Krampus demon...person

working on another piece for illustration before the end of the semester which is next wednesday.  eeeegads!

needs serious polish but this is a WIP.

Updated 12/12/12 woooooooooooooo I just noticed the date.  spooooooky.  eh.

Santa!

I finished it.  I neglected it for awhile, only working on it here and there.  I really like the way it turned out.  There are some areas that I simply didn't know how to work, but I think those things will be learned in time.

I have 2 more to do in 2 weeks.  yikes.

Santa Concept WIP

A billion trillion Santa Clauses have been drawn and painted, and so mine won't be anything special except that I did it, of course.  haha.  I haven't done a santa in a lot of years I don't think.  I could
be wrong.

anyway I read an excerpt of Krampus the Yule Lord by Brom, and Santa had a muscular chest and arms, and I thought that I would do a character concept based on that.  So far it is pretty fun.  I plan on doing 2 other pieces inspired by the excerpt that I read.  Im not sure how true I will stay to what I read, but that doesn't really matter.  It will correlate.

anyway:


I got excited so I did some more today instead of working on other projects that I should have been working on.  I may put a hat on him similar to this, but I haven't decided yet.  I also made his chest larger and stomach rounder.  I'm starting to get excited about the direction this is going.

yay!

Sargent study

I've been in the worst rut this semester.  I'm not going to complain about it here.  Anyway, after plenty of tantrums I decided to just sit and do some studies, and finished them up with a digital painting of one of John Singer Sargent's paintings "A Spanish Woman".

I couldn't dream of doing it justice, but for my own education it was a good exercise.  It really helped me understand color a lot, as it appears he did it in mainly 2 colors.  at least the digital image if his work was about 2 colors.

I took plenty of liberties, and started off with a different color for the background.  I like his background better, obviously.  gah.  now that it is up here in front of me Im seeing some really obvious issues!

it's just a study...

Influence update

UPDATE: 10 November

the show was a big success!  we had an estimated 320 people come Friday night to see our work!  I will make a new post showing the final piece when the show is finally done.


I had forsaken this part of the work to focus on the side panels, but I need to get this done this week.  I spent about 5.5 hours working on this today, and got a ton done!  Im liking this so far.

I tried to put them together how they will be on the wall but it isn't cooperating very well.  I should have put them together in PS but oh well.  It's time for bed and frankly I'm tired of messing with
this tonight.

influence - process shots

This semester has been a crazy crazy time.  Im taking a total of 19 credits and ended up losing 2.5 weeks due to kidney stones.  

My biggest challenge will be getting my edges soft and hard where they need to be.  That seems to be my biggest all time issue.

this will be a 3 panel piece about influence.

Update: 12 october

the above pic is a thumbnail of sorts to see how color would work with ideas I was having on how to treat the figures on the sides.  I had originally wanted an angels and demons theme, but one of the faculty on my committee thought it was too "trite".  I can appreciate that.  As an illustrator I sort of like trite sometimes.  Long story short I decided to revisit the angels and demons theme, but not in so trite a manner.  I chose to treat them in a way that would identify them or their motives with mood instead of traditional demon/angel conventions.  I'm still not sure how I want to treat the orbs, but I am getting there.  Also the middle still needs a lot of help especially in the background.  I just have 2 weeks left.  that is scary.  very very scary.  But I can do it.

itouch portrait

I had some kidney stones blasted this weekend.  I guess it was about the size of a corn kernel.  it has been making me bleed since May, but I finally got it checked out and resolved.  I'm on lots of pain meds and stuff to help me pass the particles.  

Anyway,  I was laying there wanting to do some painting.  I decided to borrow my wife's itouch and paint this using a stylus.  I used a TON of layers.  only 4 are allowed at a time, so I would flatten the image and the paint on a separate layer, lower the opacity of the layer, and rinse and repeat.  It took a very long time, but it was an interesting process.  this is a little bit smaller than how i saw it on the screen.  Of course I could zoom in and stuff.  

I did it as a thumbnail for a part of my exhibition show this fall.  

Im not really sure why but I just really really like this.