First Snow Painting!

YAY! It's the first snow of the year here! I have only spent a couple years of my life in a climate that has snow.... so this is my first snow painting from life in probably 6 years! A quick digital painting sketch in Photoshop from observation out my studio window. :)

Quick Digital Figure Painting with Trackpad

For my morning exercise I decided to paint this young lady in Photoshop using just my laptop's trackpad and one brush. Varying just size and opacity. I really like being out of my comfort zone, you learn alot!!!

Digital Landscape Painting / Study

I did this digital painting / study from a photo a buddy of mine took on a trip. I really enjoyed trying to capture the life of the waves and the texture in the sand. Thanks Mike!

Character Sketch - Round 1!

I did this Warrior sketch quickly today for a friend. It's my first rough (very rough!). The value is more for defining space/objects, not light. I'll refine/clean/define him more in the next sketch. I have all sorts of ideas behind everything about him. A story/history, no matter how small, ALWAYS helps you make your work better!

Painting From Memory

Lots of times when i'm driving, I try to remember a scene and it's colors, then I paint it when I get home. It's GREAT practice for many reasons!

Landscape Painting - Digital

This is a quick landscape study of the view out of my studio window. I paint it almost every day. I never tire of it!

Turkey Character Design for Thanksgiving!

Figured I should draw something quick for Thanksgiving, so here it is! Happy Thanksgiving to all you who celebrate it! Eat tons and Be SAFE!!! 

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Nintendo DS Colors Quick Digital Painting - from Memory

I painted this immediately after returning from a day trip in the car. I remember the orangey/greeny light shining through a group of trees by the highway on the way home and painted it quickly from memory when I got home. :)

Jacob Black Portrait Drawing - Twilight Series

My first take on Jacob Black from the Twilight series. The werewolf Native American Kid.  This Character Design was alot of fun! And very challenging, which i LOVE!

Sketches

A half page of character design sketches and layout / composition studies for a project.

Nintendo DS Colors Quick Digital Painting

Another quick digital painting using Colors on my Nintendo DS. This one was from when I was reading the Golden Compass a year or two ago.

Edward Cullen Portrait Drawing - Twilight Series

My first take on Edward Cullen from the Twilight series about vampires ( in case you didn't know about it :P ). I think I'll do alot more of these, he has a fun face... and I love exploring and creating many designs from one person.

Nintendo DS Love!

Painted digitally on my Nintendo DS with a program called "Colors". The image is posted at 100%.

Kid Whale Sketches

Some exploration sketches from this morning of a whale kid :)

Hello World!

I finally got a blog! I'll use this to post random art, tutorials, work in progress, personal projects, and art I dont want to publish on my main site (things I dont want in my portfolio but are neat in their own way). And to start it off... here's a quick painting of the sunset last night!!!