art, visual development, story development

Allegory of Social Media

2012-01-03T07:28:00.000-08:00

First piece of the new year. This was done using dynamesh features, all zbrush. sculpted without symmetry as a CRIMSON DAGGER CHALLENGE to myself.

Allegory for Social Media: The figure strides out of the sea and onto the land, while the constellations at the base guide him, the snake bites repeatedly leaving 6 marks, all the attention is on the small bird who receives the words of the figure.

we are blind to the real dangers facing us thanks to these beautiful distractions.

New Comic Book Page

2011-12-28T06:42:00.000-08:00

Here is my colored submission. I had a damn blast making this page, took me a while to find a good angle for the second panel, but I think this worked out.
So I took the storyboard and made a digital thumbnail of my page, then printed that and sat watching movies and drew my pencils version, scanned that, then took scans rebuilt in the template and used the lens and transform tools to hook up some of the curves in the page
so I did a gray scale ink on this and tried to lock some lines, pencils are still underneath it all, they just add some more depth.
then did a color pass very light, and finally got my paint on !
so total time,all in, 15 hrs- yeah-man!

2011-12-09T10:42:00.000-08:00

Great Show Last night on Newbury, great turnout- nice to meet the crew of Small works 2011

check my Facebook Page!!

Shading in mental ray

2011-12-02T06:44:00.001-08:00

found a great workflow for making mia materials mix, this helmet is one mesh separated with maps.
Make sure you turn on alpha is luminance with your alpha masks, it's not set by default and nothing will happen without it on

..Thanks Amber!!! check out her vimeo

Creating Layered Mia_Material Shaders Tutorial from amber steele on Vimeo.

New Tools

2011-10-17T05:59:00.001-07:00

So Zbrush made a new update and it's got some great new features- like the lightcap and wax settings
I made this turntable from some reference images, still unfinished but I like the idea of having the miniature stuff, like in Ricks case the Perinott Crane, is one of the projects he has spearheaded, I will probably spend the time and get the turtle in there too..

Rick_Portrait_BPR_LightCap_ZBR from stevenTaylor on Vimeo.

if you don't know what that means- check out handshouse studios....they are the maker thinker doers

The Thing

2011-09-02T06:41:00.000-07:00

Favorite- Ben Grim tormented, beauty and the beast complex, sensitive man with a rock exterior. I made a zbrush model of him, and not knowing what to do with this model he sat on the computer. CDIA asked me to do a teaching example and Whammo Ben has a reason to get a scene. still adding details but here is a process sheet and a render of him working out in the junkyard.

From the Sketchbooks of Story Development

2011-08-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

concept art sheets- I have been digging through sketchbooks, here are some concept sheets for pieces, not realised yet :)
The Green Knight and Sir Gwain:
Story based on the tale, but in this short the Green Knight is a servant of Morgan and she uses Gwain to infiltrate Camelot, but only after Gwain goes on a psychological journey and is forced to face the Green Knight

The Jesus Incident:
Into the Void and Jesus Incident are favorite Sci-Fi pieces by Herbert, next to Dune his best work..I had envisioned a film combining the 2 books into one piece called Pandora..Read them to get some of the inspiration behind (Cameron's) Avatar

serious man

2011-08-25T12:55:00.001-07:00

One of my oil clay head studies, just a no BS look right :) Reminds me of Paul Newman in Road to Perdition...love that film
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PencilPusher

2011-08-25T11:31:00.000-07:00

I have a huge collection of comics and Some of my Old Strange Tales have the simplest stoies in them- I love looking at these old stories to generate new work, gives a good narrative frame without too much detail, and they are not perfect- so I sit and doodle and dream.
One story has a couple who thinks the other is a vampire- turns out to be old Bessie who is the vampire..so here are drawings of her in 3 different forms
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comics past

2011-08-18T08:43:00.000-07:00

here is something from my past a webcomic made for Shannon Denton and Komikwerks- I loved working on comic books and I am making some new strides recreating some of my self publishing gusto-

article with Myself and Sean

2011-07-25T14:25:00.001-07:00

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Arts/2011/0720/Provincetown-art-colony-Where-light-water-and-art-meet

We got a great bit of visibility from this piece

Final relief image

2011-07-25T11:18:00.001-07:00

here is the final image of "whisper" this is a 5ftx2ft relief and in an edition of 25
Best
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Paintings from the Show

2011-07-25T09:51:00.000-07:00

This was such a great event-awesome feedback and the space just looked real cool. Check out the work on display. These are the paintings :)

relief process

2011-07-18T07:32:00.000-07:00

Here is the relief in progress, still have some final breakout to do. This image "whisper" is a limited edition with 25 casting being made.
Love making this stuff
S

2011-07-18T07:28:00.000-07:00

Here is an example of some of the paintings for the Show this week. Have a whole series of beach-goers in action. Loving making these images.

New Show

2011-07-18T07:01:00.000-07:00

New work from Steven Taylor..ya me :). I have been working on series of beach figures on canvas and making reliefs and statues for this show. I will be in Residence at Iron Phoenix all week July 18-24. come by and see the new works, on Commercial St in Ptown-

2011-07-15T07:06:00.001-07:00

Trying out Sculprtis- amazing how you can just paint in detail and get great tri reductions too

2011-07-11T15:24:00.000-07:00

http://seanboycestudios.blogspot.com/2011/07/terrific-tuesdays.html

from Sean Boyce
Hi Art World!

Myself and Steven James Taylor have taken it upon ourselves to support the well storied Provincetown Art Scene by ascending to the region every Tuesday for this wonderful summer of 2011 and painting on Commercial Street in Proximity to the newest art institution / phenomenon to augment the prominence of said art scene: Iron Phonix Studio at 398 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657.

Here is a visual key as Steven is photographed and interviewed by the ethereally charming Carolyn for The Christian Science Monitor's upcoming article about - you guessed it THE PROVINCETOWN ART SCENE!

plien Air

2011-06-26T10:14:00.001-07:00

on CGHUB

2011-06-19T13:22:00.001-07:00

CGHUB's latest character forge is designing the Swamp thing- here is the painting I made for the forum thread. tried to capture some soul in the monster...

working with forensic scientists

2011-06-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

So excited to have this guy's data in my machine
MRI data..

2011-05-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

Steven Taylor from Rock Entertainment on Vimeo.

one of my Kung Fu forms, performed by me.

2011-05-19T15:44:00.000-07:00

So I have a giant roll of paper and will bring a large sheet with me to this drawing group, and just keep opening it up, leaves me with a great large sheet of drawings, all 2-10 minute poses

2011-04-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

took one of the drawings and started a relief in clay

tuesdaydrawings

2011-04-20T12:00:00.001-07:00

More two-twenty minute sketches

latest Tues Session

2011-03-31T11:08:00.001-07:00

new 2 10 20 minute sketches

2011-03-21T14:29:00.000-07:00

Started grabbing pictures from my sketchbooks of random stuff, looks like elasitc man inside the center, weird. I like the gun though might have to model that one

2011-03-15T12:44:00.000-07:00

Images from an open drawing session Tuesday nite: Mashpee, feels good to draw the figure again

2011-03-07T08:15:00.000-08:00

Glad to be working on larger sheets of paper and with conte. feels expressive and less confined than a monitor

From weeks past

2011-03-03T06:54:00.001-08:00

I had the luck of being able to hang with Hung Gar Boston for the closing Lion dances of New Year. What fun, I think they might end up being reference for some abstract paintings, SO MUCH CONTRAST

Sketches

2011-03-02T09:21:00.001-08:00

One of the scribbles from my moleskin. I totally love the primitive art influences. dodged and burned in PS

2011-03-01T10:31:00.000-08:00

I had this image, and it was talking about protest, social responsibility, got this far and well lost my steam. Feel like it could be a good pop image, if finished, maybe I need to paint it on canvas, and be all patience