Tyler Jacobson

The Professor

2012-01-03T08:59:00.001-08:00

Happy 120th Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien! Make a toast to "The Professor" today. To honor his birthplace, try to make it a South African beef if you can.

Talon of Umberlee

2011-12-12T15:24:00.000-08:00

Recently I created a cover/ad materials for D&D's organized play release called Lair Assault: Talon of Umberlee. Unlike any other project I have worked on, I was tasked with creating an image that would be used not only for the print materials, but also for any other needed advertisement for the release. This meant, all the element in the image needed to be movable so that marketing could place items where they needed for various banners and things of that like. So, I had to paint everything on separate layers. I have never done anything like this before so I was some what at a loss on how to even approach it. I normally paint flat in Photoshop and Corel. I decided I would do an overall sketch of all the elements together as a composed image and then break them down and paint them out separately. It certainly took a lot of time but it was really fun. I worked with AD Kate Irwin on this one. Always a pleasure.

Here is the result:

This is a breakdown of how it all went and how each layer was placed in. It was really a challenge keeping everything in order and in the right place.

...and here is the final booklet.

The Hengeyokai and other Characters

2011-12-02T10:54:00.001-08:00

Recently, I was asked to design/update, some creatures for D&D called Hengeyokai. The particular ones I worked on took the form of a Badger and Hare. I also did some small illustrations showcasing these characters in October's issue of Dragon Magazine (404).

This brings me to some other characters I have worked on for D&D over the past year or so. Jon Schindehette has put me to the task of creating a number of heroes the latest D&D Character Option books. You have probably seen some of these guys popping up in the D&D products and if you are illustrating for D&D then you have probably received them as reference. So I thought I would share them all. Here are a few from the Feywild as well as some Elemental Characters.

Many more to come at a later date....

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

A while back I did a Vampire piece for Wizards of the Coast and I thought it perfectly fitting for the season and my favorite holiday. I really had a blast with this one and am glad I can finally show it off. Here is the piece as well as a little bit of my process.

Happy Halloween!!

A little of my process....

Thumbnail

Pencil

Step By Step

Detail

Scientific American

2011-10-18T14:00:00.000-07:00

I just recently completed a really fun job for Scientific American. It was for an article called The First Americans, exploring new research about early humans showing evidence they colonized the American continents earlier than previously thought. My illustrations depict the idea that these humans took different paths into the new world; one inland, and the other along the west coast, most like by sea. I had a great time with this project and completed a main illustration for the opening of the article as well as two vignettes for the map portion. You can take a look at the article online here. I had the great privilege of working with art directors Michael Mrak and Jen Christiansen.

Shadowcore!!

2011-10-02T11:29:00.000-07:00

Everyone check out Shadowcore. Great lineup of fantasy artists contributing. I am honored to be among them.

Thanks you.

We Have A Winner!!

2011-09-29T21:57:00.000-07:00

In March of 2011, my agent Richard Solomon and his staff began a contest for young aspiring illustrators. It was called Breakthrough and it provided an excellent opportunity for up and coming illustrators to really show of their stuff to the industry. The judging panel consisted of 20 art/creative directors and top illustrators and they have found a winner. His name is Michal Dziekan, from Poland, and he is an amazingly talented young artist who already has a brilliant portfolio. Take a look.

Breakthrough Contest

You can read more about it all here at the RSAR Blog...As well as the Runners-Up and Staff Picks.

Congratulations to Michal and all the Runners-Up!!! Great work.

Tell all your friends about this and continue to celebrate great illustration!!

Medusa Crime Boss

2011-09-20T21:00:00.000-07:00

Sorry to all for the huge gap in posts. I will be trying to get more updated work up on here over the next few weeks.

Here is a piece I did for D&D, for Dungeon Magazine issue 194.

Hopefully more to come soon.

Neverwinter Fortune Cards

2011-07-20T16:37:00.001-07:00

A few months back I did a piece for D&D's new Neverwinter Fortune Cards set. While they only used a small portion of the image for the box art as you can see here, I painted out the whole figure so that they could use more of the image for other marketing purposes, dealing with the Neverwinter set. This was a really fun peace and I had a great time working on the landscape in the background. Had a bit of inspiration from Albert Bierstadt on that section.

Hopefully, more work will be freed from NDA's soon and I can post again.

Happy 4th!!!

2011-07-04T11:36:00.001-07:00

I thought this would be a fitting post for today. I recently completed 6 illustrations for a Men's Journal article on our military special forces units. These JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) members are the guys who got Osama bin Laden. This was a fun project from start to finish. The AD and I both agreed it would be great to paint these images in a similar way to the G.I. Joe box art we both grew up with in the 80's. It was very nostalgic. You can find the article in the July issue of Men's Journal. Happy 4th to all, especially all those serving in our armed forces!!!

MicroVisions!!

2011-04-28T14:40:00.000-07:00

I was asked to participate in the Microvisions exhibit at the Society of Illustrators. The small 5"X7" pieces will be exhibited at the Society and then auctioned off for the Society's Student Scholarship. They have raised upwards of $15k with the Microvisions over the past few years. I am very honored to be involved and I had a great time working on my little piece.

I am out in Seattle and can't make it to the exhibit but if you are in New York City certainly drop by the Society and check it out.

Ground control to Lt. Gagarin...

2011-04-26T12:08:00.001-07:00

April 12th 2011 was the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. That man was Yuri Gagarin, soviet cosmonaut, and his ship was the Vostok 1. I thought I would do a little portrait for the occasion. It has been a while since Gagarin made that first amazing trip and many have followed in his footsteps. Gagarin died in 1968 when is MiG 15 crashed during a training flight.

detail

Muddy Colors

2011-03-24T08:54:00.000-07:00

I recently did a guest blogging (is that a word?) over at Dan Dos Santos's blog Muddy Colors. It has a short little story about how I got started working with D&D and a Q&A section about my art and process. Check it out: http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/2011/03/guest-blogger-tyler-jacobson.html

Thanks all!

BRUCE!!

2011-03-10T15:03:00.000-08:00

GROOVY!!!!!! So I want to get some more portraits into my work seeing as I have done a few lately for commissions. This is a little work in progress of just that, which I have been working on in my spare time. I am really a movie nut so I want to do more film oriented portraits from some of my favorite movies. We will see what comes of these. I am not sure if I will do caricatures for the other images but I couldn't help myself on this one. Plus I have never really done a caricature. More to come on this....hopefully soon

Dragon 397 and a little process....

2011-03-04T20:31:00.001-08:00

Recently I did another cover for D&D's Dragon Magazine, Issue 397. The scene depicts the True Priests battling their corrupted brothers in the defiled holy temple. Jon Schindehette was AD on this and as always it was a pleasure working with him.

For this post I thought I would include a little process or step-by-step on how I approached this illustration, and pretty much how I approach all illustrations. I start with a super rough thumbnail keeping it loose. There were a few others, but I just included the one I went with. I usually do a little value or lighting comp over these thumbnails as well, but on this project I was working a bit fast to hit the deadline and I skipped some of my usual steps. After the tight pencil I normally do a full value comp and a fairly rough color comp. I basically lay the colors I am after over the image in Photoshop so I can see where I want to take the finish. Then, magically I paint the finish! Ta Dah! I would like to post an actual timelaps painting process video, but that will have to wait until I can figure out how to do it.

Cheers! Dragon 397

D&D Fortune Cards

2011-02-24T15:40:00.000-08:00

I recently did some illustrations for D&D's Fortune Cards game Shadow of Nentir Vale. They were really fun small illustrations and they ended up using one of the Dwarf Slayer pieces on the box art which is great. This was a character named Fargrim who I had developed for D&D's Heroes of the Fallen Lands. It was great to get another opportunity to illustrate him.

These small cards can be a bit of a challenge, considering the tiny window you have to work the art into. It really made be think about how to maintain dynamic, exciting compositions in such a small space.

I am currently working on a some more which should be out in a few months. Here is a link to the current Nentir Vale set. The art director was Mari Kolkowsky who is always a pleasure to work with.

Here are a few of the pieces I did as well as a shot of the box and some of the actual cards.

Rolling Stone Magazine - T.I.

2011-01-06T16:40:00.001-08:00

I recently did a portrait of Hip Hop artist T.I. for Rolling Stone magazine. The issue should be out in stores today or tomorrow. Issue 1122 with Jimmy Fallon on the cover.

A few pieces from the end of 2010

2011-01-05T11:09:00.002-08:00

Here are a few pieces I completed right before the year ended.

For this first one, my agent Richard Solomon and his staff have been putting together an illustrated Factoid sheet. I got to illustrate the factoid "Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system". I am a big space nerd so this was a great one for me. Mons is really massive at about 15 miles tall and hundreds of miles across.

This next one was a set of portraits for some famous alumni for Baylor Magazine.

This last illustrations was for the FED magazine for an article on college degrees in our current economy.

Bramble Queen and Gloomwrought

2010-12-22T11:55:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays everyone!

Here are some recent pieces I did for D&D. The first is a cover for Dungeon #185, The Bramble Queen, and following is the Bramble Queen in original form. The last image is the cover for an upcoming box set for D&D called The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond, set to come out in May of 2011.

Tony DiTerlizzi on Art Order

2010-12-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

Jon Schindehette just posted a story on ArtOrder by artist Tony DiTerlizzi titled "How I Made it".

It's a great little story about how Tony got his first job for D&D and TSR. I just had to post about it because as a kid I basically learned to draw from a book he illustrated for D&D called the Monstrous Compendium Annual: Volume One. Tony did all the interior work and every piece is simple awesome. Particularly, the dragons really got me fired up and I probably copied just about every image in the book in my sketchbooks at the time. I still have the book and although it is starting to yellow a bit, it still sits at the top of my bookshelf. We must not forget our roots. Here are a few pictures of the book, and Tony's website.

http://www.diterlizzi.com/

Thanks to Jon and Tony for the great article over at the ArtOrder

Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms

2010-11-27T15:10:00.000-08:00

It has been a while.... I got married a few weeks back and things have been pretty crazy from right before that, up to now, and they are still going. I thought I would slap a few things on here really quick. Here is a selection of a few pieces I did for the Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms book for D&D. The book went live recent so I am free to post them now.

Also Spectrum 17 came out a fews weeks ago and I have three pieces in there. You'll have to pick it up to find out which ones. The book is full of amazing work this year, as always, along with a kick ass cover by Greg Manchess. Congrats to everyone that made it into the issue.

One of my pieces is right across from a friend of mine, Scott Flanders. Well done Scott, great piece!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

Heroes of the Fallen Lands

2010-10-13T10:13:00.001-07:00

Here are a few new pieces for D&D's Heroes of the Fallen Lands book that was released on September 21st. They are for the Iconic characters named Fargrim, Dwarf Slayer. It is great to get some more work for D&D's printed books and I had a blast working on these two images. AD was Kate Irwin and she was great to work with.

Release the hell fire!!!!

The Weekly Standard

2010-09-17T22:18:00.000-07:00

I just pulled what you might call an overnighter. It is a cover for the current issue of The Weekly Standard. I worked with excellent AD Philip Chalk and we hammered this sucker out really quick. I won't say exactly how quick...lets keep that a secret, haha. The little girl is my good friend Joe Bereta's daughter Hayden. Thanks to Joe and Heather and Hayden. And thank you to Amanda Barnes for letting me use some of her photos of Hayden for reference. I would not have been able to fly down to LA in time to take them, considering I got the job on Wednesday.

Check out the issue at WeeklyStandard.com

I have returned!

2010-08-29T22:44:00.001-07:00

Let me start by apologizing for the lack of posts lately. I was out of town for most of August and I am finally back and attempting to get a rhythm going again. Not easy after so much time off.

The ball is starting to roll again and to kick it off, here are some images I recently got printed in a new D&D Dark Sun Creature Catalog. I did a few interior pieces for the book and it is great to see them actually in print. The excellent cover for the book was done by Wayne Reynolds.

I should have some more work for D&D coming out in the next few months but I can't post just yet. The NDAs have bound my hands as they always do.

Additionally, my agent Richard Solomon has created an art for sale section on his main website, www.richardsolomon.com. This link will take you to RonSusser.com. Richard and Ron have set up a great list and here you can purchase originals as well as prints from many of his artists. Greats like Marshall Arisman, James Bennett, Mark Summers, Rick Farrell, Mark English, John Mattos, and many others all have pieces available for purchase. I am up there as well. Please check it out.

I am going to have some of my Wizards of the Coast images posted there soon to be sold as prints so keep an eye out if you are interested in any of those.

D&D Character Pieces

2010-06-21T10:10:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple new character pieces I did for D&D.

Back in action....I think.

2010-06-01T21:25:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the huge gap in posts. I have recently been in the middle of moving up to Washington state. I am now in the Tacoma area and have almost completed setting up my studio again. Tomorrow I have to hit the ground running, hopefully, and get back to work. I thought I would throw up a few D&D pieces I did. Now back to work.......

Lines and Colors!

2010-05-09T00:18:00.000-07:00

I was recently featured on Lines and Colors, a fantastic site I visit just about every day. I am truly honored. Check out the site if you never have. the article

Some New D&D Work

2010-04-26T09:56:00.000-07:00

Had a few new pieces I did for D&D go live recently. They are mainly small character pieces. All of them were a whole lot of fun as usual.

Spectrum 17!!!!

2010-04-23T14:58:00.000-07:00

I forgot to mention a little while back that I made it into Spectrum 17. This would be my first time so it is very exciting. I'll let the pieces that made it in be a surprise, so look for them in Spectrum 17 due out in November '10. Cheers to all!

Sketches

2010-04-22T23:48:00.001-07:00

So I guess these will be some DoDs. I found this middle toned sketch book the other day and was doing some more stylized doodles. voilà

Toned paper is so much fun to work on.

Quanah for Texas Monthly

2010-04-22T13:07:00.000-07:00

I recently complete a painting for Texas Monthly Magazine for an article titled Last Days of the Comanches. Here is a small excerpt from the piece: "By the autumn of 1871, the Western frontier was rolling backward, retreating in the face of savage Indian attacks. When a ragtag army of federal soldiers arrived on the Llano Estacado to crush the hostile natives once and for all, they had numbers and firepower on their side. What they didn’t know was that their enemies were led by Quanah Parker, a half-white war chief who may have been the greatest fighter of his time." By S. C. Gwynne.

I worked with AD TJ Tucker and had a excellent time. I hope to work with him again in the future.

You can find a preview of the article here - Last Day of the Comanches

18"x24" oil on board

Be water my friend...

2010-04-19T10:03:00.001-07:00

...long time no see

2010-04-13T11:28:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I posted anything. Hopefully some of the stuff I have been working on will go live soon and I can throw it up. I am going to try to and start up my drawing of the day posts again. So this is a quick starter. More to come if time permits.

Battleminds, Teamwork, and Fey Hunter

2010-03-03T17:31:00.000-08:00

Here are three new pieces I recently did for D&D that just went live. I got to work with AD Keven Smith this time around and it was real pleasure. Very fun stuff.

Website Redesign

2010-02-26T13:19:00.000-08:00

Just redesigned my website with another company. I think it is much cleaner looking. Plus, it is way easier to update. www.tylerjacobsonart.com

Ctrl-N

2010-02-24T09:25:00.000-08:00

My agent Richard Solomon has posted an article about his new group of artists called Ctrl-N. The group includes Andrew R. Wright, Chris Whetzel, Goni Montes, Dongyun Lee, Edward Kinsella III and myself. It is a very well rounded group, all with solid portfolios. You can see all their work here at RSAR along with links to theispot and The Workbook as well as view the Ctrl-N posting here.

It is really an honor to have Richard Solomon as my representation. I couldn't ask for someone more knowledgable and experienced in the Illustration business.

Dragon 384 Cover

2010-02-20T10:32:00.001-08:00

This is the cover I did for Dragon Magazine Issue 384. It recently went live so I can post it now. I worked with Jon Schindehette at D&D which is always a pleasure. I did a few other pieces for this issue but I am just waiting on them to go live. More to come.

Jack Gaughan Award

2010-02-17T14:02:00.000-08:00

I give a huge Thank You to the NESFA for honoring me with the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist. Thank you as well to the jury Irene Gallo, Todd Lockwood, and Bob Eggleton. This is a great veneration and I am honored to be placed amongst such wonderful artists.

Thank you all.

Digital study

2010-02-09T21:49:00.000-08:00

AAU Ad

2010-01-26T10:17:00.000-08:00

The Academy has used some of my art for an AAU add in Juxtapoz. Thanks to Will for bring this to my attention. I finally got my hands on the issue. There is also work by Gue Yang Yang and Frank Lin.

Digital Portrait

2010-01-22T13:51:00.000-08:00

More digital practice. Getting more comfortable. Photoshop

Yoda

2010-01-05T10:05:00.001-08:00

New D&D work

2009-12-18T09:40:00.000-08:00

So I am finally posting some stuff. It has been a while. Here are two new piece that just went live for D&D. Again I got to work with Senior AD Jon Schindehette which is always a pleasure. The pieces are called The Traveler and The Bronzeknuckle Brothers. More to come soon I am sure.

New D&D work

2009-11-20T15:22:00.001-08:00

Here are a few piece I did for D&D a little while back. They just went live so I can post them here now. Again I got to work with Jon Schindehette, the Senoir AD at D&D and as always it was a pleasure. Check out his blog ArtOrder. These piece appeared in Dragon Magazine Issue #381. There is one more piece I did along with these and it will be forthcoming.

Space Roman

2009-10-26T21:39:00.000-07:00

Another Comp of the day. I love Roman stuff and I never really do much Sci Fi (not sure why). So I wanted to do something like a Space Centurion.

Comp of the Day

2009-10-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

Maybe I will start calling these Composition of the Day even though I havent been doing them daily. Anyways here is another. I am trying to do more compositions based on value.

DoD I guess

2009-10-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

I haven't had much time lately for Drawings of the Day, but I had a little break so I did one. Thought I would bring more value in.

B&B

2009-10-09T09:58:00.001-07:00

Funny logo I did for my buddies Joe and Luke.

Beren the One Handed

2009-10-05T00:07:00.000-07:00

"Get you gone, and fly!" cried Beren; "for here is a fire that shall consume you, and all evil things."

Hurakan Challenge

2009-10-04T11:37:00.000-07:00

Fingolfin and Morgoth

2009-09-28T23:28:00.000-07:00

Thus died Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor, most proud and valiant of the Elven-kings of old.

DoD

2009-09-21T20:23:00.001-07:00

Another Roman

Quick DoD

2009-09-20T21:59:00.000-07:00

Dragon 379

2009-09-18T09:37:00.000-07:00

The Art work I did for D&D's Dragon Magazine has gone live today! For these I got to work with Jon Schindehette, the Senoir AD at D&D. He is a great guy and a pleasure to work with. Here is a link to the spotlight he posted on his blog. ArtOrder: Friday 0918

You can find a preview of the actual issue here. Dragon Magazine Issue 379

Here are the images I did and clips from what they look like in the article. They appeared in an article for Dragon Magazine issue 379, titled Cleric Essentials: Wisdom of the Gods by Logan Bonner

Finally

2009-09-17T23:08:00.000-07:00

Alright so got this baby onto board today. 18 x 24 but a little less with the boarder. Just couldnt get the image size right at kinkos but no matter. Gunna start painting this thing tomorrow, FINALLY I know. Things have been slow.

DoD

2009-09-17T22:41:00.000-07:00

This one's for Joe.

Drawing of the day

2009-09-16T11:00:00.000-07:00

Culdesac/Backpage Pilot

2009-09-16T10:03:00.000-07:00

So, long story on this one. I did this stuff a ways back and for some reason never posted it, probably cuz it is a pretty different style from my current work. Anyways, my friends Joe Bereta and Luke Barats did a pilot for a sketch comedy style show on NBC. Their website Baratsandbereta.com has all their comedy work to date and they are both down in LA now working their butts off. For the Pilot I did a number of illustrations that were meant to fade or dissolve out into their live action counterparts. The effect was pretty cool. The pilot was set up as a comic strip and each new sketch was a three frame comic in a newpaper called The Backpage. This is Culdesac was the original name for the pilot. Milkman vs. Mailman and Neighborhood Watch are the only two sketches available for view right now. They are minus the dissolve from the illustrations. Check out their youtube page also.

Drawing of the day-plus

2009-09-15T20:59:00.000-07:00

Certainly am going to do more on this one cuz it is way fun. Probably be multiple drawings of the day for this. Drew in photoshop this time. If anyone wants to donate to my cintiq fund you are more than welcome.
Anyone got a name for this thing?

Drawing of the day

2009-09-14T22:49:00.001-07:00

Oh how cute!

Sils

2009-09-13T20:44:00.001-07:00

Oðin

2009-09-10T10:00:00.000-07:00

Quick Oðin sketch. Pronouced Othin with a TH like in "the". Come on people, haha. Johannes, you know what I am talking about.

Drawing day 2

2009-09-09T10:14:00.001-07:00

Another quick roman drawing. I think I may stop with the roman, haha.

sketches Ps

2009-09-08T23:16:00.000-07:00

I came across these sketches Rich Anderson did in what looked like pen and ink, but they could have been in photoshop as well. Anyways they inspired me ( and by all means I give credit to Rich Anderson) to attempt the look in photoshop and I had a lot of fun. I am certainly going to do more of these, and probably add some more values in.
This is still day one though on the drawing log so these don't count I guess. haha

drawing a day

2009-09-08T13:58:00.000-07:00

So I am gunna try to do a lot more drawing and attempt to post a new good looking one each day. I feel my drawing practice has gone down hill as of late and seeing as drawing is one of the most important thing, something must be done about it.

Here is day one. A Roman soldier.

Jersey Devil

2009-09-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

So the older cover concept I did sucked so approached it again with a slightly different composition. Here is a value concept and full pencil for it.

Some life drawings

2009-08-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

Here is some stuff from my last class at the Academy. The great Bill Maughan's directed study.

I live!

2009-08-20T20:52:00.000-07:00

So I am alive and doing stuff. I have been working on some commissions but I cant post them just yet. So I wanted to throw up some other stuff for fun, sketchbook stuff and what have you. Just to make it look like I am doing something, haha.

A little Ahab portrait I really wanted to finish up and finally did. Basically another photoshop practice. A cover I am working on my for my friend Eric Johnson, just a value comp right now. And finally a fun sketch I liked.

WEBSITE!!!

2009-07-09T18:31:00.001-07:00

So I finally put a site together. It isn't very fancy, actually it is rather plan. But it works for now with my limited ability.

www.tylerjacobsonart.com

Spring Show

2009-05-26T14:21:00.001-07:00

We had the opening for the Academy of Art Spring Show 2009 last Thursday. It is located at 601 Brannon in San Fran. It will be open for a few more weeks so go check it out if you can. I received two awards for MFA Illustration. First place for MFA Traditional Illustration (Grendel's Death) and Best in Show for MFA Traditional Illustration (Ahab Hunting Moby Dick).

Portfolio Pages

2009-05-26T13:11:00.001-07:00

I wanted to post my portfolio pages so people could see what the book looks like. I plan to put one together that is just paintings as well. This one has all the work in did for my thesis and a little more.

Ecroché

2009-05-18T16:52:00.000-07:00

So here is my Ecroché from class. I estimate it took me about 80 hours. Really fun and huge learning experience. He is 32" tall. More sculpting will be in my future.

Business Card

2009-04-28T23:05:00.001-07:00

Finally made them. Just got them in the mail today. Dont actually have a site yet, but I have the domain so that is a start. Need to figure the rest out asap.

Painted up

2009-04-27T22:12:00.000-07:00

Just painted up a character. I am on the way to do a few more, but this is the first one. Trying to Polish everything upfor my Portfolio.

Stuff

2009-04-25T17:57:00.000-07:00

I have been messing around in photoshop cuz I dont use it that much and I want to get better. So i put some new stuff together for my port including some concepts and ships and a crazy alien head. None are related in any way really. Oh well. Stuff it is.

Detail of the Pequod

2009-04-19T13:12:00.000-07:00

Here is a little detail of the deck of the Pequod.

Last Two

2009-04-18T13:31:00.000-07:00

Here are the last two traditional paintings for my Thesis. One is a portrait of Lestat and the other is a redux of a painting a did digitally a while back of Macbeth climbing up to the witches.

!!!Update!!!

2009-04-18T13:29:00.001-07:00

I recently had all my thesis paintings professionally photographed by an amazing guy. So I have replaced all the crappy photos I took personally with the new ones. Feel free to give all the paintings a second look because the new photos truely represent the paintings much better. Thanks you.

Death for the Beast

2009-04-04T18:59:00.000-07:00

Last Ahab paintings

2009-03-26T18:38:00.000-07:00

Last of the three Ahab paintings. Might be a my favorite one.

The White Whale

2009-03-23T21:16:00.001-07:00

Moby Dick designs

The Hunt _ Finish

2009-03-08T20:22:00.001-07:00

Some quicks

2009-03-08T20:20:00.000-07:00

Here are some quick portraits I did recently.

Drawings and such

2009-03-02T20:52:00.000-08:00

So some new stuff, just so i have something to post. I have been packeting out the Pequod and there is a drawing for my Lucifer project that will probalby be left out of my Thesis.

Some new pieces

2009-02-04T16:50:00.000-08:00

Here is some new stuff. I finally got this Ahab one done. Need to work faster in the future. And I also got the Grendal one finished. Might need a little more work but we will see. I need to move on.

The Long Way Out

2009-01-12T15:29:00.000-08:00

So the poster I did, (which is way down on this blog) for my friend VJ's (Vincete de Jesus de la Vega II) short film "The Long Way Out", showed up on PosterGeek.com. Here's a link. http://www.postergeek.com/posters.php?id=13029

2008-11-12T21:40:00.001-08:00

Melkor early concepts

2008-11-12T21:29:00.000-08:00

More Lucifer concepts

2008-11-12T21:24:00.001-08:00

Lucifer Concepts in progress

2008-11-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

Grendel and Ahab final Comps

2008-11-12T21:08:00.000-08:00

Macbeth and Banquo

2008-10-14T20:41:00.001-07:00

Recent Comp Ideas

2008-09-30T23:50:00.001-07:00

Ahab on the Deck, Grendel faces Beowulf, and a comp for Macbeth

Grendel

2008-09-30T23:32:00.000-07:00

Grendel Character/Creature work

Thesis Character work

2008-09-29T20:55:00.000-07:00

Captain Ahab Designs

Ork

2008-08-11T20:53:00.001-07:00

A quick sketch turned Corel painting. Probably put some more work into and repost later on. Works as a concept sketch for me at this point.

Macbeth and the Witches - Traditional

2008-08-09T21:33:00.000-07:00

So I decided to do this one traditionally. I liked the digital version alright but I really wanted to get in and put some real paint on it. 24x30

2008-08-09T21:32:00.001-07:00

Just added a little more to this one.

Finished Figure Piece

2008-06-17T17:51:00.001-07:00

A finished nude female for my Figure Painting class. Check out Zhaoming Wu's work here (My teacher for the class). http://www.zhaomingwu.com/

New Portraits and Figure work.

2008-06-17T17:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some new figure paintings and portraits. Most are unfinished but will be reposted when finished.