Richard Weed

Another Pettyland card.

Little known fact: Caligula was the name of the pseudo-punk band I was in during High School. Other little known fact: we never performed. We did, however, write lots of terrible songs and come up with several "concept albums", including a whole album devoted to Fresno. Devoted is perhaps the wrong term. What we did is take popular songs at the time with the word "hell" in them and swap it for the word "Fresno". Like "Fresno's Bells" or "Fresno is for Children". Yup a whole album.

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.