Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
White Wolf Stuff





I finished these illustrations sometime ago, but had to wait until the book was published. It's late and I don't feel like writing too much. Maybe I'll add more later..
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Labels: illustration, painting illustration, RPG, White Wolf
Saturday, October 17, 2009
FOD

Did this commission for a client.. FOD is FORD, without the R.. Seems his "first car" was a Ford, and the "R" quickly was lost( it fell off) and it became the FOD.
He has a collection of commission of his old FOD, and it was a fun commission.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
My Super Psycho Sweet 16
I got the opportunity to do the storyboards for this film. I and two other guys from Studio Revovler, John Christopher( character designs and conceptual illustration) and Casey Edwards(graphic design and conceptual illustration), works pretty closely with the director Jacob Gentry( of The Signal fame), and producer Alex Motlaugh of POP films.
It was pretty exciting giving input into the progression of the action scenes, which there were many. John did an amazing job creating the main slasher guy( of course this is a horror film).
I'll post some of the storyboards after the movie previews on MTV on the 24th of October.
BTW-The "Evaluation Copy" text in the second clip is from me using a demo program to convert this clip into a Quicktime file. It's not some super secret reel that I'm sharing. In fact you can find this all of the net if ya' want.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Fast Bats

Quick sketch with my handy dandy brush pen. I cleaned up the edges of the image in photoshops.. I'm a cheater..
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Labels: Comic, commission, sketch
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Sketchies and Doodles


I've been busy with a big project lately.. All-niters, last minute deadline, y'know- the usual..
And then in my spare time I'm knocking out Sketchcards for a promotion the Studio is doing.
So.. After all of that, not much time for fun stuff. But I put my fun, handy-dandy brush pen to work and here are the results.. The second is the Punisher( if you couldn't tell. I wasn't able to sport the big skull)
( I also started watching episodes of St.Elsewhere on Hulu.. Strange huh?)
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Beauty and the Beast


Some quick sketches, okay... These weren't that quick, but both were done in less than one hour each.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
More fun with Brush Pens

I did this Ororo( Storm for you uncool peeps, or it may be that you're cool if you don't know that) right after the Logan/wolvie in the previous post..
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Fun with a Brush Pen

I was transitioning from doing design and storyboards, which I find very mechanical.. Storyboards ironically enough don't really feel like drawing to me. Probably because I'm creating images that are a reference for something else, and my decisions are based on how to make the end product better, not how to make this image better..
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Dawn

I started this Dawn at DragonCon.. I was sitting at my table and wanted to paint a character, and I have never drawn her before.
This one is still in the first phase, although the rest shouldn't take that long to finish.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Blackest Night tweaked

I wanted to make a print of the Blackest Night piece, so I had to get off my tookas and do a little photoshop magic to clean thing up and push things out.. Here is the result.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
More Redeemer




This is a concept I created with Doug Wagner of "The Ride" fame..
I posted 2nd two pages in a previous blog.. I finished the first page some time ago and I'm posting that now.. The third page is probably the 8th page in the story, so I have quite a few to fill out..
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Hulk Smash!
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Green Lantern: Blackest Night Finished.


Wow.. Does it take this long to finish a painting.. I guess, honestly, no- I've had other freelance design work to do, but I have to admit.. It did take a while..
I really wanted to control the colors in BG images.. I wanted them to feel as monochrome as possible, and not get too bright and compete with the main figure.
I've posted a version just before I finished the main figure.. I like some parts of this figure before I finished it, more than the finished one...
The main figure was a bit of a challenge too.. He needed to come off looking "black" as in the color, without actually being too dark.
I do have a few very small tweaks and additions to make.. But here is the final.
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I finished these illustrations sometime ago, but had to wait until the book was published. It's late and I don't feel like writing too much. Maybe I'll add more later..



