#conceptdrawing

Here's the finished Willy McEyeballs digital painting. This started as

I've had griffons and chimeras on the brain recently, there's

We went out to eat recently, something we almost never

A few days before Halloween 2013, I was at our

Easter has The Easter Bunny, Christmas has Santa, lost teeth

I can't quite remember the origin of this...thing, other than

This is a bit of concept art for the post-apocalyptic

This drawing is one of the first "finished" pieces of

This is a concept piece from an unfinished graphic novel project, currently affectionately referred to as Wilhelm, that came into my brain in the early 2000s. I had started drawing it out with pen and ink, but I couldn't quite get it to look the way I wanted at the time, my vision of it wasn't as clear. I always intended to return to it, and I finally did. This was another adventure in improving my work flow and learning more skills. I made quite a few custom brushes to add textures (the wrinkly skin texture on the tentacles is actually created with some brushes I made from photos of my knees...guess I need to moisturize occasionally), which I would use more or less like a stamp. I'd then transform the "stamp" and warp it to fit the given shape. After I had built many layers up across an object, I'd paint on top of the texture, using it as a road map of sorts to inform my brush strokes. It's a tedious process, but a powerful one when used well. I tend to go overboard on details at times, overusing the zoom function of Photoshop. I plan on posting some close ups of this image in particular, because there's so much in there that can't be seen.