Nightmares

photoshop over a loose pencil drawing. for a contest at sketchaholics.com

the theme was Nightmares. the idea is sort of from Monsters Inc. i love the idea of a couple of bullies going after a gentle monster. poor guy. so anyways, the kids are the monster's nightmare.

Anxiety

Experiments with Imagery

Wrastlers

The Grump

Boy meets Girl

Family Cat

Portraits

Brush Experiments

Ode to the Metabarons

This was a lot of fun to do. I learned a lot in the process, must keep going! I looked at Frank Frazetta and my Metabaron comics by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Juan Gimenez for inspiration.

Samus Sketch

Colored up an old ink drawing.

Old Timey

This was inspired by my friend http://www.tychocafe.com/ Jean Fhillipe. Always inspiring, his stuff blows my mind. Looking forward to seeing his work everywhere in the near future!

Goliath Bot p1

This is a little project I'm working on with someone. It's a 50 foot tall robot.

I started with a sketch, then I cleaned it up, and then took it into photoshop for a very rough block-in of values. My end goal is to show a fully rendered illustration with this guy in an environment. So there will be a lot of exploration of value and color to help sell the scale of this guy. Of course, I'll add in little birds and some people on the ground, and also, a little bit of a background to help give you more things to relate its size too. The only thing I wish I could have done was to warp the perspective to show you how it would really look, but I know this is more of a concept piece so it needs to have clarity of visual information over "how it feels".

Two Giants

It's strange how some things don't turn out like you want them to. Here are two examples of trying to get an idea out of my head, but having totally unpredictable results. Sometimes things just have to be finished before you can learn and move on.

The first one is my failed attempt to get what I somewhat managed to get in the second.

X-Mullets

Here is the next super hero, going along with my friends from SCAD. The category is X-men with mullets. I know Wolverine doesn't have a mullet, but I couldn't help it. And once you draw a mullet on a guy, you have to make him have really weird proportions and then have him stand around with a jug of moonshine near a broken down old truck with dogs on a hot day.... right?

I started with a Col-erase pencil, then inked it with a pigment liner, then used gouache on it, all on a smooth finish bristol board. Slight touch ups with the always handy colored pencil.

Sketches from a nomadic life.

I haven't updated my sketchbook in a long time, so here goes. These sketches are from the past 8 months, from the time I moved from Chicago to LA, back home to "near Seattle", and finally to Boston for my new job. Life is crazy.

Just when you think you are achieving your goals, you find out that what you want to do and what you are made to do are two different things. Thankfully, I have the artist part right, but as for what kind of artist.... that is to be decided.

We're all just spinning solar systems slowly forming as time wears on.

Monsters go "RAWR!"

Here is my first attempt at a fully painted made up illustration, without line art. It took me longer than I normally would take, but it was more of a learning tool than anything. Things will speed up as I get used to working in color, with rendering.

Application!

This is an illustration I'm working on. I designed a monster and a character to do battle in an erie jungle cave setting at night under a full moon. It's probably going to be the most rendered thing I've ever worked on but I'm learning a lot about value and just taking my time creating accurate lighting and color with make believe characters.

It's still in progress, so I imagine the final will be quite different when all is said and done.

BirdMan Concept

Giant Walking Stick, etc.

This is a giant walking stick, it has a little village on its back.

The other images are for a concept art test.

The last one was drawn by Tim Seeley, colored by me for a movie.