2013/08/19 by Sterling

The completed book.

The Grey Sketchbook: Part 3

Posted 2013/08/19 by Sterling

The final third of the book. I would have had posted it sooner had I not misplaced the sketchbook. It…

The Grey Sketchbook: Part 2

Posted 2013/08/02 by Sterling

The second third of my pocket sketchbook. At this rate I should be able to finnish up within the week.

The Grey Sketchbook: Part 1

Posted 2013/07/24 by Sterling

I’m working on a new pocket sketchbook. Quick, fast and loose this time. Most of it was drawn at the…

WaterColorBot

Posted 2013/07/18 by Sterling

Just backed Super Awesome Sylvia’s WaterColorBot project over at Kickstarter. I’m so excited. Can’t wait to play with this thing.…

The grandiloquent express

Posted 2013/07/10 by Sterling

Wacky-train-drawing-fun-time with my boys always yields silly stuff like this overly ornate mechanical wonder vehicle. I christened her the the…

The Moth Sketchbook

Posted 2013/06/15 by Sterling

For your amusement I present the unabridged contents of my latest sketchbook.

Stereo jungle painting

Posted 2013/06/14 by Sterling

Yet another stereoscopic painting experiment.

Under a banyan tree

Posted 2013/06/14 by Sterling

This was my final attempt at taming a set of unruly gouache colors. It’s not often that I yell at…

Jungle House

Posted 2013/06/13 by Sterling

Second attempt with my cheep gouache set. Still couldn’t get it to hold saturation or the darks.

Tracks Crossing a Stream

Posted 2013/06/13 by Sterling

A watercolor and gouache painting I made a few weeks back. I hadn’t used gouache in years but I found…

New scanner!

Posted 2013/06/13 by Sterling

Oh happy day! My new scanner just arrived in the mail. There is a lot of art waiting in the…

New office

Posted 2013/05/02 by Sterling

I’m setting up a new work space here in Hong Kong. Now that I can get away from the kids…

Hat Eater

Posted 2013/04/19 by Sterling

Having been without my Wacom Cintiq for solid two months I am relieved to be reunited with it once again.…

Banyan tussock moth

Posted 2013/04/17 by Sterling

I have been busy making a lot of iNaturalist observations. Lately I am into moths. This is a Banyan tussock…

Expired

Posted 2013/03/25 by Sterling

Good grief. I go offline for three days and of all things, my website address expires. Many thanks to Sam…

Alibaba

Posted 2013/03/09 by Sterling

An illustration I made for a '96 Healdsburg High School Performance of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves.

In Search of the Raven

Posted 2013/02/03 by Sterling

This is a story sequence I created for Zeros 2 Heros. It is part of a mini series entitled Animism:…

Figure Drawing Night

Posted 2013/01/19 by Sterling

Got a chance to get out the other night and do a little figure drawing. Admittedly its been a while…