90's X-Men Animated

It’s FINALLY heeeeeere!!!!

Yes I know I’m a bit excited but I’ve been working on this piece on and off for months and I am sooooooo glad that it’s finally over (though it was a lot of fun)!

This piece is my homage to the 90’s Animated X-Men cartoon, one of my favorite 90’s cartoons and easily one of the most influential towards me as an artist. I absolutely love that it was heavily influenced by Jim Lee’s designs, something that was so important to me as a kid since I was getting into comics during his legendary run on the comic book series. He’s always been one of my artistic idols and it’s great to have the chance to put my own spin on his work.

I will say that this piece was a lot of fun for me when it comes to my “comic book” style and I think I grew a lot through it. I’m continually trying to refine what I feel my comic book style is. I’m really striving to showcase a painted style that reflects some of my biggest comic book influences (like J. Scott Campbell, Jim Lee, and Marko Djurdjevic) while at the same time bringing an exaggerated style from animated designers that I love (Phil Bourassa influences me so much nowadays, probably more than anyone realizes).

For those of you that are still here and interested, artistically this was a real challenge for me. With my previous Batman Animated Collage piece I had worked with roughly 22 characters but with this one I decided to push even higher by roughly 10 more characters. That definitely presented a lot of challenges when it came to composition and layout. However, more than anything, the real challenge was the patience to keep going and paint so many characters in one piece. Luckily I made it through and while no painting ever truly gets to the level of epicness that I’m striving for, at least for where I’m at right now, at this point and time in my artistic growth, I can say that it was the best that my skills would allow me to accomplish.

Anyways, I’ve been sitting on this for a while and thought it’s best now to put it out there for all of you to see. I was hoping that I could unveil it at Emerald City Comic Con 2015 but it was too much of a rush and I didn’t want to sacrifice quality. So long and short of it, this piece will be making it’s debut at MegaCon 2015!

In closing, I hope this piece brought back some warm and fuzzy nostalgic feelings for you and you remember the 90’s with fondness; it’s one of my favorite decades! Thank you for all your support and if you feel so inclined please like this and feel free to share it with your friends!

Orc Mustering Ground

Hey everyone! Here's some more work from The Lord of The Rings Card Game. This one is called "Orc Mustering Ground". It was painted in November of 2011 and was for Fantasy Flight Games. Enjoy!

Troll Purse

Here's some more Lord of the Rings work that I did last year for Fantasy Flight Games. This time it's the Hobbit himself, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. Enjoy!

Grip Grab, Pinch Nab!

In continuing with this weeks theme honoring the upcoming movie "The Hobbit", here's some more work that I did last year for Fantasy Flight Games Lord of the Rings Game! Enjoy!

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Here's a link to an animated GIF showing my painting process on my recent Poison Ivy Piece Link

Mystic Warlords of Ka'a Art

Since I haven't posted in a while, here's a whole bunch of work I did for The Big Bang Theory: Mystic Warlords of Ka'a
Not crazy about it, it's old and there was only around a day to do each piece so it was rushed. But it was a great learning experience and I like to show work even when it's not my strongest, that way I get to show my artistic journey. Anyways enjoy!

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Dawndancer Maceman

Here's another illustration I did for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a [link]

Not one of my favorite ones as I'm looking at it again but alas I promised I'd show you everything, and there's alot I don't like lol!

As always I am available for commissions so if you are interested in commissions please private message me and we can discuss rates. Thanks!

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Here's another illustration I did for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a https://www.facebook.com/mysticwarlords?sk=wall

Definitely not crazy about this pic Oh man I wish I could show you some of the freelance I've been doing lately but of course with NDA's it'll be awhile. But alas you get to see how I improved over time and you get to take part in my artistic journey

Ok so right off the back I wanna say I hate these pictures. But as promised I'll show you the work I did even if I didn't like it. These pictures suck on a number of levels but we're all growing as artists so it's just another stop along the way to improvement. Anyways, created for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a [link]

Camouflage Cloak

Here's another illustration I did for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a [link]. As always I would've loved to have more time but alas a day was the deadline so voila!

As always I am available for commissions so if you are interested in commissions please private message me and we can discuss rates. Thanks!

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Cat Mad king

Here's another illustration I did for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a Link. You know as I look back on them I always think, man this sucks! But it's a learning process. I do wish though that I would have had more than a day to work on this piece. Oh well! Enjoy!

As always I am available for commissions so if you are interested in commissions please private message me and we can discuss rates. Thanks!

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Bera Blade of the East

Here's another illustration I did for Mystic Warlords of Ka'a Link.

As always I am available for commissions so if you are interested in commissions please private message me and we can discuss rates. Thanks!

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Steampunk Elf Painting Process

I was rummaging through my files and I thought "I've never shown my painting process for my Steampunk Elf". So here it is :)

God of War: Kratos

Here's a little something that I've been working on since April, just on and off usually as a warm up before painting. Anyways, I've finally finished it! This was something that I did mainly to practice a little more painterly style, similar to Marko Djurdjevic. I'm also a really big fan of Daryl Mandryk so I really wanted to add some interesting texture to the edges and such so that it would be reminiscent to him. Anyways this took about 6 hours to complete all together. Hope you enjoy!

Crimson Cloak Scene 11

Here's another picture from my story I'm working on for my final demo reel. Enjoy!

About 10 hours in Photoshop CS4.

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Crimson Cloak Illustrations

So here are some illustrations that I am currently working on for one of my portfolio classes. We need to create a 30 second story that emphasizes our strengths for our final demo reel. Ultimately this piece will be like a motion comic, with moving illustrations. These are my illustrations thus far, although they are just character shots for right now. The backgrounds will come later on, probably next quarter but for now this is what I have. Hope you enjoy and I'll go into detail with the story later on in future posts. Cheers!

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The Creature From The Black Lagoon Turntable

Here's a turntable which I just created of my recent sculpture in ZBrush. Hope you enjoy!

The Creature From The Black Lagoon: ZBrush Sculpt

Here's a piece I just completed in ZBrush, my 3rd time sculpting in ZBrush and my first full body. This is a re-imagining of The Creature From The Black Lagoon and a duel project for both my Digital Sculpting and Production Team classes. Also it was sculpted entirely from ZSpheres, as I am a terrible traditional box/polygonal modeler.
I'm definitely looking forward to doing more digital sculpting and using it as a way to showcase concepts. I definitely learned alot from this project and intend to go about things differently in the future, especially in regards to the use of subtools and ZSpheres. Hope you enjoy!