Ok, so Matthew Levin has decided to produce Slither. A beautiful sculpt of one of my designs...It funded in a day but there's still room for more support. He's a great sculptor and you should check out *all* of his work

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/321236486/slither-by-matthew-j-levin

 

 

Reptilian bird Dino thing....trying out Fabriano 300lb hot press watercolor paper... My new mistress...



Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

 



Here's a piece in progress...

just playing with textures

 



Just a note...when my blog hits 500 followers I'm giving a drawing to a random member...

Still workin on The Good Girl.

Just a little progress...

 

The good girl.

She's really a good girl. She can't help it. It only happens at night... only when she cries.

Tree of Tales

Here's a progress shot of the wip "Tree of Tales"...


....and the finished pencil....

 

Tree of Tales

I was calling this piece "Tree of Tales" it was inspired

by a Charles De Lint story. I believe it

was from Dreams Underfoot.



Sister Kind...

Sister Kind...from The Kind and Gentle Killers



Here's a pic of a study of a faun for

an upcoming commission...

 

Scapula...

I gotta whooooole box o' spare scapulae and I ain't afraid to use 'em....

 

I'd have give a pound of flesh to work on the  new Hellraiser movie...just sayin'.

ARtwork by Paul Gerrard

The Doorman...

Just a scene in my head...



Whats in progress on my desk right now...

Astronaut...

Thats what I'm calling it...Astronaut...this will be in my book"Personal Demons"

 

I found these things on my desk...they look like crystal pencils filled with black liquid...

so I tried drawing with them and this happened.

This is a warm up for a commision...

Whats in my brain...

Something squirming in my head...

Check out my friend Francisco Ruiz 30 days of Horror

http://fruiz-fruiz.blogspot.com/

This is his Frankenstein as a motorcycle...

Release Me

Detail from a piece I was working on last weekend...

Characters and creatures designed for Kabam...

Some characters that I designed for Kabam...

The Queen

Here's a detail of a comission finished recently...

Wild Things

...and another...

The Commonplace Book

A new cover that I did for TOR just released...

Something from my moleskine.

I once had a dream that I was watched over by a guardian angel. I dreamt of this angel
Many times and in each dream the angel would guide me through or around myriad dangers that presented themselves to me in my life.
Only, as time wore on 

I began to realize that the angel was dulling the sharp experiences of my existence. Muting the range of my being and diminishing my potential to grow stronger through the trials of my life.
In confronting the angel about this I found to my surprise that it was not an angel at all...

I just supported Brom's Art book Kickstarter...
Go here and check it out if you havent already...

Go here...

and support this!

Current Wip

Here's my current work in progress...a personal piece...

Here's a detail of a current sooper seekret w.i.p.

Escape

In progress color version of the Piece Im calling Escape:
So long held prisoner in its world,it was released, given access to our World by the same vehicle that had freed so many humans before it. It escaped through The reading of a book.

Current work in progress...

...and here is my current work in progress. I swear it was already

going before Irene's post about books in illustration...

Paintings of people with books....

Here's an article by Irene Gallo over at Tor.com featuring paintings that have books depicted in them(mine's in there too)....
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/07/picturing-books

Skull and bone reference...

If you need some skull and bone reference....
http://www.skullsite.co.uk/lists.htm

Here's one of my banners for SDCC! Come to booth 4912 and throw things at me...

Here's a promo poster of the film that I worked on last year...Jaegers aren't small...wait till you see the creatures...
Pacific Rim promo

Not trying to beat a dead Elder god but here's another iteration...just playing with the different rythms and melodies of the flesh

I'm in a Lovecraftian state of mind...

 My book cover is now in the wild(at least a preview anyway)!

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

Here is the piece that was just nominated for a Chesley Award! I'm floored and honored to be among such an incredible group of artists!

...an in progress piece from a short time ago...a private commission.
Oil on acrylic on canvas, 24" by 36"

So my website is live ...even though I only have three pieces up. In the net week I'll try and at least fill the drawing page... Many thanks to my friend Stephanie Law who not only does great work but can also code...
 
http://ijustdraw.com/

Two exercises that I did in oil. I did black and white studies of random photographs that I found in some magazine. I don't know who the photographers or the models were or I would credit them. These were and are for my own educational purposes to see if I could manage the oils...at least in monochrome.

Oh look...I found my brush pen!

As I was waiting for some feedback today and laid up with a UFC related back injury(it wasn't UFC I hurt it getting into the car) I found this guy...he's part of the Personal Demons sketchbook series. I think I must have imprinted Darkness from Legend as my patriarchal archetype.

Iterations: a priori... The One Before.

An Architectural element done on a plane...apparently 37,000 ft is a productive elevation for me.

Allright friends, Spectrum Live is almost upon us....see ya there! Come by my booth and say Hi...

Here's the final pencil for this piece...most likely move to digital color or paint on a canvas print...