The Red Scourge of the Frozen North!

...or something like that.

What initially started off as a knight, eventually turned into sort of companion piece for the Conan art I did early last year. Next up? The Queen of the Black Coast, Belit!

Red Scourge appears in:

How to Draw and Paint Fantasy Combat
by Matt Stawicki
publishing in North America in March 2014 by Barron's Educational

Happy day!

This just came in the mail:

So cool to finally be in this book. :)

PRIME

3DTotal is releasing a new art book called PRIME featuring a bunch of art from some really awesome artists...and me! Have a peek:

http://shop.3dtotal.com/books/3dtotalpublishing/prime-definitive-digital-art-collection.html#t1

Homage?

While perusing through CG Hub today...Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? I think it's kind of neat actually to think that someone was inspired by my stuff like this. I really like the improved color palette and composition Xiaosa chose, but at least change the obvious design elements and maybe shoot me some credit. I made the Ranger concept art for Diablo 3 in 2005.

Xiaosa's CG Hub

I actually began updating it back in 2009, but put it aside and haven't done anything with it since.

Spectrum 19

HOLY SCHMOWOW! I'm nominated for an award in the Comics category for my Conan art in Spectrum 19...

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/03/finalists-spectrum-fantastic-art-award/

It's really cool to be listed amongst these names, and even if I don't get Silver or Gold at least I'm in the book, and that's all I was really hoping for in the first place.

Wish me luck!

Conan the Destroyer

So I finally painted Conan. I love this character.

Conan enjoys long treks across the tundra, reading ancient scrolls atop a pile of skulls, and standing butt naked in the snow. CROM laughs at your Four Winds!

practice

Another quickie. About 3 hrs last night.

Smile

Quick painting before bed.

Portrait time

My noseless friend sans her cat since I don't know how to paint a cute cat...I'll figure it out. Something different.

Black Magic Woman

Evil Jungle Goddess...or HAIRBIRD!

Lion-O WIP

Sketched this while en route to boston. I seem to favor the upshot.

Vulcan Raven color rough

I've always wanted to paint a series of portraits of my favorite cartoon/comicbook/ and videogame characters, so here's the first! Vulcan Raven from Metal Gear Solid. Just a sketch for now, but I'll post WIP's as I move along.

The figure in the middle was me drawing poorly. My linework has suffered over the years and it doesn't get any worse than getting used to a cintiq then having your computer break and being forced to resort to the old Wacom tablet/laptop combo you used to use years ago. Anyway, I tried to make the initial pose more dynamic with the recomposing of the figure on the right.

Zbrush modelling!

Here are my first attempts at Zbrush sculpting. I'm a bit late getting on this bandwagon but better late than never? For those of you who don't know what Zbrush is, it's a cool program for high resolution 3d sculpting. I barely have a grasp of the tools or the potential of the thing. Basically I click things and grunt till the little gray mesh starts to resemble...men. Apparently I like sculpting men.

The first few shots are the initial result of this ham-fisted method of approach. The next three are a refinement of that same model hence the identical ears and hair. The ears are wonky looking because I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

yay!

So I thought it would be good practice to start painting portraits. This one is pretty straightforward, but I'd like to explore other styles. We'll see if I can keep this up...about 4 hours.