Pantsdance

2011-12-19T15:29:00.000-08:00

Some sketch and composition work. The 3 at the bottom are older ones based around Beowulf. The newer stuff is a combination of random ideas and plans for my Red Riding Hood book.

Smiley, another Vampire

2011-10-30T19:45:00.000-07:00

Vampire Characters close to done.

2011-10-24T23:52:00.000-07:00

They each have little things to improve/finish on them. Some more than others, but I thought I would post their progress thus far.

little quick character painting, couple hours of photoshop doodling.

2011-07-19T21:19:00.001-07:00

Graduation/bday gift for a friend.

2011-07-04T01:00:00.001-07:00

Cute knights

2011-04-15T14:08:00.000-07:00

Here are some cute knights I'm doing, colors to come.

Belated Wondercon Comment

2011-04-06T21:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a rare text only message to all those who may have come out to Wondercon and visited my and Samuel's booth over the past weekend, and may have now found yourselves at my art blog. I just wanted to say that as an artist, I (and most others) spend the majority of our time inside whatever space we have to call a studio, alone and cut off from the world. We delve into our own private worlds from which we pull inspiration with which to work, but despite the worlds, characters, and stories we conjure up when we work, we still sit there in solitude with our work.

Its very easy in this environment to detach from reality, to obsess over the flaws in our work, and to doubt our very ability to create something worth creating. It is very easy to be overtaken by these doubts, and I think are a major block in many artists careers.

I have been hit be these feelings before, and I'm sure I will again, however, the reaction and outpouring of positivity from all those who go to conventions like Wondercon, or APE or any number of other con where aspiring artists or self publishers go to show their work is absolutely invaluable. The willingness of people like yourselves to take the time to look at no name artists and publishers, and appreciate the work they do validates every hour/day/week spent in a solitary studio.

I can not adequately express my gratitude to every person who took the time to come to the con. My thanks to any and all that come out to visit us.

Some in progress pieces I'm working on.

2011-04-04T00:09:00.000-07:00

A selection of recent stuff

2011-02-03T14:06:00.000-08:00

In progress pieces below.

Here is a smattering of recent stuff, I realized I've not updated this blog in a loooooong time.

Finally finished this piece.

2010-06-24T00:33:00.000-07:00

I finally got around to finishing Gnoman the Barbarian in memory of Frank, these boobs and biceps are dedicated to you Mr Frazetta.

2010-06-14T13:13:00.000-07:00

Here is a selection of rough work for a game idea I am developing for my portfolio.

2010-03-05T17:49:00.000-08:00

Been silent here for a while because I am in the process or making an entirely new portfolio of vis dev work, but here is a little doodle I did to take a break and prove the point that a stash can be sexy on a girl.

Hopefully be done with the new portfolio soonish and will post it when its ready.

And one more.

2010-01-07T00:29:00.000-08:00

Sketch I did the other night. This is an hour in photoshop, will try to finish it later.

Grandma paintings and oil sketches

2010-01-06T22:09:00.001-08:00

Here are the finished painting os my grandma. Each one is roughtly 6 hours of painting.

And here is an assortment of little oil sketches I've been dooing recently to keep in practice. Each one is about 1-2 hours

Little job I did.

2009-12-10T15:00:00.000-08:00

I did this little illustration a number of months back and it is now live. Haven't looked at it since I did it, and now am finding lots of things I'd like to change. Oh well.

http://brokensea.com/maudelayne/2009/12/09/maudelayneseries-2-episode-11-fire-ice/

fullsize

Grandma Irm

2009-11-12T01:39:00.000-08:00

Some pictures of Granny I've recently done.

Skeches from last night

2009-11-04T13:01:00.000-08:00

Its been a while since I've done anything resembling a proper illustration, so I started brainstorming last night while gaming with friends, and here is the result. I plan on getting a nice refined drawing and then painting in oil.

Haloween

2009-11-01T18:13:00.000-08:00

2009-10-29T21:20:00.001-07:00

Did this tonight.

SICK

2009-10-29T03:57:00.000-07:00

Been sick ever since APE with some super virus, here is a sketch from tonight, and I have a few more things I did the past few days which I will post tomorow.

And more...

2009-10-08T21:09:00.001-07:00

I think I'm pretty much done with this one.

And here is a sketchbook page I did some paint studies on.

The past week!

2009-10-07T14:46:00.000-07:00

So here is a smattering of stuff from this week.

A landscape, oil on board

A rough acrylic sketch from a while bat that I painted more, acrylic on plywood

Similar to the ship, had a rough painting from Kazu's class that I never did anyhting with, put more paint on it, might go back at the girl with oils, cause I'm still not pumped about it. Acrylic on canvasboard.

Mini canvas (4x6) done with fabric paints that were leftover from the project below.

Here is my first step tword maybe painting some miniatures again. Started making terrain to play tabletop games with people. Here is the first finished piece.

Progress

2009-09-30T21:55:00.001-07:00

Progress shot and close up. I'm not entirely happy with how my greens are looking. I've started playing with varying the color in the trees, but the groundcover is too generic and all the same, that's what I get for starting a painting without a drawing underneath it.

2009-09-27T02:44:00.000-07:00

Haven't so much as looked at Painter in ages, and thought I'd give it yet another try to endear me. This is a little sketch turned illustration I had a colorstudy for, and sat down for a few hours tonight diddling with painter. I'm going to try to finish it entirely in painter, but no promises.

Landscapes Collected

2009-09-19T18:58:00.000-07:00

2009-09-03T01:14:00.000-07:00

Couple o' colorstudies.

2009-08-17T00:50:00.000-07:00

2 Landscapes from today, and a photo from the many I took to paint at home that I thought worked nicer as a photo than as a painting.

BUNCHA STUFF

2009-08-14T01:23:00.000-07:00

Ok, here is a bunch of stuff. First, I've been building some lightweight travel easel setups for landscape painting, and here are the first paintings done using my new setup.

9x14ish

4x6

So here are a couple of pics of my box attached to the tripod. (Attached via quick release)Adjustable lid.
Here is a nicer one I made. (previous one is my messy prototype)

Here are a couple of paintings I did like a year ago and totally forgot about.

2009-08-09T23:35:00.000-07:00

Did these this weekend. They're on gessoed board and I'mma paint them.

2009-07-29T01:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a drawing I just did, kinda as a random fun time drawing post Siren. It is also the first of a number of old sketches/comps that I'm going back to and making nice. Here is the drawing, a color study, and the original, courtesy of illustration 2.

2009-07-23T02:14:00.000-07:00

Now that I iz done with my comic for Siren, I'll try to start posting here again. Here is a random doodle page from hanging out tonight. Also I have some landscapes on the way that I did over the weekend.

2009-05-24T22:14:00.000-07:00

A study from tonight. 2'x4' oil 2 hours.

2009-05-08T22:47:00.000-07:00

My submission for the sketchbook competition. Thinking I shoulda made the sketches smaller and fit more on, but oh well.

2009-05-05T15:36:00.000-07:00

Just worked a bunch on these last night since I never really considered them finished.

2009-04-24T00:56:00.000-07:00

A little portrait of my friend, viking style!

2009-04-21T19:07:00.000-07:00

I did this last night. First time using zinc white (thanks Chuck) and raw umber (thanks Ray) and its was incredible. Its like this was the first time I oil painted for "real." The zinc white was unbelievable.

2009-04-19T22:13:00.000-07:00

I did two quick portraits yay! I apologize ahead if I made either of you freakish looking.

2009-04-02T20:49:00.001-07:00

New.
And finished.

2009-03-31T00:36:00.000-07:00

Digital sketch of one of my tinybook drawings. Trying to find a nice looking and quick way to do pen + digital in a way that dosen't look too digital and retains some of the roughness of the original drawing.

2009-03-30T00:06:00.000-07:00

Here are some things from my mini sketchbook, they are all semi recent.

And this one is a regular size one just for giggles one night when I was drinking with friends.

2009-03-23T23:35:00.000-07:00

Here is the portrait of my father that I have been working on, I'm not so happy with how the picture has killed all the color in the shadows. I still might do a little glazing on it, but its basically done.

And here is tonights landscape. I'm not satisfied with this one yet, I'm going to go back into it when its a little less goopy and play with it. This one is a first attempt at doing a landscape in reds cause I have a bigger board waiting for one of this color scheme. Maybe make the trees a little more redish umber and the clouds a little more pink and light.

2009-03-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

A little self portrait I just did for my website.

2009-03-15T21:52:00.001-07:00

Another landscape quicky, this one served as a little break while I was working on my pop's portrait.

2009-03-01T18:18:00.000-08:00

You guys have seen several versions of this, but I'm working on making this stand up to my current work, I think I'm getting close.

2009-02-28T20:52:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the non art post, but Sergio Aragones was a big childhood hero, and one of the reasons I'm an artist today.

2009-02-24T20:38:00.000-08:00

A quick environment. Higher res in on my web site.

2009-02-23T15:50:00.000-08:00

Some idea work for a few stories.

2009-02-23T15:42:00.001-08:00

Just some brainstorming.

2009-02-19T17:08:00.000-08:00

I drew these yesterday, they are some character concepts for a children's book idea I had. Please excuse the bad pictures, I am house sitting for my parents for two weeks and did not bring my scanner.

2009-02-02T15:02:00.000-08:00

I just did another quick landscape, I shoulda put a neautral backdrop behind it when I took the picture...

2009-02-01T22:48:00.000-08:00

Did this tonight, think I might start doing some landscapes, not sure if I want to leave it rough or come back to it with refinements.

2009-01-22T22:36:00.000-08:00

Here is an old cowboy oil sketch, an oil work in progress, and some sketch pages from this weeks work day. Ray, you are a bastard, I just spent almost 40 bucks on 2 tubes of paint.......you and your oily ways.......

2009-01-15T01:40:00.000-08:00

I painted these today. Oil, YAY!

2009-01-05T21:55:00.000-08:00

A couple of Caran d'ache sketches I did.

2009-01-03T18:31:00.000-08:00

Two imp/demons for the weekly challenge http://benjaminandryan.blogspot.com/

Mal'jeNarnon gets embarrassed and shy around the ladies.

Grisl'hekkRygornathadz is late for his first day of work.....

2009-01-01T15:22:00.000-08:00

I've not used Painter for a long time, so I did some doodling with it to start to figure out the tools again. It made me want to start drawing space goblins, so I guess we'll see where that goes.

2008-12-07T13:10:00.000-08:00

Ask and ye shall recive. Here are my color studies for these. I think they're pretty close to what I want for the finals.

2008-12-03T00:56:00.000-08:00

Early concepts for my next two illustrations.

Old Stuff

2008-12-01T18:45:00.000-08:00

I was digging through some old stuff and found these, I might take them and do some extra work on them to fancy them up.

2008-11-29T18:24:00.000-08:00

The next step for these two. Still not satisfied with them, not sure what I want from them yet.

2008-11-19T19:55:00.000-08:00

I just realized I never posted this on here, I know most of you have seen it already, but I figured I'd stick it here anyway.

2008-11-19T13:47:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a John Carter of Mars illustration, here are some sketch pages of ideas.

2008-11-19T02:06:00.000-08:00

I got super inspired by Iain McCaig and did these drawings tonight.

2008-11-13T01:31:00.000-08:00

Minor update to this viking piece. Also, Fallout 3 is rad.

2008-11-03T09:24:00.000-08:00

Update on my vikings, I think they are starting to take shape.

2008-10-30T00:11:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of Comps for a viking illustration.

2008-10-26T00:25:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of Digital pieces, first one is still a rough, second one is near finish.

2008-08-14T14:21:00.000-07:00

Another comic project I'm working on, some of you might recognize it as a continuation of a past project/story. Its a longer story than what I intend for the cowboy one, and I'm still kinda working out the story/scripting. These were just a few rough tests I did to help me start thinking about it.

Here are a couple of designs I was playing around with for Valkyries for something else, but which I think I'm going to use in this comic.

2008-08-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

I love long cowboys....
Here are a couple character sketches I intend to use in a short sci-fi/western comic with a friend.

2008-08-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

Three random sketches.

2008-08-14T14:14:00.000-07:00

Here is a work in progress that I'm doing as a joke for a friend. A Gnome Conan type character.

2008-05-25T23:14:00.000-07:00

I started coloring this one, will do more tomorow.

2008-05-25T19:51:00.000-07:00

Few drawzlings, might do some color on them tonight.

Did this last night

Did this a few days ago waiting for a movie.
Did this a few weeks ago in at the end of one of Kazu's classes

2008-05-14T20:15:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of quick random character sketches from today, I think I might take the dude with the axe and the tanuki and put them in some sort of odd story.

2008-05-13T23:54:00.000-07:00

Here is another beast concept I did today.

2008-05-13T00:50:00.000-07:00

Another bit of random stuff, first is a page of rough concept sketches for a Beauty and the Beast project

And some random concepts for a sci fi project I was playing with about a year ago.

2008-05-12T22:09:00.000-07:00

Not much, but here is a little start. Here is a quick acrylic sketch I did and one of the illustrations I did for narrative painting last fall.

2008-05-08T23:13:00.001-07:00

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