Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Just playing around in the morning. I saw this tutorial and I wanted to try out the technique shown at the very bottom of it. That guy is really good and he has a bunch of other tutorials which should be quite helpful in future pieces. I like how this turned out all things considered [...]

This is definitely the best (and probably the most time consuming) piece I’ve done yet. Originally, I wanted to make a girl with a mecha arm (it had a completely different pose) but I was trying to do it from my head and, after spending a while doing that, I realized that it wasn’t coming [...]

Sorry for the horrible title but it’s the best I could come up with. Just a quick painting exercise before I get back to work on some commissions. I tried using a softer brush this time because I noticed that some of my previous efforts look kinda rough around the edges (literally). Still going back [...]

So I underwent minor surgery a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been itching to get this piece off my chest because, and no offense to the kind ladies that helped me, nurses most definitely do not look like this. I’ve been misled by porn yet again.

Getting some more airbrushing done. I used a bunch of different references for this one. Since I’m getting much better results when I work in grayscale, I figured I might as well go with straight-up black and white for this one. I purposely went darker with the whole piece and I added a bit of [...]

Trying my hand at some straight up airbrushing in Photoshop again. This is maybe my 5th attempt at it in the last couple of weeks. The previous tries weren’t going anywhere so they sit unfinished and will probably remain that way forever. I used a picture of the beautiful Adriana Lima for reference this time [...]

My first SKRATCHJAMS entry in quite a while. The challenge was to, you guessed it, redesign Superman. I’ve been in a serious funk in the last few days, mostly because of the quality of my art. I started at least 4 different pieces and dropped them halfway through (or earlier) because I didn’t feel they [...]

Dark, imposing, fear-inducing and fancy headwear are the things that define Darth Vader for me visually and I tried to keep those four things in my design. I show the top of his head so he doesn’t come across as a full robot but kept the breathing mask thingy that is so iconic of the [...]

If you’ve been following me on deviantART, you already know that I’ve been working on some character designs for this guy and his story, Crimson (all of which I’ve been asked to mention is owned and copyrighted by him). I’ve asked for his permission to post these of course, but I’ve been holding off on doing that until [...]

Trying to bring my airbrushing up to snuff. I went out of my way to not use any outlines and it all worked out pretty well overall. I’m learning that results with this method aren’t instantaneous and that you really have to work and build the figure. Was completed entirely in Photoshop with nothing but [...]