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Friday, December 28, 2012

Ok, so Matthew Levin has decided to produce Slither. A beautiful sculpt of one of my designs...It funded in a day but there's still room for more support. He's a great sculptor and you should check out *all* of his work
 
 

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Reptilian bird Dino thing....trying out Fabriano 300lb hot press watercolor paper... My new mistress...



Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Here's a piece in progress...
just playing with textures
 


Thursday, December 20, 2012

Just a note...when my blog hits 500 followers I'm giving a drawing to a random member...

Friday, December 14, 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

The good girl.

She's really a good girl. She can't help it. It only happens at night... only when she cries.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Tree of Tales

Here's a progress shot of the wip "Tree of Tales"...


....and the finished pencil....
 

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Tree of Tales

I was calling this piece "Tree of Tales" it was inspired
by a Charles De Lint story. I believe it
was from Dreams Underfoot.


Monday, November 12, 2012

Sister Kind...

Sister Kind...from The Kind and Gentle Killers


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Here's a pic of a study of a faun for
an upcoming commission...
 

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Scapula...

I gotta whooooole box o' spare scapulae and I ain't afraid to use 'em....
 
I'd have give a pound of flesh to work on the  new Hellraiser movie...just sayin'.
ARtwork by Paul Gerrard

The Doorman...

Just a scene in my head...


Sunday, November 4, 2012

Whats in progress on my desk right now...

Astronaut...

Thats what I'm calling it...Astronaut...this will be in my book"Personal Demons"
 

Thursday, November 1, 2012

I found these things on my desk...they look like crystal pencils filled with black liquid...
so I tried drawing with them and this happened.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

This is a warm up for a commision...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Whats in my brain...

Something squirming in my head...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Release Me

Detail from a piece I was working on last weekend...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Queen

Here's a detail of a comission finished recently...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wild Things

...and another...

The Commonplace Book

A new cover that I did for TOR just released...

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Something from my moleskine.

I once had a dream that I was watched over by a guardian angel. I dreamt of this angel
Many times and in each dream the angel would guide me through or around myriad dangers that presented themselves to me in my life.
Only, as time wore on 
I began to realize that the angel was dulling the sharp experiences of my existence. Muting the range of my being and diminishing my potential to grow stronger through the trials of my life.
In confronting the angel about this I found to my surprise that it was not an angel at all...

Friday, August 31, 2012

I just supported Brom's Art book Kickstarter...
Go here and check it out if you havent already...

Go here...
and support this!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Current Wip


Here's my current work in progress...a personal piece...

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Here's a detail of a current sooper seekret w.i.p.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Escape

In progress color version of the Piece Im calling Escape:
So long held prisoner in its world,it was released, given access to our World by the same vehicle that had freed so many humans before it. It escaped through The reading of a book.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Current work in progress...


...and here is my current work in progress. I swear it was already
going before Irene's post about books in illustration...

Monday, July 30, 2012

Paintings of people with books....

Here's an article by Irene Gallo over at Tor.com featuring paintings that have books depicted in them(mine's in there too)....
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/picturing-books

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Here's one of my banners for SDCC! Come to booth 4912 and throw things at me...

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Here's a promo poster of the film that I worked on last year...Jaegers aren't small...wait till you see the creatures...
Pacific Rim promo

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Not trying to beat a dead Elder god but here's another iteration...just playing with the different rythms and melodies of the flesh

Saturday, June 23, 2012

I'm in a Lovecraftian state of mind...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

 My book cover is now in the wild(at least a preview anyway)!

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Here is the piece that was just nominated for a Chesley Award! I'm floored and honored to be among such an incredible group of artists!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

...an in progress piece from a short time ago...a private commission.
Oil on acrylic on canvas, 24" by 36"

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

So my website is live ...even though I only have three pieces up. In the net week I'll try and at least fill the drawing page... Many thanks to my friend Stephanie Law who not only does great work but can also code...
 
http://ijustdraw.com/

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Two exercises that I did in oil. I did black and white studies of random photographs that I found in some magazine. I don't know who the photographers or the models were or I would credit them. These were and are for my own educational purposes to see if I could manage the oils...at least in monochrome.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Oh look...I found my brush pen!

As I was waiting for some feedback today and laid up with a UFC related back injury(it wasn't UFC I hurt it getting into the car) I found this guy...he's part of the Personal Demons sketchbook series. I think I must have imprinted Darkness from Legend as my patriarchal archetype.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Iterations: a priori... The One Before.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

An Architectural element done on a plane...apparently 37,000 ft is a productive elevation for me.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Allright friends, Spectrum Live is almost upon us....see ya there! Come by my booth and say Hi...
Here's the final pencil for this piece...most likely move to digital color or paint on a canvas print...