Forest

This was an environment painting for an online game.

Lady Merreth

A recently finished bw illustration. It's always nice to work in black and white.

Price of Mercy

A recent book cover for Zumaya Publications.

Velociraptor

RAWWWRRRR!!!!

Snow Scene

It's been a while since my last post, but most of the work I've been doing I haven't been able to show. And a lot of it has been working on other artist's work, such as color flatting for comic books. I may post some of those pages later, though.

So this is an environment background piece that was done for an online game. Required were various scenes and environments, with a few others being a swamp, mountains, and a forest scene.

Sorceress

Here's a piece I did for Hero Games. I had forgotten about it, but stumbled across it again when looking for art to turn into prints. It was originally in a square format, but when cropped to portrait format the composition was vastly improved. So it's the newest print that I'm selling at art shows.

Frank Frazetta

Master fantasy artist and illustrator Frank Frazetta passed away Monday at the age of 82. Frazetta has had a massive influence on later generations of artists- painters and illustrators of course, but also filmmakers as well.

Illustrator Greg Manchess posted his view on Frazetta at the tor.com website and the Ninja Mountain and Sidebar podcasts have published tribute shows as well (links below).

Also, here is an interesting quote from Guillermo del Toro, as taken from Frazetta's obituary in the LA Times (link below):

Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-nominated co-writer of "Pan's Labyrinth," which he also directed along with the "Hellboy" films, said that Frazetta was nothing less than "an Olympian artist that defined fantasy art for the 20th century." The filmmaker, reached Monday in New Zealand where he is working on a two-film adaptation of " The Hobbit," said Frazetta's influence is difficult to explain to people outside the fantasy world, just as Norman Rockwell would be an elusive figure to define for someone unfamiliar with the U.S. heartland.

Here are a few of my favorite Frazetta paintings:







Although more well known for his paintings, his bw ink drawings are equally exceptional:









Links:
Greg Manchess on Frazetta
Sidebar tribute podcast to Frazetta
Ninja Mountain tribute podcast to Frazetta
Unofficial gallery of Frazetta artwork
LA Times obituary
Pocono Record photo gallery
Interesting analysis of Frazetta's work