New Blog!

I have two distinct styles and I've decided, instead of dumping them all on one blog, to split them up. The more cartoony style is here while my realistic stuff is still on this blog. Hope you all dig the new blog!

Village...

Lady Body

lady moon

Purple lady...

Archvillain!

The new book Archvillain is officially announced with a cover by yours truly! It's slated for release in October of 2010 and apparently the final cover will have a gaggle of snazzy effects! You can read more about it here.

Witch...

"Onwards" or "Iron Sharpens Iron"

Welp, yesterday was officially my last day at Red 5 Studios. It was a lot sadder than I expected and I already miss the people I worked with. I could sit and rehash all the bad and weigh it against the good but I won't. There's no point, what's done is done and all that. What I will do is talk for a bit about the artists I worked with.

It started a few weeks ago when I was digging through my "artstuff" folder on one of my ever growing collection of hard drives. I came across several pieces I seemed to remember being pretty good and was shocked and appalled at what I saw. They were filled with mistakes, half finished and half hearted. Most of them were just lazy. A few minutes in photoshop could have fixed any number of problems. I compared it with my current work and realized there was a large discrepency between the quality and general polish of the pieces. What was the reason?

My coworkers.

Now, before I continue, let me make one thing clear: I in no way, shape or form believe I've "made it" or crossed the finish line. The beautiful and frustrating thing is that with art these things don't exist. I still see plenty of problems with what I do, with how I execute things. I still see my "safe zones" and how I hide in them. I always will. But being around the artists I worked with, it's made me want to push past those limits and learn, learn, learn. On a daily basis, each and every artist around me wow'd me with what they brought to the table and fed off each other in a positive way. It's a strange emotion. Kind of like envy but without the self-destructive nature. It's more akin to wanting to keep up with the pack.

That said, I have to give the most respect to Anthony Waters, Sungbo Baek, Jon Ryder, Mongsub Song, Phillip Wang, Doug Gregory, Arnold Tsang, Joe Peterson and Bill Petras. These guys innovated and pushed me to do better, both with subtle encouragement and zealous excitment. I hope and pray I gave back to them in the same way and can work with all of them again.

Cheers.

A.

Ogre

Various stuff...

Ares

Moon Knight

"Worst" sketch....

This is a character from the manga "Worst". That symbol means "flower". That is all.

Weird Tales #354 cover!

The nice people at Weird Tales magazine were nice enough to use one of my illustrations for their cover. You can visit their site by clicking here.

Vulture guy lunch quickie

Vulture guy.

Spiral...

Quickie before I go home...

Deep Lever Music Compilation #1 is out!

A new compilation of ambient music with a cover done by yours truly is out and available for free download. Tell everyone you know. TWICE. You can find the free download here.

Thaumaturge

Lunch quickie 2

Elephant Tug

Bellis Coldwine

Another character from the Scar, Bellis Coldwine.

Lunch doodle

Quickie over lunch. Hehe....."quickie".....

Tanner Sack

Shack...

Enviroments...

Cactacae

Life drawing...

I don't usually post life drawings but figured what the hell :)

Mr. Spade- now in color!

Yeah I think coloring an old post and passing it off as "new" is lame too. Just a quick doodle before bed :).

Fae

I like the way his hands turned out :)

'Nother scape....

Cityscape

Enviroment

Sapperstein

W-w-w-whaaaaat?!

Just a headshot mined from an old sketchbook. I feel like I'm slacking if I don't post semi regularly :)

Monsters...

Some mutated weirdos I drew while sketchin' with a friend.

hullo guv....

Something I drew while hanging out with a drawin' buddy.

Weekly Challenge 3

Done for Cloud 9 forums. The challenge was to do a piece using only three colors. You could still use tonal variations as long as it was the three colors.

Onward!

Bats....

Li'l old piece I found from a while ago. Kinda still dig it, so I figured I'd share. Hope you like it :)

Weekly challenge...again

I posted this one a while back and then took it down because I didn't want one of those adult content warning thingies. I decided to throw caution to the wind and repost(that and I don't think this is racy enough for a warning anyway). This was for the weekly challenge on the Cloud 9 forums, the title "girls kissing girls". *ahem*

Sometimes it's a giant killer bear man...

Other times it's a mom hangin out with her kid. This one was a lot of fun and off the beaten path for me. You may notice the mom in the chair from the peeps piece down the page.

New drawings...

I recently went to the San Diego Comic Con and and had the honor of meeting Dave McKean (well, more like stood in his presence and tried to remember my own name). Mr. McKean was kind enough to do a little drawing inside the book of his sketches I bought, gratis. I did a few drawings of my own, inspired by the man himself. Thanks Dave!

Skull Wizard...

Did this one for the weekly drawing challenge thingy posed by a friend of mine, one Mr. Mike Mitchell. Like how this one turned out...

New pieces...

I had a lot of fun with these and thanks to one Mr. Anthony Waters I did more color wise than I would have normally.