Tobias

Is our cat.  He loves to pee on our things and scratch under the door but sometimes he can be pretty hip. Tomorrow (or I guess today) he gets neutered. good luck Tobias Human Knives Chau Murtcurf Metcalf (missing some but that's his full name) also please stop peeing on our stuff.

sketchdump!

I'm super tired for some reason and am headed bed.  For that reason i'm posting these sketches i've had laying around for tonight's submission. sleep!

For the Fro

As part of a challenge from some friends at work, this is day one of what will be a post every day for the next week.  Definitely got started late on this one and i'm hesitant to even post it, but I gotsta! I thought i'd start off attempting something festive so I painted this Frankenstein's monster and tried to play around with CS5's mixer brush tool.

Blizzcon Round Two!

So last year I went to Blizzcon and it was, in a word, "dope".  When I describe it to Jo I always tell her it's kind of like a nerdy version of Disneyland - complete with orcs, guns and body oder.  So, this year my family bought me another ticket and I'm going with my brother Mike. I painted this up in anticipation - it's my version of a Terran Marine from Starcraft.

Something for your torso.

the good folks over at teeblitz just put up a tshirt I made! It was a lot of fun to work on, check eet out here: www.teeblitz.com

a little somethin

that I've had sitting on my computer and haven't posted. Trying to do some more environments and make sure they contains just the right amount of glowy sword. I'll figure it out someday.

work in progress...

project I started working on for something down the road. long ways to go.

Dungeons and or...

Dragons

This started as a lunch study when Garrett Hanna walked into my room and said, "hey wanna draw a dragon?" Then he punched me in the face and I haven't seen him since. This one's for you Garrett.

Pt. 2

Another dragon/man? Something I've been doodling on at lunch here and there.

Doodle

Did this one after work yesterday. Gotta keep up on my drawing!

Conan O'Brien I love you.

Jo and I went and saw Conan O'Brien's new movie tonight, afterwards he came out and did some question and answer! It was a dream come true for sure, as Jo and I are huge fans. We got a picture with him and talked a little. picture to come soon!

Aside from that, I've been trying to paint when I have time after work. Not sure how much further i'll take this one but here it is for now.

hellboy

Sometimes I wish I was Mignola :(

Quick Draw Friday

I started my first week at Carbine Studios on Monday. It's an amazing place, sooo many talented artists and a lot of really cool work to do. Still learning the ropes and trying to figure out programs and everything, but things are going great.

Every Friday is Quick Draw Friday, where a subject is sent out and everyone has their lunch hour to come up with something. This was my first shot, the subject was Tim Burton, so I decided to paint Sweeney Todd.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This is some stuff from jack and the beanstalk as well as a couple studies from the last couple days. Also I recently discovered this awesome new restaurant called Chick-fil-a, definitely check it out.

The Wizard

Gian'ts Treasure

Giant's Throne

The Bean

Jack

elephant!

stupid dragon head.

California Love (Feat Dr. Dre)

I have officially arrived at my new home... kind of. We don't move in for a couple more weeks but I am currently living in a box filled apartment with Tyson Murphy aka. MURPH. California is a excellent place by the way, but I am missing my wife very much. Anyways! I'm trying to be productive so I made this here truck:

Missile Mouse

So Jake Parker, AKA Agent44, taught at BYU this last semester and I had the opportunity to take a couple classes from him. He told me he'd do a sketch exchange with me if I drew him Missile Mouse - so here it is. If you're looking into classes for next semester take from him! Awesome dude and hands down one of my favorite teachers. wurd!

Carbine!

A couple weeks ago I accepted an offer to be a 3D artist on the prop team at Carbine Studios and I have to say, I could not be more excited. This is a dream come true for me. Since I was young it's always been my dream to work on video games, more specifically MMOs. The people at carbine are incredibly talented and I feel extremely grateful to being a part of their team. Thanks everyone who's helped me along the way! I owe a lot of people for all the help and support - Avalanche, BYU, Polycount, family and especially my wife Jo, who can only be described as "the dopest".

See you soon California!

Throne!

Something i've been working on the last couple days.

lately

I've been trying to brush up on zbrush and improve my sculpting a bit. This was a quick study I did recently.

robohamster

My brother recently made me an awesome website (found here: ryanjmetcalf.com ) and in exchange he asked me to draw him a robotic hamster for his personal use. I should really fix the mickey mouse ears.

environments...

trying to get better at painting enviros! Just doing lots of quick studies and trying to work out different issues. this is one of the only ones so far that I don't hate.

my friend, my hero: Gordon Freeman

todays's painting

un robot!

Trying to do more painting, drawing and posting. here's tonight's contribution. Also, I tried a signature for once. I dunno how I feel about signing things, but there it is!

Slump!

I made this today and I'm not really sure why. I want to post more consistently though, I gots to get better! also here's a list of words that I thought would totally up my blog's rank in a Google search:

lightning mcqueen, american idol, justin beiber, aaron ludwig, charlie sheen, miley cyrus

Jack Failed Attempt No. 1

Gotta keep count! there will be more to follow. I started this out just to kinda paint something/warm up before I did other work and hoped I could have it double as my homework for Jack and the Beanstalk concept art. but alas.... I made this first one, and then when things started to go south I jumped ship and zombie'd him up good. also it was a keen opportunity to use my recently acquired chain brush, which sort of makes him look like Jacob Marley, but i'm pretty sure most paintings could do with a little more Jacob Marley.

Zombie'd

unused school stuff

I started doing this for my concept art class and then realized I wasn't going to use it. might as well post it! it's a version of the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk

Gobrins?

I've had some time the last couple weeks after the pre-dominance war challenge to work on a personal project, so i thought i'd post it up! now time to apply for internships...

needs salt

here's a little environment i worked on a while ago. i have some of it worked out in 3d as well, so hopefully i'll get a chance to post that soon too. I still need to go in and tighten some things up before i can call it finished.