The Eighth Day: Platypus

Steam Punk Automaton

2011-01-03T16:59:00.000-08:00

Golem

2010-07-11T19:58:00.000-07:00

Those two are totally screwed. A piece from a book I'm working on. I've never tried working photo source into a piece before. Something that's very popular these days. So I thought I'd try it and see how it turned out. Honestly I'm not sure how I feel about it.

Land's End Redux

2010-07-11T19:56:00.000-07:00

Slight rework of an image form a book I'm working on. Ever...so...slowly.

KC (Firefly character - not Sunshine band)

2010-07-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

Sketch of KC

Camouflage

2010-05-09T21:55:00.001-07:00

As a former hunter, I've always been fascinated with the idea of how monsters would disguise themselves if they wanted to pass themselves off in our world. Well, really it's just a silly idea to pull together a series of pieces loosely connected at best.

The joy of motherhood

2010-05-09T21:50:00.000-07:00

I think I dated this woman. One in a series of poorly disguised monsters.

Space scoundrel_WIP

2010-04-14T22:44:00.000-07:00

A Firefly sort of ne'er-do-well. Well, a sketch of one anyhow.

I met Stan Lee on Saturday

2010-03-17T22:38:00.000-07:00

There's a danger in meeting your heroes. I don’t have a lot of heroes per se and have never made an effort to meet those that I do have because I know there to be an inherent danger of them being dottering old men or suffering from an arrogance of fame or worn thin by celebrity. I should think it almost inevitable that the constant spot light of comic fandom, with all of its idiosyncrasies and obsessive personality types, would either inflate ones ego to the point of insufferable or make you callous and critical of your fans. As far as I can tell, none of these things can be said of Mr. Lee.

Simply put, he was exactly what every fanboy - such as myself - hopes he would be: charming, funny and quick- witted, generous and appreciative of his fans. If I am half as charismatic, funny and sharp as he is when I'm 87… well, if I were half that now I'd be happy. I'll settle for reaching 87. He is a showman and who knows, maybe this is part of the act. But if so, he's a very good actor.

As I said, I'm a fanboy. But to be fair, he's the reason I learned to read, learned to draw and left the farm to become a professional artist. I told him something to this effect - that he was the reason I'm an artist and not a farmer - to which he laughed, "Yeah well, I get blamed for a lot of things. And besides, we need more farmers." I've wanted to meet Mr. Lee since 1974 and he was exactly who I wanted him to be.

WIP of Steam punk battle suit

2010-03-11T10:52:00.000-08:00

Still working on this, but, an image from a book I'm writing. Well, _would_ be writing if I could make the time to focus on it. As it turns out, it's tough to do a night-time scene without falling back on blues and blacks. Who knew?

Sketch of Prudence

2010-03-11T10:51:00.001-08:00

Cliff Face WIP

2009-12-06T23:00:00.000-08:00

Eh, I've started overworking this. If anyone has any advice please let me know!

Crypt horror

2009-11-21T16:47:00.000-08:00

Reposting this

Parasite

2009-11-21T13:31:00.000-08:00

Morgandy

2009-06-19T13:56:00.000-07:00

2009-05-11T15:05:00.000-07:00

Not quite done but getting close. Actually a pretty fast piece if I wasn't doing it 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there.

Steam Cylon speed paintings

2009-03-18T17:22:00.000-07:00

I may go back and finish these at some point but it seems unlikely. The top one I did the night of the contest deadline and submitted it 5 minutes before the cutoff. Um, then reread the rules and learned the deadline was in fact the night before. Heh, oops.

Spirit caster guy

2009-03-14T13:50:00.000-07:00

Jungle Head

2008-11-26T17:05:00.000-08:00

A piece we didn't end up using for Guild Wars. I should point out that I blatantly and unashamedly stole the color palette from Kekai.

MechaCthulhu

2008-09-28T16:46:00.000-07:00

Um, not sure where I was going with this. Basically, a mechanized Cthulhu coming in off the ocean. I really need to find some ocean shore reference before I try something like this again.

Lost gods

2008-09-28T16:43:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned in the header, that whole NDA thing keeps me from posting anything vaguely work related, so, this too is the result of a few minutes here and there spent on a random idea. I may do something with it sooner or later.

Toilet dragons

2008-09-28T16:36:00.000-07:00

My father-in-law has asked me to do a series of cartoon-ish pieces depicting dragons and toilets. How could I possibly pass up something like that. Here are the first two and some day soon I'll do the other two.

WIP

2008-09-26T19:38:00.001-07:00

So, I figure if I start posting WIPs I'll goad myself into finishing the pieces in a timely manner. Who knows, it could happen. Maybe not quite done but as done as it's likely to get any time soon. That said, having more-or-less finished the guy directly above I decided to do a completely different direction with the character. Hence the sketch above this one.

Gnomeinomicon

2008-08-22T11:58:00.000-07:00

I wish I could say this was my idea, but alas, it's not. Still, I liked the pun so well I had to do a piece based on it.

"HARD TO PORT!"

2008-02-17T20:21:00.000-08:00

You know, when I started out this was just going to be a landscape. But, well, it was kind of dull so I added an airship. But, well, then it seemed like it needed to tell a story, and I wanted to paint a monster...
I still need to reconcile some of the details between the various elements to get them to blend better but I wanted to post the WIP for now.

Ewoking On Your Grave

2008-01-28T17:11:00.000-08:00

Ok, this started out as a quick sketch that turned out looking like an Ewok. Then I thought, you know, if the Ewoks had flight harnesses and weapons...

Really Bad Disguises

2008-01-28T17:10:00.001-08:00

I had a silly idea for monsters who think they have effectively disguised themselves as human. Sort of hearkens back to my hunting days when I was no doubt equally effective

2008-01-13T20:28:00.001-08:00

A WIP of a project that may, or may not, go any further. Turns out painting snow is a lot of fun.

2007-07-03T10:31:00.001-07:00

Any day now I'll get my 3-D stuff posted. Any, day, now.

Woot, I have new pens

2007-06-29T14:01:00.000-07:00

Long, looong ago when I was doing illustrations for RPG and comic companies I did a lot of pen and ink work. Now, not so much but I finally broke down and bought some pens. Not quills, but it's a start.

Good Ol' Ent Martha

2007-06-29T13:52:00.000-07:00

2007-06-14T23:35:00.001-07:00