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I have been terrible at posting on here the last few months. I've never been much of a writer and so blogging isn't my strong suit. But here are a couple things I've done for work recently. They're part of a series for the high school ministry.

U C Bones

Slave to Prince

House of Merch

Nehemiah

Some things I've been doing for work.

Sword in the Stump

A painting I'm working on just for the heck of it. Starting my new graphic design job next Tuesday, July 6th!!

Sword in the Stone

Just a book cover mock-up.

Red Dawn

A new work in progress I was trying to start the other day, not real happy with the composition, but it's coming together.

Space Marine

A sketch I drew up this morning after being inspired to do something Sci-Fi.

Wolf and a skunk

A couple practice paintings I did that won't be used for anything, so here they are.

Knight in the forest

Just a sketch.

Valentines Day

Sketchup

Sketchup

I started using Sketchup again today and found a render plugin called Skindigo that is awesome. It uses your sketchup model and renders it using some excellent ray tracing that cranks out a very photo realistic image. It helps to have a decent knowledge of sketchup, and with some messing around you can get some good results. Aside from the natural sun lighting you can also create interior lights and make fine-tuned adjustments to about every element of the image. Here are a couple renders I made that have only been running for a couple hours so they are still a little grainy.

Sci-Fi

Made a couple Sci-Fi paintings the last two days. Science Fiction is usually a genre I don't paint that much. I think I've always been more intrigued with medieval warriors and knights and that kind of thing. But it was fun to do these.

Update... Pretty much finished it I believe, so here it is.


Work on progress I started the other night and worked on it during lunch today. His arm is rediculous I know, he could probably walk like a gorilla and we'll assume his other arm his hanging down at his side for right now. By the way, I was checking Alfred Llupia's artwork last night. He is awesome! Check him out if you want to be inspired.

Monster

I got the first monster fully painted so here is a spread with a progression of versions. I don't feel like writing right now though, so I'm making this short. Gonna go watch monsters inc. with the wife :-)

Monsters!!!

My 8 year old brother-in-law Bryan, sent me some monsters that he drew and i thought I'd interpret them in my own style! So here was teh outcome. I'm going to fully paint at least one this weekend hopefully. I'd love to get a bunch more up here as soon as I get some more. They're a ton of fun.

Started a sketch from the random video game name generator mentioned in the previous posts. And thanks Josh for following my blog, that's proof now that someone other than me has looked at this thing :-). I'm adding a video showing the process for doing the banana drawing, sorry if the music is a little fruity, but so is the drawing Ooooohh. Anyways check it out.