The Changeling

Isn't he adorable ;)

Did this one for theConceptart.org CHow(Character of the Week) again. Made it in on time this time.

It's a Changeling. You can read the description of what that is here; http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235897

Mine's a young changeling who grew tired of going to school so...

Erzulie Mansur-Loa of Love

I did this piece for the conceptart,org CHOW #275
Unfortunately, I didn't see that the deadline was GMT(Grenwich Mean Time) so, I didn't get it in on time...
Anyways, it's based on Rada Erzulie, which is a Haitian/African/Voodoo spirit of love.
Most people seemed to be going in a hot voodoo direction and so I didn't, or at least not the traditional dark direction people associate with voodoo.
I went more spiritual and which from my study is more what she is. I incorporated the colors associated with her and symbology like the heart, dove, and white lily. I also did not make her 'western' hot and went with more of what would come across as a still beautiful but not modern idealized and more matriarchal interpretation.
It was a fun piece to do even though it won't be used for the intended purpose.

Hello...can you hear me?

Did this Demonic Nobility portrait a little here and there. It eveolved from a quick sketch which I found to have interesting shapes. Just for fun and to be a bit silly.

Draw Night-Venom

So it's been about a month...
Tim Odland gave me some crap about posting something up so I did a little more to this piece than just the stuff I did at draw night, but not much.
It would really be nice to get back into posting once a week. I'm not brave enough to post my crappy sketches anymore, mostly because I don't want people in the professional world to see them, lol.
Hope  you dig.

The Sandman

Morpheus. Dream of the Endless. Lead character from one of my fav comic series of all time.
Painted this one up fairly quickly  a month or so ago. Thought I'd posted it, but guess not.

Invincible Update II

Some things I like about this update... Same things I don't. Mostly I think I liked the face /head better before, but everything else better now. Threw the logo in there for good measure.

Lena Portrait

Did this one last wednesday at the Bountiful Davis Art Center life drawing session. Mike Call decided switch mp the pose for the last half hour so I didn't really get to work it as much I would have liked.

Sarah Portrait

Did this one tonight at the Bountiful Davis Art Center figure session. I tried a little different process than I normally use when painting digital, doing a monochrome under painting first, then laying Color on top of it.  A little less than  2 hrs total working time and I'm quite pleased with the results. I'll probably hate it tomorrow. . .
Lemme know what you think and thanks looking.

Aerin(?) Portrait

My first painting from life on my new slate PC. Had a lot of fun and minimal frustration working on it.
I've been reading/studying 'Color and Light by James Gurney. He is an amazing painter and is very insightful with his Study of the subjects. For me, the way he explains the ideas things comes across very clear. I recommend it highly if you are interested in the subject.

Invincible Update

Just updated this with some linework, added the background, cleaned up the painting, and generally tightened it up.
I may make one more update on it, we'll see. 

Got my slate running so smoove, it's really great to work on. Now I just have to learn to paint better. I'm trying to really up my game. I'd like to paint exciting pieces and reach that next level that seems to keep eluding me. If you have any pointers, I'm all game.
Thanks for looking,

M

Invincible

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Another from the slate here. I sketched it while waiting for an appointment yesterday morning, then painted it while sitting in front of the tv last night. My wife may come to hate this thing, all the time I've been spending with it.  

Draw Night: Hunky Shaman

Did this tonight on my new Eee Slate PC at draw night. Spent most of the time messing with getting the Bluetooth keyboard to work again and making some other tweaks. Getting all my shortcuts and everything going as I was sketching this. After I spent some time on painting it up, then a few touchups at home.
I think I'm going to love this new little machine.

Gastank



I know, this drawing is pretty dumb. What the hell? You got jipped.

Flying Elbow

KCHAWWW!!



This was from Draw Night. I never know what to draw there, but it's moui fun to go and chill with some other artists and just sketch or whatevs.

Sackhead

Just a quick character sketch I did while bored. He's a serial killer type. Thanks for looking.

Mortifera

Hi, it's been a while. Too long actually. I don't know if anyone still checks this think out. If so, sorry for the lack of updates. Life has been very busy. I thought anyone who does check this would like to see this piece.

I did this pinup for the comic Mortifera that my friends Sarah Partington (Poot) and Stephan Frost are doing. I think their comic is neato and you should check it out. Buy a copy, buy a shirt.

Hope you enjoy the looking as much as I enjoyed the doing.

M

A Spell of Blood Red Roses

I started this piece with intention to do a flyer for my bands show on the December 4th. I wanted it to have the poster art look. I didn't succeed, nor did I get it done in time to do anything with it, and it's really not done now. But I doubt I will ever go back in and finish it, so here ya go.

Has this become a dumping ground for my unfinished crap...no. It's always been a sketch blog anyways.

Season of Change CD Cover

Back in the month of May, my band and I went into the studio and recorded a 4 song Ep. Unfortunately, money has been tight for everyone and we have not been able to get any printed. I took the 'Opposition in Unity' piece and did a bunch more work on it and turned it into our Ep cover. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Lenscap

This guy here popped up on one of my sketchbook pages that I scanned today, so i thought he'd be neat to paint.

Style Tests with Bats and Friends

I'm messing around with this style again. It's been years since I have done stuff like this but had to do something at work in this vein the other day. It reminded me how much I like this style and how much easier it is to pull off when you can add and subtract both. When I did it before it was either with inks, or on scratchboard. All good, but very unforgiving. Either get it right or go home. Digital allows a lot more room for error and the ability to fix errors while still keeping those happy accidents.

Here are some straight Black and Whites, and also some painted versions.

Let me know what you think.