My holiday greeting card with my line-direction board. Acrylics on watercolor paper for the finished product.

My apologies for the lack of updates over the last two days.

Skull Mountain. This is the final version that went up for critique in my Digital Painting class. There's a handful of improvements that will be made to it, but I'm very pleased with what I've accomplished here. Created in Painter.

This is an unfinished project from about half a year ago. I did this for an acquaintance's 'contest', mostly because I liked her characters, I'd win some DA points and I knew I'd have fun with it. I wasn't one of the winners (and the ones that did win made me scratch my head in confusion). It never got colored (which wasn't a requirement but it would have looked nicer) and I lost motivation in bothering since I didn't win. I'm interested in coloring it now, but since these aren't my characters, it may not be worth the time/effort as I can't use this for anything other than practice. We'll see.

N.C. Wyeth mastercopy. This was a truncated version of the original illustration. Graphite, Charcoal and Acrylics on hot-press watercolor paper.

I played a game with my friend today. We each took turns choosing a song to create 10 thumbnails to. It was mostly our reactions or how we felt about the song and its title, lyrics, sound and/or mood. These are the results.

This first set was done to this song: "Under Control" by System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-d4PHUPTs

Done to "I Am The Tower" by Mayhem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiO7wD8402w

Done to "Jesus Christ Porno Star" by Chemlab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN6U3lHeC0s

Done to "It's Murder" by Mayhem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xOj3JGU0c

My version of Jack and The Beanstalk. Acrylics on hot-press watercolor paper.

I'm dipping into posting some recent/older stuff while I'm working on larger projects.

Skatepark made in Illustrator with pen tool. It might look familiar to some of you.

Having some fun in Geology class. Ball-point pen and some gray Copics.

Experimenting with new watercolor pencils. I need to find something that'll work as a good undersketch tool.

These were some of my very first explorations with Painter. Done very quickly one right after another.

Comp for an icy cave. I like this one. I think it needs some tweaking to the floor to guide the viewer toward the light tunnel in the back. This one may get turned into a cleaned up, polished painting.

Digital painting I did for a friend. Anthropomorphic stripper sloth, hahahaha. I started working on this after learning a bunch of shortcuts that could have made this piece a lot better and finished much sooner. Oh well, it was a good practice run and great fun to do.

Her character; My art. Corel Painter X.

Another comp.

Practice Painting Comps

I've been feeling more and more comfortable using Corel Painter. I'm messing around doing comps for ideas I've had in my head for ages.

This particular one I don't care for too much. Probably not gonna continue working on this one.

Phoenix

I'm resurrecting this blog to use as a daily sketch/art journal. My goal is a post-a-day with artistic updates. Wish me luck!