Thursday, May 08, 2008

dirtscapes & RSS feed






Today's landscapeness.
Also, I updated my RSS feed. Added feed subscription buttons for Google, Yahoo and Bloglines. Hopefully it will be easier for people to subscribe now. Sorry about the prior strangeness.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

more oil play


Small and quick w no real point.

woods


Just Painter this time. Made a few custom crazy "sponge" brushes for shape variation and texture hinting.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

water and oil




Water-mixable oil paint today (at work). Cropped from the same 9x12 sheet. First time I've tried this stuff in over 1o years. Seems to me they've improved.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Branch pods


I wasn't expecting to paint tonight. Far from done, but I'm tired.
Here's the blocking if anyone is interesting.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

acrylic play

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Girl's head was the size of my thumb print and my brush was way too big. That was stupid.

Acrylics scare me. I never know what I'm gonna get when that stroke dries. How dark is that gonna get? Darker than what I put it down on top of? Who knows?

Does anybody know how to manage that?!

Hopefully I'll have an alkyd sketch page coming up soon too.

Sunday, April 20, 2008


Photoshop. Tried a more intentional and limited palette.

Friday, April 11, 2008

one more


from tonight.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Speedies



Env paints today. Gotta start doing these in color. Scary.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Don't call it a soul patch!


Photoshop

Thursday, April 03, 2008

drawerGeeks:Samurai


DrawerGeeks
I wanted to do this one in color but ran out of time w some tricky composition issues.

Book News: For those who have been asking, the book will be ready at the end of May! I'll post any updates as I get them.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

life study






Vine and or charcoal pencil on newsprint. Had fun massing in a bunch of these with no contour. I really liked both of these models and that always seems to come out in the drawing in some intangible way. Random times under 5 minutes. I think the face was closer to 10.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

And again


With the screaming.

squawk!


Anyone notice how all my creatures have been screaming lately? Don't go reading too much into it.

Monday, March 10, 2008

monster


Free time today. PS.

Monday, March 03, 2008

zan


This week's DrawerGeeks.
PainterX

Monday, February 25, 2008

Quick paint demo


Inspired by Tom Scholes, Ryan Wood and Todd Harris, I finally found a way to do a screen recording of a quick painter demo. I couldn't shake the idea that it was being recorded and started noodling and being indecisive. Next time I'll loosen up. It was 39 minutes crunched down to fit into just under 5.

Music by Richard Thompson.

Bip.tv (better quality)



Youtube (faster streaming)

Friday, February 15, 2008

head doodle


Doodle from a slow spot at work today. Acrylic, colored pencil, sharpie, whatever else was on hand - on watercolor paper. About 3" high.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

sketch


painter + ps

Sunday, February 10, 2008

DrawerGeeks: Galactus


My late submission. Drawergeeks is updating their site. You can now click on artist names to get a catalog of their DG work and click on individual images to see larger sizes if they're available.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Book coming soon



Just announced over at Brand Studio Press!
Update (may 8th) : the book should be available in early June 2008.

12WX + 6D


My tabletPC has passed on. Now it runs with other tabletPCs on a special farm.

I splurged to replace it with a little Cintiq and a 6D Art Pen. This was done with an oil flat in painter. So cool to just rotate your pen to get the angle you want. I've only spent about an hour in total with the setup so far. I'm looking forward to more experiments.

I was very disappointed that in PS, the cursor doesn't rotate w the pen like painter. So you don't know exactly what you're going to get until you put it down.

Fighting Monsters




Mostly painter. The doodles for these came out in Dailies. What does that mean?

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

speedie


Yesterday's speedpaint. Man this looks dark and unsaturated here at work.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

C.O.W.


This round of Creature Of the Week is an elemental dragon. I thought that would be a good excuse to play more with texture and some environmental elements. He doesn't have quite the under-bite-mop-haired personality I was after but I like some of the grass. All PS this time.
Edit: Uploaded changes.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Website update

Finally updated my website! It's been *cough* 2 years.

This was more or less an experiment in texture and mark-making.
EDIT Jan 21:
I uploaded the original sketch, and followed through a little more on it. BTW, nobody is allowed to look for my old viking sketch that this pose is embarrassingly similar too!





Sunday, December 30, 2007

Revelations?


Anyone going to the conceptart.org workshop up in Seattle next week? Be cool to meet some of you fer real.

Monday, December 10, 2007

fly


I know, the "landscape" is awful. I have to scribble in a new one later.

Monday, December 03, 2007

light


Trying to get a handle on different lighting situations. I rely too much on a couple simple situations that I pull out of my pocket to describe form. Quickie from last night trying to ambiently (globally) light this guy. Decided at the very end to add shafts of light cause it was looking really dull. Didn't pay enough attention to them, tho. Still, learned some things for next time.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

more burnt vine


10 min.
Mostly vine & a bit of charcoal pencil on newsp.

Monday, November 19, 2007

monster


I swear I'll stop with the huge foreclaw motif ASAP.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Acrylic



On cheap watercolor paper. Maybe 3 inches tall. Keeping it simple at first. Never really used dry brushing before. That helped a lot where I needed softer edges. All in all it went faster than I thought it would. Anyway, I learned some things and will approach the next one a bit differently.

Friday, November 09, 2007

sith



Create-a-sith was this week's DrawerGeeks. Wish I had more than a couple hours to spend on it.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

demonPiggie


Playing with photoshop to get a simple brush I might be happy with. This one was just flow and no opacity. And texture.
Edit: I'm sure this is no revelation to most PS users. I dislike that typical transparent, overlapping feel that PS gives me with transparent brushes. This brush has opacity up to 100 and not controlled by pressure. Flow controlled by pressure and tuned to fit what I'm after with the flow slider. I had it at maybe 20% or 30% on my tabletPC. When I brought it home on my intous I had to fiddle as they feel so different.