I recently made a post on my patreon page. I want to share it here too. Thank you to everyone who loves, supports and encourages me. https://www.patreon.com/posts/33134582 I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge a few amazing things. 1. My wife. An incredible and supportive source of wisdom, encouragement and stability. 2. My…
It is with great pleasure that I announce my first e-book. Faces – Basics of Portraiture. This 40-page book records the practice of drawing portraits over a 30 day period. It includes 90 + portrait studies and instruction on the basics of drawing the face. Here on this post, you can download a low res…
Hey everybody, I’ve posted a new process video on my youtube channel which shares my process for creating Nynaeve al’Meara for the upcoming Wheel of Time Tv Series. I’ve really been enjoying creating fan art around the cast of the show.
Hey gang! In this video you can see my process of creating this portrait of Han Solo or Harrison Ford. I used photoshop to create this piece. I hope you like it!
I sit here trying to work, as my 6 year old daughter, who ails with the stomach flu, asks me questions and shows me her drawings of bleeding dinosaurs. As I turn back to my monitor the ‘new email’ chime sounds and I go to my inbox. My work isn’t flowing right now any way…
Hey everybody,It’s been over a month since my last post. It’s been a busy month! I haven’t had opportunity to work on Our 1984 but have instead been tremendously busy getting Pulp Studios off the ground with Kelly while managing client work for my other business Live Pixel Design. I’ve also had the opportunity over…
Hey everyone,Just a few thoughts I wanted to share. I’m still going through Illustrating Children’s Books by Martin Salisbury. One section of the book deals with creating a sense of place in your images. The focus here is on using location drawing to inform your studio drawing. This has caused me to consider the spaces…
Hello friends. As I am on a forced hiatus due to work commitments I felt the need to include a quick post here on some of the learning I’ve been doing related to style and character concepts. In the book, The Skillful Huntsman: visual development of a Grimm tale at Art Center College of Design,…
Welcome back! I’ve completed the character turnaround for the younger brother. As well as a comparison sheet so you can see the brothers side by side to scale. I’ll share those here as well as a character snap shot similar to the image of the older brother fleeing from the killer bee I posted earlier….
Hey there gang! Buckle up! In this post you’ll see early concept work for the characters in the book as well as some finished concept items. The sketches helped me immensely with the process of arriving at the final style for the illustrations in the book. You can probably notice a struggle in this series…