alien study

Sorry I have not posted more then a month, been a sluggish start of the year, been more fooling around with ideas.

Recently been taking a break how I normally illustrate and just using reference photos to paint.

well originally I start by illustrating in a monotone style with shades of gray.

As i get close to what I like, I start slapping in high saturation color tone with the intention to blend them into those gray tones.

there is no real intention to be photo realistic, just try to play around with colors, what should pop what shouldn't.

learn from your mistakes, it was a wonderful experiment to play around with

brain talk

a gift for a friend Jill Kill a whimsical horror film fan and her loyal sidekick Darkling Dog. Took me a while working on this one, went in from about a good 8 pages of redrawing the illustration

lots of silly ideas kicking around, but not focusing on composition and making sure it works.

Now here's where I had problems I drew this around 5 times. I'll spare you all the drama, and just show you some of them

I wasn't happy how it turned out, so I was playing around with earlier sketches and putting them into the final piece.

a tighter, cleaner design, it helped me work faster

I started work on Darkling, because of the shaggy hair it's easy to get confused, and wanted his emotion to come out clear

it's fun working on the brain, just kept thinking of every single silly horror film I've seen.

Now skin is improve and the electricity from the tesla coils is moving around

now doodling designs of a Rat and a Spider, which I always wanted in the scene but didn't know exactly where and how. Now I rushed into this piece because thinking about designing the rat and the spider would have just made me procrastinate this further.

lots of doodling the background blending colors together, cleaning up smudges.

This piece was a lot of fun to work on and I'm proud how it turned out. I've doodles a billion sketches so I might do another one soon.

my markers are dying on me

21 dead markers
or 21 fading markers
or maybe 21 dead and some of them fading because they are pretty inconsistant. I really do feel like the few exception who enjoys working with watercolors markers instead of the heavy alcohol based ones every self respecting artist uses. You know the kind that bleeds through the depths of phone books.


trying to draw batman and superman like the old 1980 and 70s super powers toy line. Love the art on those.

excited over the new Zelda E3 trailer.