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.

Three Headed Politician

There's a lot of these lately. Hope no one is getting sick of them yet.

Curt!

Curt is an old friend of mine from high school who used to do these twisted drawings of elongated heads. Curt was also prone to girlfriend issues. Here is his Companion card in Pettyland. The three heads on the sides are based on his drawing style.