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I often get wrapped up in projects and forget to post art. I did a Cthulhu-based card game a year or two ago.  This banner includes is a good example of the art I did a while back for it...I should go through and see what else I absent-mindedly shuffled off into the memory hole.

Bel Air Bomber

Here's a tattoo design I made for a good friend of mine. This was done last year, but I wanted to wait until she'd gotten the ink before I shared it with the world...I'll probably post some of the process later on.

Day of the Dead Banner...

...for my buddy's rock club...

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Kill Bill

I made this image for ArtsWorcester's Art on the Line event this week. It will be printed 8x8 inches and I'm only doing a limited run of ten. $20 apiece.

It took a few hours in the afternoon. It's very loose, I wanted to keep the energy very high. Below is the thumbnail idea. Notice that I foreshortened her leg from the original idea. I really like foreshortening, it involves the viewer in the art.

Cthulhu 2

Worked some more on this. I was thinking about making the story more interesting, like maybe the end of the reign of man just happened to interrupt a young couple's make-out session. This version is too 'exploitationey'. I liked the silliness of the bra across the guy's face, but couldn't come up with a way to take it off of her without being really corny. 'Huh-huhuh…boobs' isn't my aim. I'll keep working on it. I'm aiming for something that feels big like this one.

Also of note, I decided on the compositional flow, and am sticking to it. I really like the 'curved thunderbolt' shape, and as soon as I reworked the image into that flow, it came together. The first version (my previous post), really feels like a lump of clay compared to this one. Still just stealing time to work on this, so it's going slow. More to come later.

Did some illustrator sketching this morning

I have this Cthulhu concept that was rejected from an old project. I'm thinking about making it into something. This is really rough and early. I'm going to resketch it a few times before it goes anywhere. Not crazy about the colors just yet either...should the car be fleeing? Or maybe there might be a couple in it, maybe there's some heavy petting going on.

Predator skateboard

Ctrl Paint

CtrlPaint.com is a great resource for artists looking to crack the digital art code. A few ten-minute long videos can get you on your way to creating art in PhotoShop.

I work in Illustrator, which is a very different method, but have been wanting to try the CtrlPaint PhotoShop method. Here's my first try. I did this yesterday. I'm still using a very cartooney illustrator line, but moving toward a more painterly finish.

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A giant laid to rest

Beloved animator and director Ray Harry Hausen passed away today at age of 92. One of the hardest working men in film in this century, Harryhausen was a visionary pioneer of stop-motion animation. If not for this man's work, so many of us that work in the monster-making field never would have been inspired to pick up our pencils, paints, clay or cameras. He will be missed.

Here are a few examples of his work.

The skeleton army in 1961's Jason and the Argonauts:



Mr Joseph Young in 1949's Mighty Joe Young:



The Kraken in 1981's Clash of the Titans:



Medusa, also in Titans:

SO!

It looks like LEGO has decided to reveal what we've been working on. I haven't gotten the thumbs-up to revealing anything else, but I can share what they've shared:

Click for larger ...y'know what, click this for a larger, clearer image:

More to come once this is fully released.