Monster Faces

My dad likes monsters, dragons and Big Daddy Roth. He keeps asking me to do a painting for him with some monster heads. So I've been doodling some here and there and will hopefully eventually wind up with something interesting enough to develop further. Here are a few of these charming fellows.

 

Skulls, a Rat, and Cthulhu

Seemed very Fourth of July somehow. Pencil sketch while sipping Philz in downtown San Jose!

Family Tree

I did a little painting for a show called "A Moment of..." that just opened last Saturday. It's a group show curated by the fantastic Ruel Pascual and all of the pieces are themed around the idea of a "memorable moment" in life. This piece is 8"x10" and gouache on printmaking paper. You can check the show out here: http://vegalleries.com/moment.html

Here is a bad photo of the final image and some process shots below it.

Random Doodles

I've been busy lately. I was scanning some things for work and saw some random doodles on the pages that weren't work related. So I thought I should post SOMETHING. So we've got some nut crackers, a middle-manager shark boss, tentacles and SKULLMELIA DEADHEART.

Psychotic Girlfriend!

Another Pettyland illustration. I think I'm about to start getting into the cards that are in "bad taste" section of the game. My excuse is that I was only 18 when I designed this game. And it was the 80's. Always the 80's.

Pirate Face Sculpt

A quick little Z-brush sculpt. I rarely post these little speed sculpts, but I was tired of looking at Pettyland cards. I built this in zbrush from a simple sphere using the fantastic Dynamesh function to keep the topology good.

Fascist Pig

The ubiquitous cop mustache is paired with a Robocop-esque frame in this charming Pettyland card.

The Minstrel Tate

Another Pettyland card. Apologies to yet another high school friend of mine for a demeaning illustration. But I think it would be pretty cool to have a nose flute.

Little Red Riding House

I told myself that I'd get one more painting done before the year ends and I did this little painting yesterday. It is gouache on watercolor paper. About 12"x15" or so. Also, I was as sick as a dog while painting it.

I took some process photo shots with my iPhone while I was painting it and put a little collage below. You can see that I started out with a sketch, but the details changed quite a bit as a painted. When I'm not doing commercial work, I like to avoid doing too much planning.

F-Bear

Ahh...young love. But a very useful card in Pettyland if you want to lower your Sanity score. Or avoid Pam.