Sunday, January 15, 2012

Winter Rooftops


I have a soft spot for scenes like this.

Friday, January 13, 2012

The Bucci Bros - Family Cover Band!


In October (at my cousin's wedding), some Bucci members of my family formed a 60s cover band by accident. This is our first studio recording!

Monday, January 09, 2012

Warm Up


Today's warm up is a sketch of my cousin's French bulldog, Napoleon!

Friday, January 06, 2012

Sci-Fi


If you know my blog...you know that it's a rare day that I post anything resembling sci-fi art. But this is what came out when I sat down to sketch tonight.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Happy New Year!


Happy 2012 everybody! Go and hug a friend :)

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

False Start


An unfinished illustration that got canned during production of one of my personal projects. RIP!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

My Music!


Introducing my musical side-project! I've been writing songs lately, and have a lot of talented musician friends to record with. I called the project Disbanded because the band lineup changes with each song. We record at my home studio - tons of fun. (And yes, that's me on vocals.)
Check out the band's page. There's two songs up right now, and everything is free!

Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Flying


My favourite parts of flying are the takeoffs and landings. I was touching down in Toronto this morning and took a mental snapshot of the scene I saw out the window. This is the memory-painting right after I got home. Practice, people!

Friday, November 18, 2011

Sneak Peek


Working on a personal story project for iPhone/iPad with a writer friend. Pretty psyched about it! Here's a sneak peek!

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Hide & Seek


Another one with these characters. I may or may not be doing a project with them ;)

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Monster Slumber Party


These parties only happen in October!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Stranded


This is definitely the start of a horror movie.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Haunted Pumpkin Patch


This brother and sister haunt the Pumpkin Patch, and come out on Halloween to play!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Cindy


This is Cindy - the redheaded teenage girl who incinerates every boy she touches. It's a bit of a problem on dates.
(Another painting from my #bucciblogtober series on twitter!)

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Dark Knight Trick-Or-Treat


Who woulda thunk that The Dark Knight is a trick-or-treator? #bucciblogtober

Monday, October 03, 2011

Tonight's #bucciblogtober


It's day two of #bucciblogtober on twitter! Trying to do a scary painting every night. Nosferatu, anyone?

Sunday, October 02, 2011

BucciBlogTober!


My absolute favourite month of the year! I decided to kick off a little series of scary paintings this month, which I'll be posting under hashtag #bucciblogtober on twitter. Gonna try to do a scary, sketchy painting every day this month!

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Recording Music

Internal Tyrant - by CalmOcean by Marco Bucci
Recording music has become a serious hobby over the years. I actually started doing this before I ever picked up a paintbrush...back when I was making recordings of my high school punk band. I've got a fairly decent home studio setup now, and love to have musicians over. I engineered this track recently for a great band called CalmOcean.
I find that sculpting sound is very much the same as sculpting form in painting. Interesting.

Monday, September 19, 2011

A Study From A Video Game?


...if that video game is Riven! I've mentioned this before, but almost 15 years after its release, it's still my favourite piece of CG ever made (that includes movies). The light is so real, you could study from it as though you were actually outdoors. This one is from a particularly subtle scene in the game (hardcore fans should recognize it). Lit entirely in shadow, very close shifts of value and colour temperature were the only tools to reveal distance and scale.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Kingdom Of The Sun


I read that one my favourite Disney movies, The Emperor's New Groove, was originally called Kingdom Of The Sun. This is me pretending I was a concept artist on that film :)

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Work Stuff




Rare that I ever post stuff I do at my day job. These are some location designs I did for a new show called 'Mudpit' earlier this year, while working at Guru Studio in Toronto. In all cases, an actual 3D set was first built by the modeling department, which I would render camera angles from to block out my composition. That way, I could get straight to figuring out the mood and atmosphere of the location. The lighting department would then use these paintings as guides when lighting the actual sets in Maya.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

FanExpo Commissions



Another year in the books. AMAZING. I'm going through PCD (post-con depression) already.
Here's some commissions I did - pencil, ink and watercolor.
I had a blast meeting and hanging out with everyone!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Toronto Fan Expo


It's that time of year again!!
Come visit me at Toronto Fan Expo this Thursday - Sunday. I'll have my book, as well as a some real nice prints on watercolour paper.
See you there!

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

The Royal Family


My friends are in a great band called The Royal Family. They just released an EP, which I highly recommend you check out!
This is a painting I did of them.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Funeral


The final painting. I will have this as a 10x20" print at Toronto's Comic Con in August!

Edit: Here's the thumbnail, for those interested in peeking into the process.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

A ... Drawing!?!


I've been working on new illustrations to have as prints at this year's Toronto Fan Expo. I decided to get out the rusty ol' pencil to work out character designs and poses for a painting which will have like 5 characters in it. I'll post the final here soon.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Keys



A few colour keys I did for an independent project that will probably never get finished. Fun while it lasted.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Childhood Memories


I hope you have memories like this, too.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Venezia


Another painting that's in my book. Inspired by some time spent in Venice a few years ago.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sketches from Arizona



I was in Arizona recently, with my watercolor/gouache sketchbook on-hand! For those wondering about my setup, it's basically ripped off of Gurney Journey. Here's a pic of it.

Friday, March 25, 2011

From My Book


This was one of my personal favorites from my book.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Concept Art


Here's a recent concept painting. Always fun to come up with this type of scenery. Hopefully it's not too dark on your monitor. I now 'calibrate' all my paintings on Apple monitors. They seem to be the closest thing to a standard reference these days.

Friday, March 04, 2011

Myst and Riven




One of the reasons I got into art is because of the Myst and Riven games. Riven was released in 1998, and I still think it's one of the best looking things ever made. These paintings are inspired by it.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

More Guitar Playing



I've actually been playing guitar more than painting lately (not counting work). Here's my rendition of another Maneli Jamal tune, called 'Morning In Adanac'.

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Morning


It's getting harder to do stuff I like these days. I'm still unsure on where I stand with this one, but here it is anyway.

Friday, January 28, 2011

paintFACT: Composition Example


This is today's post on paintFACT, my Twitter Painting Series. Every Friday I do a mini handout like this.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Prague


A sketch inspired by my trip to Prague. Painted on the inside of one of my books. Watercolor and Gouache.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

@paintFACT - A Twitter Painting Blog


I thought it might be fun to do a little 'twitter miniseries' with motivational insights about painting. The twitter account is called @paintFACT. The goal is to post one new tweet per weekday. Check it out!

Friday, January 07, 2011

Winter


Kind of a romanticized version of what I see every night on my way home from work.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Christmas Portraits


These are little 8x10 portraits for my friends Ashley and Shawn. Oil on board.