Completed Figure Study

 

aaaaaaaaaaand done! 

Carbothello/charcoal on toned paper. Approx. 6 hours total.

 

Part II

 

Part II

Figure study

 

Carbothello/charcoal on toned paper

Doing some more figure studies, trying a classical approach. I'm pretty happy with this one. I'll probably go back and work on it some more, so let's call this part I.

Test Subject

You want your sci-fi creepiness? Well I got your sci-fi creepiness right here!!

Summer break as a kid, home alone for hours on end, I took solace in whatever campy horror/science fiction movies I could find on TV (Ice Pirates, I'm lookin' at you), and many stacks of comic books. Paired with shelves full of my older brothers' hand-me-down fantasy and sci-fi novels with their incredibly illustrated covers, I had a fertile imagination for all things dark, dystopian, and awesome. 

This is sort of an homage to those days, as I sit at home on this scorcher of a summer break. 

New sketchbooks are one of those things that make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Got myself a new toned paper sketchbook. Did this on the first page from a photo reference with charcoal. (5.5 X 8.5 inches)

 

Digital Shmigital



 



Not going to lie: I used to HATE digital art. It looked so, well, DIGITAL, which is to say artificial and lifeless. When I make art, it's a very tactile thing - I respond to surfaces and tools and let them dictate some of the final product. You just don't have that with most digital tools.

 

But the thing is, I work a day job and I can't sit around with canvas and paint all day (yet). And as it happens, my work computer has Photoshop on it. muuuuWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!

 

So I decided I'd start honing skills like composition, color use, etc. Not to mention trying to figure out how to use Photoshop, which is perhaps the least intuitive computer program ever devised.

 

And now I'm addicted like it was so much sweet, sweet Blue Sky Meth.

 

Here's a couple of things I've done:

 

 

Miniatures. Teeth!

Amor Dentatus: The Gaze. Oil on canvas, 4"x4"

Amor Dentatus: The Coupling. Oil on panel, 3"x6"

Amor Dentatus: The Birth. Oil on Canvas, 5"x5"

Finished the mini-series (ha! Get it? 'Cause they're small... paintings... anyway). 

Submitted it to the gallery. Here's knocking on wood!