May 18, 2013

Gentleman Fox

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Playing with some inking techniques. Micron, Kuretake extra fine point marker and Kuretake brush pen.    

Channeling Gil

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Doing a little study of Gil Elvgren’s rendering style. The design isn’t too much of a stretch but the rendering was something new. I included some developmental sketches too. You’ll notice I changed the face in the final rendering. It was a bit too sultry. I wanted something fresher and a bit more innocent feeling. sketches:

The Wandering Giant

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Playing around with my new favorite app. I took a pic of a sketch from my sketchbook using Acquire for Photoshop , and started painting. Here’s the end result:

Thank You Notes

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I had a couple of thank-you notes to write the other day, and I thought it might be a good excuse to play with some watercolor. I really need to do more of this, both creating hand-made tokens of appreciation and working with traditional media. So much fun.

Dragon’s Roost — Sketches

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When I first started thinking through ideas for the Seven Deadly Sins art show I felt like I either had to represent all of the sins (Pride, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Wrath) or just focus on one. Lust seemed to be too easy, so I played around with some sketches for each of [...]

Dragon’s Roost — Part 3

Still some work to do on the Background, but it’s basically there.

Dragon’s Roost — Part 2

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Next Stop, color.

Dragon’s Roost

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Something I’m working on for the upcoming Seven Deadly Sins art show.

Happy Holidays

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A little Christmas treat. More coming in 2012.

That’s All…For Now

Still no news on when or how the next Green Monk will be published. This will probably be the last pages I’ll post until something is figured out. You should be able to get a good idea from the story, if you’ve been following along. By this time I’ve started to work with a combination [...]