Andrew Ekeren

Dark Wizard Study

2010-11-06T11:23:00.001-07:00

Here's a value study for an oil painting I'll soon be doing. Wish me luck, I haven't touched oils in a year! I won't do colors on the digital version but I'm thinking I'll do a quick wash of mystical galactic colors for a background and to add some interest.

Ping.

2010-10-16T21:13:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody. I've made it my goal to have a game published by the end of next year. These last few days I've been practicing good coding practices with Pong. You can't see any of the important stuff but here's the end result, enjoy!

Click here if you don't see Pong appear above.

First Completed Game

2010-08-16T21:14:00.000-07:00

Psycho Communauts

The concept is that you're a space psychic controlled indirectly by pushing, pulling, and flinging asteroids. It's complete from title to scoreboard, though pretty bogged down with bloated physics calculations.

Thank you Esther Love for creating some great assets and pushing me to complete the project when I lost steam.

Freelance Webdesign Result

2010-07-13T08:24:00.000-07:00

Website layout with generic filler content.

My pal, Sam.

2010-02-28T20:27:00.000-08:00

Design for a Project

2010-02-20T19:09:00.000-08:00

First Real Zbrush Attempt

2010-02-06T19:53:00.000-08:00

From 2010

Some gems from Ringling 2nd year

2009-12-13T15:23:00.000-08:00

From Ringling 2nd Year

Rock Monster Color

2009-12-01T09:52:00.000-08:00

Before:

From Ringling 2nd Year

After:

From Ringling 2nd Year

More Anatomy!

2009-11-30T12:39:00.000-08:00

From Ringling 2nd Year

From Sketchbook

Anatomy

2009-11-29T14:19:00.000-08:00

From Ringling 2nd Year

Watercolor fun!

2009-10-09T13:49:00.001-07:00

From Ringling 2nd Year

Stones

2009-09-28T15:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a big rock monster guy. Concept art, here I come!

Something a little different

2009-09-26T20:00:00.001-07:00

Odd assignment. We basically turn a classmate's portrait into a vector then cut it out with an xacto knife. Fun, I guess. Now I can stencil my homie's face all over the city, too.

From Ringling 2nd Year

Illustration

2009-09-14T16:32:00.000-07:00

First assignment and I got an A on this bitch. Chyea!

Wish I would've changed a few things, but whatever, I'll feel like that about everything I'll make from now until forever.

Fishies

2009-09-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

Finished this fookin' cuttlefish! I swear, man, if it wasn't for Star Wars the New Order I'd have gone insane working on this. I may have been getting hand cramps at the drawing board, but my head was on Coruscant fighting the Yuuzhan Vong. I thank the Force for my sanity.

From Ringling 2nd Year

Me vs Ben

2009-09-13T21:26:00.001-07:00

Brush Practice!

From Ringling 2nd Year

School's in, sucka!

2009-08-24T08:58:00.000-07:00

Here's a (unfinished) master painting of Homer's "The Herring Net" minus the herrings. Here's hoping that I have time to finish it.

'Ello, Wizards.

2009-07-25T09:15:00.000-07:00

Going on week two of no Facebook. It's rough, man, I'm telling you. There are so many reasons to get back to it versus a single reason to stay away; internet avoidance.

Anyway, here's what I've done since then. I'm working on a composition for an oil painting to be submitted into Illest of Ill, which is the wizard. I FINALLY finished my mom's horse painting. Can't wait to see the look on her face when I give it to her! The most enjoyable part of this week was, by far, having the studio reserved for our Jungle Gardens paintings. This gigantic bird painting (4 foot by 6 foot) was finished in three days.

From Summer 2009

Long time coming

2009-07-19T11:16:00.000-07:00

So I've dropped Facebook recently. It's liberating in a way, but at the same time I'm feel I'm becoming more reclusive by doing it. My initial reasoning was to get rid of all of these fake relationships I had with people and instead talk to people with, you know, voices. The reason slowly turned into a way to get off of the computer and do something productive. It's working, though, since without Facebook or Myspace I spend maybe half the time clacking away on this keyboard.

Anyway, here's my art.

From Summer 2009

These next few are the block color roughs I did for the precollege program. The bird one is a friggin' huge 4 by 6 feet! I'll be finishing these next week, updates to come.

From Summer 2009

Here's some Jungle Gardens mural stuff.

From Summer 2009

New Sketchbook Painting

2009-06-27T19:42:00.000-07:00

So I've been playing with gouache a bit. I'm attempting a Sargent master copy in gouache but I don't think it's coming out.. I'll keep at it, but it's so hard to replicate something in a different medium.

Let me know what you think!

From Sketchbook

From Sketchbook

Sketchbook

2009-06-18T12:17:00.000-07:00

The long awaited update to my blog is finally here! I've been doing studies over the last few days, along with a few concepts and pre-vis for my secret agent project. The Maya modeling of the Gleinicke Bridge for my concept is coming soon.

From Sketchbook

Finished a painting.

2009-06-07T13:47:00.000-07:00

Took maybe two hours, nothing crazy. It's still rough but I was getting fed up with the watercolor paper so I'm calling it finished. Next gouache painting I'm going to do it on illustration board.

Let me know how bad I am!