Kraken

Took forever, but here we are. Please click to enlarge. 

After work

Working on so many things right now. I've been working on a script for a potential comic project. Learning how to oil paint. Got an album cover on my screen and the kraken piece... I've started working on this as well, using the Ctrl-Paint method I mentioned a few months back. It's based on a doodle I had kicking around for a few years that I liked...

Enlarged it and tightened up the sketch, using tracing paper:

Now here's the interesting part. I'm a very big fan of the artist Glenn Barr. I love his moody sense of color, it's very different from my own. So I decided to use borrow steal a color palette from one of his paintings and use it on this one, especially since this piece is very reminiscent, in mood and locale, of something he might do. 

Here's a screengrab of where I'm at now, you can see the palette grid, and the palette at work. It has a feel that I like. I'll still need to be careful that it feels like my work, and not like I'm aping an artist I like. 

I still need to get some reference for the background, stools, dartboards, etc. As if I don't spend enough time in bars...

Hello, Dog

here's a warmup sketch I colored. my stuff's not all gross.  

Kraken Progress

A little bit closer. I keep changing the color depending on my level of EYESTRAIN. Just a few more tentacles and the body of the ship left to do. Plus I think there should be some little sailor dudes falling to their doom.

Click to enlarge.

JAWS 3D

I've been enjoying seeing other artists do this, particularly Francesco Francavilla with his post-episode, simple Breaking Bad illustrations. I watch a lot of crappy movies for this other project I'm involved with...so I think I'm going to try spending a few minutes after everything I watch, creating a quick movie poster/image/illustration/whatever right after I watch it...here's today's.

Kraken

So it was requested recently that I design a woodcut-style image of a squid attacking a ship, for the shower curtain in our new bathroom...here it is about half-way done.

Based on this idea:

Fat Cthulhu

Been sketching for a bunch of new illustration projects, but I've been doing so many...let's say 'less artistic' jobs lately, so I'm sketching as much as I can anyplace I can. Here's one quickie.

Choose One!

I just received the first prototypes of the game that I did the design and illustration for.

Here are some of the other ideas we had for skinning this game:

Zoltan the mind-reader (think of Tom Hanks' Big):

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One that is reminiscent of the early radio-days, mesmerism, etc. 

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And here's one that was a combination of both...the Svengali.

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Progress on the Doctor

Let me just repeat: Tick-tock, buddy

Previously blogged here. In February of 2007. Still waiting.

Incidentally, I know exactly where I was that day. It was my eighteenth birthday, and we were celebrating by smoking cigars in front of Jonas Clark Hall. No Jesus anyplace. No floating people. No discarded clothes on the ground. Sadly.