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Neanderthal

Just a quick post.

I’ve always been interested in human origins. So much so, I seriously gave thought to becoming an Anthropologist before becoming a graphic designer. Around the time I was a kid, some really ornate reconstructions were being made in clay. I guess that appealed to my artistic side.

Anyways, I threw this guy together over two evenings. I forgot how quickly I can put together a portrait in pencil.

I’ll apologize now to any working or aspiring Anthropologists who may come across this post. This work is mainly fictionalized and probably not as accurate as it could be. Maybe he’s a hybrid that science likes to theorize about from time to time. Especially now, as there is some good evidence a small percentage of Europeans may have a few Neanderthal genes in their DNA.

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Image of the Month – July

Early this month. Which is more than I can say for my web comic. It’s coming, though slowly. The weather outside it waaay too nice out and I’ve also been working quite a bit of overtime lately. Doesn’t leave much time for working on the old computer after hours.

Anyways, this is a colour of a black and white image I did a few months ago. And while I wouldn’t call it outright theft, I did borrow rather extensively the colour scheme from a certain well know robot that shall remain nameless. Besides, what did Picasso say? Good artists borrow, great ones steal?

I had quite a bit of fun with all the reflections on this one. And it didn’t take very long to do either. Enjoy!

Wolverine

Simple line art drawing scanned into the computer. Lines cleaned up in Photoshop. As for the colour scheme, I’m a child of the 80s, so to me, this is the definitive Wolverine costume. Though I do not mind the current blue and yellow one he’s sporting now.

Classic Car

Summer has now officially started up, and it looks like we’re actually going to see some sun for the next few days. So in celebration, I’ve posted this image. Just a note – I do not actually own a car like this (nor does anyone as I based the details of the car on several different models of old cars), nor am I planning a road trip any time soon 😦

Anyways, mostly a Plain Jane vector illustration with a few effects thrown in just ’cause I can. Enjoy.

Image of the Month – June

So this month I finally got around to finishing off the WIP I had for the month of April.

I managed to get the wolf printed out on some very heavy linen textured paper, where I proceeded to first paint an underpainting in various shades of red. I chose a red as I knew I was going to finish off the piece in mostly cool grey tones. Choosing a warm tone for the underpainting of a primarily cool toned final painting is pretty much Underpainting 101. Once everything was dry, I went to town and finished off the painting.

Keep in mind when viewing this piece, that it is the same size as a business card, so detail can be a problem, AND I chose a style that would be very textured in appearance. All in all, I am pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Now all I need to do is track down a geocaching tag to make this a trackable item. It looks like for this to work, I’m going to have to hole punch this thing. Probably in the bottom left or right corner. Hopefully I know someone who is big into arts and crafts, and has a eyelet punch I can borrow, as I think I might want the extra durability if I want this item to last for any length of time.

Really Big Image Dump

This should be my next to last post in my ongoing theme of digging up old art to publish online. These last ones here are more of the same. Just old line drawings that have been scanned and coloured in Photoshop. Otherwise no real theme to any of these images, just a lot of ideas I was playing around with in the sci-fi/comics genres. Enjoy.

A Couple of Older Works (Again)

While it has been quite the trend the past few weeks, I am just about done going thru some of my older stuff and getting them digitized and published online. Eventually, I’ll just put up a page that will contain all these images. But for now, on with the show…

This first one was done quite some time ago. I was still in college (so over 17 years ago, if anyone is keeping score) and I’m pretty certain I was doing this image when I should have been working on a school project. Done in water colours with a bit of pencil crayon for some details. Pen and ink for the lines.

I think I was looking for something illustrative for some possible self-promo work once I finally graduated from school. Never used it for anything though it was in my portfolio for years and years. Believe it or not, the type I lifted (i.e. stole) from a car dealership ad. I rarely if ever hand draw type anymore, but it was still part of the curriculum when I was in school. Definitely not something I miss!

This next image needs less of an explanation. When I was a teenager I fell in love with both the stories written by Michael Moorcock and the book covers that were coming out at that time for his books. Here’s an example:

My image was an early attempt at trying to tap into that style of drawing. The “type” used in my piece is just a made up, fantasy alphabet I very quickly made up.

I’m not entirely certain I am done with that motif though. I may wind up doing something else with that image. Perhaps I can convince a certain someone to help me out and pose for some reference material… hmmmmmmmmmm.

Image of the Month – May

I was hoping to post a pic of the follow up to my last image of the month. That’s going to have to wait as I am just not quite happy with it yet. But I’m almost there.

Instead, I’m going to keep up with my latest theme and post a (much) older image with a bit of new digital life added to it.

There should be quite a few more posts like these in the next few days as I continue to travel down memory lane and get a few more older images scanned into the computer.