Quickie Character Sketch

Just a quick sketch to keep me going, because I am so not interested lately in doing much when I get home from work.
My son is nearing 4 months and he is keeping me and my fiance from any kind of real rest.

Still working at it. I think my own style is starting to come through.

A Giant Question

Scribbling on a tablet,
I work diligently to learn the ways.
Another sketch finished.

Last Stand

I made this image yesterday while fooling around with Painter some more. Great program.
Not really trying to do anything too special here besides getting familiar with the program.

Painter Training

So I bit the bullet and finally realized that I needed to accept that I didn't know anything about painter and needed some help. So I turned to the Ryan Church Gnomon tutorial.
After watching it for just a short while he has already helped to identify important brushes and workflows.
This a sketch I made with Painter. About 3 hours learning to get "dirty" with the app.
It's great.

Looking at it through the browser I can see where I would like to tweak it. Right now it is looking very blurred out (maybe I'm just tired).

2008 Was a Write Off

Like the title says. For me 2008 may have been one of my lowest years yet.
Although it does also feature one of my greatest moments with the birth of my son Kaiser Raiden on December 29th. Prior to him arriving, I thought it was a completely wasted year.

The reason for that view? Simple. I have Ulcerative Colitis and I was hit with my worst flare up since being diagnosed with the disease in 1999.

It started in June and became steadily worse, until I found myself lying in a hospital bed for five and half days. I have never in my life, been so sick and felt so bad. The night before going in to the hospital, in sickly hallucinatory stupor, I saw death in everything. I think I was that close.
Luckily, Ulcerative Colitis can be effectively treated. Thanks to steroids and other drugs I managed to patch myself up somewhat.

Today I am now drinking Aloe Vera juice and taking probiotics daily as a preventative. I really do think that one of the reasons that I mended pretty quickly was because of these two things. Maybe it was the Barley Water too, which I haven't made since getting out of the hospital.
And that's why in my eyes 2008 was more or less wasted. I was bed ridden for almost half the year and barely had the strength or the desire to draw, paint or create anything.
I had planned to really start pumping artwork out into this and onto my site. But unfortunately that didn't really work out to well.

So here I am in 2009 a happy father but stressed as well. Building a career for myself in art where I work for myself has been a dream since I was a teen. Once again it has been pushed off. Sure this time it was something that I had no control over.
Better luck this year hopefully. We'll see.

Zombie Concepts And Comic

Zombie head Studies for a Toony animated short film I may re-work forever and never complete.

I had some free time available today and painted this over a couple of hours while chatting over MSM.
I think it helps develop the world a little better.

Why not do the old alien spawning from its larval stage?

I've started throwing this comic together to help me in fleshing out the world of the zombie short.

Apocalyptic Hero

This turned out more as an illustration I think. Still it was quickly done. I used a sketch I drew quite a while back that I always meant to colour.

Image Dump

This is all personal work.

Game Environment Concepts

The idea here was to create images for a game using a very basic pallette. Certain materials were to be certain colours. Always. So metal was orange, paper is yellow, vegetation is a violet/fusia, etc. I wanted to go for something unique in the look here. This is an avenue that I would like to pursue some more.

Sketching More

I've been fooling around, creating new Photoshop brushes and created a nice cloud brush. Started testing it out and then ended up creating this. A touch of Shadow of the Colossus for a little inspiration.

One More Image

Still have some extra time here at work.