P.Cohen Sketch Blog

A rooster with attitude

2012-01-31T18:18:00.000-08:00

Zombie Orange Bird for Jason

2012-01-29T00:45:00.000-08:00

Beetlejuice - 1 hr quick paint

2012-01-29T00:28:00.000-08:00

Film Study

2012-01-18T20:50:00.001-08:00

From V for Vendetta

A New Year

2012-01-12T21:33:00.000-08:00

Quick One - Peter Sellers

2011-12-01T19:48:00.001-08:00

Bears and Bearded Ladies

2011-11-08T09:33:00.001-08:00

Quick One

2011-09-12T20:16:00.000-07:00

Part One:

Part Two:

The Bearded Lady! And some quick studies...

2011-08-30T18:13:00.001-07:00

A miserable bear

2011-08-01T18:06:00.001-07:00

Imagineering for the Summer

2011-07-31T19:12:00.000-07:00

So far, so good.

Quick break to sketch

2011-07-31T19:00:00.000-07:00

Done after a long day at the Imagineering office.

Sketch of the Day

2011-05-25T00:28:00.001-07:00

Older sketch - Cut from the Portfolio

2011-05-24T01:12:00.000-07:00

Tough Guys

2011-05-24T00:46:00.000-07:00

A friendly troll

2011-05-20T10:08:00.000-07:00

Sketch Poster

2011-05-09T13:04:00.000-07:00

Finished the Blainting

2011-02-22T12:27:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Kyle for the photos

Background Painting

2011-01-22T11:09:00.001-08:00

Advanced Portraiture

2011-01-22T11:01:00.001-08:00

Blainting in Progress

2010-12-07T10:26:00.000-08:00

A best friend's baby, Blaine. 5 months old. He's adorable...so adorable I had to paint him.

More Viz Dev sketches

2010-11-12T18:23:00.000-08:00

Visual Development Sketches

2010-10-16T00:38:00.000-07:00

Part of the development process for an upcoming composition...

Adv. Portaiture Sketch

2010-10-06T23:17:00.000-07:00

Working on a new painting for portraiture. I was playing with my reference trying to give it a little style before I begin painting it. If all goes well I'll be posting a finished painting of this man soon...

Sketchin!

2010-10-01T01:17:00.001-07:00

Quick sketch for the word "Waiting"

More sketching

2010-08-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

Picture This Sketch

2010-07-27T23:16:00.001-07:00

I haven't entered this contest for awhile. I believe the last time I entered it was with some random sketch I found in the classroom. The last time I won it was with a bag of plump delicious raisins...winning with an actual sketch feels a bit more satisfying.

New Scrap Artwork!

2010-07-08T09:52:00.000-07:00

Storyboards!

2010-07-07T09:38:00.000-07:00

Some storyboards from the movie "Kick Ass." This was just a class assignment - I had nothing to do with the actual making of the movie. We get handed a script with a scene from the movie and we have to produce 30 pages of boards from said scene.

Finally, the David Lange portrait in its entirety

2010-07-06T10:53:00.001-07:00

Sketchbook

2010-06-24T03:10:00.001-07:00

New day, new sketch, who cares?

Working with thee Kyle Walling

2010-06-23T10:06:00.000-07:00

Over the spring break I was able to work with my old roommate and good friend Kyle Walling on an advertisement for a church in San Diego. He designed the piece and I created the illustrations

Atreyu Redesign for Inventive Character

2010-06-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

Okay, first post in awhile and its a black and white character I want to paint in photoshop. Also he needs a background so that will be apart of the final painting too. I've been swamped lately...what a stressful but enjoyable Summer.

Another in-class painting from Portraiture

2010-05-27T00:21:00.001-07:00

Sketchbook Spring 2010

2010-04-02T00:11:00.001-07:00

White Tiger Baby

2010-03-25T12:53:00.001-07:00

David

2010-03-25T11:40:00.000-07:00

Two Week in Class Painting

2010-03-18T16:30:00.000-07:00

Tesla Inked

2010-03-09T18:11:00.000-08:00

Next step - Color

Gary and Sean

2010-03-04T23:24:00.000-08:00

My new comics series:

Chico Comics starring Gee-Wee and Mee-Mee

Borden Sketches - Color and Story

2010-03-01T20:07:00.000-08:00

I thought these sketches were okay too but Im not a fan of the tough look for this character. Id like to see a finished version whose not as aggressive looking and a bit more

Cutter Sketches - Color and Story

2010-03-01T20:04:00.000-08:00

I especially liked how these sketches turned out so they earned a place on this blog.

ENTER PORKLOPS

2010-02-18T22:23:00.001-08:00

Graphic Design for Entertainment Arts: The Dewey Cox Puzzle Box

2010-02-18T22:20:00.000-08:00

Old files

2010-02-14T19:47:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the stylized self portraits from my head and hands project I forgot to post.

Painting the Night Away

2010-02-12T21:22:00.000-08:00

A Dewey Cox potrait in progress. I never thought I'd be up until 1 in the morning painting this character...extremely random school assignments.

Quick Sketch for Picture This

2010-02-10T23:04:00.001-08:00

More Logo Design

2010-01-15T00:00:00.001-08:00

David Lange - Value Composition

2010-01-11T22:12:00.001-08:00

He's a jerk, but I love this guy anyway

New Logo Design for a Friend

2010-01-10T01:54:00.001-08:00

Second post of 2010: Even more scrap!

2010-01-05T00:54:00.001-08:00

First post of 2010: New Scrap

2010-01-05T00:52:00.000-08:00

Drawing Concepts 2 Creature

2009-12-12T17:37:00.001-08:00

100 Heads from 1st Semester

2009-12-08T04:32:00.001-08:00

A really really tough project, but very rewarding to finish. I learned a ton from this project and from my teacher Jeff Smith.

Face/Landscape in progress

2009-12-06T23:34:00.001-08:00

Fish sketch and Demon layout thumb

2009-11-23T08:31:00.001-08:00

Sign Language

2009-11-10T13:23:00.001-08:00

More to come!

More 2009 Sketchbook

2009-11-09T21:58:00.000-08:00

Digital Life

2009-11-09T21:02:00.000-08:00

Here is my first post from my digital life drawing class. It's a tough process but Im feeling a bit better every time I try painting in photoshop. The background hasn't been treated and the figure is not entirely complete, but Im happy with what I did get done in the short painting period.

Sketchbook Fall 2009

2009-09-30T12:44:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple pages from my sketchbook. On the second page there is the image of a man looking down reading. I drew him in a coffeeshop as I was waiting for my girlfriend to finish work, and just as I was finishing the sketch he started shooting little glares at me. I feel I captured his likeness pretty well. On a side note, this sketchbook is the Kyle/Meg Walling Wedding sketchbook from 2007. Gifts were given by the groom to all of the groomsmen, and my gift was this sketchbook.

A bit more scrap

2009-09-30T10:28:00.000-07:00

Scrap

2009-09-30T10:24:00.000-07:00

This is a project for my Dynamic Sketching class in which we draw on random scrap pieces of paper, compile a certain amount per week and make it into a book at the end of the term. I found these fliers at work and drew on them with a ball point pen.

Barney Sketch

2009-08-26T23:50:00.001-07:00

Paul's Delicious Gefilte Fish

2009-08-26T16:17:00.001-07:00

Bobby K's Class - T-Shirt Studies

2009-07-08T18:34:00.000-07:00

Value studies done in acrylic paint on illustration board

Character Designs for Inventive Drawing

2009-07-08T18:01:00.001-07:00

100 days 100 drawings

2009-05-23T14:01:00.000-07:00

My two favorite sketches thus far. Im very behind though.

Lemon Sun - in Illustrator

2009-04-17T10:50:00.001-07:00

I designed a couple album covers in illustrator for an expressive type project. The text is hand drawn, scanned and treated in photoshop a bit. The designs were made in illustrator.

Illustrator Fun

2009-03-02T23:03:00.000-08:00

A challenging and rewarding project for Jon Nguyen's Design 2 class.

Green Man

2009-02-25T17:43:00.001-08:00

Self Potrait

Cigar Man practice painting steps

2009-01-09T12:37:00.000-08:00

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

More coming soon!

Compare and Contrast!

2008-12-29T14:40:00.000-08:00

The illustrator version of the drawing and the original drawing. Let me know which you think is better :)

A little Illustrator

2008-12-29T14:06:00.000-08:00

Here is an old image I had traced in Illustrator to give it a rather different look. I'll post a side by side comparison next.

Heads, heads and more heads!

2008-12-19T11:37:00.000-08:00

A self portrait

2008-12-19T10:01:00.000-08:00

I'm really proud of this piece because I've was getting my butt kicked in my painting class this entire past semester. Nonetheless, Richard Houston, my teacher, really helped me understand how to approach oil painting from a more practical perspective. The key really was to understand the medium and how it works. Oils can be very tricky...and toxic. So this winter break Im hoping to toss a few more paintings together using all that I learned in his class..and when I do I'll post them too!

More Photoshop Magic

2008-12-11T18:42:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Magic

2008-11-09T10:01:00.000-08:00

Movie poster project for Digital Design 1.

Art Center Begins

2008-09-18T10:04:00.000-07:00

In the year 2006...

2008-09-18T08:42:00.000-07:00

So in the process of applying to the Art Center College of Design I came across some old sketches from awhile back. What I like most about each sketch is that they were completely created without the aid of reference. Nowadays I find myself so dependent on reference that often times I wont draw without it. Reference adds a flare of realistic integrity to the picture.

A few more dogs!

2008-03-20T14:37:00.000-07:00

Dog Fest!

2008-03-20T14:05:00.000-07:00

Batman Villains

2008-02-20T10:04:00.001-08:00

Children's Story Development Sketches

2008-02-20T10:00:00.000-08:00

Paintings

2007-09-19T10:57:00.001-07:00

Some Paintings from the last year...

Sketches

2007-09-19T10:53:00.000-07:00

Some old Spider-Man/Goblin Sketches

Old Comic Art/Sketches

2007-09-19T10:34:00.000-07:00

Before the San Diego Comic-Con I tried to generate a clever way to market my artwork, so I came up with this left handed hand-man whose mighty weapon would be a pencil! Using his mighty hand-powers he would...draw!
Well, I at least I thought it was clever at first...

The Thing

2007-09-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

Here is a work in progress of a Fantastic Four Pin-Up. I'll have the final product ready to show soon!

Paul Cohen: Illustrator

2007-09-18T23:46:00.001-07:00

Hi, and welcome to my little mini blog to showcase my artwork. Art has always been a hobby, but a career in the movies was what I always wanted to pursue. I recently graduated San Diego State with a BS in film production. Currently my focus is to pursue a career in film production artwork as well as comic book and graphic novel illustration.