39th Post!

One of my favorite subjects to draw and paint are geisha girls (and samurai). A couple weeks ago I sketched this out and finally got around to finishing it over the Christmas holiday. not very Christmas-y I know.

here's the finished oil painting on 12x16 illustration board.

and the steps...
Sketched in Photoshop (and after not saving for awhile, got this message). Ugh! photoshop rarely crashes on me, so I've gotten out of the habit of saving every few minutes. sigh. luckily I did a 'print screen' before it totally died on me, so I was able to still use the low res image to work from.

I then printed out the image and using graphite transfer paper put it onto the pre-gessoed illustration board. (I put the layers of gesso on pretty thick to give it a nice painterly feel).

Then I started painting...

I didn't take too many photos of the progess at this stage...sorry :).
and the finished photo here:

38th Post!

In the spirit of the end of the world...(that's still happening, right?)

first up, the digital sketch in photoshop...

next up the pencils (done with col-erase pencils)

then I did some inking...

and finally some colors. Copic Markers on our model and watercolors for the zombies.

Hope everyone has a nice apocalypse!

37th Post!

Marvel's X-23. 9x12 with water soluble oils and acrylic

Digital sketch in photoshop

col-erase pencils before painting

and more sketch cover fun with Batman #0

This time with Gotham's bad girls. (done with Copic Markers)

36th Post!

Couple new things..

first is when you watch 'Up' then think it's been a while since you've drawn DC's Death :)

9x12 bristol paper and painted with water soluble oils and acrylic.

And this is the first blank sketch cover I've tried in a long time (last time the cover stock was so terrible I gave up on drawing on them for a while).

Copic Markers and white acrylic here and there.

35th Post!

been fooling around with water soluble oil paints lately (mixed with acrylics)...they dry so much faster than standard oil paint. I'm enjoying them so far. here's a couple recent ones.

first up...rookie mistake :)

and then a Psylocke (from Marvel comics).

 nothing thanksgiving related this time...oh well. hope you like anyways :)

oh, and don't forget to order the graphic novel I drew 'The Stereotypical Freaks' from Animal Media Group. You can order the book from their website now: Animal Media Group order page

34st Post!

Redheads are fun to draw :)

here's a couple recent ones...first up is Marvel's Goblin Queen. It's always tough being the queen of the goblins when you're dressed like that :)

and next up is DC's Poison Ivy (and a couple friends.)

Both pieces were colored with copic markers (and some paint for the background colors).

33rd post!

Since I missed a Halloween post, here's something for Veterans Day :)

11x17 Copic Markers with watercolor background and white acrylic stars.

and here's the full size pencils.

and the full size color image