ImageKind Gallery up

I've got a gallery up of most of my Fairy Tale and Pirate images up and available for sale at Imagekind. You can buy anything from a greeting card to a six foot print of a big scary fairy tale to disturb your child and parents with.

Click on the button in the upper right of this blog to be transported to my gallery.

One note about the gallery - the preview images on their website appear washed out, but the actual prints turn out great. I think this has to do with the fact that they don't respect the embedded color profile when auto-generating preview images on their web site, but they DO use the profiles when printing.

I'm still trying to sort that out.

Witches for Halloween

Some quick witch heads sketched in Photoshop for Halloween!

Gasmasks and Bobbies, oh my!

Years ago, I worked a set of drawings known collectively as "Terrorists Gone Wild". I recently had a big brain dump of new imagery based on some of the same ideas. I wanted a break from Pirates and Fairy Tales for awhile, and to get back to Pen and Ink. I realized while working on this drawing how much I missed using quill pens and ink. I also remembered my fondness for seeing blue-line underdrawings on comic pen and ink drawings. I always liked the look of the underdrawing with the ink more than the final reproduced image, where the blue line would drop out. I used red pencil for this drawing,and wanted to make sure its lines stayed around as part of the final composition.

Oh yea, and the title of this piece is "CELEBRATION".

Dinosaur

A cute dinosaur. Awww. Quick Photoshop sketch.

Double Sketch!

Its been awhile since I did any color digital sketching. Here's a demon and a humpty dumpty, both quick Photoshop sketches.

Demons

So I realized that I haven't posted much. I also realized that my lack of posting is not only because I haven't done much non-work related drawings lately, but also because I'm too lazy too scan all of the dozens of sketches I do every week. This is also probably because none of them are great, but then again, that's the whole point of a sketch blog.

With that in mind, here are a trio of demon doodles I did on the train. Their names are Pythias, Damien, and Santos.

Head Island (pencil)

Another image in the Blood Volcano series. I've had this preliminary pencil down for a few months now, and I keep not finding time to paint it. So, I thought I'd post the pencil work because people might find it interesting to see what's under the painting.

Fresh Recruits!

This piece is called Fresh Recruits, and is another little piece that lives in the Blood Volcano series.This is a small (7.5"x11") gouache painting on Rives BFK tan.

First Pirate Painting of 2008!

This piece is called An Unexpected Treasure, and introduces the golem to the pirate crew of the X.M.S. Blackheart, on their journey to the Blood Volcano to seek untold riches and fortune.This is a gouache painting on Rives BFK tan.