Overcast Value study

Pleasantly overcast afternoon the other day. I loved how the super dark trees popped against the yellow leaves, I never would have put these colors together in my imagination. I guess that why it's good to get outside once in a while. 

Stephanie Portrait

This was a sketch I did of my 7 year old, Stephanie. She loves her very pretty dresses. I was trying the super smooth brush look.  The more I do this color thing the more difficult it seems to get. Maybe my standards are getting higher for myself and I should back off and not care.

Value Study

Over the Thanksgiving week I got a ton of drawing and painting time in. My Wacom pen died right after this study, so I finished the week in my sketch book.  The bottom shot was a view out of one of the windows at the Gold Beach house. I've seen many value studies but never really used them. It was a very helpful step.

Adventure Club Concepts

 These are all sketches for an adventure story.  This is the boy cousin, a rash teenager. We've picked a couple shots and will develop those further.

 This is the girl cousin, very plain and more introverted and careful than the boy is.  It's interesting how these personality traits color my sketches for these characters.

Just something for the imagination.  The setting for this is New York in the 1920's.  This might be a dock or something. Their personalities are showing a bit.  I'm looking closer at haircuts and 20's fashion.

Dreamworks Fan Art Entry

 The thumbnail concept I started with. The fireplace is in one of the previews of the film Rise of the Guardians, but still took some license.

 Roughed the background in with Sketchup.  Even though I had a pretty clear picture of what I wanted, I still messed around with character placement throughout, especially Sandman.

 Flipped it but left my light source references on the left so when I flipped it again a bunch of my shading was wrong. UHGGG.

Flip back.  Starting to clean up nicely.  Still hate Sandy in front, What do I do with him?

The final rendition. Overall happy with how it turned out.   Ended up with three lights sources, two overhead and the fire behind. Had a lot of fun.

The Good Doctor

This is the first of a series of concepts I've been working on. I do a lot of sketches and have high hopes for the finished paintings but don't always have time to whip them out immediately.  This one will be fun to paint.

Latest Caricature

A couple weeks ago I met Clayton. He's a fun personality. He wanted some caricatures of himself for his website. He and I worked through some ideas and came up with the green one here. This was a fun project. I'm really discovering humor and...even fun with these playful characters I've been doing lately. 

Fast SubGun

This is something I sketched out on a white board at work. I liked so painted it.

The look out

I've been challenged by nature. The fam and I went to the Oregon coast over new year and had some really good observation time. No tablet time, just really good sit, relax, play with the kids and look at stuff time. I loved now so different light effects could happen in one spot. I did this without the luxury of looking at it. 

She Nemisis

More characters inbound. This loose cartoony stuff is doing wonders on my psyche, not to mention it's so much faster. I'll have to decide though, whether we use a little more loose stylized design for this next story or something more mature and realistic. 

Dick Durge Concept

This is some character and prop work for a comic pitch. The cover was an alternate. I had a lot of fun with this, the creator gave us a bunch of latitude.

The melancholy sheriff

Starting to do my artwork digitally start to finish, it's so much easier painting under the sketches.

This was fun. I haven't done many cartoon looking characters so I was excited this came out the way 

it did.  

Sunset Study

My goal here was just getting the color in place. It's festinating what colors are here. The blue in the sand and blazing yellow in the windows.

Landscape Study

This is a landscape exercise I took from a photo. I found I really don't have a very good handle on how outdoor scenes light. Obviously this needs some work to get it to a finished state. This is me doing something that doesn't particularly interest me.   

Character Concept

This is some concept work for a project I'm working on.

This is our heroin. Something of a Tomb Raider feel.  We have 

several cool characters planned. These are my efforts at a ten year

old girl.  The tool is Painter 11. I made the mistake of only making it 

100 dpi so there is not much opportunity for detail. 

BattleChick

 

I have story ideas for this one.The girl that finds her mother instinct and can get downright mean. This also was a recent exercise with color pencils. 

Man and Machine

I finished the guys then couldn't 

decide on a background. It was either 

this or a pile of destroyed enemies.

Ink over color pencils

I wanted to see how well ink applied to color pencils

Wicker Chair in Pencil

Kerrie & I went to Bend for our anniversary and there was this chair in our room. I thought wow, that would be pretty hard to draw with all the wicker stuff on it. It took me way too long to do it but turned out pretty good. 

The Asteroid by me

This will be all for tonight. I put this together for the asteroid short Jen and I started. I have not settled on a title yet but we have some fun ideas for it. This is the piece I will submit to zudacomics. I'm about 60% finished with the whole thing. I'm shooting for a little playful on the character style but realistic on the mechinery. Here's the site.