Head Study

I've come to the realization that in order to improve I'm going to have to do studies of things in general more often in order to learn more. The occasional weekend life drawing session wont cut it anymore. Here's my first head study of a female. Wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy the exercise so I chose a subject matter I would enjoy drawing. A couple hours later this poped out.

Another Book Cover

This is a wrap around image meant for paper back of the novel Ysabet: The Two edged sword.  Working on this project made me realize I need to do more studies of outside environments.

White wizard final

Here's the finished version of the white wizard( or at least all I could get done in time.)  Here's to hoping that I do well in the competition.

Check out my working proces here: 

https://www.wipnation.com/citizen/skeiser

White Wizard

This is a WIP for a piece I am doing for an online competition.  It' s for the Art Order Evolution challenge. Check the link below if you want more details.

http://theartorder.com/2012/01/23/art-evolution-challenge/

Anyway. I just recently got some new drawing tools from Wacom and discovered some new tools in photoshop. With them  I'm able to obtain a level of detail that wasn't possible for me before. Im really pleased at the direction the piece is going which is rare for me. Im hoping the finished version turns out just as well.

Space Battle

My first shot at a space battle. It's a wrap around cover for an upcoming digital novel Phoenix Rising by Richard L. Sanders. It should be out soon for your reading pleasure.

Short story covers.

Hey guys,
I recently got a contract doing cover art for a publishing company. Finally something on my resume. Woo hoo.  Here is some of the art that I came up with. Be sure purchase these books on amazon when you can.

And here are the images without the titles.

 

Random Art dump.

I know its been a while since I posted anything, hence the purpose of this. I thought at first I would only post work im completely pleased with, then I realized how little that is going to happen.  These next couple images is stuff I've been working on for the past several month. None of its finished work and most is only doodles. I'd thought I d post it to show im not being a lazy bum. I hope you guys enjoy this dump of randomness.

     

Creepy Village

Here's an art test I did for a possible contract job with a company. I didn't get it so I thought I might as wel show it.

Fairy again

Heres what I ende up submitting to the contest. I didn't quite finish cause I ran out of time.

Forest Fairy

Hey guys.

Here's another WIP of a piece im doing for another competition. I pretty much have the composition set so I thought it was worth posting.

Look...a squirrel

I've had complaints that I should do more human figures in my art as oppose to backgrounds. We'll here is my first shot at drawing a chick in a while. Its only finished line art for now. I plan to paint it some time in the near future.

More Jedi temple

Hey guys here's the final version of the temple I am entering in the competition. Hopefully I get voted for and people like it. :)

Jedi temple

Hey guys,
I'm starting to get the chance to paint more often.
Here's a rough for a Jedi Temple I'm painting for a competition. It supposed to be based on a snow planet in case your confused about the white fluffy stuff. Any critiques and comments would be appreciated.

Doodle that got out of hand

I started this as a doodle in class but kept going with it. The I got side tracked with other work and didn't finish it. I'll probably go back and complete it later. But for now this is it.

Ahoy,

Its been a while, so I thought I'd update my blog and show you guys how my art is going.

Ginger bread house

Sorry. Its been a while. According to one of my professor's I need to slow down and learn the program instead of going a mile a minute. I kinda agree with him, so I not going to be posting daily images any more though I will be posting new images every so often.

This is image is a concept piece for my friend Mira and her Senior animation film 'Das Fremte'. I'm eventually going to be doing panoramic layout of the forest for the final cut.

Enjoy. :)

Cave of fire

20 mins. Not sure where I was going with this one. It seemed like a cool idea when I started it.

Dinosaurs

I'll admit. This one took me a bit longer than an hour, but I think it was worth the extra time. Also because it's been years since I've drawn dinosaurs.

Requests

If anyone has some fresh ideas they would like to see painted please let me know, then I will do my best to make you idea come to life.

Rocket car

Concept on a friend's project.  Had a little more trouble with this one. I'm used to painting much darker and dismal scenes with a lot of shadows. I'm not sure if I should be concerned with that. I had fun with it though.