fun with paper and water color sticks

Daniel Smith was giving away free samples of watercolor sticks so I went at it for a bit.  Along with some pencil and watercolor pencils.  The scans are super saturated....

The Magician

Been working on a story revolved around this magician who has real power but is so lazy as a magician, he uses real sorcery to make silly little magic tricks work for he has no patience to learn the real way.He has a 40 year old starry eyed assistant that does all his bidding because"the great Bewildo" was his childhood hero.  Now that Jousting, dancing, and jesters are bigger than ever his heydays are over ad he scrapes by for his living.  That's the zygote of the story thus far.  Assistant to come soon.

Super Hero Squad Comic that never made it

I got to work with a great story designer Grant Roberts on a side project that never quite worked out here at the studio.  Now that we're announced I'll show it here.

some thumbnail ideas

For various reasons, Emerald con, the city, and Fil n Mantis thumbnail ideas.

more peeps

They're heeere

lil drop of poison

Listened to Tom Waits this morning, art happened.
I was definitely going for the feeling I was having and not for the actual person.

Lunch break on the next planet we plan to inadvertantly destroy

Mundane Mondays Manic Muses

http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/
cool little art web browser app

http://caffeineartist.blogspot.com/
Erik Martin is at Disney and has great designs

http://www.steampunkcouture.com/gallery/4/
Great steampunk clothing designs

http://edwinrosell.blogspot.com/
Edwin Rosell has some great energy in his art

Quit clouding around

Red pencil and tablet PC while watching Predator.....

Observations this weekend etc etc blah blah

Last friday and the weekends grouping

To the Heavens

Painted during the NBA finals.  Used my pic of Seattle as inspiration

My monster

Messing around, Monsters have been on my mind the last few weeks.

My week of beautiful photos... and 2 of me

Dicks drive in is a Seattle staple.  When you visit, go here

My beautiful wife who took most of thee shots.  She reminds me to see the beauty around me and not always keep my face to the paper..  Here is Greenlake park.

Absolutely stunning sunset out the porch window.

Pocket Legends new maps and characters are live!

These are the designs of the expansion pack to Pocket Legends for Iphone and Ipad.

speed and some people..... not together

The Speed......

 and the peeps

Mundane Monday meets Motivational Madness

So I tend to worry too much about being recognized by my artistic peers.  To be seen as an entity on the art community.  But I have forgotten that it all starts with me.  So every Monday I want to kick start my Mondays as well as anyone out there reading by linking a good selection of artists that has something cool and great to say for our art world.  So here they are in no particular order of awesome. 

Reynan Sanchez
http://artizako.cgsociety.org/gallery/

Vs.  A Russian group make these great animations that inspire me to do side projects, listen with the sound!
http://www.tvigle.ru/category/comedy/versus?video=460670

 Dapper Dan has some great 80's flick character designs.  Ghostbusters and back to the future are great
http://dapperdans.blogspot.com/

 Great tutorial on rendering by Sam Nielson
http://theartcenter.blogspot.com/2010/03/sam-nielson-painting-process.html

 Betteo is crazy good.  I hope to be less Americanized and homogenized when i see his stuff
http://betteo365.blogspot.com/


That's it for now.  I could go on all day but I think if you put to many on here nobody clicks on the talent.  So 5.  Check them out, hopefully 1 will inspire you the way they have for me. 

Samoors

Samoors.  For the City Blog.  I can only really talk about the artwork here as I am telling the story of the City through the blog and can't really blah blah blah as the artist.  So the idea is the protagonist runs into a  faction of warriors called the Samoors.  The male counterparts are called Scavs.  Females are the warriors etc etc.  The story is taking hold of me.  It's coming along.  When enough is fleshed out I will be deciding on approaching a graphic novel style or game pitch. 

observations this weekend

Drawgasmic!

It's finally up.  The piece I did for the Art Gallery.  Please head on over and give some support to the group.  Should be real cool.
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A small version of the limited print run

KIMBO!

Felt like some UFC action, painted up a quick sketch I did the other morning.

Observations for this week

Might turn this into a new artbook......

someone plastered my art on their body

Avery Willman was the artist who inked it,  Self Expressions body Studio in Spokane, WA.

this mornings tablet PC speed painting