Late 2011/2012 sketch book pages

Here's some scans from my current sketch book.

Warriors

Here's the first part of what will hopefully be a series of illustrations. The theme is fairly broad, I pick an era of history and create a series of "warriors" from that time period. This sheet is modern mercenary, nordic, and western gunslingers.

Random characters!

Here's some character sketches I did for fun this weekend, they're still a little rough, but again it was just for fun. I've also include a progression image of each of the major steps in my process. This isn't always how I approach character work, but it's one of my favorite ways. It works particularly well for something like this, where your only goal is to create interesting characters.

New Paintings!!

Here's a few paintings I completed recently, I have quite the back log of almost-finished paintings and sketches that I need to attend to. Hopefully I can get some more of them posted soon.

This first image is a pretty simple one. A while back I was in a slump as far as creating personal work goes, I'd stockpiled a bunch of very rough speedpaintings, none of which I particularly cared for. Lately I've been on a bit of a creative rush so I grabbed one of those lost images and made this painting out of it.

These three are a series. Each of these started as the same painting, I took it to about a 30% finish level and then saved it out separately. At that point I thought it'd be interesting to do a few completely different settings using the same basic environment.

Ice Fortress

Alien Forest

Here 's quick one I finished up today. Hopefully some more new stuff soon...

Go Team Venture!!!!!!

So I've been slowly chipping away at this one for about four months now and finally got it to a point where I was happy with last night around 3am. Enjoy.

Updates!

Here's a couple my past favorites updated. I tweaked the colors and the sketch a little in both of them.

Refinery

wild china

So I just watched this documentary called Wild China and it was one of the more visually inspiring things I've seen, I recommend it. If you have a netflix account the show is available on the instant queue.

This was aprox 3-4hrs. worth of painting.

speed paint 1

This was about a 30-45min speed painting. I'm going to try and do a bunch of these really quick ones as often as possible.

Check this out!

So one of my former instructors, the very talented Eugene Clark, has started a new web site for his lecture/assembly/extravaganza series and I wanted to share the link. Seriously Eugene is great, I learned a ton from him.

Here's his site check it out


http://www.usaschoolshows.com/

The Gang

In all their glory...

Mountains

The Balrog King

Okay so technically this isn't part of the LOTR trilogy, but it is from the Silmarillion so same universe.

Lothlorien

Here's another LOTR inspired quicky.

Sort of comic stuff!

Here's my take on Magneto and the fam.

Khazad-dûm

Yup...so I'm back in one of those LOTR phases.

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abstract city

So I've been trying to work on doing city paintings lately, all speedpaints, I don't the patience or time to really jump into a fully realized city illustration at the moment. This one was pretty quick, I'm ball parking it at about 1.5 hrs.

The actual file name is shit city namely because of color choice.

another quick one

quickie

This is me trying to be sparthy.

merman

So it's been a little while, honestly I just haven't had the energy to do a lot of paintings lately. So I decided to do a quick character/creature spread. This is my image of a merman.

I've also been slowly working on an illustration, hopefully I'll finish that this week.

new brushes

got some new brushes, so i did some new paintings.

SAMURAI!!!

I love samurai culture. I've also been watching samurai movies lately. I've got a whole bunch of thumbnails of samurai that I'm gonna try to flesh out.

This one was a quick one, but I think I'm going to do a few more passes on it, I really do like paintings at this rough stage so I'm gonna try to keep that feel to it.

robot

here's a quick speed paint, about 30 mins.

WIP

This lil' doodle is a quick one I did today, I may clean it up later, But I kind of like where it's at now.

A River Runs Through It

This has nothing to do with the movie, but it does have a river.

life drawing!!!!!

I've been going to these great drawing sessions lately, it's $5 for a 2 hour drawing session with a live model, and it's at a bar so you can snag a beer while you're at it, bonus! These are some of my favorites, they're all 15 minute sketches.

here's a quickie

Here's a speed painting I did this evening, it took about 15-20mins.

Today was a rough day, but for good reason. Last night I attended one of the best parties I've ever been too. The event was call Gadjo Disko and, for lack of a better description, it was a bohemian rave. It went from 10pm to 4am and was non-stop dancing, drinking, and enjoying experience. Did I mention it was a costume party too. This is why today was a sit and do as little as possible day, I am very sore to say the least.

Here's a link check out some of the pics from the last one.
http://www.myspace.com/gadjodisko

Out Come the Wolves

I've been workin' on this one all week, I was feeling pretty ill all day today, but I started feeling better by dinner time and with that little burst of energy what-do-ya-know I finished this painting...for now.

some character roughs and a speed painting

These lovely ladies are just a few random character roughs, the landscape was a speed painting I started (about 40 minutes) that I'm gonna try to take to a finished level in the near future.