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At work with MPC's 2020 Academy Award for Best VFX, for the film 1917. (at Culver City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9CXQ3yAEJ1/?igshid=10ot1w0w0xih0

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Animal studies from a Yellowstone Park documentary. #sketchbook #wildlife #bison #bear #salmon https://www.instagram.com/p/B6fSXfAjNVh/?igshid=1txj507kmce14

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Another #Xmen drawing from my childhood portfolio, drawn in Junior High. #Marvel splash pages were my favorite thing to draw back then. This one was a study of a Jim Lee cover. #retireddrawings https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ybaV4Dv8_/?igshid=odj6uotmwe5j

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Drew this poster of the #Xmen back in junior high, when #Marvel comics and Jim Lee fueled my imagination. Years later I helped shape the franchise a touch when I joined the 'Days of Future Past' previs team. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5yWOyWDb5X/?igshid=yo39riytor3u

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Sketched this request for a customer who ordered a mini-comic from my store at http://www.JoshLange.com. It will arrive soon... #pikachu #detectivepikachu https://www.instagram.com/p/B5LEJIDDB9y/?igshid=rb7ee57lbahl

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For those who asked, this is the #WIP model for my George Carlin collaboration project with modeler Daniel Peteuil. #georgecarlin (at Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/B43IiFHjEhP/?igshid=14q51h3cgukq

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Today's retired drawing: face studies of the late comedian George Carlin, for a collaboration I developed for a while to make a 3D Animation of his classic "Seven Dirty Words." I like to do each drawing in an exaggerated caricature to see if it uncovers new aspects of his anatomy. It can be more useful than doing several nearly identical studies. #georgecarlin (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B41XXu5jWFa/?igshid=zcncja3b9tng

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Part of why I'm retiring old drawings by uploading them to social media is to light a spark for new creations, like today's 15 min lunch sketch of Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson. This one was done in my "300 Heads" sketchbook. (at Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4yDTmkDWS9/?igshid=1pjck8qlijvul

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Going through old #sketchbooks to retire some #drawings to social media. Here's one of comedian @toddbarry done around 2010 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4vZbbUjlM7/?igshid=14esls41orhvf

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Going through some old sketchbooks to find pieces worth keeping. This high school sketch was done by request for Mike Rinehart: Boba Fett vs. Maverick. Hope fans of #TheMandalorian enjoy it too. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4qu0hVDMqS/?igshid=aynwxasge86v

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Oil piece way back from 2009. This one’s for the Radiohead fans. Somehow I lost track of this panel after a few moves, but at least I was able to get a clear shot of it for the website.

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TBT this week is old artwork. Unused ‘spec’ Illustrations for a friend’s book, created in 2011. Some revisions were requested, so I made other angles for the same moment.

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Pages 9-11 of the “Grandpa” mini-comic I made for the “Making Mini-Comics” class at (the now closed) Meltdown Comics in LA, taught by Jim Higgins. The story was based on a real nightmare I had, and I wrote the rest as fiction. Pages 1-10 are in an earlier post of mine here on Tumblr.

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Pages 1-8 of the “Grandpa” mini-comic I made back in Spring of 2011, via the making mini-comics class at the (now closed) Meltdown Comics in LA, taught by Jim Higgins. The story is based on a real nightmare I had after my Grandfather died (the rest is fiction). I I’ll have a follow-up post with the remaining pages.

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Cleaning up some space on my desktop, and thought I’d throw these guys and their works-in-progress pictures up on my Tumblr page for the first time. They were part of a giclee print series I did back in 2011 on my first cintiq. Memories...

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For #StarWarsDay this is that long-promised WIP for last year’s “Big Trouble in Little Corellia” piece. #Maythe4th be with you, #StarWars fans.

Layer 1: original Big Trouble poster

Layer 2: slap-comp of main references. I tried a more cluttered composition with more characters from the movie, but decided against it. Lando’s picture came from a Lego package design that was leaked early on. I had to wait for the slow trickle of photos and articles to reveal what characters would be used, and what their costumes would look like. Normally I try to avoid trailers and spoilers for Star Wars movies, but working on this piece meant I had to stay more closely tuned and absorb everything I could find.

Layer 3: linework and whites pass #1. Adding the whites helped to keep track of how much of the poster I was actually reimagining. I also repainted Solo’s left hand to more properly match the scale.

Layer 4: Han Solo pass. I like working on the most important character first. He would be the focal point.

Layer 5: gang pass. I used a still from the movie as an initial reference for them, but ended up repainting them all in poses that I preferred.

Layer 6: lines/whites pass. Subtle changes to character expressions.

Layer 7: background pass. Covering the semi-truck would need something huge, so I used a Star Destroyer. I liked the TIEs in the top right, but didn’t end up keeping them.

Layer 8: the “attack plan”: prioritizing which areas to paint

Layer 9: jacket painting, with reference from EW magazine

Layer 10: more Han painting, this time making sure my colors are in line with the original reference.

Layer 11: values pass. This is made harder by painting on a white surface. If I had to do it over again, I might have chosen a grey palate like I’ve seen many oil painters do.

Layer 12: first color pass, keeping the Big Trouble poster handy.

Layer 13: color refinements

Layer 14: airbrush tinting. Focusing on setting certain areas back behind others.

Layer 15: fx pass (tried to preserve the cool light flares from the David Lo Pan character), final composition adjustments to match the Big Trouble poster design

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Productive movie going experience today. Saw Endgame and the Star Wars trailer on the right screen, and took a picture with the displays of two movies I worked on that come out soon (Detective Pikachu was the other). https://www.instagram.com/p/BxEOjY9lBHY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fib3xrddbntq