Matte painting/Illustration airing on the NAT-GEO WILD channel "FUTURE CATS" : FRI DEC 5 10PM ET

A few of my paintings are showing on the national Geographic's channel Nat Geo wild "BIG CAT WEEK" on the Big Machine produced show titled "Future Cats"

Here's one of the paintings I did and the promo below :

A few Creature design demos I did recently and refined.

Creature creature!

 

 

Latest Illustration and Sketches

Here's my latest illustration and below that a few random sketches.

 
 
 

NEW character design

Here's a character design for Brad Mcquaid, game designer of "Everquest" for his new project Pantheon. Aradune the War Wizard

Demo images from my Creature design class at Gnomon school of VFX

I did these for my creature design class that I teach at Gnomon vfx school in Hollywood. The lesson was about using textures to enhance and bring some realism to your creature design.

My latest

Enjoyed working on this.

Something New!

Little painting I did for myself :)

One of my Student's work - Creature design class at Gnomon

Here's the work of Brett Whiting, one of my students in last term's Creature design class at Gnomon vfx school. This is "Best in term". You can check out Brett's work here Brett Whiting

Creature head design

Quick Creature head design.

 

Demon creature design

Love doing these,

Demon creature, graphite on paper

Los Demonios

Todays sketch

Concept art and cover illustration

Here's some sneak peak concept art I'm working on for a project,

 

Also a new cover
illustration for Paizo's Pathfinders campaign

Class demo

Class demo on Symmetry.

The Adventure continues in LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA!

Some exiting news, friends, I will be returning to the city of Angels and will be back freelancing and working on some exciting new projects with fantastic collaborators and working  on my own projects.

Before I start yapping here's some new art,

 

The  Last couple of years have been up and down on a personal note.  I lost both my older sister Gema Targete and Dad Gerard Targete. I'm not one who likes to mix my professional life and personal one but honestly sometimes as an artist it can be difficult not to, as our creativity is sometimes wired into our emotions.

 Both my Sis and Dad have been my inspiration since I can remember and continue to be. It would take many many pages of writing for me to explain just how much they've inspired me. They have been my greatest heroes and teachers. Whenever I've confused or uncertain about a decision that will effect me or my family I turn to them "what would they do?" The decision to return to California is one of them and already it's been a great decision and I'm so excited and happy. It feels like everything is new again, like when your a kid and you've just seen "Star Wars" for the first time and you go home and start drawing spaceships and aliens and worlds from your imagination, the world is new again, and all the possibilities are open and endless.

One of the highlights and shimmering bright spots of he last couple of years is that I was fortunate enough to meet an amazing artist and some one I can call my "good friend" Shane Pierce. Shane's a quiet Juggernaut and rising star in the Fine art and illustration fields. You should check his amazing art out and give him some love , tell him JP sent ya :).

www.shanepierce.com/

Gnomon Master class 2013 final image

This was created for my Gnomom Master Class 2013. I want to thank Gnomon and all who participated in the class, it was great!.