When I was working on my Astronomer painting, I started with a completely different idea in mind, one that I still very interested in going back to. These comps represent that vision. It was more along the idea of an Austin Powers-ish evil supervillian labratory. These comps will probably get put to good use in the future.

Two different subjects today:

This first one is part of a large commission from a patron on DA. Simple sketch commission of his character. HB on 90lbs Canson.

After getting back into playing one of my favorite games (*coughAgeOfEmpiresIIIcough*) I did some readin' up on some of the soldiers the you can use in the game. One of which is a Fusilier. I didn't know much about these guys and it was a fascinating learning experience. Long story short, they were an elite class of soldiers armed with advanced flintlock muskets, which were new during the era latter-ends of the Napoleonic and American Revolutionary Wars. While these are not flintlock muskets, I got interested in flintlocks in general. These are some simple studies and you should expect to see more of them as well as muskets. I've got some plans in mind!

This is my new watermark I'm gonna slap on my stuff. I may change that B, but other than that, I like it. About 30 minutes in Illustrator.

Something I did for a friend. Took about 5 hours from sketch to finish and then I decided that it was pointless to go any further. Since there are properties in this that I don't own (*coughBen10andPokemoncough*), this piece is not worth much other than a nice practice, which it was. Not my character, just my art.

Corel Painter XI.

I threw this on facebook, figured I'd throw it up here too. This is a WIP of a self-portrait I'm working on. I'm painting myself as a Hessian Jaeger. The face needs some more definition and there's going to be a background.

Huge inspiration for this. Love the military drums!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hofy8xi0m7c

An 8 minute speedpaint exercise. I think I'm finally getting the hang of this.

This is an icon I made for my friend's iphone app. This was the final version, the one he picked. Made in Illustrator.

I was having a discussion with my friend in an OpenCanvas dual-sketch session about how I (as well as she) found it hard to draw cute things. So I started with a big head and big eyes, which is the cute formula starting point, and then was emerged was this hideous looking monster which properly disturbed the both of us. I should clean this up and make it fancy hahaha.

I doodle on paper towels when I have a few minutes of downtime at work. Also, I'm nerding out over Reagan Lodge, I'm trying to imitate him.

Final version of my mad scientist observatory lab. Still some details that need adjusting. An updated version of that will be posted when it's finished.

Painted in Painter XI.