Friday, June 20, 2008

New Painting


Two nights in a row with something to show! This is digital painting that took me about an hour and half. I'm not really content with the way the fabric looks, but I did not spend much time on that area. I like the colors alright, but it could may be use a higher contrast.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Hour Sketch


Here's a sketch I cranked out this evening. It was a lot of fun and very relaxing. It's nice not to be too worked up while you draw. The landscape below continues to bother me the more I see it. So much is wrong with it. But it's good practice. Perhaps I'll redo one this week sometime. I look forward to being able to do more illustrations this year for the 2009 schedule of titles. I think we have a few that should lend themselves well to it.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

New Book Cover



Here's some work for a new line of books in what's being called The Winter Trilogy.

Monday, June 09, 2008

How 'bout that heat?

Summer here in Pittsburgh arrived with the grace and subtlety of a sledge hammer to the back. It's been in the mid 90's the past few days made worse by the high humidity. Running has been troublesome for us since it started to warm up earlier in the month, but then we were lucky that the we would only have one hot day now and again. It's taking much longer to get used to it than I thought it would. Running a very short distance seems to drain me completely. Hopefully that will improve.

I've been continuing drawing a few things and recently colored a sketch I had drawn during the winter.

It's not too bad, but not exactly how I wanted it.


I'm also working on this at the moment. This is a close-up on the first figure. It will have 3-4 in it by the time it's done.