Thief

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Fall tree painting exercise

A brief digital painting exercise from Don Seegmiller's kick-ass book, Digital Character Design & Painting. Also an ode to those once colorful leaves I raked up and threw away in my front yard this weekend.

Rough pencils for Issue #3 of Suburban Tribe

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Finished... for now.

Okay, I'm turning away from this one for a while. There's still some work to be done, but the mistake I made with this piece was a basic one and a big no-no; You start a painting, finish it, then move on to the next one. If you get hung up on one painting and never finish it, laboring over small details, you just get frustrated, the painting looks labored and you don't develop as an artist.

I'l come back to this one bit by bit and finish it off for good (it's mostly just missing some jewelry and ornamentation on the sword), but right now it's time to move on. Suburban Tribe #3 needs a cover!

ARRGH!

Although I haven't posted a new sketch for three days, I do have a good reason. I can honestly tell you that I have been working on this digital painting for at least several hours a day.

I am at a very high level of frustration with this piece. For the amount of time that I have put into it, it should be done by now. It's just a nude with some clothwork and a prop. Why is it such a struggle?

The real aggravating thing is that this may be the closest I have come to a portfolio piece for my digital illustration work. Although the finish line is so far away, it's also so very close...

Gonna be teaching for the next two days, so maybe if I do dome cartoon sketches of some unruly middle school students, it'll get me over this hurdle.

Because I will finish this!

Something for the ladies

Han Solo as pictured on my Star Wars wall calendar. I really hope that there is no Indiana Jones IV, but I know that's just me.

My first W-I-P post!

Here's a Work in Progress for you; a sketch and digital painting of one of the characters from my forever-in-development comic Empyreal Fall. Her name is Juneau Winter. Thief, spy, sorceress and mistress to the King.

I'll post the finished painting when it's complete.