Amazing Things!

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 […]

Faces – Basics of Portraiture

Faces Preview

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 […]

Process Video for Wheel of Time Fan Art Painting

Zoe Robins as Nynaeve al'Meara

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.

Solo A Star Wars Portrait

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!

Progress?

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 […]

Things to Read

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 […]

Location Drawing and the Character of Environments

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 […]

Learning About Concept Drawing

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, […]

Characters – Design and Familiarity

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. […]