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This was done really really quickly to be used as a poster in the set for our animation this year. It also provided us with a way to have the line that was compulsory to the competition without resorting to dialogue cards since we’d pulled silent film.
The intent was to do a Russian constructivist style [...]

A couple portraits of the characters we used for this year’s 48 hour film project.
These were done over the weekend with the intention of having them added to the closing credits. Due to some communication issues, that didn’t end up working out. But I think all told they came out pretty well. Especially for me [...]

I sat down last week and worked up the cover image for the latest chapter I’ve written for Tales of the Great Steam War. Which will continue to explore the world in which these characters live. And the consequence of the war they fight.
For this one I decided I wanted to do something in a [...]

This was a study warm up, for my participation in the 8: A Steampunk Anthology. An anthology being put together through The Illopond. I’ll be going into more detail as we get nearer to our print/pub dates on this. Until then here is the teaser image put together by contributor Lee Wiley.

I’ve been asked a couple times how I go about the process of staining paper. Since I had need of making more recently I figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to document the process.
My intention when I do this is to get some irregularity to the tone of the surface. When I’m looking at [...]

Alright folks, getting down to the wire on the portfolio pieces portion of the challenge. (Even if I have fallen slightly behind) This one was done for two fold reasons. The first being to have a concept styled drawing that is finished enough it could also be used as a spot illustration. The other was [...]

This is the beginnings of my Week 5 posts. Coming in at the end of Week 6. There is a make up week coming for this week, so I’ll be drawing furiously to catch back up. Hopefully posts will follow at a quicker clip. This past week saw a day trip up to D.C. to [...]

Okay, so currently I’m a full half week behind. However I believe I’ve learned a lot of things in my failures over the last ten or so days. The first being I’m not nearly fast enough to work a traditional painting at a commercial pace. Also I may need to hit the old drawing board [...]

I’ve finally had the time to go back and start reworking this poster project. The previous incarnation to me felt a little stiff, like I’d forced so much stuff into the image none of it had room to move. So beyond a compositional reshuffle I tried to add a little more oomph to the characters. [...]