May the 4th be with you
On May 3rd and 4th I binge watched the new animated show StarWars Rebels on StarWars.com. I couldn’t help myself, I needed to do a little fan art of Sabine Wren.
Chrono Cross’s Kid with the Astral Amulet
I drew this picture a few years ago and really wasn’t enjoying the way it was turning out so I decided to retool it. So here’s the new version with kid holding the Astral Amulet. Little bit of information about the Astral Amulet. The Astral Amulet is an item in Chrono Cross. Given to Kid by Lucca, this enigmatic pouch contains a […]
HardLander Promotional Box Art
Nic Biondi and myself have been working on an indie game called HardLander and have been working hard to get this game out in front of the masses. The game has been shown at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo and OSMI After Dark. With all the hard work getting the game to its current state we […]
Process for creating a book cover: Legend of Halloween
In this post I’m going to walk you through my process for creating a book cover. A self-publishing author, Thea Berg, approached me to do a cover in her book series The Magical World of Sebella. The first book cover was illustrated by Wilson Williams, Jr. who sadly passed away last year. So I thought […]
Painting the Legend of Halloween Book cover
Thea Berg, writer of the Magical World of Sebella book series, commission me to illustrate the Book cover for her second book in this series. Thea was gracious enough to allow me to share my process with you. This is a sped up video showing my coloring process for creating the color cover.
HardLander Graphics
I’ve been helping out a buddy with his indy game. It’s got some super fun multiplayer built into it and I’ve been lucky enough to help him out with the graphics for it.
Maroon Security Officer
Every world needs a police force. So I created designs for my comics civil protectors.
Back to Work on My Comic
It’s been a few months but now it’s time to get cranking on my comic again. Hopefully this will be the year to get it done.
The Making of My Sunset Duel Illustration
Here are some process images for my new illustration entitled Sunset Dual. I recently took a character design class and one of the assignments was to take the photograph of a person and turn them into an illustrated character. So I found an image of this Amazon girl and changed it into the image you […]
Holiday Card 2013
Sadly, I forgot to post this before the holiday season so everyone will be seeing this in 2014 but here is my families 2013 holiday card.
Character Design 2 with Steven Silver Lesson 4 Homework
Week four homework was to design three waitresses. Each waitress had to be designed side by side in a line-up and each of their body types needed to be A different shape. The shapes I selected were: hourglass, pear and a prism. Here is my entire process for the three characters I came up with.
Character Design 2 with Steven Silver Lesson 2 Homework
It’s week two in my Character Design 2 class and this weeks assignment is to pick an artist style or television show to try to emulate. The artist or show can be from the past or present and the character can be an animal or a person. The task was to design a character that will […]
T-shirt design – Northwest Roadhouse
A few months ago I was asked to design a shirt for a local biker club. The only requirements that they asked for was that the name of the club appear at the top. The rest was up to me because the only other information they gave me was “make our building look […]
BYU Football Coloring Books
Recently, I completed a coloring book for Collegiate Coloring Books. They create coloring books for college sports teams. This specific book was for the BYU football program. The book has not been released yet but here are a few sample images. If you’d like to preorder one of these books please visit this website Colorthecougars.com
Rainy Day in Paris
2 or 3 years or so ago I sketched this drawing of a woman walking down the street looking down at her phone and it has just been sitting on my desk. Finally I got the chance to revamp it and add some color as well as relocate the girl to a rainy Paris evening. […]
Girl on Fire Progress
I’ve been doing a lot of drawing lately and so I’ve been getting a lot of reading done as well. When I have a lot of work to do I listen to audiobooks. It makes the time go so much faster. Since I’ve burned through all the new books I’ve picked up from the library […]
Project Process – The Best of Us
Recently, I’ve set a goal of trying to get a better grasp on lighting faces. Here is one of my recent studies. I ended up enjoying it so much I took it to a final piece. Hope you enjoy the process images.
Schoolism.com – Character Design: My thoughts
First off what is Schoolism? Schoolism is an online school that teaches classes for artists. The classes are taught by working professionals through out the 9 to 14 weeks course (depending on the classes). They offer a self taught version for around 500 dollars and a critiqued session course for 1000 dollars. The classes are […]