original for sale SOLD

Original for sale! This little guy was loads of fun to paint, and I’d love to see him get a nice home! There’s only one of him so once he’s sold that’s it!

SOLD!

art nouveau

The Last of my art history monsters, I wanted to go out with a much loved point in art history. This one is my Art Nouveau monster. What I wanted to do was make a rather ungraceful monster look so through the use of the stylistic themes of the genre. I had a lot of fun with this one. The text says "Fat monster" in french. Everything was had drawn either in ink or Ps, including the text.

Shiva WIP 2

quick lighting washes of color to keep things consistent. but here's the more or less final design. No more WIPs until it's done. :P

WIP monster

The lines for my art nouveau monster. I think this is the one I'm most fond of yet. Colors by the end of the week at latest.

Woodcut but not really

 Monster number two. A medieval European monster in the style of a woodcut. Done with a crowquill ink pen on watercolor paper. Below is the brain storming process to get to this point, including a rather derp first idea monster. :P

Cave monster

For senior portfolio I'm doing a series of monsters throughout art history. The first one is a prehistoric cave monster. Here's the final product.

 Here's the thought process behind getting to this point. I thought it'd be interesting to show how my brain comes to this final conclusion.

I'm working on the next monster now. It's a medieval wood cut like thing. I'll have that up about the same time next week.

something new

A bit of zen drawing. I've been bogged down in digital work, and wanted to do something in ink. Nothing terribly special, but I'm fond of how it ended up turning out. I'd like to try my hand at more ink work when I have time opportunity.

Last two monsters

Last of my monsters for my survival horror game I'm making. Now on to faux screen shots and map refinement.

Skull bats like soup too

He's enjoying a bowl of broccoli and cheese soup. :P

Digital Drawing Portfolio

For digital drawing our final was to make a DVD portfolio. The portfolio was supposed to represent our body of work, so naturally, that meant monsters for me. Everything here was hand made by me, all the monsters cut out by hand, I made the envelope, everything. the circle bit on the inside is supposed to have all my contact info, but I blurred out my address and phone number since this is going on the internet.

Bat nosed monster

I actually had planned on drawing something completely different, but this little guy wanted to be seen I guess. Anatomy on him is bad because I was just making it up as I went along. A nice break from all the stuff I've got on my plate right now.

Done in about an hour or less from start to finish. Bat nose!

tutorial image

 

Image done for a tutorial on how to use Photoshop for my digital drawing class. 

Texture from Hibbary: http://hibbary.deviantart.com/

Marrow

Look! A profile bust facing the right! Gasp!

Sorry. When I don't have a whole lot of time t dedicate to something, I tend to default to busts. :X These are more me being able to draw SOMETHING for myself than any kind of finished piece.

This is Marrow. My spirit medium monster. :B He's very nice.

done 100% in photoshop.

Hands make me think of monsters

More hands drawn durring Eastern Religions class. I love the class, but it doesn't require note taking, so I have to keep my hands busy while I listen. Therefore, I draw...hands. And then today while in Panera waiting to get my portfolio back from the department review I drew an arm monster. He's very frustrated with having so many arms to deal with. I would be too.  This sketchbook is supposed to be for life drawings, but I couldn't help myself. One monster in the whole book shouldn't hurt anything.

Speaking of monsters, I'm thinking of starting on another monster book. First I need to finish editing the text for my Beastiary of Bottomdwelling Monsters though. But what I was thinking of doing, is like, a book of monster portraits. The premise would be that on each right page, there would be a full page image, and on the left, a blurb about the picture. It would be written in first person, and it would be me explaining the story behind each monster, and how it was to work with them to draw their portraits. And I think the chapters would be divided by stages of a monster's life. So some would be like high school photos, others like wedding photos, family portraits, and then some srsbsns classical photos. Like when people go to get those old time western photos done.

Imagine it. A picture of an adolescent monster in headgear to gnarl it's straight teeth. HOW ADORABLE IS THAT? I'm probably going to finish editing my first book over winter break (so I say) and then work on the next book this upcoming summer break if I don't start sneaking in pictures before then.

Here's a piece from my Bestiary of Bottom Dwelling Monsters book. It's a book I did for an AFO class here that labels and discusses monsters living under the beds of people around the world. It's 35 full color images. That I had to make in 5 weeks. Never again. x_x  The book is, geeze, over a year old now, but it still stands ok as far as quality.

bad juju

 Things haven't been going the best recently, and been really stressful. I've got so many issues to fix, and not a lot of time for any of them. This is the only thing I've been able to draw, and I think it sums up how I feel pretty nicely.

sketches and finished work

I was at a friend's house, and drew their boxer dog. Such huge jowls! And moar shoes!


My friend Sarah drawing as well. I forgot the very first page in the first sketchbook because I'm so used to only drawing on one side in my regular sketchbook. x_x So this one isn't too elaborate, but I like it. It was a challenging angle to draw.


This is the front cover of my second sketchbook for Concept drawing class. It was so bright red, I couldn't think of what else to draw. I wish it was more symmetrical. Here's to trying to finish another 100 page sketchbook by the end of the semester! I'm going to try!


A C project done in my concept drawing class. Done from sketch to finish in a bit over two hours. The prompt was to draw this box, and whatever we wanted to be inside of it. And when let to wander, my brain likes to come up with monsters. So these poor guys are critters from Pandora's box placed back in the wrong container, and horribly afraid for their well being.


Finally, something I did to unwind. I've been starting to drag as the semester draws to a close, so being able to just doodle something without worrying about things like anatomy or composition was nice. I intend to transfer this to some watercolor paper and pick at it here and there when I have the time as a de-stresser. I'm very fond of it. :3

sketches and monsters once more

The first three are from a separate session from a few weeks ago, and the last three are from this past Friday. I really enjoy having female models. It's a big change of pace since we seem to get male models more of the time. My first sketchbook of the semester is almost full! I'm going to try and fill out a second, which means doing more life drawings instead of random doodling.


I had a bit of a Chinese monster phase, and this is the last of the monsters. I really like it, but I have no idea what to do with the guy. I was thinking of printing it off and transferring it to some watercolor paper to experiment with watercolors. Textures, colors, etc. I might if I ever get the free time.