More doodles

Been a while... work and life and sleeeeeeeeep

Working and working and working

Hey folks,

Been a good long time since I updated here. Months, even.
Sorry. Life is just continually getting in the way of me posting here.

Have some colour-block design to tide you over until I return again

More painting

So, this is only 900X600px...which is approximately 3.57% of the original size of the painting.

Total time from concept to finish is maybe 6-8 hours.... of time spent painting and detailing. Actual time is a couple of weeks, as I got most of the shapes blocked in, then left it for a day, and then shadows and highlights, left it for a day, came back for details...and left it for a few days so I could come back and see what else needed to be done. And then I finished it.

OA stuff

Some stuff from OddlyAberrant without the text:

The Grizzly Moo Roo, inspired by being tricked into watching a superbowl commercial

Chain-Chomp off the leash

I could make you scared, if you want me to

Wow. not sure how I haven't been updating this.
I *was* away from everything for a solid month..but there's been stuff I've made before and after that should've been uploaded here.

Here's some colour blocking of The Tragically Hip's final concert in Kingston.

Like the music or not, you can't help but admire a guy with life-ending cancer going out performing for fans.

Making Myths Reality

Or, whatever else comes to mind...folklore, conspiracy theories, urban legends, whatever.

Preview of a page, work in progress:

Some painting

Hey folks, been a while.

Mostly I've been working on Oddly Aberrant comic stuff, and looking for work.
Stress is a killer for creative juices, and as such it feels like pulling teeth just trying to draw a line or paint a splotch.
*deep breath in, slow breath out*
But it could be worse, thank God it ain't.
Have some new-ish paintings.

Underwater stair/shelf

Psiara, character from a set of stories being developed

Simple Painting

Just spending some time relaxing and painting random things.

Gotta love blending opaque colours together for a layered effect.

Working on some kudzu-esque vine overgrowth on some ruins.

I really like the textures for the water I managed to make... it really just jumps at me.

Division fan art

Ubisoft's got a fan-art contest going on over at www.FallofCanada.ca , and I've got some submissions up under different Scenese. There's 4 Chapters with 10 Scenes each.

Here's a couple entries - if you like my stuff, please visit the above link and vote for my art!

Confederation Bridge linking New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island in PEI

The TSE in Toronto, Ontario

The Calgary Tower in Calgary, Alberta


Thank you in advance for your votes and love!

Wild Psience! painting

Weekend painting for a comic I've got going in the Webtoons / Line comic competition over HERE

Please check it out [they've got lots of webcomics up to read, not just in the competition], and it's easy to make an account.. to vote you have be logged in - and I'd love for you to vote for my comic. As much as the 30K USD would come in handy, more importantly, I'm getting a comic done!!

Normally I hate anything that has to do with `popularity contest` type stuff, but this actually makes sense - a company that needs readership would  naturally want to hire someone who's making stuff people like.
Doesn't mean I like it, but at least it makes logical, business sense.

Pokemon Art Collab. Pt.2

Here's the second part - a superhero variety of Mantine

Pokemon Gajinka collab pt.1

Not knowing much beyond the general pop-culture references to Pokemon, I'm glad the person who put this collaboration together made a giant list.

So, based off the Gible, here's my first one.

Not bad for concept-to-painted in about 4 hours, I think.

Random words = Random picture

I put out a tweet that I would mix the first three responses into ...something.
So with "Snuffleupagus", "Zombie Alien Pirate" and "Australian Tallywhacker" to work with, I painted up the following critter:

Yoda Painting

Here's a digitally-painted Yoda.

Painting metal is always a bit of a task - all metal is reflective, catching and disbursing light and shadow and distorting images and such, and the circular lightsaber handle is an interesting exercise in painting polished metal.

If not for Scott Johnson's Intro to Digital Painting course, I would have wound up doing this a lot differently - and it wouldn't have looked this good. If you're looking to learn how to paint - digitally or on a physical canvas, his course over at Comic Experience is worth every penny.

Idle painting

Just a l'il skully design I thought I'd paint up from an idle sketch.