Practice

I haven't posted anything in quite a while. Here's something I was messing around with last night. Started it in ArtRage and fine-tuned it in Photoshop. It would have turned out better with a photo reference, but I was just having a little fun.

More character sketches. Mixed media.

Character study fun.

Monoprice 19" Interactive Pen Display

19-inch Interactive Pen Display - (1440 x 900) TFT, 2048 Levels, 5080 LPI, 16.7M Colors from Monoprice.
Under $400, compared to Wacom's latest, lowest-priced option, a 13" display for $1,000. 

Tempting, but out of my financial comfort zone, is Wacom's new Cintiq Companion Hybrid, a 13" computer tablet. I've been waiting for someone to make the next logical step from my old Motion Computing tablet w/ Wacom pen, but it's taken 9 years! And a 13" screen is still too small to draw on.

IF "secret"

Digital on top of pencil.

A good friend of mine is in a commercial. : )

Derek Nielsen. A talented abstract artist who deals with fractal designs. He's doing a favor here for a video director friend. He's even got his paintings in the background and the french accent down. (He speaks french, ladies) Made me smile.  


https://www.youtube.com/doritos?x=us-en_submissionsphase_9176_

It's unlisted so I'm having trouble getting it to embed. That plus I'm an idiot. 

IF "Entangled"

Digital on top of pencil. -Wes

Young Frankenstein

Hello!

Good morning down there...

Birdie

Another one of my favorite topics. Watercolor with digital.

Drawing With My Eyes Closed

Spanish Poster

Clouds

Got a nice shot of some local clouds the other day. These are what I call "N.C. Wyeth clouds."

The Old Barn

Here's another pic of the barn. I don't know much about it. Our house was built around 1930, so the barn could date to around the same time. I assume it was built with trees that were cut when clearing the land. One log busted some time back before we bought the house, on the lower right, but it's still really solid. My dream is to fix it up some and make the hay loft into my studio. The barn is the reason I wanted the house.

That's a blackberry bush on the left, my kids trying out a new bow, and pumpkins starting in the foreground.

Superpowered Poster

Trapped

Finally caught one of those crazy kids that are often seen running around in these parts.

Sofa

Foothills Farm

McBroom

I love the original McBroom books by Sid Fleischman and illustrated by Kurt Werth. I bought these as a kid through Weekly Reader, and found them again few years ago at a library book sale.

I tried duplicating the loose look of the illustrations, tough, since my inking is fairly tight, but fun. Played around with the watercolor brush in ArtRage. I don't think anything can replace real watercolor.

Tree