Pinwheel Charlie Finished

Detail of Charlie. All of the line work and shading was done with a mechanical pencil and a lot of patience.
I used a piece of scanned sketch book paper as a texture, muted high value colors, and the multiply layer option to give the illusion of watercolor. I also chose to repeat Charlie in a pinwheel fashion to emphasize the subject and create a strong color pattern. This is going to be printed larger than the original sketch to show off the quality of the line.
Photoshop.
24 x 24 gloss paper.

Maternal Alpha Update

Detail of the offspring.
More layers of paint.

Piggyback Bravo Update

Detail of the piggybacker.
Warm acrylic washes that will be muted quite a bit before the end product.
Acrylic wash and graphite on 24x30 Masonite.

Pinwheel Charlie

Possible concept for the third Illustration project.
Photoshop sketch.

Block Face

Just warming up before working on some new projects.
Mixed media on 9x11 sketchbook paper.

Maternal Alpha Update

More layers of paint. I selected a higher value background to better differentiate the figure and the ground. I also removed the tube form from the figures jaw. Originally I thought the line of that form created a nice flow and balance through out the composition but ultimately it was too distracting for me.

Piggyback Bravo

This is the second of the four part series I'm furiously working on for my studio in Illustration.
Graphite on 9x11 sketchbook paper.

Snail Eater

Photoshop sketch.


After receiving feedback on my first sketch for the diptych painting I'm working on I redesigned my concept to have more of a contrast of styles to better illustrate the themes of permanence and ephemeral in this soon to be oil painting.
Graphite on 9x11 sketchbook paper.

Maternal Alpha

Masonite continued, mixed media, mostly acrylic.

24x30 Masonite.

This is the first of a four part series I'm doing for my studio in Illustration. The series uses the body as a unifying factor.
Photoshop sketch.