Illustrator and Concept Artist
These are rest of the covers I finished for the series of books titled The Named. One of the important points I learned from illustrating these was how to keep the work consistent when doing a series. Even still I have my favorite from the series and of course my least favorite. They were all done with a rough pencil drawing first then painted in Painter and Photoshop.
This was a cover for a book called "Clan Ground. It was the second book in a series of five. I did the covers for the re-issues of these books which are about prehistoric, sentient cats that are evolving throughout the stories. I had to do a lot of big cat studies to do these. It was a fun and challenging project. This book in particular "the named",as they are called in the book, learned to domesticate other animals.
An N.C. Wyeth illustration for Steinway.
Detail
Why yes I am a huge nerd.
ps. if you haven't gone and you love this stuff, you really should go. You can always email me and I can give you a list of great sights to see.
The Capitol
Washington Monument
Frank Schoonover's "Marine's Took Bour"
The view from the Wyeth Family Porch
One of the many at Brandywine
I just got back from a week's vacation in D.C.Great city filled with cool little neighborhoods and some fun restaurants. The best part of the trip of course was getting a chance to see the very best in American Illustration. It started with a visit to Delaware to see the the Delaware Art Museum, Schoonover Studios, and the Brandywine Museum. I met John Schoonover at the Schoonover Studios who introduced me to Elizabeth Alberding and Richard Kelly of the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Some of the highlights include: seeing the majority of Pyle's pirates at the Delaware, Seeing 11 of the 17 Wyeth Treasure Island paintings, seeing where Frank Schoonover and N.C. Wyeth actually worked and seeing the vast amounts of beautiful work at the Kelly Collection. So much to see that a painting I would have spent 10 minutes in front got whittled down to mere seconds. All of the more reason to go back for a visit some day. I really have to thank Richard, Elizabeth and John for such a extraordinarily memorable trip.
Imagine FX's new issue is out I think. I did a cover a workshop and an interview for their Sept 2007 issue, They wanted a Frazetta inspired image of a barbarian and his lady. Since I haven't had a lot of chances to illustrate barbarians I had fun doing this one. I was going for a sort of Thundar vibe without the sun-sword.
This is my attempt to try and post more art and things that are "sketchy". I would also like to use this forum to share inspirations with others and vice versa. I will try to keep the website more up to date too. Here is a study sketch for a hag I am dealing with at the moment.
