New Illustration from Work

Hi all, I've been busy plugging away with my freelance project(will post examples after I've finished) and my comic, as well as starting school last week! To my surprise, my day job produced the most interesting work of the past week! I was given a job to produce a full color sponsor ad for a charity ball and they asked for one of our run of the mill photo ads with the logo and a blurb about how supportive we are, and I had an idea for something more. Well, here's the illo alone, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reproduce the complete ad, but there is some fancy cursive text in the upper right, with the logos just beneath, in white.

Enjoy!

Check it out!

Hey Kids, feel free to hop over to my Grym Tidings site for the exciting page 3 of the saga!(link to the right) Yes, yes, I know it's been months since I finished page 2, but how about spending less time complaining and more time reading? Enjoy!!

Next stop: Norway!

I've always had a fondness for the Scandinavian Stave Churches so we decided to visit the oldest existing church up here in Norway. Strange, even tho it had already snowed in Switzerland, we enjoyed a wonderful spring-like atmosphere in Norway. Go figure. Anyhoo, here's the sketch!!

Another sketch from my world travels!

Boy oh boy, I sure love jetting off to new locales for sketch inspiration! Instead of Marseilles I decided to hop over to Switzerland for my latest subject. Look! It snowed there! Where will I go today?? Perhaps the Far East, Scandinavia? hmm...

Visit to Paris

Hi all, on a recent "visit" to the city of lights, I paused to make this marker sketch of a caberet in Montmartre. spent about a half an hour there, then moved on. Tomorrow, I'll download a picture of Marseille and sketch... uh oh. Well, enjoy!

A Special Gift...

Hi all, recently my Wife asked me to draw her up a custom "jigsaw puzzle" greeting card for a co-worker. She originally wanted to give her an actual jigsaw puzzle featuring an Oompa Loompa, but I guess it's hard to find a jigsaw puzzle featuring a 30 year old movie character. Anyhoo, here is my finished card. Done in pencil, pen and markers. After I completed it and was totally relieved I didn't make any blobs or mistakes, I really F'ed it up by spraying it with some permanent sprayfix. Needless to say, the pen bled everywhere giving it a permanent fuzzy appearance. I... was... pissed. I don't know what I was thinking, I guess it was force of habit. The markers didn't run, just the pen I did the basic outlines with. Well, whatever, enjoy!

Wow!

How's this for quick turnaround! Right after I posted my Superman pic(I had worked on that on and off for a week) I sat down with a new idea for another color study I had gotten from some wrapping paper I saw at work. Anyhoo, I always liked maroon and blue together(that's the combo on the wrapping paper) and the first thing that came to me was swaying palm trees against a blueblue sky with crystal clear waters... "sigh". Back to the pic! Anyway, I sat down and banged this out in an hour and a half. All that practice is starting to payoff!

Hey, Superman!

Hello helloo! I'm back again with another exciting practice image. This time I was inspired by the orange glow at sunset out my office building window, so what would be the best thing to see outside a high office window? Superman of course.

Enjoy!

Pages from the sketchbook

Hi all! Here are some pics from my sketchbook that I would like to share. A page of good assorted stuff, and a sketch of the Merritt parkway I did at the doctor's office. Hey! There is even a selfportrait included. Also, I did another colored pencil jobbie of my little tree dude.

Enjoy!

crankin' it out!

This is a sketch I started after a particularly striking trip to the curb to take out the garbage. The background is my view down my street, but thankfully, there is no creepy guy loitering in my front yard. I added the park gate as well, but we do have a street light! All in all about 3 hours spent, gotta get that time down!

Enjoy,

Commission

Hey all, been a while, but I have some really interesting stuff coming down the pike. First off is this piece which came about from a request from James for a gift for his boy. I tried to get a more cartoony look about it, and then I just went bananas and blew out that moon and clouds, I just couldn't help it. I also got some good tips and advice at ConceptArt, thanks to everyone over there. So, without further ado...

Colored Pencils

Here's an jazzy doodle I did on a 3x5 card with our department set of pencils. It's a pic of a little tree-dweller reaching out for a sunbeam.

Enjoy!

From the Sketchbook...

Yesterday I had an idea kicking around for a snowy scene and look what popped out! Done with Pen and marker.

More Sketchgroup Fun!

Here's another topic from yesterday, FLYING MICRO BOT THAT RESEMBLES INSECT IS NEAR EVERYDAY OBJECT
I went with a tiny assassin type bot, about the size of a dragonfly. Enjoy!

More Daily Sketch Group fun

Here's another entry into Conceptart.org's Daily Sketch Group. The topic today was: RIDICULOUS SIGN POST BAFFLES BAND OF TRAVELLERS

Enjoy...

I'm "Back"!

Wow, long time no post! I have an excuse tho. I've been laid up with a ruptured disk, and only just recently been cleared to work again. Which includes art work as well, I was put on a strict no-sitting diet. But I'm back on the horse and the first major work of the break is my entry for the Blizzard Games art contest. I'm not sure if my entry went through last night, but I had 3 days to complete this. I hope you(and the judges) enjoy it! I will also try to scan in some of the sketches I did while horizontal, I did some neat King Kong sketches while I was watching the DVD. See ya soon!



Well, they extended the deadline, so I did some more touchup on my shaman...

New Sketch

Here's a traditional comics figure I started the other day. It had been awhile since I practiced my old Comics form. So, it was fun to be back!

Another Daily Sketch Group entry

Workplace sketches

Half day training course=Elizabethan gentleman...

Lunchtime Fun

Here is a quick Photoshop piece I did at lunch. It was inspired by our family picnic this weekend, and I thought to work it up on my drive into work today. Enjoy!



More Lunchtime fun! From Thursday...



Went for a walk today at lunch, it looked like this out, but was in the middle of our corporate area. This is what it would have been like in the park. I made this one as a email gift for my wife.