Getting back to my comic book roots with this piece with a little classic pen and ink style! This is the first time that I've been commissioned to draw Samus, even though I grew up addicted to the Metroid franchise. Needless to say, I had a blast with this piece.
"Anthropomorphic" Concept Art Challenge Underway!
Lately, I've been engaged in a series of concept art challenges with a great artist friend of mine, Bryan "Kaiser" Tillman. This month challenge, an anthropomorphic character. I've designed this half-zebra, half renegade-man cop. I'm working on the environment now, but the character is pretty fleshed out.
There much more of this fun concept art challenge goodness yet to come! If interested, I post many progress shots of these concepts in development over at my Instagram Page:
"Zombies!" Concept Character Challenge
Recently, I've been competing with a friend in a series of concept art challenges. Our first challenge was "zombies". These were the first pieces I completed on my iPad Pro. I really enjoyed creating these - the Apple Pencil feels very natural and fluid. The challenge consisted of 2 headshots, 1 full body pose and an environment. Thanks for checking it out!
"Zombies" concept art challenge
"Going Rogue", new digital painting
Rogue has to be one of my most favorite characters to draw or paint... Well, I've got a new Rogue piece to share! I'm stretching myself a bit beyond the style that I've become so accustomed to over the years, trying to move away from the heavier "line" style of more traditional comic book art. I'll always love the comic art style, but I've always wondered just how far I can take a more traditional "painterly" approach - I'm going to continue to work towards a blend of the two until I come up with something that I like. Thanks so much for taking your time to check it out.
"Going Rogue"
I often receive questions about my painting process. For this piece I've taken a new approach, in that I'm jumping back and fourth between two different pieces of hardware to achieve the final design. I work on both an iPad Pro (in Procreate 3) and on my standard desktop/Cintiq (in Photoshop in this case) to maximize the time I have to get the piece done. Some of it was painted over lunch breaks at work, some of it in the evenings or early morning at home.
It used to be that I'd always start a piece with a traditional pen and ink drawing, but with the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil, it feels so close to traditional drawing that I'm able to skip the more traditional route. I find this to be a huge time saver.
New Dejah Thoris Process Painting Video!
Hi Everyone, I've added my first ever Youtube process video for my latest Dejah Thoris painting. This was the second piece that I completed on my iPad Pro. I'm pretty amazed at the results I can get in the Procreate App. In many ways the whole process feels much more natural than painting on a Cintiq. There isn't any of the "parallax" gap you experience working on Wacom's product. Thanks for checking it out!