Deepwater Lungfish

Not what you thought it would be, huh? Same for me. I wasn't sure where this was going but I had fun diving into the deep-end of experimentation. Still a long way to go before I get a better sense of what I'm after.

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RE:Visitation

As I've been putting together the new site I realized there were a lot of pages from THE OVERMAN that were kind of cool as stand-alone illustrations. These are a few of my favorite ones.

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Monsters & Dames 2011

Fire in the hole! FFFFFFFSssszzzzle. That's inspiration and expectation meeting reality. The desire to execute on your vision is paramount until you realize that you may be in over your head, or obstacles lie in waiting to pounce. Such was the case with this pinup I needed to do for Emerald City Comicon's MONSTERS & DAMES benefit book.

I started thumbnailing easily a 50-100 of these covers starting way back in June. Still everything just seemed "fine". Nothing really called to me. With the deadline looming I had to pull the trigger on something. While this may work for some people in does not necessarily work for me.

So these weren't even thumbnails, I actually roughed them out larger than everything else and just decided to move forward on them. The gouache piece I started tanked pretty quickly after I applied the second level of detail. The underpainting seemed fine but then it took a drastic turn. So I tried these, each itching a scratch to do something different.

In the end I submitted the middle one. Hopefully they dig it.

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Galactass: Reveals the Origin of Dark Matter

I used one of my favorite comic shops for this cosmic discovery.
I guess I should mention this is 17" x 28". Easily one of the larger comic pieces I've done. I kind of like working big. Doesn't hurt my hand as much.

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100 Times Better

Getting closer to finishing this thing. Man, I think I've done easily a 100 thumbnails for this project. I have such a tough time settling on one image.

I hope in some small way that's a good thing.

Then again...I'm reminded of a similar pose I did years ago. ARRRRGH!

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Stretching My Limbs

For the past month I've been painting everyday on a gig that's pretty cool. Unfortunately I can't show anything for quite some time. So here's a few more pieces I knocked out in the interim.

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