Pen and ink illustration for Steampunk Magazine. { click on the image for a closer look } Getting back to my old love, Drawing, I set to making the final for this piece in pen and ink. I may have discovered something in the process that is unexpected, and it has to do with time….
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Perceptions: Finding Value in Mood and Tone
Summary: This in depth blog post is about the connection and implications of using values to affect the mood of an illustration. The images created by Jon Jude Palencar are used here with permission from the artist. This post is the result of two different conversations with two different friends that I’ve had in the…
Book Cover: Pike
This is the second of the two book covers that I was asked to do for PM Press. Amazingly this piece was a great sounding board for the other piece The Chieu Hoi Saloon. Both pieces were a lot of fun to work on, and they provided a great point and counterpoint to work between….
Book Cover: The Chieu Hoi Saloon
January has been a very good month, 2 book covers ~ DONE! The past few weeks have been quite eventful. there was the Holidays, followed by New Year’s eve, sprinkle in t he social events, and you’ve got a busy month. Some where in all that, I made time to paint 2 cover paintings for…
Rush Job
Yippee! 2010 is starting off wonderfully. A good client of mine contacted me for a rush job to spruce up their product information page. I had about 1 day to work on it. Everything went very smoothly, and I was especially grateful for the new brush pen that my sister gave to me for Christmas…
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