Little Painting

Acrylic 8x10

A little acrylic painting I did. The inspiration come from both Secret of Nimh backgrounds and Ball-Jointed-Dolls.

He will rock you!

Freddie Mercury

Medusa

12"x12" Acrylic on Board

This was done for the Hive Galley SLC 24 hour show.

Head Study

Character Designs

I've been helping refine and create characters for a project that has yet to be announced. These are the protagonists and some rival characters. There's definitely more to come!

Alice Coloring Book

I love coloring books. It was only a matter of time before I'd fix a page down and paint on it. That is exactly what this is! Melissa picked this picture and now she wants to hang it in the house.

Unsure who drew the original. I got it from:
http://www.coloring-book.info/coloring/

What time is it. . .?

It's Valentimes! This is a quick practice. I can't wait to employ some of these techniques to traditional media. I'm liking how photoshop layers and glaze and wash layers are similar

Daily Brains PZ 007

Unfinished Stuff

I make a serious effort to paint every single day. Sometimes I cannot, but I start right back up whenever I can. I mostly work evening shifts selling electronics and electronic accessories which makes finding time to paint more and more difficult to come by. I usually can only find one or two hours to work on something. Usually I'm so stressed out about going to work in a hour or so I don't have time to calm down and think of a good idea or polish an old one.

So, which leads me to this blog post. These are just a FEW of the things I found over the past six months that I've left unfinished. I cropped and made them a little more presentable. But, I can't help but feeling I ought to start finishing things. I've got this "habit" where I feel done with something just as I think it up or scribble it on paper. I don't know if I'm lazy but I'm for sure getting bored quickly of my own ideas.

Enough ranting,

The above is just a corner of a larger picture. I think I can get more success if I can stay out detailing a painting. Iadmire the techniques where the entire painting is worked on rather than piece by piece. Those techniques take a lot of discipline which I'm still trying to find.

This is looking way cooler than when I last saw it. I've got the biggest crush and skulls. I've got an even bigger crush on jack-o-lantern style glowing things.

Another frustration I have is getting the painting out of order. I'm putting "opaque" paint down before the drawing is even done. My hierarchy in my brain is scrambled. . . this is probably where my sloppiness comes from.
I like this one a lot. I started out a 50X50 pixel canvas and I enlarged it and started to tighten. I don't know why I never finished this one.

You know when you think you've got a good idea but you didn't plan ahead to make it succeed. The above is that! Again! Which only makes it. . . a kind of decent thumbnail painting.

Going back to my roots here. It seems if I use certain tools I automatically revert to my "anime" days. I'd rather refer to the "anime style" as an "anime canon". It's humurous how readily it is replused. I think people can "smell" imitation and shortcuts so maybe that's why. I've been told by so many artists about what style is or is not that I don't think it really exists. Like "graphic arts" and "jogging" don't exist.

Anyway, I'd like to address the above painting as an issue of scale I guess. I like the large eyes and baby-like proportions much the same way dolls are laid out. Dolls are formed as simplfied humans right? I espiecally like when on a doll there a zipper or a seam which is regular scale on a tiny doll. The hair is another example of scale. A whole paint stroke can't be the thickness of one hair but, on a doll it could be. I seem to remember in that Alla Prima book he was painting dolls. Perhaps for the same reasons above. I ought to read that book more. He's full of that kind of hard work and guts discipline.

June 9th Study

Cats in Hats Darth Vader

A picture I painted for the "cats in hats" meme on livejournal. Here's a link to the party!

http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/126492.html
"So many cool cats! Can you dig?"

Mostly Dumb Idea

6"x4" acrylic

This painting is another paint test. A paint test origination from a mostly dumb idea. The Zim's in Salt Lake is having a "we got pwned" sale so, I bought a musician load of paint from them. I bought lots of strange, great, and spacious colours that'd no right-standing artist would usually buy. I think it's going to go until they are closed forever end of Rocktober.

Alpha Legion

acrylic 10"x8"

Alpha Legion is my legion as it is by far my favorite of the traitor legions. My first and only Warhammer army is CSM Alpha Legion. Their doctrines include stealth, trickery, spies, and striking from all sides at once. They employ any means to gain victory.

Moon Girl

Acrylic 6"x4"

This is the closest thing I've done to a Spacekimo in a while. By the look of things I think she's FROM the moon. Like a visitor!

Word Bearers

photoshop

Night Lords

The Night Lords are near my favorite traitor legion. Utilizing speed and terror tactics they strike quickly without mercy. Never been too big of a fan of the bat-winged helmets but they've started to grow on me. I also it interesting they ally themselves with none on the chaos gods. Instead they follow their own interests wreaking havoc across the Imperium.

Mudkip Nub Tub

Thousand Sons

The ghost armours of Tzeentch. I've never actually seen these models.

Death Guard 2

I wasn't quite satisfied with the other plague marine so I did another one. This one was inspired Silent Hill cockroach miner. Although, there is a mini that looks just like this.

Let the Galaxy Burn!

I'm not a follower of Black Legion. But I do prefer the undivided pantheon.