Winter Rooftops

I have a soft spot for scenes like this.

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!

Warm Up

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

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.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2012 everybody! Go and hug a friend :)

False Start

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

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!

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!

Sneak Peek

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

Hide & Seek

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

Monster Slumber Party

These parties only happen in October!

Stranded

This is definitely the start of a horror movie.

Haunted Pumpkin Patch

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

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!)

Dark Knight Trick-Or-Treat

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

Tonight's #bucciblogtober

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

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!

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

Keys

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

Childhood Memories

I hope you have memories like this, too.

Venezia

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

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.

From My Book

This was one of my personal favorites from my book.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

paintFACT: Composition Example

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

Prague

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

@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!

Winter

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

Christmas Portraits

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