Dragon Sketch

This is a sketch I painted today (with Photoshop). I used a single custom texture brush for the entire sketch, and just varied the size and opacity where needed.

Iguana Acrylic Painting ACEO

2.5" x 3.5" (6.4cm x 8.9cm)
mixed media on watercolor paper
$49.00 plus $2.00 shipping and handling in the US
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This is an ACEO (trading card size, 2.5" x 3.5" ) painting that I posted to my other blog, so sorry to anyone who is emailed twice. I thought a lizard painting was appropriate for this blog as well.

Angel of Death Skull Closeup

This is a closeup shot of the Angel of Death illustration I posted earlier.

Science Fiction Character Art

This is an interior book illustration from 2007. Painted in Photoshop.

Jungle Card Game Art

A fairly recent illustration for a card game, painted mostly in Photoshop, but a little work was done in Painter as well.

The Passing Fantasy Art

Here's another piece from 2004. Limited Edition prints are available for sale here.

Night of Fire Fantasy Art

This is an older piece from 2004. I've had it sitting on an easel here in the studio for the past few days, and it just dawned on me that it would make a good post.

I remember putting a lot of time into this. It's 16" x 20" and painted in acrylics. I began by establishing a composition with thumbnail drawings sketched in pencil. I then painted two small color rough thumbnails as well as a sky/mountain/valley color study in order to establish the color scheme. Then I painted a value study of the composition and finished up with a pencil study of the two main characters in the foreground.

After that, I drew the composition full size on tracing paper, and then transferred it to watercolor board. I fleshed out the drawing thoroughly right on the board, then spray fixed it and sealed it with two coats of matte medium (one layer stroked on horizontally, the second vertically). The matte medium not only helped isolate the drawing from the subsequent paint layers, but by altering the stroke direction for each layer, it gives a fine linen texture on top of the nice watercolor board texture.

And after all of that I was finally ready to start painting... whew.

Another Airship Sketch

This was a digital sketch for an upcoming painting.