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Sketch 4 of 8

More sketches for the split sketchbook.

Moving, Drawing, Painting, Working.

Man, it's been a while. Many projects have been taking shape lately. The tattoo shop i'm at moved next door to where we were, so that's been taking up most of time the last few days (i'll post pics soon). We acquired a really old desk that had a display case on top and I'm pretty sure we've managed to make the worlds largest light table out of it. Every day we've been painting and moving and painting some more. It's taken me away from a lot of stuff that i've been to wanting to get back to but it's really cool to help contribute and grow a business at the same time. Between setting up drawings for tattoos I've been slowly scratching away at this comic book. I've also been asked to do a split sketchbook with friend, the above pic is one of eight drawings i'll be contributing to this small project. The book will have the inked version. Anyway, Im done talking about myself for now. I hope everything is all well and good with all of you and yours. more soon.

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Cardboard City Progress Report

Hello, so no new finished stuff yet. In the meantime here is a a panel from the book im working on. more soon.

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speed painting

Project Update

I find it hard to let artwork things sit on my desktop. I always want to share whatever I do as soon as it's done. When it comes to the Cardboard City project that is slowly taking shape I have to approach it differently. I have to really hold back from posting it for fear that as soon as the book finally gets out there people aren't like "I've seen all of this, he already posted this on his blog". I plan on inking and coloring this at some point but for now I thought I would share a little of what the book is becoming. As things start to get inked i'll post pieces of those as well but for now here is another look at the two main characters. Thanks for stopping by, more soon.

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Cyclops

I needed to clear my head while working out some of these panel designs so I thought I would do a Cyclops. It was tougher than I thought, I had done another version with his visor on and it just didn't look right so I left it off. I also kind of improvised on his costume as well. more soon.

Back to the table

Well hello, hello. Hope everyone's holidays went well. To be honest I'm glad to be back to the table drawing again. The holidays have really set me back on trying to knock out these Cardboard City pages. Since most of my time has been drawing and laying out pages I don't really have anything to post that is finished so instead here is some stuff out of my sketchbook. Some of this is from the book and the other stuff is just randomness I've collected from the last week or so. I like to see artists sketches, it gives people a sense of what is going through his/her head. So that's that.
On a separate note, I know its still a month or more out but I just wanted to give folks a heads up that I have a table at the upcoming Wondercon Convention in San Francisco. I'll be selling lots and lots of color prints and a few more that seemed to be pretty popular at the APE con. Like last time, the black and white prints will only be a $1. The color prints will be sold at $2 unless I can get a good deal when I go to print. Color prints will be most of the pieces done for the Carbon Robot challenge we did a couple months back and one or two new ones. more soon.

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Tattoo Shop works

Ok, So here are a couple of designs I've been doing for the tattoo shop I work at. The two logos are for eventual sweatshirt and sticker designs. The photocomposite image is for the owner Heidi who will be painting this image, sounds wierd but I had a lot of fun putting it together. It's been a while since I've done any photo composite stuff. Not sure if I will be posting anything else until after Christmas so I'd like to wish everyone a happy holliday and enjoy the small bit of time off. I'll post some Cardboard City stuff very soon. until then.

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EEL OIL PAINTING

Sorry for not posting very much lately. I've been super busy with several projects, one of which is a comic ive been putting together. This was an oil piece done about 3 months ago. I added some tlc in photoshop. check it out. more soon.

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Digital Painting

Picked up this great book about digital painting. I thought I would do a little of my own. Its really hard, but every time I sit and try to render something it gets a little easier. more soon.

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Darkseid

So with this, I am not going to be posting any more weekly carbon robot challenges. It's been really fun but I have other projects that I've neglected. Good luck to the rest of the Carbon Robot guys, I'll keep checkin in to see what characters they do next. This piece was done on 12x18 vellum bristol board using ink and pro white then colored in photoshop. more soon.

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Samurai Helmet Tattoo

tattoo concept I'm putting together for a lower leg piece. hopefully he likes it. Happy Thanksgiving all, more soon.

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ELECTRA

Carbon Robot challenge week 4.
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November Drink & Draw

At this months drink and draw we have decided to try and give a little something back to the community.

We are starting what is hopefully an annual event for the Sacramento Children's Receiving Home. This year we would like to start with what we are calling "Cards For Kids". We are targeting the older kids, kids who be...cause they are older are often at times overlooked. The idea of gift cards is something that these kids can be rewarded with all year long.

We are asking for gift cards starting at the $10 amount. Suggestions for stores are: Walmart, Target, JC Penney, Barnes & Noble and Borders. Almost all of these can be purchased at your local grocery store.

Thank you very much for your donation and please leave gift cards with me or I'll have a donations box at this weeks drink and draw.

hope to see you there.

Sac Drink & Draw
11.19.09 @ 8:00pm
Fox & Goose
Downtown Sacramento

CABLE

Carbon Robot Challenge week 3, Cable. 11x17 Ink on Bristol board, colored in photoshop. Interesting to do these pieces because I research the character before I start drawing them to kind of see where I might want the piece to go. I have learned a lot about all of these characters so far. I will admit that I did not spend as much time on this one as I did the last two and it shows but, have to move forward. Im finishing a project right now then all my focus will be the Cardboard City project. Can't wait. More soon.

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CLAYFACE

Carbon Robot character drawings, week two. One of the coolest Batman baddies. Clayface. Done on 14x17 bristol, colored in photoshop. More soon.

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The many faces of Francis

What up, hope everyone's Halloween went well. Been busy with different projects lately but every second I get a free moment I've been working on getting Cardboard City to start hopefully walking on its own. Meaning I've been trying to finish story and character development, names of places and concept work on cities and locations the story will take place in. Layout of the first book is almost finished and I'm super excited to actually start putting the artwork into these panels. In the mean time I thought I would show some concepts of the Francis character that got a little more refined as to what he will look like in the book. I apologize for the stupid watermark thing but you never know. more soon.

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Green Lantern - Alan Scott

So the Carbon Robot guys have decided to do this random character a week project. They have compiled a list of about 700 characters. You get issued a random character every week. This week mine was Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern. Check it out.

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don't underestimate finished.

don't underestimate, in pencils.

More concept work for the cardboard city project. I plan on inking this, but I thought I would post the pencils first. I appologize for the crappy pic but since if upgraded to snow leopard I cant use my scanner anymore, anyone else have the same problem?

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APE CONVENTION WAS AWESOME!

I'm back after only a very short time at APE. I could only stay the first day so I first wanted to thank the other talented individuals that exhibited along side me in the Carbon Robot booth. Thanks to NU, Junior, Timmothy, and Rich for helping sell my sketchbooks on Sunday while I wasn't there, you guys are awesome. Most importantly thank you to those of you who had a genuin interest in my work and took the time to come over say hi and buy a sketchbook and/or print from the table, that on it's own made the whole experience. This was only my second convention I attended and only the 4th convention overall that I have been to in my almost 30 years of age. I pretty much sold out of prints the very first day with only two left the next day and sold the majority of my sketchbooks too, that was amazing to me. The "mechanical invitation" print sold out first and that really spoke well that the Cardboard City project im working on is headed in the right direction. I should have pages for attendees to check out at the upcoming Wondercon convention in Frisco.


The Con was great but afterwords definitely had it's ups and downs. After we left the first night we (me and Amador) went and grabbed dinner with our extremely nice as well as talented booth neighbors Manual and his wife Denise. After sitting in our booths and doing Jager shots on the hour every hour we were starving and found ourselves eating at the 21st Amendment just down the street.
Next was a trip to the Isotope which I had never been to and had a good time watching the awards. I had never in my life seen so many people packed into one comic shop. I also had never seen a bar in a comic shop either, good times.


From there we ended up at the Bloodhound bar after finally meeting up with Nu, Rich and Tim. Heres where my night got shitty. So we finally ran into our friends and decided to walk up the street to find a club or a bar we could hang out at. I happened to park my truck in a parking lot that I knew I shouldn't have parked at but decided that it was ok. So we walk a couple blocks down the street and after finding out they had a $20 cover we said screw that headed back the way we came. On the walk back I was kind of looking for my truck and not seeing it a block or two down the street. When I did see it I relized it was about six feet in the air on the back of a flat bed truck. I imediately bolted, running accross an intersection and catching the two guys just about to leave with my truck. I did the "hey guys, sorry about that. Why don't you go ahead and put my truck back and I won't park here." routine where I was sadly denied. "Alright, how much?" I asked. "$100 bucks", he says. "I got $40 cash", trying to hand it to him. "No", as he's starting to get into his truck. "wow, wow, ok $100" I say, and after barrowing $60 bucks from Amador temporarily the jerk finally took my truck down. Lesson learned. We found ourselves back at the Bloodhound but not long after were somehow able to sneak into some party up on the top floor of a pretty nice apartment complex, they were more like condos or something. Anyway, after about three free drinks I think they caught on that we were not supposed to be there and were politely asked to leave, haha. In the end I think we all had a great night.


I'll have some more art to post very soon.

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Isolation Chamber APE print

This is one of three prints i'll have available at ape. more soon.

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ARCHIVE PORTFOLIO 2009

I would just like to say that iphoto is the $h*t!! You can make your own portfolio super easy, mine was 32 pages and only cost about $40 plus shipping which is still kind of expensive but its a very well put together bound book, check it out.

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UPCOMMING DRINK AND DRAW SITE

Being deemed co-creator of the sac drink and draw chapter has its perks. I was given the opportunity to re-design the the sac drink and draw site. Since I'm not a web artist (just print stuff) I layed out the homepage then send it through to my friend Nu who did the current drink and draw site. He then works his magic of the interwebs and presto chango we'll have a new site up and running by the end of the month. Here is a sneak peak. more soon

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APE CONVENTION

Hi, so I wanted to let you guys know that I'll be at the APE Convention in San Francisco Saturday the 17th. I'll be walking around the convention with my friend Amador. I will have materials available to purchase at the Little Carbon Robot booth number 535. I'll have new sketchbooks, prints, and a new portfolio for folks to look and purchase if they choose to do so. I'll also have a signup sheet for commissions for those of you who would like me to draw a comic hero of your choosing. Sketch books and prints will only be $5 so please make sure to come by and grab one before their gone. I'll post pics of the sketchbooks and prints I'll have available very soon.

please check out the Ape Convention web site for a floor map and directions.

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The Shop

I hang out at a tattoo shop in Roseville called Pretty in Ink. I was bored today and snaped a few pics. We get some pretty interesting people who come through, today we got two who didn't seem very camera shy.

Cross Promotions

hey hey!! So I was talking to my friend Amador yesterday and he had mentioned that he hid one of my drawings in a panel he did for his book "Waiting to Die". I figured I would repay the gesture by doing this small diddy. The title of my upcoming indi title is called "Cardboard City". I didn't want to post it until I had the copyright locked in. This collection of 4 issues will see release in 2010. Until then I figured I would keep posting progress reports and artwork along the way so please keep checking in for new stuff. Also please take the time to visit Amador's many sites, read his mini comics and make sure to tease him about his decrepit infectious hand he's always complaining about, hah!

www.allstarkrew.deviantart.com

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Francis

I know its Saturday, but im sitting here at the shop and I had this piece staring back at me on my desktop. I debated posting because I know I could draw this pose more dynamic, but I havn't posted much lately except for a iphone photo of a sketch so it is what it is. This is the second of the two characters that will be the lead in my indi title. Im still fleshing the character out, trying to determin the right amount of bags and pouches on him, what guns and how many to show him carring, etc. I named him Francis, I thought it was fitting. The robot's name is Poe.

My son turns 9 years old Monday, we are having his party tomorrow. Damn I feel old. more soon.

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keep on keepin on..

So, things have been busy busy but I can't complain. I broke down and got a Facebook page. It seems as though I'm like the last person on earth to get one, everyone's on it. I have 4 tattoos under me so far and its not getting any easier, each one I've done scares the crap out of me, I guess that's good right, keeps you on your toes.
Anyway, the pic above is another peek at some character ideas for this indi book im fixin to put together. I'm still working on a proper title and character names, etc. But this time I feel very confident about whats coming out on the page, my pencil style has changed a lot since the pages I've been doing for ECV. I've continued that old method on that project to keep things consistent but I've definitely evolved with my approach to pencils and inks a lot since. Thanks for checkin in, more soon.

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sneak peaks

So as soon as I finish out a few other projects I've been working on I plan to finally dive into a indi book of my own creation. I know that I've posted things in the past about one-shot's I was trying to compile but this time I'm going to be smart and ask for help. Above is a concept piece for said indi title. I'm confident that this will be something new and hopefully an interesting read to say the least. Its still in the very early stages. more soon.

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Thursday's quick piece

got a quick chance to knock this one out today. more soon.

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Finally something worth posting.

HEY!! so it's been a while since i've actually posted any artwork. It's been tough lately to finish anything concidering the handful of projects im working on. This is a Hannya mask that is obviously a work in progress. The other is my very first tattoo I got to do Monday, awesome. It's not the greatest but it could have been a lot worse and for that im greatfull. more soon.

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A blog worth checking out.

Hey, im in the middle of multiple projects so I apologize for that. I'll post more artwork as soon as they get finished.

My cousin and life long friend has decided after 27 years in Cali its time to move to Massachusetts. After being friends for so long it's going to be weird to not have him around but I understand totally. The interesting thing is the way he chose to get there. Me and my girlfriend tease him about being the love child of Forest Gump and Lance Armstrong because he's chosen to ride his bike their. Yep, across the United States. The cool thing is that he's going to be posting about his trip as he goes. If you get a chance take at look at his blog [here]

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I'm on TV!!

Hey, check me and Heidi Ellis on Good Day Sacramento. There is a video of Heidi tattooing me on the right side of the page.

http://gooddaysacramento.com/

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Ellis Apple

It's been a while. I've been super busy with things lately, I got chance to tattoo for the first time. My good friend Ryan was nice enough to let me attempt this very difficult craft. Yes it was much harder than I thought it would be. As an artist it humbled me instantly. I have a whole new found respect for the masters of this art. The past few months has been a very wierd transition in my life. Its so cool to work around such cool and talented people at the shop. We constantly share art and bounce ideas for projects we are all working on. This photo was one instance that started from one of these ideas we come up with. this is a design for the very talented Heidi Ellis who owns Pretty in Ink in Roseville, CA. [link] for her personal business card. This began as just photoreference for a painting she wanted to put together. After taking these pics we decided to make it her business card. Very cool. more soon.

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Drink and Draw Sacramento, Tonight

Hey, i'll be posting more stuff very soon. In the mean time I thought I would tell everyone it's Drink and Draw tonight at the Fox & Goose pub on 10th and Rst. in beautiful downtown Sacramento, CA. Come hang out and draw with us. more soon.

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Quick Sketch

I threw this together today. I did a very very quick pencil sketch and then just made up the rest with my pen. I thought it would be an interesting and fun practice for the day. more soon.

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Waiting to Die spaceman pinup

Hi guys, this is a pinup that my good friend Amador (AllStarKrew) let me contribute to one of his many indy comics he puts out. I'm not so sure its completely finished yet. I'd like to add some elements to it to let the reader know that the spaceman is actually the books main character. more soon.

Check out Amador's work at www.allstarkrew.deviantart.com

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Superman Oil Painting

48x36 oil on canvas. This painting is for sale, if your interested please email me at corey_bernhardt@yahoo.com for pricing.

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astronaut

Batman

hey, im back. My computer has been giving me troubles but for now its working agian. Here is a Batman done a couple of days ago. Im having trouble rendering the torso while doing these ink wash experiments. his ribcage and stomach area are terrible. hopefully these things will work themselves out over time. more soon.

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More computer problems

More computer issues :[ I'll post something as soon as it gets resolved. Sorry guys.

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hanya mask 2

Well at least I think thats what they're called, i'm close? Anyway, this was awful I know but I got my hands on some water color paper just before I left the shop today and thought I would bust this out real quick to try the paper out. As you can see its obviously not the paper thats making my ink wash stuff look like crap. I am determined to get this medium down. Anyway, this is it until Tuesday. I have a lot of stuff going on this weekend including helping a friend move and some freelance work i'm trying to finish up. Sucks that I finished this week out with such a shit piece but I'll resume posting with a better piece on Tuesday I promise. Anyway, thanks for stopping by, have a good weekend all. more soon.

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red riding hood

stuff for sale.

hi guys, todays warm up sketch.

Also for those who might be interested I have a piece for sale. This inkwash'd skull was done on 14x17 bristol. It's in a 20x24 frame. Please email or contact me for pricing please, buyer is also responsible for shipping costs as well. Thanks. more soon.

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possessed samurai

Sunday

Ok so this one was not nearly as good either but like I said, im learning. It's the process that im struggleing with, do I go from dark to light or light to dark. Also getting a good range in value while im mixing has been difficult. I'm overworking areas I shouldn't, I'm also working on the wrong paper as well so it doesn't take much to mess that up. Anyway.

Definitely a lazy Sunday.
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punisher.

Not very happy how this turned out but I'm still learning this technique. hopefully the next one will be better. more soon.

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more skulls

I know that i've already posted a skull piece earlier but I like skulls. We have a real skull at the shop and its like the perfect still life when you think about it. its got smooth edges and really textured areas and its such a recognizable object its just fun to draw. Still working with this pro white, this one was a little better than how I tried to use it with the logan piece. more soon.

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Logan.

ink wash is a lot of fun, I plan on using this method a lot more often. more soon.

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Sparrow

Its Monday already.

This was a drawing done over the weekend while at the tattoo shop. Ink and texture has been a lot of the focus on what kind of work ive been doing lately. more soon.

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experimenting with ink

so I thought I would try and experiment with some different ways of applying ink. This was done with micron pens, prisma pens black and 30% cool gray, and white out. I used my finger and black ink as well as putting it on a paper towel and rubbing it on the page. I cant draw flowers very well apparently. Anyway, thought I would share it. more soon

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drink and draw july

Good times as always at this months drink and draw, hope to see all you guys at next months. Amador (AllStarKrew) got yelled at for leaving some "colorful" drawings tucked in their picture frames, awesome. Timothy Green from Marvel took some time out to come hand out and draw with us. I did these two drawings while I was there, obviously I added all the halftone stuff later. I've had some trouble with installing my scanner drivers so I've had to take pics of my recent stuff. more soon.

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computers.

Ok so I just want to say that computers suck, I've been fighting my computer lately. Thankfully I think the worst is over for now. I'm currently working on a cd layout for a local band and that seems to be moving a long good so far, I spent most of the day yesterday driving along the Sacramento river road in hopes of finding an old abandon house, I came across a few but some were just so crazy overwhelmed with spiders I decided not to push my luck. I did get one abandon house that had some potential, the concrete slab was stamped 1947. I love finding stuff like that, my mind automatically wants to know maybe the events that could have taken place there. How many people lived there, did they raise a family, did they pass away in that house, how long has it been abandon, etc. Its times like that when your driving around trying to piece a project together that I really enjoy being a freelance artist. I have to take some pictures of trains today, I also have to roll by the dude's house who wanted to have the cd done because my dumb ass left my small plastic case that holds all my drawing pens and pencils is there. Tonight is drink and draw, it will be nice to get back to drawing. Sounds weird but I'm starting to feel more comfortable drawing in a public place rather than at home anyway. Hope to see some of you guys there. This was a drawing I did like a month ago between the shop and drink and draw. more soon.

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Monsters and Hellblazer

So the big day is tomorrow (art show) and im still not done with everything. I cut down what I wanted to bring from seven to only four pieces. I ended up doing a large painting of superman which is horrible but I'm gonna show it anyway. I'll post the process pics of that painting very soon, I have one more pass on it tomorrow morning. I'll also be bringing the screaming girl painting and two 11x17 pencil drawings I've done in the past. Hopefully everything will go smoothly.. we'll see. The day after tomorrow I committed to playing paintball early in the morning so I'm gonna have to limit how much I drink... I have a feeling im gonna be playing paintball with a hangover :]

The two drawings above were from yesterday evenings private little drink and draw with me Nu and Rich. The guy to the right was a rip from Sean Gordon Murphy's run on Hellblazer. Nu showed me his deviant page and I fell in love right away, that man has found that perfect level of not to detailed but enough detail that makes you want to explore each and every corner of his pages. The monster to the left is well just a monster nothing more. Anyway, hope to see some of you guys out at the show tomorrow night, please come out and say hi, hang out and have a drink. more soon.

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Drink and Draw's First Second Saturday Showcase

Hey all, I've been busy working on stuff for the art show on Saturday. So I thought I would go ahead and ask/invite any of you who would like to come out and hang out with us. Bring your sketchbooks and come have a drink with us. I'm not sure about all the artists that will be there but I know HAINANU SAULQUE, RICHARD CURTZE, AMADOR NOIR, Myself and a few others with all be showing illustrations, Paintings, etc. Please check out www.bluelamp.com for more info. Hope to see you guys Saturday!!

Saturday July 11th
THE BLUE LAMP
1400 Alhambra Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95816-6509
(916) 455-3400

Concept Oil Painting Complete

I have found it hard to know when to stop painting. I'm sure it takes time, painting still feels very different to me then drawing or even charcoal. their is not really an eraser but that's not a bad thing I'm starting to find out. Not really being able to remove what you've committed to on the canvas helps you start to understand how to work through your mistakes and to "make" it work rather than taking it out and trying something new. Anyway, I have some projects I need to get to so this will be my last post until after 4th of July weekend. Hope you all have a good time. more soon.

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Asking Alexandria concept painting

Hey, any of you tired of looking at the poor grape fruit yet.. I thought so. Things have been picking up for me lately. Comicon is just around the corner snd I've been trying to prepare for that with an updated and re-done sketchbook, and hopefully a couple of pages to submit for some work. I've been working on a layout for a band called Asking Alexandria and so far its been easier said than done. This is my third cover submittion to the label and hopefully they'll take it. Obviously it's not done yet but I thought I would show you the work in progress as it develops. Her face really isn't that yellow in the actual painting it just came out that way in the pic. Much more work needs to be done on that hand, highlights in the face, etc. Should have it done by tomorrow. more soon.

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My first tattoo client

Happy Fathers Day

The Amazing Combustible Skull

Finished!!

-Drink and draw was awesome as usual. Thanks to everyone who came out!

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painting is hard

Yes, painting is hard. This is my second ever attempt at oil painting and I'm actually starting to like it a little. My first painting was a disaster, I worked really heavy and just mudded up and destroyed the canvas. This time I took a different approach at how I went in and so far its working a lot better. This was just the first pass, by tomorrow it will dry and I'll continue in a bit more.
Working at the shop today I got the chance to meet Jo Harrison from the UK who was super cool. I think she just filmed a thing for LA Ink so thats cool.

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second saturday mockup piece 2

Hi again. So here is my next mock-up for a painting for second saturday that I will be attempting to put together. This one has no color because I'm going to just let it all unfold on the canvas.


Me and my friend Noir braved the second Saturday crowds yesterday. I appreciate seeing the artwork but I really cant stand the wannabe "gang banger" crowd that has to come along with this event. Most of these guys aren't even their for the works its just an excuse to play their crappy music super loud and speed up and down J st. We did happen to walk right pass Uriah Faber who had his hand in a sling after his last fight. He's not as tall as I thought he would be. After walking around for an hour or so we found ourselves at the Townhouse Bar and did a little drink and draw of our own until last call. Good times. more soon.

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second saturday mockup piece 1

So I'm going to be doing second saturday next month downtown Sacramento at the Blue Lamp. I have two big canvases that I'd like to put to use. I figured I would post my progress as I put them together. This is a quick mockup for an idea I had for a 36x36 canvas I have. I'm going to paint the background in and then use a paint pen to outline this face on to it. I'm still not sure if this is even the face or colors i'll use yet. the idea was based on a Jenny Saville piece I saw last week. We'll see if its that easy to put together ;]

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Things are getting busy

What up!! Been busy lately, working at the tattoo shop, my buddy Jayme has been showing me a little about painting and so I've been studying a little on that end. I've always been afraid to paint because I'm not very good a color theory at all. I did a small painting last week and realized how much i really didn't know.

Also I thought I would do the whole show you my pencils to color process. and break that down just a little.

I do my pencils with a 2H mechanical pencil on a piece of 14x17 strathmore brisol vellum that I cut to 11x17, I scan the completed page and use the hue/saturation mode in photoshop to convert my pencils to blue line. I put that file on a flash drive and drive to my nearest kinkos with another pre cut Bristol and have them print me out my page. I mostly ink with a 1.5 calligraphy pen nib and black rapidograph india ink, then come back through with a micron brush pen and a .005 micron pen. The finished page is then scanned and I start my color process by breaking down each individual panel into a layer folder then into layers witch are separated mostly by background, foreground and individual characters within that panel. Each layer has a preserve transparency button attached to it so each layer is masked out. I then do my grayscale shading over each layer. I then convert the image to rgb and then begin coloring over the top of that with the overlay option layer mask.

thats just he way I do it, everyone has their own way. if you have any questions you can email me or post a comment and i'll help anyone out the best I can.

Besides that I wanted to post an urban logo I did for this cool guy named Jay. Good luck to him and his new company.



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drinks, drawings, and now.... tattoos?

So once again, another personal drink and draw at the Shady Lady. This place is awesome to sit and draw at, the music, the people, all around just good times. I managed to trade a handful of drawings for free drinks. This time we were smart enough to bring business cards and Drink and Draw fliers with us. Thanks so much to those of you who took the time to come over and say hello and hang out while we embarrass ourselves by thinking we can draw... maybe.

On a side note, I'm really stoked to tell you guys that I've been given a shot at apprenticing at a tattoo shop in Roseville, CA called "Pretty in Ink". The very talented and all around super cool Heidi Ellis is going to attempt to show me the ways of the ink machine. I've properly warned her that I can be quite "simple" at times but she assured me that she thinks with my background in art that I'll pick it up pretty easily. I'm really looking forward to working with two very talented artists and to help contribute to her shop. That being said, if anyone who might be willing to let me Tattoo them is interested in getting some work done please call or email me so we can set something up. It's $40 just to cover shop supplies but thats it, after that it's just however long your willing to sit and let me do my thing.

The Shady Lady

Went out for drinks last night downtown Sacramento, with my buddies Rich and Nu. As always, trying to trade drawings for drinks. I wanted to say thanks to those of you who came by the table and said hi. Special thanks to our cocktail waitress who took the time to hang out at the table and traded a drink for the drawing above. thanks for taking the time to check it out. more soon.

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The Hallway

hope everyone's weekend is going well so far. more soon.

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Aidan's Comic Strip #1

this is a comic strip, my eight year old son Aidan did at school. I thought maybe he could make it a weekly thing and I'll post it on the blog. anyway, more soon.

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Colored Page

Hi guys, this is a glance at a page done for ECV's trade coming soon. The nebula in the first panel was put together using a photo of the sunset I took in my back yard, you have to love photoshop. thanks for taking a look. more soon.

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Sci-Fi Comic progress report

Here is a page from the Sci-Fi trade i'm working on with ECV Press. I'll have some Inked and colored pages to share very soon. Hope everyone's weekend went well. more soon.

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May Drink and Draw

Hey, just a quick update. Thanks to Utrecht Art Store for the free giveaways at this months drink and draw. Although I didn't win any of them it was still cool you guys showed up to give out free drawing supplies.

Also please check out Noir Amador at www.myspace.com/allstarkrew and read his online strip called "waiting to die" very funny and original stuff, good times man thanks for coming out.

I did a couple of head shot drawings while I was there. just a Batman and a Robin. More soon, including details on a new studio us Sacramento drink and draw kids are putting together.

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Super Con 09 Review

So not bad for my first con. Unfortunately this years turnout was terrible from last year's supposedly. It felt like there was only a hundred people who attended. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the economy or I scared everyone away or something. I really want to thank all the guys at ECV for letting me ride in thier car on the way up there, steal a spot at their table and crash on thier hotel floor, you guys are the best. The con itself was a very humbling experience, I learned pretty quick that if your an unknown artist you become invisible. It took a while to get comfortable drawing at the table but as soon as I did things started to look up. I was drawing these small headshots 6.5x8.5 bristol board and setting them out. Once people started looking through my sketchbook and looking at these little drawings they started asking if I was doing sketches, I did a handful of head shot sketches for five bucks. Daredevil seemed to be the most popular request. I got to draw in several peoples sketchbooks I only remembered to take a pic of one of them that was the flying Dragonball Z guy one over from the top left. I think the iphone pictures made a couple of these drawings look weird, like it gave them like this fun house mirror look. I submitted a Posion Ivy inked piece that got auctioned off during the con and that was pretty cool, I'm not sure how much it went for. I people watched most of the time.


The Drink and Draw we did after was a blast. I think we all drank a little to much, said a lot of stupid stuff (I know I did). I found out how terrible I draw drunk after a little friendly Captain America drawing race we had. Nu schooled us all. I threw mine away I was so embarrassed.

In the end I had a blast and I hope I get the opportunity to do it again soon. I think I'm tagging along with these guys to ComicCon but I'm not 100% sure yet. My next post should be soon with some finished work from the 12 pager I'm putting together.

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Schooools out for summer!!!

Hey, so I apologize for the long delay between posts. Things were and still are pretty crazy right now. No job, no money, and at least for the moment I can say no school. Finally school is out for summer. I find it funny sometimes how and when things happen to me. I feel like Charlie Brown you know.. with my eyes locked on to that football, and as soon as I throw everything I got at kicking it someone or something always seems to pull that ball away at the very last second. Example: life and business is about taking risks, I wanted to place an add in the Yellowpages for my graphic design company to obviously get some business. Unfortunately I can't afford to do that right now. Anyway, someone calls me from the Yellowpages and asks why I haven't taken out an add, I tell them its just a simple lack of money. He tells me how about we run an add and you don't have to pay for 60 days. Here comes the risk part, now I'm banking on the chance that I'll get work from said add and then I can pay for the add before my payment is due. So of course the day my add runs my phone gets turned off temporarily because I hadn't paid the bill. So I paid the bill and now I have to wait for my phone to be reactivated or whatever but you see what I'm getting at, Ugh. Life sucks then you die. Hopefully at least before I die I can experience some sort of good fortune in my short and miserable lifetime. I finished the sketchbooks today and I'm happy the first have of them are done. They aren't the prettiest things in the world as far as comping, and binding goes. I tried to bind them but settled on the wrong size of oring wires. Originally I wanted to just staple them in the center like a regular booklet but was stunned to find that my incredibly dumb ass did not check the first cover to make sure everything was good, I printed the front and back cover in reverse, don't laugh it's not funny, I spent a ton of money printing this stuff out. Whatever, I ended up putting two staples on the edge of the booklets, It will have to work for the con this weekend but for the next run I'm going to have to make some changes.


Speaking of the con, I just wanted to make sure everyone know that I will be at Supercon this weekend in San Jose. I'll be at the ECV Press booth hanging out with those guys and sleeping on thier hotel floor. Please come out and say hi, buy a sketchbook and let me draw you a pretty picture. If I'm not at the booth I'm sure you can find me under the tables of Travis Charest or Adam Huges giving sexual favors trying to make a couple bucks. Hopefully I will see some of you there.. at the con not under the table. I'll make sure I post pictures of my adventures with the ECV crew.

Oh, the artwork posted is/was my last drawing of my Heads and Hands class. The girl who was posing looked like she just completely did not want to be there and so I tried to make her pose somewhat as interesting as I could. I apologies for the crappy Iphone pic.

PS- paypal info for the sketchbooks will be up real soon I promise.

thanks for looking, take care.

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SKETCHBOOK 2009!!!!

Thats right, within the next two weeks I will have a brand new sketch book available. Fourty pages of pure pencil and pen excitement for your peepers. Anyway, I'll be setting up a paypal account for you to use if you would like to purchase said item for only 10$ that includes a personal sketch in the back of a torso or head shot of one character of your choosing. I'll only be printing about 60 copies to start so if you would like to reserve one please email me at corey_bernhardt@yahoo.com and ill put your name down to hold a copy for you.

I'll be attending SUPER CON in San Jose, CA. The guys at ECV Press have been nice enough to make room for me at thier table. I'll be selling my sketchbook, some prints and doing commitions. This is my first con i've attended except for brief walkthrough of Wondercon last year. I'm really excited and I hope to meet a lot of new people while i'm there.

Attended a baseball game with my son last weekend, my cousin and his girlfriend were nice enough to offer us tickets, because i'm broke and I suck. Thanks again guys.


Last night I went out for a little drink and draw with friends Nu Saulque and Rich Curtze, then ended up at Lyons around two. The future Mrs. Bernhardt made an appearence half way into the evening, lots of fun.

I started a deviant art page, you can check that out [here]. I really wasn't sure about deviant art but I have since changed my ways and am hoping that this new avenue of people will help me get some work.

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Moving on

Ok so it's time to move on, im tired of feeling sorry for myself. No job yet but I guess thats just the way it's going to go for now. I'll continue to post artwork as long as I have the materials to do it. This is the final version of that landscape i posted earlier, the batman is new, and rest are from class. thanks for looking. more soon.
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DESPERATE NEED OF JOB

So this was supposed to be a blog about art, and it will continue to be but I have recently had rude awakening and need find employment fast. Yep, so unfortunately i didn't know that if you are a student that you get denied unemployment. I started trying to get this design stuff moving but that was largely dependent of that income being in place. Now that it's not that really makes things tough to move forward without the money to at least pay my bills. So here is my call to you guys in an attempt to cover all of my options to find a job. Anything would help.

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Landscape 3 final

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landscape 3

So the last two landscapes have been based on stuff almost like floating in the sky so the perspective wasn't that hard. Now im doing one on the ground and it's really hard. I'm trying to cheat it (perspective) and do the whole just overlap atmospheric thing, who knows. I'm working on the color version so hopefully that will be up soon. Enjoy your weekend everyone.

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Sci-Fi Comic progress report

So here is a panel from page 8 completed today except for the panels that I'm doing all of this tech spaceship stuff. I've chosen to wait until i'm finished with all the character focused panels then make a sweep back through and really nail these cool ship designs. If your wondering why my pencil work seems loose it's because I like to let my pen do some work too.
There is a full page (character panels) completed that you can see on the ECV site by clicking the "ECV Press 2" link to the right of this post.
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Heads and Hands week 9?

At least I think it's week 9. more soon.

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Landscape 2 color

So I think I'm getting the hang of coloring my grayscaled version. I know because I'm getting faster at it. Still working on trying to get a better range of color though, at least this one seems to have more than the last one so that's good I guess. I have to get started on heads and hands homework, then back to the pages. thanks for lookin. more soon.

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Landscape 2

I will post a color version of this tonight. This was another rip off from a landscape painted by James Paick. Most of his value studies of landscapes are a good source of reference because you can see how he is using his brushes, from what i can tell its not what he's putting down but what he is taking away that really makes his stuff stand out.
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Samurai

A little Saturday afternoon delight. Needed to get away from these pages for a second to clear my head. Do something opposite of what im working on. thanks for looking.

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ARCHIVE DESIGN STUDIO UP AND RUNNING

That's right, my first "offical" web site is up and running. Please take a look and tell me what you guys think, the link is to the right above my picture. I'm ready to try and make my way by means of freelance design adventures and any potential client help you guys could give me would be very much appreciated. Special thanks goes to my good friend NU for putting up with my anal-retentiveness when helping me put this together.
I went out last night to do a little drink and drawing with a couple of friends. I gave this 20-30 min. drawing to a friend so I appologize for the terrible iphone low light bar pic. "The Captain" is a character from the project im working on with ECV. Hopefully with any luck ill be posting some inked pages in the next couple of weeks or so. Besides that the next post will likely be another digital landscape for class. I hope you all have a great weekend. More soon.

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landscape colored

finished.

Updates

Hello, so just thought I would check in and let people know what I've been up to. The past week has been dedicated to freelance work and getting my other "official" web site up. Hopefully that will be finished up later this week, I got my business cards friday.
Saturday I was invited to a taco BBQ at a friends house. A couple of weeks ago my good friend had to put his dog down and his wife had asked me if I wouldn't mind doing a drawing of his dog "Sassy" for him. I apologize for the crappy iphone picture but I think you get the point. Also a funny pic of my son acting silly at the BBQ.


Besides that I was fortunate enough after three months of begging and crying ECV was nice enough to give me some comic work. I will be penciling the first 12 pages for a cool sci-fi trade. I also did some test inks for two other artists and there is a good possibility that I'll be inking their upcoming projects as well. Here is a crude scan of the first characters that appear. I'll be posting updates of those works as they allow me.

Tonight me and my girlfriend attended a very well performed concert at the Mondavi Center on the UC Davis campus where my Mom and many others performed works from Bach. Really cool experience.

Hope everyone's weekend went well. more soon.
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MONKEYS!!!

I have no desire to be around anything that would go after my balls in the first sign of trouble. Monkeys make me feel uncomfortable. Anyway, there was a Tarzan to acompany them but he didn't turn out all that well and was not worth posting so instead here are a couple of monkeys. I'm working on a Tank Girl piece that I wanted to post considering the lack of female focused drawings on this blog. I ran into a hang up when I couldn't find reference for her tank and so I ordered a book of Jaime Hewlett Tank Girl stuff to help me out and well, just because Im a fan of his artwork. As soon as I get it in the mail I'll finish that up and post it. More soon.

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Rorshach

I hope I spelled his name correctly. Today I witnessed a sweet drawing of the Silk Spectre II. I decided to take a crack at a Watchmen character of my own. To be completely honest i've never read the Watchmen comic and I don't even know if Rorshach here carries or uses firearms, but from the pictures and his bio he seems like a badasss. You can check out that Silk Spectre HERE. As soon as I get over this cold I'm going to see the movie. more soon.

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Rings, Phones, Websites, and a Landscape.

So lots of exciting things lately. First things first, the love of my life for the past 3+ years was actually crazy enough to agree to marry me. Please refer to the bling below. Amy has also been my partner in crime when putting together my weird photo composites in previous posts. She has always been very patient while I make her grow branches from her arms.



I finally bought an iphone and so far I think it's changed my life in a good way.

NU from ECV has agreed to put together my website for my freelance adventure into the self employed world. And finally best of all I caught a cold, aren't you jealous.

This has to be my first actual landscape digital painting i think. I'll add color and finish it by the end of next week but I thought I would post the progress so far. What really made it tough was that separation in atmospheric perspective to look right, I'm not sure if I pulled it off but i did the best I could. I ripped off an amazing artist named JAMES PAICK. Cool stuff.
Think that about does it, thanks for looking.

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Pencil stuff.

**Thanks to everyone at ECV PRESS, for the kind words and nice plug. You guys are awsome.

well, this is it for a couple of days. I have a landscape comp that I have to put together for my class as well as other homeworks. I'm currently freaking out a little because I've seemed to have misplaced my flash/usb thing that had speed paint thing I did as well as some custom brushes I made last week, this sucks. Speaking of sucking, I didnt really finish my superman piece but I am posting the few ideas I had put down. Inking has been the bane of my existence it seems, for every 20 pieces I do 1 seems to come out ok. Oh, ok things to suggest too. If your into comics, you should subscribe to a couple of podcast that i've been listening to. The first is called the crankcast, the other is called sidebar, both are really good and also good to draw to while listening. Well I think that about does it. thanks for looking.

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character design, finished

Hope everyone's weekend is going well. I changed his legs because I was really going crazy looking at how awful the proportions and such were. This is about as much as I'm going to take this one. I working on a Superman piece right now and I'll post that soon.
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Heads and Hands weeks 4 & 5

cell shading

I'm posting this from class, I was just so excited that I learned some new photoshop tricks that are going to completely change how I color stuff. I did this image in like 40min! It would have taken me like 2 hours to do this the way I was painting. I'll post the finished result in a couple of days, i'll also be posting more charcoal stuff this evening.

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tuesday night

more drawings from these last few days.

character design homework

I have read that a lot of artist leave their pencils real loose when they know they're going to ink it after its drawn. This gives the artist more room to trust his skill and keep things fun throughout the whole process. I had a lot of fun putting this together. I'll be posting a color version very soon. I hate the way I inked the legs but I don't have time to change them at the moment. I'll make sure I do before I post the final version.
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Under Cover

The inspiration for this drawing came from my recent loss in employment. I was canned after almost five years of putting up with a job I really couldn't stand doing to begin with. Not the people I worked with but just the "job" itself. To be honest I had it pretty good, make my own schedule, worked from home, and I got paid weekly. But for some reason I was just so unhappy were I was. There are many things we as people put up with just to scrape by in life. You spend 80% of your time or more it seems doing a lot of things for other people, for a crap wage and not enough time on really taking care of yourself. I never want to get buried in that, I want to be happy with myself and how I choose to contribute to society. My dad told me just before he passed away basically not to fall into that hole and to make your own future. I feel that maybe this might just be that moment in my life where I need to make that decision. Do I go right back to burying my head in the sand and let some stupid job just repeatedly kick me in the ass or do make a stand and attempt to make my own luck. I'm going try and make my own luck I think. So for the drawing above, I thought what do you think he'll do? Let those guys finally shoot him down or do you think he'll put his head down and come out guns a blazing. That was very cheesy but I think you all get the point.

** Thanks to everyone again at this months drink and draw. I had a good time, can't wait for next month.

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