the gate

lava queen and robot( (of course)

coupla quick studies...playing with colors and compositions

awkward.....

Wanted a change from the more realistic pieces.

The reclusive genius

Contrary to popular opinion, the beautiful creatures we know as Unicorns are actually manufactured....in a futuristic factory.....and they can time travel.

creeeeeepy...

I'm workin on some possible splash pages/covers for the CRUNCH comic. I don't wanna give too much away in terms of what this image represents, but I will say I was trying to capture a creepy/scary element. Not sure if I'm gonna use it(for a few reasons), but it was a good exercise. More to come!

riding hood 2.0

Return of the fleet

I think parts of this pic work okay, some not so much. I wanted the foreground element to be very dark and a bit more graphic (supposed to be black rock in DEEP, dare I say otherworldy shadow)...HOWEVER..I'm not sure it's workin. Looks a bit like the foreground is at night, the BG late afternoon. Thoughts, ideas,take out orders.....

Completion of Bot-27: World domination imminent

I'm trying to loosen up, so I figure doing some quick studies might help.It's about 5 by 7 inches. Pretty small considering some of the pieces I've done were 12"x18". Ah well, Who knows!

Oh...how the mighty have fallen...

Went to the super7/afterworks 2 signing and arrived in time to see this. Wicked!

ghostfish...

Usually I'll pick at a piece for a while over the course of a week or so. The last few have been bigger, and for this one I wanted to sit down and just go with a rough idea.8 1/2 by 11. No real planning except a thumbnail I sketched. About 2-3 hours I guess.

abandoned by their parents, the children consider their options

oh... drac!

I don't know how it happened, but along the way, drac ended up looking a bit like Saddam.huh...

My friend Andrew King!

A good friend of mine decided to abandon his day job and pursue a career painting full time. He has been doing it for more than a year now, making a living painting what he wants to paint and has never seemed happier. He has worked in the animation industry, and been an art director for live action features. Also, just about one of the most interesting people I've ever met. Check out his stuff:
www.andrewkingstudio.com

goin to market

well, what can I say? I felt like doin a layout...

Yes....Dance..Dance for our amusement!

Raspy colored..

Wow, this is quickly becoming the post that didn't want to happen. I lost the original digital paint file of this image and then decided to do a simpler "cel" paint style. I did it on a pc and tranferred it to my mac. The difference in saturation was crazy.Both monitors are supposedly calibrated... I tried to fix it to get close to what I had done, but I wonder how it will be viewed on different monitors. huh..

Rasputin...

I spent a few hours painting this today, and lost it in the joyous land of the computer. Vanished.... I must have over written the psd file when I created a new page to do color tests . Oh well, I shall start again. YAY!!!

Christmas break!

It's been ridiculously busy for the last few weeks, (as I'm sure it has been for many people.) I went to visit my parents for the holidays and found myself in the basement going through old boxes I've had since I was a kid. I tend to rummage through these boxes for a nostalgia kick now and then... In one of these boxes I chanced across some drawings I did when I was about 10 years old. I was clearly influenced by the ideas of "destroy" and possibly "ninja". I found about twenty or so, and here I shall share a few......

These are a couple of charcoal drawings I did a few years ago. The junkyard piece was for an idea I had involving a futuristic telling of Theseus and the Minotaur. Their will definately be a mythological basis to some of the pieces I will post. Always been a fan..