Druid Foxtrot

This is White Flag Delta recycled. It began with an ink wash, a build up of acrylic layers, and sanding.

AW Project Golf

80 lb. Vellum.
16 lb. Trace

This is the beginning of a process where I attempt to learn something new from a successful artist I admire. This time it is Ashley Wood.

I picked up a nice Pental brush pen, tracing paper, and vellum paper for the this illustration project. The vellum is noticeably more transparent than the tracing paper. The figurative sketch is getting closer to the loose expressive stroke that I want to achieve but it still feels sloppy and not deliberate enough for my liking. I'll keep at it. Once I get the line confidence issue resolved the plan is to add a masculine/industrial element in the background, then scan the images, color them, and overlay a subtle gritty paper texture.

An additional note on color:

I'm going to keep colors flat, limited, and saturate with an interest in stroke color opposed to just caning the line work in and leaving it black.

More to come.

Sketchbook

Just a small compilation of what is in my sketchbook right now.

Tentacle Creatures Versus Pizza Ninja

This was a contest for a mural at a local pizza shop that I finished in the summer of 2008.
Initial concepts.
More concepts.Final Photoshop concept.
The wall to be painted.
The final product. If you look up at the final Photoshop sketch and the image of this mural, you'll notice I didn't deviate very far from that small sketch.
Mixed media.
7'x30'

D-FAC

Here is a sketch at the dining facility at BSU.

White Flag Delta

Here the process was more time consuming than the end subject. This was an experiment involving acrylic washes (approximately twenty-ish) sanded down with a fine grit sandpaper and then built up again. I believe this will be recycled for a new painting.
Acrylic wash, ink wash, on 11x13 Masonite.

Snail Eater Finished

Here is the finished painting.
Oil on 24x48 canvas.

Jellyfish Echo

This is the beginning of a new commitment in Illustration where I have chosen to complete a piece every week that is new and different than the previous. Look forward to art emphasizing in new discoveries and more referential work.
Photoshop.
8.5x11 matte paper.
The original sketch that lead me to the finished product.
Graphite on 6x4 sketchbook paper.