GITTER

Late 2011/2012 sketch book pages

2012-01-23T20:14:00.000-08:00

Here's some scans from my current sketch book.

Fantasy Illustrations

2012-01-22T19:37:00.000-08:00

Here's my attempt at some fantasy style illustrations.

Warriors

2011-12-19T23:59:00.000-08:00

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!

2011-09-06T11:12:00.000-07:00

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!!

2011-08-26T21:42:00.000-07:00

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

2011-06-06T22:34:00.001-07:00

Alien Forest

2011-04-03T16:02:00.001-07:00

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

Go Team Venture!!!!!!

2011-03-01T11:04:00.000-08:00

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!

2011-02-21T20:04:00.000-08:00

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

Refinery

2011-02-02T22:18:00.001-08:00

wild china

2011-01-27T21:16:00.000-08:00

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

2011-01-25T20:23:00.001-08:00

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!

2010-11-19T18:40:00.000-08:00

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

2010-10-08T20:11:00.001-07:00

In all their glory...

Mountains

2010-09-18T22:18:00.001-07:00

The Balrog King

2010-07-21T21:58:00.001-07:00

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

Lothlorien

2010-07-07T23:57:00.000-07:00

Here's another LOTR inspired quicky.

Sort of comic stuff!

2010-07-04T21:47:00.000-07:00

Here's my take on Magneto and the fam.

Khazad-dûm

2010-05-21T23:55:00.000-07:00

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

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2010-05-01T13:27:00.001-07:00

abstract city

2010-04-28T21:48:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

quickie

2010-04-22T22:08:00.001-07:00

This is me trying to be sparthy.

merman

2010-04-19T23:46:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-20T18:07:00.000-07:00

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

SAMURAI!!!

2010-03-13T23:08:00.000-08:00

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

2010-03-10T00:06:00.000-08:00

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

WIP

2010-03-09T22:54:00.000-08:00

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

2010-03-04T22:23:00.000-08:00

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

life drawing!!!!!

2010-02-08T20:25:00.001-08:00

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

2010-02-07T22:08:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-04T22:05:00.001-08:00

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

2010-01-25T21:36:00.001-08:00

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.

with some color

2010-01-16T10:56:00.001-08:00

I feel a lot better abut this one.

--On a side note I think this post would've been #100 before I removed all the old posts so...woohoo one hundred posts, I'll give myself a pat on the back.

Okay

2010-01-15T23:31:00.000-08:00

Alright, well these two are more finished versions of the previous post, I really wasn't too happy with it, but was I sick of it at the time, and for some reason posting something to my blog is really final in my head, alas I couldn't stand looking at it so I worked it out a bunch more.

Now I just can't decide which version I like better. On one hand the jets kind of over complicate the image and then on the other hand I think they work with the composition and are beneficial in establishing depth. So you see my problem.

I want your opinions, If anyone actually reads this thing. I don't give a shit if you hate both of them (which one do you hate less?), so yeah I want some input before I put color in. Thanks.

WIP pt3

2009-12-19T22:51:00.000-08:00

Here's 4 hours (actually about 4 1/4 but these are approximate times), anyways it's almost done some more color touch up and value tweaks in certain areas and I'm willing to put the lid on this one.

WIP pt2

2009-12-18T00:06:00.001-08:00

here's the image after 3 hrs. it should be damn near close to finished by the next post.

WIP

2009-12-16T06:32:00.001-08:00

This one is a challenge I set for myself to do a forest scene, this about 2hrs into the painting I'm going try and do an update for each hour of progress on this one and see how that turns out. Also I believe this is post 96, once I hit 100 I'm going to redesign and clean up a lot of the blog. Anyways I'd love to hear your thoughts as I progress on this painting.

boredom = random speedpainting (20 min)

2009-12-13T01:04:00.000-08:00

Okay so the story I just pulled from an undisclosed location is such: figure in the foreground is a samurai type fellow who is about to cut the figure on the left to ribbons.

some sorta mystic

2009-12-10T19:07:00.000-08:00

Another WIP

2009-12-09T23:36:00.001-08:00

Another one for the same series, let me know your thoughts on these so far.

WIP codenamed hellions

2009-12-06T19:44:00.001-08:00

Here's a work in progress for the story I mentioned a couple posts back.

another WIP

2009-10-19T22:59:00.001-07:00

This little doodle is hopefully the first of a series, the theme, which for the time being I'm keeping a secret, is somewhat religious. This does not change the fact that I am staunchly anti-religion, I just think a lot of the fiction is cool.

30 min

2009-10-05T22:11:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't enjoy a quickie ;)
I was warming up with some silhouettes yesterday and this guy walked onto my page.

Mcknik

2009-06-02T22:17:00.001-07:00

Snowy

2009-05-26T13:33:00.001-07:00

Speedpaint - 30 min
(this one was a redo of an old painting that I really like, but felt I could do much better now, whenever I feel out of ideas I go back to sketches and paintings that I did a while back and try to revamp them, it usually gets the creative wheels a turnin')

mountain crevass

2009-05-26T11:41:00.000-07:00

speedpaint - 40 min

New Character

2009-05-11T20:57:00.001-07:00

Here's some ideas for a new character, which one(s) do you guys like best?