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Art pulled from JH Williams III’s Batwoman, Phil Noto’s...

















Art pulled from JH Williams III’s Batwoman, Phil Noto’s Chewbacca, Stjpan Sejic’s Rat Queens, Fiona Staples’ Saga, Karl Kerschel’s Teen Titans, Michelle Czajkowski ‘s Ava’s Demon, and  Cliff Chiang’s Wonder Woman.



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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Reconnecting with my drafting table. One of the down sides to...



Reconnecting with my drafting table. One of the down sides to all of my comic projects is that I don’t have. As much time as I used to for studying and learning from other artists. http://ift.tt/1lu6pmi



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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Character design for my next comic ~~~~ http://ift.tt/1kNRouL



Character design for my next comic ~~~~ http://ift.tt/1kNRouL



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Another portrait warm-up~~~



Another portrait warm-up~~~

I'm digging the warm tones in this one. The portrait too about an hour and a half to complete.


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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Look who got paid to do art!!!~*~*~(Me, it was me who got paid,...



Look who got paid to do art!!!~*~*~


(Me, it was me who got paid, by the lovely lady pictured above.)



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Warm-up this morning, painted @nelliibug!





For a warm-up this morning, I painted my friend @nelliibug!

I do a lot of quick drawings (5 minutes each) of faces to get a feeling for structure and proportion, but I know I could benefit a lot from more sustained studies, so I'm trying to get into the habit of drawing one of these every day.

another advantage is that it's giving me a better sense of color, since I've been almost exclusively working in black and white for the last year.

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Friday, November 6, 2015

A motivational li’l something for those of us who need it.



A motivational li’l something for those of us who need it.

My friend had a bad day at work, so I made this to hang up in her cubicle. No one will mess with her now!


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Monday, January 19, 2015

Mars Progress

A while ago I posted an in progress shot of a Mars landscape I was working on. After abandoning the image for a couple months, I revisited yesterday and made a decent amount of progress on it. The colors were looking good, but the textures were a bit muddy, so I tried out using photo textures for the first time and was really happy with the result.  I still want to add in some sort of narrative, like a spaceship or some sort of mars colony, but feel like I should have planned for that from the beginning. As is I like it.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Figure Study

The art studio I go to for my weekly fix of figure drawing has been closed for the last couple of weeks, so I warmed up this morning with a 50 minute digital figure study. Normally when I figure draw I just use a pencil and focus on shape and value without taking color into account, so it was nice  to work in color for once.
You can tell that I spent most of my time on the upper torso and arms, I was really drawn in by all of the shadows and highlights the back and arm muscles were forming,

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Morning Warm Up

To warm up for work this morning I spent about an hour doing hand studies.  I tried to focus on using line weight to describe the light and dark areas, so parts of the had that are in light have a thinner line than the ones in shadow, which helps hint at where the light source is.


Even though I've spent a lot of time studying human anatomy, I still haven't fully grasped (pun?) the structure of the hand.  Practice sessions like this go a long way towards understanding building that knowledge.