Trufflesaurus

Long before truffle hounds or truffle hogs, this fellow sniffed out those most valuable and sought after of tubers. . .

quick meeting sketch

Yay, another post!

just a doodle from a conference call that I had no need to be on. . . love those.

Orc Archer. Orc because they can look like anything, and archer because archery is so cool.

What?? An actual new post??

Yep, I know that I haven't posted in a while. .. I've been kind of busy on other things and couldn't do fun stuff. That and I'm ridiculously slow at painting. . .

I've been noodling with this for a while now. I'm pretty pleased with how its turned out but of course still see things that could be taken further. Am I alone in that I don't really finish pieces but abandon them??

Comments and critiques greatly appreciated! I'm trying to build my portfolio with some things that might be attractive to the Gaming Industry as a concept artist. . . Plus, I love doing fantasy stuff. Expect to see more, probably not soon. . .

Edit: made some revisions from suggestions. ..

New Stuff. . .

If it seems like I can't decide on which direction to artistically its fully intentional . . .

yeah, that's it. I find that I tend to go through quick phases with my artistic endeavors, the good thing is that I tend to come back around to the same subjects/styles.

So first, here's a watercolor I did for my Grandma's birthday. Finished it last night, just in time to get in the mail today so that she gets it tomorrow (her birthday).
And next is a sneak peek at my next "fantasy storybook" illustration. Actually its more of a dinosaur than a "fantasy" beast. I hope to find the time to finish this before the end of the month. I am falling back into this genre pretty solid again and have about 4 of this type in progress. . . and yes, I'm aware that once again there are mushrooms. . . What, they fill the space nicely!

Another Caricature. . .

I'm really getting into these. I don't know if they're any good or not. . .

But, here is one I did last night. Its of one of the regular caricature posters at the Drawingboard.org. There is a really long running thread of "Caricaturists Caricatures" where you post your versions of the other guys along with pictures of yourself for them to caricature. I haven't been in it long but am enjoying it.

Anyway, here is "Bangalore Monkey". Mechanical Pencil in my sketchbook then fiddled with a little in Photoshop.

And the source image. . ..

Caricature?

So, I've been kind of trying out some caricatures and this drawing jam came up at the Drawingboard.org so I gave it a shot. This is supposed to be Nick Cave of "The Bad Seeds". I did this during my lunch yesterday at work. Very scribbly. Now that I look at it its almost the same angle on the face of the Bandito, I guess I need to try a different angle!

Bandito Finito

I never know when to say when on these. So, before I ruin it by overpainting it I'm stopping.

Esta aqui

More Old West Fun

These guys may be up to no good. I'm calling the Cowboy finished. And the "Bandito" is getting there.

Cowboy (in progress)

I haven't posted in so long that I feel guilty!!
But, to show that I am still actually doing stuff I decided to post this "in progress" piece. Its a sketch being painted in Photoshop. I have to say that I've been greatly inspired by Ryan Wood's and Todd Harris' recent youtube videos of their painting processes, not to mention their amazing style and this is my attempt at beginning to approach that kind of mastery. So, here he is in all his unfinishedness.

More Watercolors

Alright! by request.

This first one is from an afternoon painting with Evie.
The Roses were Angel's Valentines Day gift, she likes it.
and the last was just bit of messing around.