Even More Disgusting

I think this is the final version.

Concept: Rev.Exp.4
This revolting little critter wanders the paths between stony cliff side caves. Inside his exposed ribcage lies a orb that emits renewable high power energy. Sadly, this power source also causes his vision to fail, skin to flake, and fibrous sensors in its mouth and feet to bleed continuously.

More Disgusting

I just wasn't happy with the way this was sitting in its world.  The textures were fighting for dominance and the area felt "blah".  So, I reworked the background to open the space, make it feel more of a bizarre local.  I also adjusted the colors and texture on the ugly critter, too.

Woman in Chair speed painting

Another speed painting based off of photo ref from Ten Ton. Not sure if speed is the right term since I did put about 40 minutes into this one, but it was done with the mentality of working fast and not using tons of layers and blending modes like I would in a finished piece.

Speed painting

Ballpoint, over on the Ten Ton Studio board started a speed sketch thread with some reference pics and instructions.  (Check it here.)  I thought it was a good idea.  Here is my first attempt.  I got camera shy and made some odd mistakes that I wouldn't do if I wasn't recording and focusing on speed.  Still, it ended up about 20 minutes long.... way over the 10-15 recommended, but I'll get faster.  I sped up the video 500% so it only takes 4 minutes to watch.  Lucky you. :)

Agents of Atlas colors

Khoi Pham posted his penciled commission over on the Ten Ton boards.  I thought it was a great image and rendered in a way I'm not used to seeing, so I took a shot at coloring it today.  Lots of fun and educational, too!

Monster #2

Trying out some new techniques in Photoshop.  I love drawing monsters!

Monster of the day

I watched part of Steve Firchow's Gnomon coloring video last night.  While our styles couldn't be farther apart, I liked what I saw and still learned a lot of concept stuff more than technical stuff.  I pulled his pallet file and one of the texture files and tried them out today.

Quick sketch, more for experiment than results.

Silver Bullet #3 cover

I wrote about this a few posts back.  I talked to Brett Woods, the penciller/inker of the book, and got the go ahead to post the final colors up.  This was a fun piece.  A lot more graphic in design than issue 2 cover, but still fun for a painterly guy like me.

Issues 1 and 2 are available through IndyPlanet here.

Silver Bullet

Last October, Brett Wood asked me to color the cover to Silver Bullet #2.  It's a very fun character and Brett is a good guy from the Ten Ton and Digital Webbing message boards, so I said yes.  Oh yeah, he offered me pay, also. :)  About a week later the job is done, I'm happy, he's happy.  Good times.  You can even buy it here (even though I'm not credited in the book due to an editorial error).

Now I'm working on the cover for issue #3.  Another fun one.  I'll post it when I can.  But, to hold you over, here is the cover to issue #2.  Enjoy.

Grendel Colored

I messed around a bit with my Grendel drawing from my previous post.  Here it is.