Gladiators

Its been a little while....work has been pretty busy. Anyway here is the latest. A couple of gladiators fighting.

Thanks for looking at my work.

Mermaid

Here is the latest...This one was for an Art Challenge at work. I hurried somewhat to finish it, so its a bit messy in spots. I still like it though. Hope you like it as well.

Vi King

I figured this guy was some kind of viking nobility. This one started as a ballpoint pen sketch. I may post that sketch a bit later.

Octobeast

Here is the latest. This one has a bit of a 50s monster movie feel to it. Im a big fan of monster movies and as Halloween approaches I will be doing more monster art. This one took a bit longer than some of the previous posts.....about 12 hours.

More Pirates

A friend of mine at work does these cool whimsical pirates with a ton of character. It inspired me to try going a little "overboard" (oh man I kill myself) and push the envelope a bit on this guy. Im also trying to be more loose and exaggerated and do the rough sketch right in painter instead of sketching first and then scanning it in for coloring. 3 hours

Alien dude

Here is a new sketch. This one took about 2 hours

Old mechanic

Here is the latest. I keep learning new things about Painter from the people i work with. I have a blast just sitting down and painting for a couple hours knowing I can get up anytime and not worry about the paint drying or cleaning up a big mess of brushes and stuff. Anyway this one took about 4 hours.

new speed painting

Here is another landscape speed painting. This is based on a photo of a river in Laos. About 90 minutes.

Speed painting

Well its been a while since i have posted anything. But hopefully I can make up for it over the next couple of days. This is a speed painting I did in about 45 minutes. I just went from my head which is why the colors are not very natural. But I like the values overall. I really need to spend some time working on environments and landscapes. I also need to try using some reference.

Pirate Sketch

Here is todays Painter sketch. This one took about 2 hours

Last Halloween Costume

Here is the mask from a costume I built last Halloween. The series of images shows the progress of an evil clown from clay sculpt to painted mask.

Another Painter sketch

Another Painter sketch I did a couple of days ago. This one took about 4 hours. I pushed this one a bit farther than most.
Im still pretty new to Painter (I started with it about 2 months ago), but I really like the fact that I can paint without having to clean up afterward.

Painter sketch of the day

I try to do a sketch in Painter every day. I dont always get to it, but I try to.
most of these will be pretty rough. Mostly just practicing with color, light, and mood.

I hope to post as many of these as I can......as I complete them.

Haloween Stuff

These are images of the sculpt im doing for my halloween mask this year. Im using WED clay. Its a water based clay with glycerin. I dig this stuff because its so easy to work

test 1

Ive been having some trouble getting images to upload. It seems to crash IE every time i try.
We will see if we can get it sorted out.

First Post

Well, as a result of intense peer pressure ive decided to give this blog thing a try.
I plan on posting some of my artwork as well as my hilarious adventures in motorcycle building.
stay tuned and enjoy!