I Have Returned.

Another long hiatus, but I just finished my first job as a freelance painter today. It's good to be painting again. I wish I'd had this enthusiasm for the craft in school, but better is late than never. Now I'm painting every day.

      So, here is the book cover I just did for Patricia Moed, from the first draft to the last, in order. Big changes from start to finish, but I'm happy with it. The book is historical fiction and about the family of a child who was hit by Mussolini in a hit-and-run. The cover is the mother of the child and the car in question. At first, I started with Mt. Vesuvius in the background, but it didn't read correctly.

      Thanks to my employer, and to my good friend Brandon Moore (http://www.artofbrandonmoore.com/blog) for helping me re-learn to paint.

Long Time, No See.

Got a little update here for some sketches I did for a restaurant starting out in Atlanta. They wanted a burrito with a southwestern flair, something to do with surfers, and stereotypical-but-not-stereotypical Mexican features, plus a little bit of a fine-yet-not-stuffy dining feel.

That, and I heard they liked Fat Albert. It's probably plain to see I've been watching a bit of Adventure Time...

Minimalist Hellblazer cover

I'm not quite set on this one, so any design suggestions you all have would be great. Since it's for a cover, the size of the image isn't really negotiable. I really like posters like this, so I decided to make a quick one with Hellblazer as the theme.  Silk Cuts are the brand Constantine smokes in the series.

Constantine Cover (part one)

 

Recently, I've been increasingly aware of just how woefully ignorant I am of the comic book world. So, I decided to get proactive and read a wiki entry on a couple of characters a day. "Hellblazer" caught my eye immediately.
Because John Constantine is the man.

Not to mention he's based off of Sting. Hilarious. I'm going to do a couple covers for "Hellblazer" for fun -- here's part of the first one.

Breakdowns: Scary Scary.

Some breakdowns for a class, based on an Oni horror script. They aren't quite so hot and have been blown up a million times. I may play with them outside of class, since horror is fun to draw. 

There be gargoyles attackin' (I'm not sure why they're inside the cathedral). Also, some guy is losing his mind in a psych-ward elsewhere.

Warm Up!

Little warm up for the day, before I do breakdowns. Thank you, Orson Welles.

Old Work.

 Here's some of my older pieces. Most are from 2009-2010, unless otherwise noted.

Above is a Deadpool cover I threw together, an homage to 

Dave Johnson's work.

 Above are sketches for a webcomic I'm trying to produce about the film industry.

Below are character sketches for "Marcel," the main character for a comic

I came up with in 2010.

 These two are from 2011. Left is a page by another artist that I took the time to

reconfigure. Right is a page from a story about a burglar in a haunted house.

Another Mural.

Another mural, my third attempt. This is my Leviathan. 

Done with the same materials as the last -- high gloss black oil-based housepaint

Mural!

 

My second attempt at a mural, 2011. This was done using black high-gloss oil-based house paint.

It is based on an inking by Ernst Haeckel. Look him up.

Time to become a semi-professional young man, so I made a blog. I hope you all like it, internet. 

 Here is an entertaining image of Gene Wilder. I kind of look like him.

Here goes nothing.