Best of J.C. Amberlyn

Here I have gathered together what I consider to be the best representative examples of my work. I am comfortable in a wide range of media, from traditional oils, watercolors, and acrylics to high-tech computer images and animation.

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Fine Art

Hunting Lesson: Coyote family- acrylic 24 by 30 inches- This won Best of Show- Professional Fine Arts Division, at the local County Fair, 1995 (Digital image) Mexican wolf portrait- Painter. Rattlesnake pattern- can you find the hidden images? Watercolor and charcoal pencil. My commissioned Cheetahs painting. Acrylic, 30 by 40 inches. A lot of work went into this one! Spots and Stripes: Black-tailed deer fawns (California)- Max oil paints 20 by 16 inches Eternal Vigilance- Very painterly Max oil painting of a mule deer doe and her fawn- (based on deer that I saw at the Grand Canyon, Arizona)- 20 by 16 inches. Abert (or tassel-eared) Squirrels- acrylic 20 by 16 inches on canvas (appeared in May/June 1998 issue of Wildlife Art Magazine) A wary wolf gives you a look. Charcoal.

 

Illustration and Fantasy

Two desert cottontails. Inspired by the courtship dance of cottontails and by the colorful clothing of the Navajo Nation. Watercolor and colored pencils. Two young desert coyotes experience rain for the first time. Watercolor and colored pencil. Two gannets are puzzled by the appearance of a puffin. Inspired by my trip to Scotland, and a visit to a island covered with gannets! What would happen if you crossed a puffin and a gryphon? A pufphon!(Digital image.) T-shirt design. Arizona coyote and silence-loving saguaros. This was on the cover of the comic book Furrlough #117! Colored pencils and markers. Sphinx moth. This won third place in the Drawing Category at the Arizona State Fair one year.

 

Character Design

My Out of Oakwood Forest characters. Drawn by hand, then colored in Photoshop. Bellever River Otter from Out of Oakwood Forest- colored pencil. Caisin, the fighter from Spiral. Drawn by hand, then colored in Photoshop. Lydia, Lycrah, and Space Chicken from Spiral. Space Weasel!!! (Digital) Highly stylized bobcat design- Painter. These are karmacs- something I created years ago... sort of a mix of dragon, gryphon, bear, cougar, wolf...and chipmunk! Skitz is on the left, Betz on the right. Colored pencil.

 

Animation

2D Animation- Out of Oakwood Forest- The Travel Tree Adventure.

Video Clip: Click here to view the first part of "The Travel Tree"! (3543 KB)

Other 2D Animation.

Highly recommended: Click here to view my original Flash introduction to this website. (Some links at the end do not work anymore.)

Video Clip: I also did this "Spiral"-related 2D animation project. We were to show a character going over a waterfall- complete with their reaction to the whole matter. I chose my human character Lydia from "Spiral", and just to make things difficult I kept her coat and hat! It was certainly a challenge but I think it turned out well. For the video clip, click here. (1465 KB)

3D Computer Animation- Character animations for a video game (that was not completed).

Punk jumping down. I did the design of and animation for this character.(761 KB)

Punk. One of my favorites- the taunt! C'mon, make my day....(853 KB)

Fairy. Jump Attack- I thought up this ponytail attack.(141 KB)

Fairy- Bored.(1530 KB)

 

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