Monday, May 18, 2015
Rough sketches and What could have been... (Part 5)
This was a card I did for Wizards of The Coast. I remember the description of a defaced ancient city taken over by a savage people. Their symbol was and eye surrounded by flame. So I figured why not make the flames of the symbol like those cave spit paintings or blood finger painting. At first I made the city more Romanesque but they didn't like it. So I changed it to be more gothic in look.
Rough sketches and What could have been... (Part 4)
From what I remember of this guy VanCleef is he is a hero Pirate who eventually dies. I was supposed to make a scene that would foreshadow his death. I wanted to make something haunting including the Jolly Roger flag. My first sketch I think was nice and creepy but maybe too creepy like he was already dead.
I then went to what eventually would become the final. Here is the pencil thumb to sketch.
Final
Rough sketches and What could have been... (Part 3)
For part 3 I'm going back to Warcraft I did back in 2012. To this day I've never played a game of Warcraft but I knew these guys were important characters so I wanted to treat them a special as I could. I was so excited to get going on these guys that I turned in my roughs of them early when got the sad news that they mistakenly gave me the wrong guys to paint. So now these guys finally get to see the light of day. Who knows maybe it was a good thing that I never made these guys officially. Below are the thumbs and the roughs of these two cards.
Rough sketches and What could have been... (Part 2)
For Part 2 of Rough sketches and What could have been... I want to show one of my old Vampire covers for White Wolf Publishing back in 2008. I believe this was called Immortals and a separate story all together from the World of Darkness Vampire stories and games but to be honest I really don't know.
Above are some of the rough thumbnails that I made for this one. The story I created for this was that a slave girl back in ancient Egypt was madly in love with her master. Along the way she later discovered that she was immortal so years later on the anniversary of 'something' she would return to his tomb and snuggle next to him and reminisce. Think Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabel Lee only the sexes are reversed with some immortality thrown in. I almost went with the one where the girl was curled up like a little child but that was too submissive. This woman is 2000 years old so she should have the look of someone who's seen and done some things in her long lifetime so I went with this...
I like this comp. The perspective is off which I would have hoped to fix had I taken it to final but it still has a nice look to it. The only problem is it wasn't telling a story as good I wanted so I went back to the original concept.
This is the final. Hopefully the pose and expression is more mysterious so you're more guessing as to whats going on and the modern clothing like her jeans tell the story of her immortality some. I can't really explain the damn panther in the corner. Must be a Fazetta thing I was into back then. Meh, why the hell not.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Rough sketches and What could have been... (Part 1)
I think I should return to this blog. Perhaps it will inspire me to look at past work and improve upon my current work. In the process of cleaning my computer of access files I've decided to start a thing called "Rough sketches and What could have been..." How many parts will depend on my continued effort to post on here and how many things I'm willing to then throw away from my HD.
For (Part 1) I'm showing a Warcraft card that I did back in 2010. I think its called Hammer of Justice.
This was my first sketch for the card back when the description said the guy was to be holding a sword along with the hammer. I guess my focus was a little too much on the sword so they told me to ditch it.
This was my second rough sketch for this card and I still kinda like it. I wanted to imply powerful motion with minimalist action. To me him standing like a pillar about to smite the hell out of something in the foreground makes him look more powerful and nearly god like then some big over the top Jack Kirby like ballet swing. This of course wasn't approved.
So I then went the opposite direction and stretched the figure to be really actiony. But I made him a little too thin and off model so they asked me to buff him up in the true Warcraft style. I dunno, I like the intensity of this figure more then the final product.
This is the end result. There are a tone of things that bug me on this but... whatever. You should always move forward.
(Part 2) coming soon
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone updates
Wow its been a while since I've posted anything on here. Well a Hearthstone Card I did very recently just got added to the game in the Blackrock Mountain update plus some of my Magic the Gathering art that I did last year has been added to the Dragons of Tarkir.
Hopefully in the near future I'll start posting even more on here. Recently I bought a new computer and was cleaning house in my old one. I have a ton of rough sketches on my hard drive that I need to purge before I erase forever. Some aren't half bad and I should have taken to completion.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Monster in the Closet is back in reprint.
Hey one of my old T-shirt designs has just got a reprint. https://www.threadless.com/product/2454/

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