Now we’ve come to the end of week 4 of the 12 week challenge. Arguably, we’ve entered the “fun” part of illustration, making images! Before I move on to the painting, I have to say that part of this challenge for me has been about zeroing in on what I want to do, who I’d…
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Ol’ #6: A Past Future In The Present
Recently I had the good fortune to paint the cover of Steampunk Tales #6. It so much fun to work in a genre that I really dig. I like to describe Steampunk Tales as a ‘Digi-pulp.’ They are really taking a great format that has propelled so many story tellers and illustrators forward from the…
Alien Moon Phases
You just have to love having creative friends. Recently a friend of mine finished writing a fantasy novel, which is looking for a publisher. In order to create a more positive and appealing property he decided to commission a few pieces of work from me, which I am more than happy to do! The first…
Steampunk: Made The Old Fashioned Way
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….
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…
Merry Christmas… now get to work!
Hey all, so Dame fortune and Santa have smiled upon me and delivered me two book covers to paint. I am very happy to be ushering in 2010 with some illustration work. Here’s both the brief’s that I’ve received thus far, hopefully the manuscripts will be emailed to me soon so I can parse out…
Portraiture in Watercolor
I am super happy to post this painting. I was honored to complete this portrait for some friends of mine who commissioned the piece after seeing the Paintings for Presents that I posted. The concept to use their daughter as Max from “Where the Wild Things Roam,” was serendipity at it’s best. I’d been thinking…
Art Auction Wrap-up
I’ll start by thanking everyone who helped to make this poster sale a success. A Gigantic thank you to Brent and everyone at Shintekiwho brought me this work, and took the extra time and effort to have the auction on Ebay. They have tireless energy and are super fun to work with. A thank you…
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