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Rituals and Relics

2008-06-08T17:50:00.000-07:00

This is a very rough cover posed to the nice people of Fiery Dragon for an upcoming book titled Rituals and Relics

Tunnels and trolls

2008-05-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

So here is the color version of Tunnels and Trolls. The book is a spin off of Dungeons and Dragons in a humor campaign setting. Don't quote me on this as I've never played it. It has a bit more old school comic look to it, not sure how this happened. I just bounce back and forth in types of styles depending on what time frame and how many characters are in the scene. I find this type of look is one of the quickest to pull off when your dealing with lots of characters in a short time frame.

watercolor brush

2008-04-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

So I love painter for the look of the organic brushes...but hate the pixels it crops when you work in anything but 100 percent. So I find I tend to stay with photoshop and work on the 25/50/100 so I get an accurate depiction of the artwork. The trouble I find in Photoshop though is the ability to pick up colors and drag along with the brush tip. I will have to do some watercolors in a bit for a project and lat night I was playing around with trying to get an organic brush for watercolors.. here is my palette.

Birthday

2008-04-23T13:06:00.000-07:00

So today is my birthday and I thought I would update the blog with a present to you. I'm sick of them after 30 years, I find it much nice to give then receive. Not that I'm a nice guy or anything I just hate when you unwrap a gift and you look with horror at what it is, while trying to convey a look of pure joy and happiness on your face. I fail miserably at this.

Book mock up

2008-04-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

So I wanted to get back to doing what I want with my life and that's doing book covers. So here is a painting I did and had fun with a bit more blocky painting style leaving lots of brush strokes unfinished. As always Enjoy.

Army Of Ireland

2007-11-01T09:43:00.000-07:00

So here we have the final piece, Enjoy as always.

AoI_wash

2007-10-26T12:51:00.000-07:00

Here we are in time for the weekend. I was rusty on my coloring, well infact I was rusty on my sketch to so I did some minor corrections to both and we have the wash!

I thought I was done at an earlier stage and started to go into details, big waste of time that was... not sure if anyone else gets that feeling that "oh some detail work will help the realism of the piece" It didn't. All it did was after the 3hrs of painting it upclose I zoomed out and wondered what this garbage was. I then proceeded to paint in thumbnail mode only... staying in my sketch lines was not an option. I needed to get the colors and tones working then I can go back and worry if its an arm or a leg that I'm painting. So after some laying down of layers and adjustments we have the wash.

Army of Ireland

2007-10-22T11:16:00.000-07:00

Greetings time for another rough turned into a painting.

So here we go with the pencil rough I did up today.

Paul Lasaine

2007-10-20T20:09:00.000-07:00

If any of you have not gone to this blog, you have to go ...RIGHT NOW!!! :D :D :D

http://paullasaine.blogspot.com/

Thanks again for sharing these amazing paintings Paul!

MPWR

2007-10-17T05:25:00.000-07:00

Here is the back cover for the promotional work posted previous there is a special interior that was done in a more painterly style that will be posted next week.

Promotional work

2007-10-05T14:17:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

here is a new image that was created for a promotional advertisement for a new website getting ready to launch in December. Enjoy

A secret door

2007-03-18T05:59:00.000-07:00

Greetings all,

I did this scketch up as a rough for a book involving a secret door, a book, and a demon. Just thought I'd share. I love going from children's books to high fantasy to sci-fi. You never end up getting bored doing the same thing. Hope everyone's March is starting off good and spring will be on us soon.

Test via Kobolds

2007-02-21T11:48:00.000-08:00

So here is an update, I've been doing some Backgrounds which sadly I'm not allow to show. But good news I can show another test I did to get some more creature work coming my way. The test was for Nival working on a Russian MMO comming out in a few years. The test was for the small sometimes over looked, mischievous rat-like creature we call a kobold. There are many takes on this creature , here is mine that I sent in...

2007-02-12T08:36:00.000-08:00

here we go another update, the barnard's star has been completed.

And I also wanted to send a special thank-you to some very talented artists that either linked me or mentioned me on their blogs. Thanks so much guys ^^

Simon Rodgers
http://www.sim-r.blogspot.com/

Lee-Roy
http://blog.artandstory.com/2007/02/10/lost-handlebars/

Ron Doucet
http://floobynooby.blogspot.com/

John Nevarez
http://john-nevarez.blogspot.com/

Barnard's Star

2007-02-01T15:47:00.000-08:00

Wow, it's February already. Wanted to share a Sci-Fi cover I'm doing for Fiery Dragon, a company in Toronto. Pretty excited since I haven't gotten a chance to do Sci-Fi stuff in a while. Here is the rough with the final to follow soon :)

Hope you guys like it.

Mayan after the rough

2007-01-30T13:31:00.000-08:00

OK step process for the Mayan rough pen I posted a bit ago, As you will soon see I killed my eyes with the saturated colors when I started off. I found out photoshop was lying to me about the colors, I didn't know till I went into painter and nearly had heart failure (smiles)

I king

2007-01-29T12:39:00.000-08:00

Here is cover done for the Iron Heroes world called I, King. enjoy.

A Tale of the White Wolf

2007-01-17T18:12:00.000-08:00

Here is a quick cover art step by step, that I put together just for fun.

MAYAS

2007-01-14T16:09:00.000-08:00

Here is a ruff for a book cover/game cover I'm currently working on. It's about the Mayan civilization. Just watched "Apocalypto" for reference, and I'm not sure what you guys thought, but I loved the movie! Beautiful characters, setup and the story directing was done really well. It sort of even reminded me of the old Hitchcock films, in that so much was told through the characters eyes. Anyways, enjoy this quick thumb ^^.

MTG test

2007-01-10T17:39:00.000-08:00

Here are some new images from a Wizards of the Coast 24hr test I did for them. It was all concept art work with no color allowed. I didn't get the job (sad face) but it was fun as hell and just thought to share the images with you.

The Crystal of Dreams

2006-12-17T17:58:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to wish everyone a "Happy Holidays".

I won't be back from seeing my family until the first week of January, so until then I will leave you with a book cover I did this year.

Goblin Smarts

2006-12-07T08:04:00.000-08:00

These 3 little fellows are the pride and joy of the Goblin Academey graduating in the art of higher thinking. Little did they know that life was about to take a most unexpected twist.

Prehistoric Sci-Fi

2006-12-03T05:37:00.000-08:00

Skeleton warrior

2006-12-02T15:55:00.000-08:00

This is another fantasy sketch I was doing this week ^^. Enjoy

centaurs

2006-11-26T04:53:00.000-08:00

Hey all, just did up a rough of a classical mythology. Instead of the bulky horse frame I thought I'd try out a deer's body for these elegent females.

Newsprint

2006-11-22T14:32:00.000-08:00

"yay" for drawing

2006-11-20T14:49:00.000-08:00

I had fun last week and went to Loomis (an art store up here in Canada) and bought some supplies. These days being in the computer age and with the demand of clients, I just don't get to draw on paper enough. Just wanted to share. ^^ Hopefully more to come.

2006-11-17T14:58:00.000-08:00

Concept stuff (part 2)

2006-11-13T18:27:00.000-08:00

Concept stuff

Here is part 1 of some quick character explorations that I did. This was a test for a company overseas, description: modern day generic hero.

2006-11-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone.

This post will mainly contain older pictures that I've worked on to give you guys some flavor of what kindof stuff I want to put onto this blog. Glad to be joining the blogging community.