Joe Tirasuwan

Today's Figure Drawing

2012-01-25T00:27:00.001-08:00

It's been awhile...

"Bloom" and "No Robots" Check it out!!!

2012-01-23T05:55:00.000-08:00

SJSU's student film
"Bloom" (winter2010 - summer 2011)
http://bloomanimation.blogspot.com/

"No Robots" (summer 2010)
http://io9.com/5878285/no-robots-a-beautiful-five+minute-film-about-anti+machine-prejudice?tag=short-films

A minor update here. Above is the link to two great short animated films done by our friends at San Jose State University. No Robots has won several awards on students film categories. Bloom is following the same path! No Robots was written and directed by Kim Knoll and Yanghan Chang. Bloom was written and directed by Brian Kitsler and Emily Johnstone.

I wanted to say thanks to my friends / directors who gives me an opportunity to work on these films. (even on "Bloom" I was just a little part of the team, Brian and Emily still kind enough to put my name in the end credit) I considered this is the "first step" and once in my life time experience in my art-related life to work with such talent and great artists in our Animation/illustration program here at SJSU!

In addition for No Robots, I want to mention and give more credit to Tim Tang and Corwin. I think they both deserves more credit here, especially Tim. Those beautiful backgrounds you see in No Robots was art directed by Tim and Corwin. Tim helped me out a lot when I struggled on my parts. Thanks man!

Myself and everyone in our team worked so hard on these films, hope everyone enjoy it!
(Notes* you can see background paintings I've done for No Robots in "Older posts". )

Ellie...

2012-01-22T20:53:00.000-08:00

The Journey

2012-01-20T04:08:00.000-08:00

Values and composition study.

Alice...

2012-01-16T03:32:00.000-08:00

Practice paiting in prep for another visdev characters.

Solitude

2012-01-13T01:36:00.000-08:00

One hour

Warm up.

2012-01-12T16:10:00.000-08:00

About 1 hr.

Old old old stuffs...

2012-01-11T23:49:00.000-08:00

Some character designs and paintings from an age ago I found in my hard drive. Some of them are from the very first time I took visdev class, so they aren't look very good. I was too shy to post them..but well...

Rough

2012-01-11T22:07:00.000-08:00

A rough- redesign of a character I've been working on for Ruben's visdev assignment from last semester. More will come.

Spike!

2011-12-30T23:11:00.000-08:00

Ink on canvas.
A birthday gift for my friend Jose.
This is probably the last post of the year!

Ink & Brush

2011-12-28T21:32:00.000-08:00

Stylus will never replace brush and pencil.

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T15:38:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone have the best day ever! This painting is for my family and my friends and whoever visits my blog.

Modeling...again!

2011-12-25T09:16:00.000-08:00

I took an Intermediate 3D Modeling class in Fall 2011, teaching by Dave Guslin. Our assignment was to model a LOTR's cave troll using Maya and Z-Brush. While modeling is not my focus, I've learnt a lot from this class. Gotta admit I didn't have fun with it because it is really really hard! But here it is...Cave Troll!
Like last time, this wouldn't be possible without my friends help... literally! Thanks to Eunsoo Jeong, Jimi Youm, Taylor Hsieh, Meghan Auer, Kevin Hom, Eryn O' Suileabhain, Riz Azad, and Annlyn Huang.

Taking a break

2011-12-06T19:17:00.000-08:00

Just a quick sketch. I dont really know what I"m doing actually lol However, it always good to draw a monster once in awhile!

Blue

2011-11-15T19:55:00.000-08:00

"หากสามารถย้อนเวลาไปช่วงวัยเด็กที่เราไม่ต้องมีเรื่องกลุ้มหรืออะไรมาทำให้เราเสียใจได้ก็คงจะดี แต่ชีวิตก็แบบนี้ ทำไงได้ ก็ได้แต่ต้องก้าวต่อไปข้างหน้าและหวังว่าวันของเราคงมาถึง"

Doodle

2011-09-17T07:02:00.001-07:00

(90) days of summer!

2011-08-25T22:33:00.001-07:00

Bye bye summer 2011....Fall semester has started! Here are some caricature sketches I did over the summer.

Cant Sleep 5

2011-08-16T04:15:00.001-07:00

Escape!

2011-07-21T04:52:00.000-07:00

Pretty much inspired by werewolf movies and my nightmare...lol

3D Modeling!

2011-07-17T01:41:00.000-07:00

This is not a painting and it is not the best 3d modeling in the world but I think it deserves to be shown here. Marty was right! "if you put your mind into it, you can accomplish anything!" It was my first time using/taking Maya class and it kicked my butt! While modeling is probably the last thing I want to do, I proud of the result of this one. After countless of hours of learning, trying, fixing, and starting over!...night by night, week by week, month by month... And with help of all my friends in our program. I've done this!!! (PS. Lots of thanks to Ensoo, Craig Kitzmann, Astro, and everybody else!)

James and Della Dillinghan

2011-07-16T04:16:00.001-07:00

My version of Jim and Della from "The Gift of the Magi".

Cant sleep 4

2011-07-13T01:00:00.000-07:00

I hate the background...:(

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

2011-07-09T05:30:00.000-07:00

A portrait study of John Singer Sargent's painting. I love this painting of Sargent so much! I think it's one of the most beautiful portrait painting I've ever seen! I need to practice painting people more. I always have a hard time figure out skin tone. Practice from master copy is obviously helpful for me.

Under the same sun

2011-07-08T07:32:00.000-07:00

45 min speed paint.

At a library...

2011-07-06T17:08:00.000-07:00

About 45 mins

Weekend doodles.

2011-07-03T03:58:00.000-07:00

Della...

2011-06-21T04:25:00.000-07:00

Goes on and on!

2011-06-12T22:39:00.000-07:00

Fun Caricatures!

2011-06-12T22:35:00.000-07:00

Plein Air

2011-06-12T03:53:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on canvas. Really fun to switch back to traditional paints. Also plein air is another good way of meditation....another good way to get yourself out of frustrations....but wait!...sometimes getting more frustrations when I dont like how it turns out! LOL

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2011-06-04T03:29:00.001-07:00

This is the first project I got from advance visdev class early in the spring semester. Any comment would be thankful!

The Flying Carpets

2011-06-04T02:31:00.000-07:00

A final project from my advance visdev class. A story of a boy and his magic carpet. I'm quite happy with the color script (not the story moments and the character lol) It is my first time to do color script tho. There are still more room to improve. As you might notice, the story moment wasn't really fully developed and painted. The revision will come for sure later this summer! Please leave some comments would be great help!

Movie screen shot painting

2011-05-30T03:05:00.000-07:00

One of my most favourite movie of all time! Nothing really special for the composition of this shot, but I just LOVE this moment in the movie!

Plein Air 1

2011-05-26T18:41:00.001-07:00

The first plein air of the year! Spring semester is over! I begin the first day of my summer by ignored all party and bbq.... instead, I revisited the Rancho, paint, and enjoy the weather.
Other than that, it is so hard to paint without an easel, especially on windy day. Gotta paint more and more!

Need a break

2011-05-21T00:19:00.000-07:00

Cintiq!!!

2011-05-15T05:16:00.001-07:00

I tried the Cintiq for the first time...and it was AWESOME!!! I love it!!! Gotta get one in the future!

...ta dahhh...

2011-04-20T03:10:00.001-07:00

"When Forrest met Jenny." I'm studying composition from the movie and I'm kinda miss traditional drawing... so I take a shot! This is from one of my most favourite scene from the movie.

Can't Sleep3

2011-04-01T05:04:00.001-07:00

Take a break from my assignment.

More Visdev

2011-03-04T02:51:00.000-08:00

The witch house design, Isometric view of a shaved ice truck, and ideations from Visdev class last semester Fall 2010

Can't Sleep 2

2011-02-26T05:52:00.000-08:00

Oh No! The background color suppose to be pink! haha

Dress to Kill

2011-02-22T23:10:00.001-08:00

Little off, but this is just for fun and warm up!

Sketches

2011-02-22T02:08:00.001-08:00

Some sketches from my journal.

Winter break "Bloom" concept painting.

2011-01-30T02:54:00.000-08:00

An ideation piece for our new short film project called "Bloom".

117's Gary Soto Kitchen

2010-11-29T03:22:00.000-08:00

First time taking Courtney's Visual Development class. Very very tough for me! I had to build a simple model of the scene to figure out the lighting. And because of lack of sleep and time issue, I worked on these paintings in one night. They are not very good but I proud of it because I've learnt so much from this assignment.

Old stuffs

2010-10-13T02:17:00.000-07:00

Found these drawings in my old sketchbook.

Color comp

2010-10-13T01:30:00.000-07:00

Just rough studies of colors for a story moment illustration assignment in Barron Storey's class that I'm taking in this Fall.

"No Robots" early city concept/ Backgrounds pencil & finished

2010-06-18T06:18:00.000-07:00

"No Robots" is a short animated film done by a small group of Animation/illustration students in San Jose State University. The production of the film began and finished in summer 2010. I had a chance to work on the backgrounds of the film. Pencil and painted by myself, Color Key by my friend /director Kimberly Knoll.
We put a lot of efforts and hours into this film!

(update) The film eventually won several awards on student film category! Here is the link to see the film from CartoonBrew website http://www.cartoonbrew.com/student/no-robots-by-yunghan-chang-and-kimberly-knoll.html

Final Animation!

2010-05-20T18:32:00.000-07:00

The final animation for an animation class I took in Spring 2010.

Animation!

2010-05-20T18:19:00.000-07:00

The short animation I did during the beginning of the Spring 2010 semester at sjsu

Can't Sleep...

2010-03-25T06:17:00.000-07:00

Figure Drawing

2010-03-18T04:59:00.000-07:00

Figure drawings from last Monday.

My digital painting #2

2010-01-18T02:08:00.000-08:00

Visiting my friend's house in Santa Cruz and her house is right in the middle of a beautiful forest! Next day, after visited my friend, I got Oga Kazuo's artbook which is the collection of Kazuo's beautiful forest paintings. Those two inspired me!!! I think this piece is better than my last digital piece in term of mood and color.

Plein Air

2010-01-12T19:48:00.000-08:00

It suppose to be rained in San Jose today. I went to the Alum Rock park for plein air but I'm lucky! it wasn't rain on the mountain! It took me almost 4 hours...I was trying to finish this painting but it was so cold up there and my hand was freezing, so I decided to stop. The painting isn't really finished, but I like it anyway. Done in acrylic in my sketchbook.

Story is out there!!!

2010-01-06T06:00:00.000-08:00

Finally!!! considering my "first" finished digital painting! The shadow pattern on my T-rex should be better, but I don't have enough reference for the light.
I've been practiced digital painting for awhile but most of my painting were just very loose and never finished. This painting took me a while (roughly 18-20 hours). I've learnt tons from this painting. There're still more room for improvement. This one was drawn and painted from scratch in photoshop. Please feel free to give me comments or critics.

The Puzzle Box

2010-01-01T04:05:00.000-08:00

A puzzle box I made for my friend.

Sack Pantomime

2009-12-11T23:36:00.000-08:00

This is a short animation I've done for my class. Enjoy!

More plants

2009-11-29T02:29:00.000-08:00

Done in water color on my sketchbook.

An acorn, a twig and a branch with leaf ...And Figure Drawings

2009-10-27T01:05:00.000-07:00

Finally an update!!!These paintings are the assignment for Alice Carter's 113b class. They all done in acrylic on illustration broad. The branch with leaf took me a while until I get it done. The pictures aren't in the best quality...but well...

And also another figure drawings I've been practiced over the summer 09. I'll put up more drawing when I have more time.

2009-06-12T02:15:00.000-07:00

My doodle... A page from my summer sketchbook. Nothing special on this page...but many people respond and had feedback on this page. So I think I should do something more like this.

2009-06-12T01:50:00.000-07:00

Some from my sketch book spread

2009-06-12T01:43:00.000-07:00

I've been practiced painting in watercolor during summer vocation. Had a lot of fun and I got something from going out to sketch everyday....sunburn!!!

Digital painting study

2009-06-04T01:44:00.000-07:00

I spent some of my spare time before I go to bed doing this painting. It's a master copy study, done in photoshop. This concept painting is originally by Gary Tonge, one of the UK's top conceptual designers. I saw his painting from a book and I think his art is really cool, so I just pick one of his painting to draw. I tried to paint very loose and I satisfy for its result.

The Color Rendering

2009-06-04T01:39:00.000-07:00

Finally! I have time to update my blog. Here is my Color Rendering, a painting from 113a class. I spent a good (and bad) 80 - 90 hours (may be more!) on this piece. The actual size is 8"x 8" same size as the B/W rendering. I've learnt a lot from this project. This piece was probably my first "serious" painting in my life! And of course, I should have done better if I had at least one more day. But I've already put all of my effort (pull all nighter for two weeks!) on this painting.

And thanks for Cameron Chun and John Clapp for their little advise

Gesture drawings

2009-05-02T02:05:00.000-07:00

Figure Drawings!

2009-05-02T01:48:00.000-07:00

Figure drawing is very hard to draw but I'm working hard on it. These drawings are from couple months ago. I worked so hard to improve my figure drawing by practicing all days and nights from both photoes and live drawing sessions. Something is starting to happen (at least I've managed to get into the program successfully!) , but I'm still not satisfy with my figure drawings. Anyway, I'll keep work hard and I'll see what happens!

2009-04-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

Some drawings from my sketchbook. Enjoy!

2009-04-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

This is my revesal drawing from last semester winter 2007. I spent time around 80+ hours for this drawing. I don't really satisfy for the result. This drawing still have more rooms for improvment. I wish I had more time for it.

B/W rendering

2009-04-28T11:43:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my art.

2009-04-28T11:34:00.000-07:00

Hi! My name is Thanade, but people called me Joe. I'm an animation/illustration student at San Jose State University. I graduated in Bachelor degree of Advertising Management from Thailand. Currently I'm pursuing a second degree in animation and illustration. I love to draw, and I want to work in movie or video game industry as a concept artist. But for now I'm enjoying my time in the animation program at SJSU. Hopefully, my drawing and painting skill will be better and good enough to get a decent job in animation & illustration field.