Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Figure paintings...

Handful of digital figure paintings from FEWS, RCAD Faculty session, & Demo Night... 



Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Travel sketches

A couple of digital plein aires from 2013... 

Quebec City, Canada

Campobello Island, Canada 

Skowhegan, Maine

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Timelapse landscape sketch

This image shows a Florida sunset across a grove of Melaleuca quinquenervia (or "paper tree"), which is considered an invasive species in the state. 


Partially inspired by the recent visit by Seattle digital artistTom Scholes.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Demo!

Weird little demo from SPHS's visit to @ RCAD. Mostly lasso & gradients.


Bioshock concepts!

Oh hey, here's some concept work I did for that Bioshock game. Fun project; amazing team. 
All rights reserved 2K Irrational Games, 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Super Secret Figure Painting Group

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Happy (early) Halloween! 
Here's a sketch I did of Bashar al-Assad as part of an in-class demo at the Ringling College of Art & Design. 

I'm going to attempt to be more diligent about updating; my HD is full of random paintings; it seems appropriate to start giving them a home. Organization, organization...

Saturday, May 4, 2013

RCAD 2013 Commencement

Attended the commencement for RCAD's class of 2013. I wish them the best of luck; it appears to be a turbulent world, but one full of opportunity. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Monday, April 15, 2013

City Island, SRQ

Fine way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

City Island, Sarasota FL. 
Graphite & Officeworks "Invisible Tape" in moleskin sketchbook. 

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Tao'tieh

The Tao'tieh from J L Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, 
painted as part of a demo at the Ringling College of Art & Design.

(The below approach was heavily influenced by the inimitable Sam Neilson.
Pay him a visit, if you haven't already.)


1. Graphite drawing, scanned & cleaned in Photoshop
2. Illustrator "live trace"(converting to vector for scaling purposes). 
3. Local color pass
4. Ambient lighting pass

5. Direct lighting pass

6. Steps 2-5 combined; the final (topmost) image has cleanup and layer effects added. 

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Emma in profile

Tossing another figure study onto the pile... from the Friday open sessions @ the Southern Atelier. 
~2.5 hrs, Photoshop. 

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Peryton

The Roma-stomping Peryton from J L Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings. Scanned a partially-painted moleskin page, sassed it up in Photoshop. 

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Super Secret Figure Painting Group

Digital figure painting from the Super Secret Faculty Figure Painting Group at RCAD. 
~3hrs. 

Friday, January 25, 2013

Southern Atelier Open Studio

Digital figure painting @ Open studio night, 6:30pm Fridays @ the Southern Atelier... It's a fine way to spend an otherwise lonely Friday night; come out and paint!


& a process gif...