Here's a piece I entered to a Riddick fan art contest. I really don't have a chance of winning anything, but I still learned a lot while doing it and I feel just a tad more comfortable using photoshop as a result. I  think I'll try to do more contests in the future, because it really forces you to get out of your comfort zone as an artist. 

eh, here's a doodle I did at work today, that I decided to take a little further with some color. I've been reading A Clash of Kings and I realized that it reminded me of how I see Melisandre. So I ended up just going in that direction. For a priestess of "the lord of light" she sure does alot of her work at night. If yah know what I mean. ba dumdum

Maybe It's time for an update.....

So anywhoo, it's been a while since I've updated this thing, (mostly because I haven't been able to take photos.) But my mom, the only person who looks at this, has been asking that I post some more stuff.

Here's some paintings I did a couple weeks ago in a random flurry of fandom. They're of a couple of the characters from the TV show, Twin Peaks. I'm not really happy with the scans I took of them, so hopefully I'll be able to take some better photographs in the future.

Agent Cooper, taken from a screenshot of my favorite 3 seconds of the pilot.

Miss Audrey

Laura's annoying and much too normal friend, Donna

Oh yeah and this guy -  the dancing midget. 

Master Copy

I've been doing some master copies recently on photoshop just to try and increase my skill. Here's the first one I did after the French painter, Géricault's, portrait of a madwoman.

Fund of Illustration

Here's some of the work I did for my Fundamentals of Illustration class.

This is supposed to be a caricature of Gilbert Gottfried. I'm sure he's probably professional enough not to spit, but if you listen to his voice he certainly sounds like he might. 

This was the "visual jungle" project which we had to base on an already selected time period of music. I chose 1950's rock and roll. Done with an acrylic wash.

In this project we needed to have some kind of surrealistic scale and also base the subject somehow of a poem. This one's based on an E. E. Cummings poem, " I will wade out"

Drawing Human

This was my second try doing a digital painting of any kind for my photoshop class last semester. Definitely something I'm trying to work on in the summer. I thought it would be interesting to show and  a human anatomy drawing class in a an alien art school.

Some Figures from class

So, I was able to take some pictures of some of the figure drawings I did for class this semester. They are all for an anatomy class I took, so they are are mostly shorter poses. I think the longest I spent on any of these was around an hour and a half. 

 I might be able to post some of the even shorter poses from the class later on this month. 

I definitely feel like the class helped me improve, especially in terms of the amount of time I need to get everything I want in there. 

This last was my final for the class. For the most part I completely last minuted it the day before it was due, so I'd definitely would like to spend more time working on the tones and adding in an actual shadow for her to project.