JIMMY TRAN: BLOG: JTAPP

Chris Cornell - Thank You (Led Zeppelin)

2011-12-31T03:09:00.004-05:00

Figures 25

2011-08-09T16:41:00.002-04:00

Zero 7 - Swing

2011-08-05T13:05:00.001-04:00

Figures 24

2011-08-02T12:50:00.000-04:00

Little Dragon - Crystalfilm

2011-07-27T12:18:00.001-04:00

Figures 23

2011-07-26T14:00:00.002-04:00

Gorillaz - Empire Ants

2011-07-21T14:14:00.001-04:00

Figures 22

2011-07-19T13:50:00.000-04:00

Chord Overstreet & Dianna Agron - Lucky

2011-07-18T12:02:00.007-04:00

Drink 'N Draw

2011-07-12T13:00:00.007-04:00

Drink 'N Draw NYC

Figures 21

2011-07-06T22:21:00.002-04:00

Zero 7 - Somersault

2011-06-13T16:52:00.000-04:00

Monsterz Revenge

2011-05-23T00:24:00.003-04:00

Monsterz Revenge: iTunes

Daft Punk - Something About Us

2011-05-16T21:58:00.004-04:00

Sketch GroupShow

2011-04-17T19:56:00.003-04:00

Hey folks. I have a drawing in this upcoming drawing show @ the Brooklyn Artist Gym, Sketch Group Show

If you're in or around Brooklyn April 23rd, 6-10, then come visit! A lot of solid draftspeoplepersons are in it.

Piece up there by Alba Acevedo

The Cardigans - Ironman

2011-04-13T12:00:00.002-04:00

Figures 20

2011-04-07T17:56:00.000-04:00

MoCCA Fest 2011!

2011-04-04T11:23:00.001-04:00

I'll be at MoCCA this year, sharing a table with Chris Beaumont of CubeeCraft! I'll be sellin the usual wares and doing some drawings. Come say hello!

http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival

Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool

2011-02-22T22:47:00.002-05:00

Figures 19

2011-02-13T20:55:00.000-05:00

Bilal - You're All I Need (Feels Like Heaven)

2011-02-09T00:28:00.002-05:00

Figures 18

2011-02-07T00:43:00.000-05:00

Figures 17

2011-01-30T18:46:00.002-05:00

Figures 16

2011-01-18T16:14:00.002-05:00

Christina Milian - Dip it low

2011-01-05T03:15:00.002-05:00

Figures 15

2010-12-27T13:08:00.000-05:00

Teena Marie - Square Biz

2010-12-24T01:41:00.000-05:00

Zero Studies 4

2010-12-21T12:30:00.008-05:00

Figures 14

2010-12-14T13:27:00.000-05:00

Figures 11-22

2010-12-07T15:12:00.002-05:00

Figures 11-15

2010-11-30T19:19:00.002-05:00

Swan studies

2010-11-23T13:10:00.002-05:00

Figures 11-8

2010-11-16T10:46:00.000-05:00

Just missed the sunlight.

2010-11-11T00:38:00.000-05:00

Zero Studies 3

2010-11-08T15:47:00.002-05:00

King Con this weekend!

2010-11-04T17:35:00.000-04:00

Hey folks! Just a reminder, I'll be @ King Con this weekend sellin prints and doing sketches! (In my best Price is Right voice) Coommmeee oooonnn dooooowwwwnnn!

jtapp.com updates

2010-11-03T13:20:00.001-04:00

Got some updates on jtapp.com. . Feel free to dig around.

Figures 11-1

2010-11-02T15:09:00.005-04:00

::Collection of short poses::

2010-11-01T16:26:00.000-04:00

Hey hey! Come pick up a print @ King Con this weekend, in the Brooklyn Lyceum (227 4th Avenue)! I'll be sharing a table with Chris Beaumont of Cubeecraft fame. Spread the word! :)

Charcoal Figures: 10/19

2010-10-27T14:20:00.002-04:00

Charcoal on 18x24 newsprint... That definitely brought back some memories.

Robotomy premieres tonite at 8:45!

2010-10-25T13:52:00.008-04:00

Hey everybody! Robotomy, a show that I had the pleasure of working on, premiers tonite at 8:45pm on Cartoon Network! Check it out!

Drink 'N Draw Figures 8-13-10

2010-10-18T12:56:00.000-04:00

Figures w/ Brush Pen Oct-11

2010-10-12T14:46:00.003-04:00

::Collection of short poses::

Figures 10-4, good buddy.

2010-10-05T02:42:00.002-04:00

2010-10-03T18:55:00.001-04:00

Hey folks! Just a reminder, I'll be in the Artist Alley (R2) at NY Comic Con this week from the 8th-10th. Come say hello!

Figure drawin 9-20-10

2010-09-22T00:16:00.001-04:00

Figure Drawing 9-13-10

2010-09-15T14:41:00.003-04:00

2010-09-12T22:40:00.002-04:00

And with the change in weather comes the change in palette. Hello Fall Season site.

Finally got my cintiq back!

2010-09-09T19:02:00.000-04:00

Zero Studies 2

2010-09-06T23:33:00.001-04:00

TWITTER Twitter twitter!

2010-09-02T22:33:00.001-04:00

Hey everybody! Just a heads up, I've joined Twitter! Please follow me @nexxorcist! Thanks!

Figure Drawing 8/30/2010

2010-08-31T13:03:00.000-04:00

30 seconds- 1 minute poses

5 minute poses

10 minute poses

20 minute poses

Drink n' Draw & the Fall Season

2010-08-24T13:44:00.001-04:00

Howdy there folks. How's it goin? I myself have been pretty peachy lately. A lil late I know, but I went to SDCC for the first time this year. That place is huuuge. I got tired just doing a lap around that place!

Anyhow, here's some sketches from Drink N' Draw 8-19-2010. There was a model that night which was gggrreeaaattt! Definitely felt good to warm up the hands to some well needed figure drawing. It was definitely an awesome DnD.

Secondly, for those of you who've been to the blog lately, you might have noticed that I've changed up the color palette a little to match with the Fall season. Just an idea I'm playing around with for each season.

Color: Ancient Chinese UFO Cave Painting(?)

2010-07-15T05:07:00.002-04:00

Original Line & Story: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_uzbekistan.htm

What originally was me looking for reference on prehistoric chinese cave art, turned into me stumbling onto this strange article and wanting to color this image. Oh the internet.

Melita Toniolo Color Pencil

2010-07-11T00:47:00.000-04:00

Color Experimentation

2010-06-18T02:02:00.004-04:00

Drink 'N Draw

2010-06-17T01:49:00.006-04:00

2010-05-29T01:44:00.000-04:00

2010-05-19T18:53:00.003-04:00

This never saw the light of day.

2010-05-13T03:13:00.000-04:00

Southern Lion fin

2010-04-26T21:39:00.000-04:00

Southern Lion finish for Brian Chui's Monster Project

Southern Lion preview

2010-04-24T11:53:00.001-04:00

Southern Lion preview, for Brian Chui's Monster Project.

Android Jones + Sidebar interview

2010-04-19T18:04:00.006-04:00

Much respect to Android Jones and Sidebar Nation for this amazing interview.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/2009/11/andrew-jones.html

Visceral

2010-04-16T01:15:00.002-04:00

Rikuo

2010-04-09T16:07:00.003-04:00

Sasuke & Naruto

2010-04-02T23:06:00.004-04:00

Sasuke & Naruto. Still trying to figure out what I'm gonna do with these guys.

Drink & Draw: Ream

2010-03-13T16:37:00.000-05:00

Gettin' there, slowly but surely gettin there.

New york city comic book market place

2010-02-25T21:06:00.000-05:00

Hey everybody! On Saturday, I'll be at the New York City Comic Book Market Place sellin prints and doing comissions.

http://www.nycbm.com

Queens of the Stone Age: Go With The Flow

2010-02-20T21:19:00.001-05:00

Awesome song. Awesome video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHKOC64KnE

Drink and Draw Psylocke

2010-02-18T01:10:00.000-05:00

Drink and Draw yesterday. Getting back in the swing of things. Only thing I can do from here is to just keep on pushing forward.

Naruto end 6

2010-02-12T00:02:00.002-05:00

i forget how awesome this naruto speed paint ending is

Turtles Forever streaming

2010-02-10T00:29:00.000-05:00

For those who missed it on tv, here's the official Turtles Forever Movie streamed!

http://www.4kidstv.com/turtles-forever/turtles-forever/100

My frame for cleo

2010-02-09T23:29:00.003-05:00

A while back a friend of mines told me of a children's book project that was looking for artists to lend a hand in a project that was going to benefit the victims of New Orleans, right after hurricane Katrina. Aubrey Edwards was the photographer and co-creator of A Frame for Cleo. In the project we were given a photo, and asked to our own creative take on it.

Aubrey's photo

The quick sketch

The finish

As for where the book is, I'm not too sure. I don't think it ever got published, but feel free to visit the site at http://www.aframeforcleo.com/

EDIT: Slated for the fall! Look for it then! sweeeet!

Zero studies

2010-02-01T18:29:00.002-05:00

Some studies of my lil kitten, Zero.

2010-01-22T18:07:00.001-05:00

Hey folks!

I am happy to announce that I am now taking commissions! As it's my first time trying my hand at them, there will only be a 5 Slot Limit. Don't wanna get ahead of myself now. ;)

With color, it will be either a cel-shaded look, or a painted look. I reserve the right to choose which coloring style will best fit the piece. Pieces are all DIGITAL, and once the commission is done, you get the high res!

Bust Sketches: $25 b&w $40 colored
Example 1

Full Body: $50 b&w $75 colored

Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

Super Deformed Sketches (great for DA IDs!): Full body + Simple BG: $50 colored

SD Example 1 SD Example 2

To get one, leave a comment or hit me up via email @ nexxorcist@yahoo.com

Thanks!

Drink n draw nyc

2010-01-13T23:21:00.003-05:00

Drink and draw nyc, guy water color. That water color set is pretty fun! Shouts out to PMBQ for the set and Mark for some help!

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Blood from stone

2009-12-28T02:14:00.001-05:00

Big ups to PMBQ for the koi water color kit!

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Carpe diem

2009-12-27T03:34:00.000-05:00

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

old habits die hard

2009-12-15T06:29:00.001-05:00

pencil, paper, mouse, adobe photoshop cs1.
late nite impromtu avatar fan art. i'm pretty excited about the movie

Fabric Study

2009-11-29T23:41:00.004-05:00

Living room fabric study.

TMNT Forever!

2009-11-17T11:35:00.004-05:00

Hey guys! This Saturday morning on Fox, the TMNT Forever movie will be airing! It'll be a blast from the past as the Turtles from our childhood come back to help save the world.

It's a movie that we all worked really hard on, so we hope you can check it out!!

http://www.4kidstv.com/tmnt/tmnt-forever-trailer/2009

me illustration

2009-11-12T19:33:00.002-05:00

me figuring out a style for my childrens book.

2009-11-03T17:58:00.000-05:00

I feel like a kid with a new toy!

tank remix

2009-09-04T14:15:00.006-04:00

The other thing I like to do...

Some progress shots, going from what it was to the current remix.

Black Widow Colors

2009-08-27T10:59:00.003-04:00

Hey Everybody.

Saw this Black Widow piece on Sam Liu's blog and I knew I just had to color it. I used to practice coloring on Sam's stuff back in the day, so it was definitely a fun piece to do because it let me see how far I've come since being a 16 year old.... 10 years later. ssshhhhiiiiitttt, I'm getting old. ;_;

Rudy Gutierrez on SiDEBAR

2009-08-25T12:43:00.003-04:00

Hey everybody! Just wanted to share this inspiring interview with, a former teacher of mines from Pratt, Rudy Gutierrez on SiDEBAR Nation. You guys might know him from his Carlos Santana album cover, Shaman.

http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/2009/08/rudy-gutierrez.html

14 gallon tank

2009-07-04T00:58:00.002-04:00

So this is what I've been up to lately... Setting up my new aquarium. Say hello to my 14 gallon fresh water tank in it's 3rd week!

SF4

2009-05-07T19:12:00.000-04:00

Hey guys! Let's show ryu, KEN!

Too much Street Fighter 4 on the brain.

2009-04-21T17:13:00.003-04:00

Sorry about the lack of updates folks. Just a lot of stuff goin on lately, plus too much SF4 on the brain!

2009-04-03T19:29:00.001-04:00

So I'm about a day off. lol. Gotta do another one tonight to catch up!

2009-03-04T01:46:00.002-05:00

I'm so tired of this weather. Hat hair isn't a good look on me.

Vote for me @ Don't Panic's SF4 contest!

2009-03-02T22:20:00.002-05:00

Hey everybody! I entered a Street Fighter 4 contest over at Don't Panic and would love to have your vote! You can vote once a day, as many days as you want! All you hafta do is run through a quick registration page.

Vote for My Entry: Crimson Viper

Also, a few of my friends and coworkers are entering too. Feel free to give them your vote as well! :D

CubeeCraft: Blanka Cubee
Jamespeay5: Dhalsim
skech212: Akuma
E-Mann: GUILE

It's greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot!

Drew Struzan interview @ SidebarNation.com

2009-02-16T12:49:00.001-05:00

Just wanted to post this great interview with famous illustrator Drew Struzan. He says a lot of things that, not only resonate with illustrators, but with just artists in general. It's one of the ones I listen to when I want to get grounded and inspired.

MP3 file found here

Sidebar Nation is a great podcast with great interviews with other artists ranging from James Jean to someone like Cree Summers. Give them a visit @ http://www.sidebarnation.com/

vintage.jtapp.com

2009-02-08T03:25:00.002-05:00

I'd been meaning to do this for a while, and that is, look at the old website I had from when I was about 15-18 just to get an idea where I've been, how far I've come, and to just kind of humble myself.

What I ended up finding though, was that the ridiculous design elements I use sometimes in my artwork now, has been something I'd been doing since I was 14 to 17 and I never even realized it. I thought me being decorative with my artwork was something new, or something I learned in my last couple of years in college... But it wasn't!! Case in point.

http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/reamnexxcg.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/ream.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/nexxred.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/cyberpunkscolor.jpg
http://vintage.jtapp.com/Artwork/colors/timcel.jpg

VS what I do now:

http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/almost.jpg
http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/nightwing.jpg
http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/abesapientall.jpg
http://www.jtapp.com/illustration/libra.jpg

It's good to know that somethings never change. :)

2009-02-04T02:19:00.001-05:00

With horrible apologies to Melita Toniolo.

2009-02-03T02:50:00.001-05:00

yeeaaahhh... nightwing... yay.

daily sketch - 27

2009-01-27T03:37:00.005-05:00

Hey guys, so I've been doing this thing where I do a sketch a day now. This is tonights (jan 26, but i always seem to have a habbit of drawing them at 12am the next morning... does that mean i'm always one behind? who knows).

So far, so good. Even if I miss a day, it's already happen, I make sure to make it up by doing an extra the next day. Hopefully it never gets up to the point where I need to make up 200 in a day. ;)

JTAPP.COM 2009 IS UP!

2009-01-26T11:04:00.000-05:00

http://www.jtapp.com

What's up everyone! When I said 2009 was the year of the hustle, I wasn't jokin around! The new version of http://www.jtapp.com is up, just in time for the Year of the Ox. Give it a look, lemme know what you think. If you love it, tell me, if you hate it, don't tell me... (I'm sensitive...) Either way, hope you enjoy it!

---Jimmy

P.S. Big thanks to Tishon for all the CSS help! quick plug-> http://www.tishon.com

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Unit-03

2008-09-19T16:56:00.002-04:00

Unit-03
Cintiq, Alias Sketch Book Pro, Photoshop CS3

Soon to be updated with sketches, inks, and color stages!

Abe Sapien

2008-02-17T13:42:00.007-05:00

Damn, I neeever update this thing! Anyhow, here's a fan art of my favorite Hellboy/BPRD Character, Abe Sapien!

and for the whole point of this blog, the process!