krampus

This was a piece for the ol' artorder blog. I caught wind of it a bit late but had to do something for it. This is a Krampus, and according to legend he is a demon that comes out to punish the bad children while Saint Nicholas gives gifts to good children. He's not making it out of town without a fight though.


This is another warm up study, this time of some Cambodian ruins, I think part of Angkor Wat. I was thinking of taking a little trip to either Cambodia or Peru in the next year. We will see, gonna figure it out by doing some studies.

scribblescribble

another one of those studies I have been doing as warmups, again from Daarken's photos. Then some vicious birdsack bird scribble from 10 minutes ago.




Things are getting frigid here, I need gloves just to draw or my hands freeze up. I can feel the drafts coming through the windows and doors from about 8 feet away. Great engineering on this place.

study

Hey everyone, coming into a big deadline at work this week and I am more than ready for the Thanksgiving break. Been so busy I don't have much to show but I have been keeping up on doing different little studies to warm up before work. No more than 20 minutes and I try to narrow down what I am looking at. Sometimes it is masses or forms, anatomy, color temperature, or texture. This one was from a photo Daarken took that he posted on his blog a while ago, I thought it was a pretty cool skeleton.

gornace

This is gornace, let go from his job with no place to go, he is left to wander the world acquiring the finest of red wines. His adventure begins...

born

Public speaking

I guess it got around that I am pretty well known for my public speaking. I have been invited to the Art Institute of Colorado to give the students there some info on the video game industry. I will be there with some other local concept artists and illustrators and really looking forward to giving my perspective on the industry and my experience so far. Hopefully people come loaded with questions, we have 2 hours to fill up.

Kristopher Hutson made this sweet poster for the event.

a sketch from tonight

Been crazy busy at work but got home and wanted to paint something organic. Did this sketch
and now I want to go camping, I want to hike into this area. Megan doesn't want to I don't think.

soooo...

I am having to come to terms with this blog. I wanted to try to keep it updated with new finished work and illustrations but with a full time job that keeps me more than busy I have been a little slow coming with the finished work.

This will be an easy fix and this blog will be updated more often because I will just use this thing to post up unfinished junk and sketches, but this is a blog and I can do what I want.

with that I give you my my friend horace.

inprog

this is a crop from something I was working on today. I am going to try to finish it up tomorrow.

The company dime

Well, I am fresh back from my first business trip. I had a blast down in Dallas at the conceptart.org workshop. I got a lot out of it and feel recharged, but it is good to be back. Dallas was experiencing some "minor wind" when we came in to land and I got to experience quite the rollercoaster ride at 1,000 feet. On one drop coming around a bank things got a little hairy, the boyscout troop 3 rows up cheered and the little girl to my right got a little sick on the seat in front of her, it was intense. Once on the ground everything was great, I definitely miss Texas. It was good to be back for a bit. I snuck out of the workshop for a bit to grab a bite to eat with some of my old classmates from Ringling. We went to this place... it was great.




Lately after work I have had a hard time doing any work that takes too much thought. I decided I can keep up with doing studies, trying to do small color pieces to expand my normal palette that I would work on. These have been fun and I have a bunch more to toss up. This is a study of a Frederick Church landscape.

And here is a sketch from today, I have some ideas for how it will end up, lets see if it gets there.


Thanks for stopping by, more updates soon!

been a while

This is something I did yesterday as a submission for a contest that some guys from work are taking part in.

Nice to be back on here, I finally feel like I am getting settled a bit here in Colorado. More updates soon.