Nemette(Nightlands series)

Here's the initial piece for an ongoing project. The working title is:Nightlands

The Gift

Third time's a charm...check out my pencil piece on IFA...if you do feel like voting for it I'd be honored but even if not there's some cool images going on over there...

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Sort of my own Dante's Inferno developing...work in progress...

Perhaps a Gaunt of some kind...

...and here's one of my variations of an Old One from In the Mountains of Madness (tho this one isn't from the movie concepts).

Here's a version of Keziah Mason, an astral witch from HPL's  Dreams in the Witch house...

The Cradle of Leng

Their society had begun to decay. The diversity of genetic evolution was failing them. In their desperation they assumed stewardship of their own biological destiny. They became their own makers not out of natural adaptation but as a result of their own terrible will. They were wretched and immortal. They were dire and full of fury, at creation, which had abandoned them and at nature, which despised their existence.

They worshipped gods that didn't exist so in their madness they created them.

The Cradle of Leng was the city of their birth. Leng was grown from the genetic remnants of a billion years of experimentation. It was alive, this city, and tortured. It was written on the walls of Leng that torture and pain give depth and strength to its foundation.

When the city was old and near it's own death they made way to give it rebirth through itself. They inseminated the city with the seeds of malformed gods of their own creation, filled with eons of existence and the seething chaos of the thoughts of long dead divinities. The city was tortured yet again with miscarriage and abortion time and time again until one day the seed held fast and began to grow.

...and here's the finished piece. It's 9"x12",graphite, acrylic and oil on Stillman & Birn 180lb Zeta Series multimedia paper...

R'yleh

I was actually working on something else but last night I dreamt of R'lyeh....

Another variation of the early Kaiju concept that I posted previously...The more giant monsters there are in the world the better!

More Kaiju Organ Harvester concept...all of these drawings are in the "Art of Pacific Rim" by the way...plus a ton by Wayne Barlowe, Guy Davis, Francisco Ruiz, Hugo Martin, Oscar Chiconi and too many incredible artists to list here...

Another Kaiju...this one was part of a sequential design...this was stage 1...I've been told that elements of subsequent stages may found their way into some of the actual creatures...we shall see...I'm going to see the film on Thursday night...

 

Kaiju from the inside...Organ harvesters...Also, I have one more interior shot that I'll post tomorrow...

Since I'm being all "posty" today and since I received permission to post it and since its one of my pieces from the "Art of Pacific Rim" book....Here's a Kaiju:

"Mother of Many"

"Indeed there are some beasts waiting to be born ... And others that come before they're called." Among her kind her name meant "Mother of Many"...and all her children were blind.

Her name was Wormwood. She was the most feral and dangerous of the Eeries. There were those that said she had a beautiful face but if she did she never revealed it to me.

I have a few pieces along the lines of The Corrupted sketched out...Here it is in another spread from the sketchbook and a link to the order page:
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This last few day at Spectrum Art Live 2 in Kansas City was, yet again amazing! Doubly so since I won the Gold Medal award in Concept art! Yes, I'm overusing punctuation because I am still blown away!

 

 

Iain Mccaig and I backstage at the awards banquet

 

Here is the first spread in my sketchbook along with an incredibly nice blurb from Guillermo!
You can pre-order the book here(pre-orders also come with a signed print until May 15th) :)

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Ok, I just approved the proofs and sent my very first sketchbook to press so here's the Cover and a link to the page where you can order one!

I'll include a signed print for pre-orders before May 15th! 

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Here's a recent creature/character sketch. I'm calling it Monarch.

 

 

Here's a link to the Microvisions auction. Check it out...all the proceeds go to art students. Go and bid recklessly on art...do it to spite the non art bidders and all those people who told you that you can't make a living as a artist,composer, musician, writer, poet,sculptor, cook and mad hatter.

                                                                    Microvisions

                                   

                                                     .....and many more!

Darth Talon: Corrupted

Here's the image so far...I'm calling it Darth Talon:Corrupted for the Nucleus Star Wars themed group exhibit. I exagerated the form and physical perspective a bit. I wasn't so interested in drawing the character as she had been depicted so far so I ...corrupted her.

Minotaur concept for upcoming publication

A character/creature study for an upcoming publication...

More than men have lost their way in the Labrynth. Wandering so long that they forget who they are. When they finally emerge nothing of their previous life remains and they seem as innocent as children, for a time.

A new scan of a work in progress...

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Ok...for all the crazy pencil freaks and geeks like me!

Ok...for all the crazy pencil freaks and geeks like me!

Here's the Neil Gaiman piece that I illustrated for Irene Gallo over at Tor.com...

 

http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/04/house-neil-gaiman

...and here is my Microvisions piece...

For the graphite Junkies out there...

Not too long ago I had the rare opportunity to work in a studio with this great group of people. we were doing concept design for the upcoming film "Noah".
Left to right...Neville Page, Darren Aronofsky,(me, gettin' my geek on in my Miskatonic University T) and Simon Lee. I can't tell you how much I learned from these guys...

The whole piece...I'm kalling it KAW for now.

Texture exploration...

Here's a short example of one way of exploring texture with graphite...

Check it out...I have another credit. I'm

sooo stoked to see these films!

Me...on IMDB.

"Will you strike me down with your scythe?" The man asked.
The angel replied"You are no demon, nor are you a god...and I would not be so cruel as to sever you from this sad, beautiful life with the bite of eternities blade. No, you need only take my hand and walk with me."

ongoing...

I guess if I have a White Dragon there's an unwritten obligation to make a Black as well...

 

Here's the full creature , including my reference, obviously still in progress.

....and now something from the other side...

I felt a lot of things today but ....not fear...fear is for another day. So I drew man-thing...at least, my version of him.

...of course this was just for fun...

this is a Marvel trademarked

character

 

Here's a wip from an e book cover I meant to post last week...also my wife has begun to update ijustdraw.com if you're interested...

In 2010 I was honored to be among this group of guys, working on

At the Mountains of Madness for Guillermo Del Toro.

Left to right: 

Guillermo, Me(geeking in my Miskatonic T-shirt), Keith Thompson,

T.Cruise, Wayne Barlowe, Guy Davis and Francisco Ruiz Velasco

and absent from this photo but present in awesome design, Peter Konig and Peter Gric.

Tho the movie was shelved It was an incredible experience and I still have hope that it will

eventually

come back to life.

"They come when I call" she said "...always."
"They're *my* dogs."