Redeemer page 4

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Oodles of Noodled Doodles.

Redeemer Pg 6

Another Redeemer page.

New Redeemer page3

One more page from my redeemer comic..

Last White Wolf.

I finished these illustrations sometime ago, but had to wait until the book was published. It's late and I don't feel like writing too much. Maybe I'll add more later..

More White Wolf

More from the same project.

White Wolf Stuff

I finished these illustrations sometime ago, but had to wait until the book was published. It's late and I don't feel like writing too much. Maybe I'll add more later..

FOD

Did this commission for a client.. FOD is FORD, without the R.. Seems his "first car" was a Ford, and the "R" quickly was lost( it fell off) and it became the FOD.

He has a collection of commission of his old FOD, and it was a fun commission.

My Super Psycho Sweet 16

I got the opportunity to do the storyboards for this film. I and two other guys from Studio Revovler, John Christopher( character designs and conceptual illustration) and Casey Edwards(graphic design and conceptual illustration), works pretty closely with the director Jacob Gentry( of The Signal fame), and producer Alex Motlaugh of POP films.

It was pretty exciting giving input into the progression of the action scenes, which there were many. John did an amazing job creating the main slasher guy( of course this is a horror film).

I'll post some of the storyboards after the movie previews on MTV on the 24th of October.

BTW-The "Evaluation Copy" text in the second clip is from me using a demo program to convert this clip into a Quicktime file. It's not some super secret reel that I'm sharing. In fact you can find this all of the net if ya' want.

Wolverine

Just some wolvie fun..

Dawn

My first ever Dawn picture.. You can see the prelim in past blogs..

Fast Bats

Quick sketch with my handy dandy brush pen. I cleaned up the edges of the image in photoshops.. I'm a cheater..

Sketchies and Doodles

I've been busy with a big project lately.. All-niters, last minute deadline, y'know- the usual..
And then in my spare time I'm knocking out Sketchcards for a promotion the Studio is doing.

So.. After all of that, not much time for fun stuff. But I put my fun, handy-dandy brush pen to work and here are the results.. The second is the Punisher( if you couldn't tell. I wasn't able to sport the big skull)

( I also started watching episodes of St.Elsewhere on Hulu.. Strange huh?)

Beauty and the Beast

Some quick sketches, okay... These weren't that quick, but both were done in less than one hour each.

More fun with Brush Pens

I did this Ororo( Storm for you uncool peeps, or it may be that you're cool if you don't know that) right after the Logan/wolvie in the previous post..

I actually had so much fun doing these quick compositions, I ran out of ink the very next day.. So I'll be looking for a refill and get back to the festivities.. I have two more to share later this week.

I have to admit I did a little cheating and cleaned up her face in photoshop..

Fun with a Brush Pen

I was transitioning from doing design and storyboards, which I find very mechanical.. Storyboards ironically enough don't really feel like drawing to me. Probably because I'm creating images that are a reference for something else, and my decisions are based on how to make the end product better, not how to make this image better..

So when I transition to something that takes a lot more creativity, and my end product is important, I have to kinda shake head mentally to get into a different mindset..

So I grabbed this pen brush I got some months ago, at the advice of another artist, and I was just doing a few gestures and what not.. And then I kinda got in a groove with the brush, which can cover a lot of area quickly. I ended up with this wolverine..

I then did a storm.. But I'll share that one later.

Dawn

I started this Dawn at DragonCon.. I was sitting at my table and wanted to paint a character, and I have never drawn her before.

This one is still in the first phase, although the rest shouldn't take that long to finish.

Space Girl

Commission from last weekend at DragonCon.

Blackest Night tweaked

I wanted to make a print of the Blackest Night piece, so I had to get off my tookas and do a little photoshop magic to clean thing up and push things out.. Here is the result.

More Redeemer

This is a concept I created with Doug Wagner or "The Ride" fame..

I posted 2nd two pages in a previous blog.. I finished the first page some time ago and I'm posting that now.. The third page is probably the 8th page in the story, so I have quite a few to fill out..

Hulk Smash!

This was done in watercolor goauche..

Green Lantern: Blackest Night Finished.

Wow.. Does it take this long to finish a painting.. I guess, honestly, no- I've had other freelance design work to do, but I have to admit.. It did take a while..

I really wanted to control the colors in BG images.. I wanted them to feel as monochrome as possible, and not get too bright and compete with the main figure.

I've posted a version just before I finished the main figure.. I like some parts of this figure before I finished it, more than the finished one...

The main figure was a bit of a challenge too.. He needed to come off looking "black" as in the color, without actually being too dark.

I do have a few very small tweaks and additions to make.. But here is the final.

Blackest Night Progress

I've been toiling with my blackest night painting this week.. Just finished laying down the shadows for just about all of the characters.

I dropped out the elephant woman in the Blue lantern panel.. And I've decided to take out the third top figure in the Sapphire lantern panel( I'll just cover her up with some opaque BG color)

Blackest Night : color sketch

Okay.. Here's the color prelim for my Blackest Night Painting..

Onto the final!

The Blackest Night.

Okay.. Here's my next painting.

One of my studio mates got me interested in the story, and plot line and history are pretty fun to look into..

I'd love to do one for all of the lantern Corps.. Maybe one day..

But for now I wanted to do one that incorporated them all. And with the full color spectrum represented, I think this one is going to be pretty fun, and right up my alley..

I'm really looking forward to depicting the black lantern in the center.. Don't know if I'm going to do a monochrome BW, or just hit it will all the colors to create the "black look"

Well hopefully I can post the comp tomorrow ..

I've included the thumbnail, about 2x1 inches too. I scanned that, blew it up ,and did the BW sketch.

Drow Vs. Mindflayer

I started this as an entry to a contest over at Artorder. It was for a book cover, and I think not fully understanding the design challenges for book covers threw off my mojo..

It took me literally over 8 hours( and more) to settle on a concept.. And then I got to painting, but realized I didn't like the layout.. I felt I was flying blind so I scrapped it..

I'd like to revisit it, but I would start completely new..

I definitely have a morgue of pantings gone wrong, but it's been sometime since I had one I couldn't complete. Usually I make sure the composition is sound, and from there I can make it work.. For this one, I think the composition isn't working, so I couldn't put my heart to finish it.

Drink And Draw

Last Monday's Drink and draw featuring Chris and Miracole Burns..

The original Monk.

Yep. I'm talking about Thelonious Monk( not the the tv show). This is a late commission from Heroes Con.. It took a while for me to settle on a final composition.. I decided to focus on his face.. Initially I tried to incorporate the piano, but the face became too small.

And the whole "Monk at the piano" has been done countless time.. I didn't think we needed another version( read imitation) of that.

Here is the prelim and the final.

Finally Finished.

I put the last bit of paint on this two days ago.. This was a fun picture to paint, and it was on of those cases where at times it painted itself..

I ended up using a lot of opaque acrylics( gouache-y like approach) for the BG characters.. That was not my plan, but Igave the the very controlled tonal range I wanted there.

The Cylclops is mainly done with transparent washes, which is my usual modus-operendi with acrylics.

On the next piece I'd like to experiment with ptting some oils on top of the transparent acrylic wash.. We'll see how that turns out..

I'll be making prints of this in the next few weeks.

BTW, the web has a way of washing out the color.. To see a more accurate version of this drag the file to you desktop and view there..

Moving Along

Still cleaning up details in this painting.. I've already repainted White Queens face and hair, so that leaves adding Storms hair.. and from there just tightening up all of the details, eyes and whatnot.