Re-Paint of Branches

I FINALLY got around to re-painting the face on this illustration. This was one of the first pieces I painted three or four years ago and while I liked it enough to keep it in my portfolio, I was never satisfied with the face or colour palette. I swore I would get around to changing it eventually and that time has finally come. I’m MUCH happier with the piece now. You can see the progression from original to current under the cut.


» Continue reading…

Illustration Case Study:
Behemoth

My programmer friend asked me to help him by creating some character concepts for an app he’s currently building. Here’s the first behemoth-beast-thing I came up with. This little guy was a fun challenge for me since I typically paint women. Trying to render beefy male anatomy instead of smooth, beautiful skin was really refreshing. I think I might do some more studies like this just for my own enjoyment/study. Brushing up on my anatomy skills would be a good thing.

Process under the cut!


» Continue reading…

WIP

I haven’t been able to update as much as I’d like because I’ve been too busy with a lot of side-projects including an entire over-haul of this site. I hope to launch a brand-spanking-new layout in a month or so. For now I’ll just post this little process image that made it onto some of my other internet haunts, but not here. It’s just an image to show some progression in a portrait I’m working on. Hopefully I find the time to finish the piece!

Lost Hope

I needed to make a departure from the Sailor Moon fan-art for a new piece. I didn’t go into this painting intending to make something so dreary, but it progressed into this. Painting all those stains and wounds was a great learning process. I had to create some great grunge brushes I’m excited to keep experimenting with.

A few close-ups follow


» Continue reading…

She is the one called…

You guessed it. More Sailor Moon. I’ll stop saying I’m done painting fanart of the character because clearly I’m lying. For some reason, I’m just having a really good time re-imagining Usagi, so maybe I should just keep painting her until it’s out of my system. I blame this new interpretation of her on my recent trip to Japan. Seeing all of the advertisements throughout Tokyo got me feeling creative. I wanted to paint Sailor Moon as a spokesperson and figured strawberry Bubble Tea would be a product she’d get behind.

Another image under the cut shows the illustration without the product shot and Japanese kanji. The style for this illustration was inspired by modern pin-up posters.


» Continue reading…