space pope

Space Pope. Done for newest Eclipse Phase RPG

Over a year in waiting.. I haven't stopped posting, I just have too many social outlets.. Personal website, Studio Website, Facebook, Twitter..

I just can't update them all... With that said, I'll do my best.. and I'll at least post when I have updates elsewhere.

Here is the painting I did for the Heroes Con art auction.. Cloak and Dagger no less..

Eclipse Phase: Gate Crashing

I got the opportunity to work with Rob Boyle on Eclipse Phase again.. I did three images for their first book, but only one chapter opening this time around.

It was a fun assignment, an I tried a new approach this time around.. One of my first commissions when I did everything digitally.. I got to spend some time on a friend's Cintiq, so I went from concept to final all in Photoshop.

Here's a quick overview of the plot of this RPG,

Gatecrashing takes you through the mysterious Pandora Gates:
* The 5 solar system gates and the factions that control them
* 30 extrasolar locations of interest to Firewall
* Exploration operations and hazards
* New morphs, new gear, and rules for gate use

Learn more here on the Eclipse Phase blog

here are some of my steps thru the process:

Here are the thumb nails that I sent out to the Art Director. I had more, but I felt these two were the
strongest. And unless I got direction to do something different, I wanted to go with these.

After the initial concepts were approved with some small notes on compotion, I started with a BW tonal painting.. I pushed and pulled the forms and toyed with the composition until I came to a final image that I liked.

This is on the way to the final image.. I played with the "Pandora's Gate" ( depicted at the bottom of the composition) I had it on a separate layer, so I could push pull and stretch it until I got a composition that I liked.

Sinestro.

I've been working on this painting for sometime now.. Not everyday, just a little here and there. Everytime I tried to make an end rally to finish it, I never liked it, so I ended up repainting quite a few time.. And then it just became too much time spent. so I scanned it and did a paint over in photoshop..

I plan to repaint the original based on this photoshop image. The model for this was Chris Burns

79: Babe Mondays: Pin-up girl

Okee dokee.. today a quick pin-up.. I tried to knock this one out quickly yesterday but I didn't like the result enough to post..


I wen't back at it again today, found a way to simplify things, and I'm happier with it now.

Here's the inspiration for this image: click here.

74 Free for all Friday: Akira

Not Quite a sketch, but I did spend the whole of Friday working on it. 

I did this piece for the Akira exhibition that's touring the US and Europe. It's available as a print.. If you're interested, give me a buzz.

BTW.. It's either Free For All Friday, or Word of the day Friday depending on what's cooking in the kitchen.. I think I'll be back to a Word of the day Friday this week.. I have something brewin' in my head that needs to get out.

70: Babe Monday: Atom Eve

68: Free For All Fridays

Okay I've deviated from Word of the Day Fridays.. But I do have a Word of the Day Pic too, coming later.

I think this is how Red Sonja would really look like if she's as badd a$$ as she's portrayed. She'd have to have a lot of upper body mass to weild a sword as well as the dudes.. and well the skimpy coverage of the ta-ta's would distract even the most focused of men.

That's my two cents and I'm sticking with it.

riq.

64: Red

My Next Painting

Here is the sketch layout of the painting I'm currently working on.. Chris Burns posed for this, and I'm definitely trying to get a likeness with this one.

GL Remix

Took the Recent GL painting into photoshop. A few filter, textures, and a brushstroke here and there.. and voila. I'm a old fashioned analog guy, but you can't beat the digital msg of photoshop.

New GL Painting

I still have a little post work to do in photoshop.. I'm not loving the BG, but I put a lot of sweat and tears into this one.. I wanted to do as much as possible on the paper..

I got to my limit one I put down colored pencil- one a thic coating of Prismacolor, the painting won't take many other mediums.. except I guess, oils.

I'll post some of the thumbnails and comps I did for this.. I didn't take any WIP's, because I didn't have much time, and I was bent on finishin ASAP.

New Green Lantern Comp

Went back to my old school way of planning a painting. Small thumbnail in my comp book. I have comps from way back in 98 in this book...

Merchant of Venice

Not really.. But here's a commission for an RPG game.. This will be full color in the end.

RPG Illustration

Start of an illustration for an RPG Game

DinoGRRRL!

I did this image to go into the Emerald City Con Monsters and Dames artbook.

I had to knock this one out pretty quickly.. I took about 5 hours to draw and paint the base color and another 5 hours to add some highlight and texture, and then I've been noodling at it on the computer for the past 2 days.

Last White Wolf.

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..

More White Wolf

More from the same project.

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.

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.