Art Post #1

        It has been awhile, but I wanted to just get right to the point. After all, just an "art post" is better than no post. Here is a piece I did for a local museum. The tagline (not shown...obviously) is "Science: Larger Than Life".

"Holy huge mantis..."

        While this piece was not chosen to be on the banners out front, it was chosen to be printed within promotional materials that will be handed out during an exhibit featuring tons of bugs. It is a digital painting done over my sketch. All Photoshop CS4.
        I am planning more blog posts coming the near future. I'll keep you all informed. If you have anything to discuss about this piece, let me know. I'd love to hear your criticism!

Off to Market

This is a piece I completed for my Illustration Studio class. It was the final project and we were allowed to do anything in our styles. I chose to do a comic like illustration with splashes of red in each panel. It is a little something to get the viewer's eye moving through the piece from panel to panel. A few things are off, but all in all I enjoyed doing this. It brings back wonderful memories since once this was finished my spring semester was over and I was ready for summer.

My Eye

So, it's my eye. I updated the picture from the cell phone picture that I had originally posted. This one is a much better resolution.

Page 1 Final Inks

This is finally it. After roughly 8 hours of working on this just today, and about 5 hours yesterday, I'm finished. I really in the end stared to love this page. Hopefully my teacher agrees.

Colton Final

Tired of Colton yet? Well this is the final version of the inks. Clothes and all. Soon I will put up the final colored version when I have time to complete it. Until then, enjoy!

Next Colton Progress

Just an update in the progress. Same story as yesterday. These are just the finished underlying inks. He will have clothes soon. I promise.

Preview

Just a quick preview of my new character Colton who will be appearing in a comic by my friend Jason and myself sometime soon. His clothes obviously aren't on yet, but I just wanted to post this preview...trust me things can change between this and the end. Hope you like it.

12-Hour Piece

Probably my best piece all year. This was done on a massive scale of about 3' x 3'. A LOT larger than I am used to. This was obviously a nude model. This picture took up two whole studio classes of 6 hours each, so I guess you could say this took me 12 hours to complete. It is a pure mixture of white conte crayon, compressed charcoal, vine charcoal, and I believe some black conte crayon is in there also. I'm pretty proud of this piece and sure a lot more could be done to it, but 12 hours pretty much blew my mind as it is the longest I've ever worked on a single piece of art in traditional media. The other two below shots are just details of course, but click on them all to enlarge them and take a better look!

Sketchy Portrait

This is a full portrait. Maybe you could call it and extended bust shot. This is a model at school and this picture took about and hour and a half to complete. This was me getting so frustrated with my picture that I just started to sketch. There wasn't much drawing here. This was completed I believe in compressed charcoal on charcoal paper that was about 24"x30". Larger than I was used to but it is one of my more favorite pieces. The picture below is a detail shot of the head. Not much detail to show, but enough that I thought it deserved a better shot. Click on them to enlarge them.