Girl in Nature

Just a little preview of something I'm working on.

Winter Animals

Some older artwork I found that I don't believe I ever posted.

Danny Don't

I had recently been working on some traditional media illustrations for a baby book for my newborn nephew to discourage him from following in some of my older brother's more unusual footsteps.

Pictured here are - eating nothing but cornflakes, putting french fried on burgers, growing an unemployment beard, and his sleeping to his rooster alarm clock he got as a child from a Kellogg's mail in.

Ink and Colour for Renae de Liz's Wonder Woman Redesign

Download the full size images for the colour and line art versions.

I inked and coloured Renae De Liz's Wonder Woman redesign. The sketch and original post can be seen here. Renae is the manager of the new Womanthology project.

Lady Pirate

Colours are very much toned down in this version. The WIP files have hair which is basically pale green.

Bubble Gum

I sketched this girl last Thanksgiving weekend and I thought it would be nice to do a simple colour version that was fun and not too busy.

Strawberry Boy

Saw a pretty boy on the train today with strawberry lips.
All I want to do lately is draw and paint. Better and better and more and more and more.

Thesis Film Background Painting

Some of the backgrounds I painted for my thesis film project.

Colour Studies and Exploration

I went through a whole lot of exploration of colour before I deciding on the colour styling for my film. Ultimately, I thought it would be best to stick to jewel tones and warmer shades, without straying too far towards a "cartoony" colour palette.

I started with the colour bars, making sure to cover the few variations I thought might be appropriate for this film at each approximate time of day. After building up the colour studies I weighed in on what I thought would be most effective for the content of each individual scene. Most of my opinions on those little decisions changed when I put my choices together, side by side.

Below you can see my working colour palette for the film. Kozak Mating Dance is ending up with much more red in it that I had set out thinking it would. I'm very glad I did this work, if only to have had the good sense to remove the whole "evening" palette from consideration. I think I've hit on something that works! As you can see, the workflow test scene a couple posts down is from the first colour section, in the top left corner.

Merry Christmas!

My Christmas card from this year - happy holidays, everybody!


CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST SPECIAL!
Why yes, those ARE scrambled eggs with food colouring! The drinks are eggnog lattes, made with an ethiopian ground and sprinkled with cocoa. My favourite part of breakfast - Ms. Ecks gingerbread men! Faces and boots drawn on with my precious Wilton Foodwriter. Nothing fancy about the toast but a spread of raspberry jam and cream cheese with a side of apples at least keeps the colour scheme!

Pivoting Stencil

"Stars whose explosive deaths spread complex atoms..."

Heavily inspired by complex binary networks.

Four Doors

I made this painting in Florence, Italy - sitting on the floor, opening all the doors in the house, ignoring strange looks from people going up the stairs. Fixed it up a little tonight digitally to make it look the way I wanted.

Studies of Character and Culture

Engaged Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Acrylic on illustration board.