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Krampusnacht!
My buddy Pirate is a big fan of the Krampus (among others in his amazing tale The Long Yuletide War) Every year about this time, he mentions the Krampus and I find myself thinking about the character,...
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Newest Fiverr Commission
Quick fiverr.com portrait commission. I really liked the goofy style helmet. The gentleman will be using it for blog posts and the like, so keep an eye out for this image elsewhere! (I’ll update here...
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Illustration Exercise : Facial Expressions
I’ve long thought that I should improve my ability to present emotion as a part of storytelling through character facial expressions. I’ve seen facial expression grids before from a number of different...
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Relics : The Desecration Orb
Well kids, I’m back. Back from Japan and ready to get back to my daily routine. Ready to get back to work on the card game now being tentatively called Relics. There are some big changes on the way for...
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Back in Business!
Wacom Cintiq Companion – Windows 8 She’s back in my arms again! What? It’s weird to talk about a tablet like a human being? Bah. After a good deal of frustration, I finally have my Wacom Companion back...
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Angry Dragon Video
I did say there would be more on the way! I had the day off yesterday and couldn’t stop drawing. I’ll file that under Good Problems to Have. Enjoy this high speed version of my drawing a dragon, and...
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Crafting Orcs
A while ago, I spent a bit of time focusing on how to create goblins for the card game I’m developing. I really enjoyed the process of breaking down a creature race, so I thought I would do it again....
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How to Draw!
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about creating drawing tutorials here on the site. I’ve decided to finally pull the trigger and make it happen. I’ve got quite a few ideas for topics. That said,...
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Continuing Work On Orcs
Still working on the concept designs for my orcs. Starting to get the structure to portray ‘pig like’ and ‘fat’ rather than ‘strange’ and ‘large’ while still showing that they’re a threat, but they...
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Head Shapes
A while back, I posted about head shapes. While at brunch today, I decided to do some warm up sketches using a new set of head shapes and see what popped out. Part of my objective was to do as widely...
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Heads Shapes – Now with Color!
Just a quick post to add an updated color format to the head shapes warm ups that I did earlier this week. These need to be a lot more rendered to be anything significant, but I wanted to splash some...
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Video: The Sea Captain
The latest of my fiverr gigs for a client. Music – “Defender” is by Hot Breakfast! and used with their blessing. I highly recommend stopping by their website and checking them out.
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Single Panel Comic – Married to Coffee
Feeling extremely dorky today. Perhaps it’s a bit of cabin fever because it rained yesterday and today, so I haven’t been able to work. At any rate, when the waitress brought my second pot of...
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Free Portrait! *CLOSED*
***Free Portraits are Closed*** Sorry folks – There’s a list of portraits piling up and I’ve got paid work I have to get to (which always has to take priority). Thanks to those of you who have taken...
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Robyn’s Portrait
Robyn was the first person to reply to my offer of a free portrait with her post on Facebook. If you would like me to join in the fun or to see the collected portraits, check out the original post.
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Matt’s Free Portrait
So Matt provided a fairly dark photo for reference. That caused me to look at the portrait a little differently, and start working through it in a different way – outside my normal ‘process’. As any...
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Dragon’s Head
I decided to do a digital version of the dragon head that I left for my waitress a while back. We’d started talking about comic books, conventions, and gaming. Don’t worry – I left a tip too. The...
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Petra’s Free Portrait
Petra asked that I use this small photo from her wedding. I like the shot, but blowing it up really did blow it out. Thus, I took a few liberties. That’s the down side to doing these portraits – I have...
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Rick’s Free Portrait
I’m long overdue on these, but I’m going to use the excuse that I was home last week on a break. It also happens to be true. It’s funny, but my time home is far more chaotic / strange than my time on...
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Free Portrait for Bronco Dillo
The user Bronco Dillo (Facebook) asked me to do a portrait of his son. He specifically mentioned the boy’s smile, and I’m going to have to agree – it’s pretty great. Happiness like that is infectious...
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Todd’s Free Portrait!
Next up in the free portrait series is Todd. As usual, this image was done with my Cintiq Companion (Win ver) and Open Canvas. What are your favorite digital tools for portraiture?
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Proportions for the Ideal Adult Human Male
The ideal adult human male proportions. When drawing a ‘hero’ type, the ideal proportions for an adult male is 8 heads high. The arms are three heads in length, and the frame is three heads in...
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Jay’s Free Portrait!
My buddy Jay’s reference photo may not show some of his facial features, but it really does show a little bit of his personality – his sense of flair. I was watching a video on caricature out of the...
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Inktober 2015
I’m apparently a glutton for punishment. I’ve decided that I’m going to: Keep up with client work. I have a number of images in the pipe with more on the way. This is priority number one outside of the...
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Draconian Warrior
Wrapped up some client work recently which means I’m back to work on Relics illustrations. Those of you following along at home (and quick on the uptake) may have noticed that this illustration doesn’t...
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