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.

Angel of Death Fantasy Art

This one was somewhat different for me. I've never painted the reaper before, so that was good, but I also explored paint strokes and color in creating the image, especially in the background. I tried some new techniques to create the painted glow effects around the skull too. All in all, an interesting image to work on.