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Above is the tentatively finished piece, any changes will be minor and probably visible only on the hires file.
December, 2009
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Dec 09
Dog Portrait Paintings
These are the photos of the dog portraits which I was commissioned to paint, last month. The original photos I was given were soft in areas, but I was able to use secondary photos of the same breeds to fill in the gaps of detail. Both portraits are painted with acrylic on Strathmore 500 series illustration board, the boston terrier is 15″x15″ and the griffon mix is 13″x13″.
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Dec 09
Dethklok drawing WIP updated 12/12
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I’m finally back to working on my personal projects. This is the final drawing with the altered horses and various touch-ups, I’ll start on the coloring from here and do any other altering during that stage. I did a minimal amount of shading to the figures, since this piece, unlike the gripping beast picture, is less about dense rendering and more about the overall flow.
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Dec 09
The Bouncer
For anyone interested in wild west centric comics or really beautiful art, check out The Bouncer by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Francois Boucq. The graphic novel series is comprised of two large format books centered around betrayals, murder and greed. I originally picked them up years ago because I was really taken in by Francois Boucq’s sweeping illustrations. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an artist with such a cinematic feel to their work. Not only are his landscape expansive, but even his indoor scenes can take on a larger-than-life dimension, while making the reader feel as though they are right in the middle of the action. The story itself will keep you engaged and its often brutal vision of life in the Old West will certainly make you think twice about longing for those simpler days.
