Hollow

This is the cover for the band Daniel's Window's newest CD titled "Hollow". The image of the girl is an acrylic painting on gesso board I did back in 2009. The type is hand scratched on bristol board with a quill pen. There is a bit of spatter surrounding the type. but it's barely visible.

This is the original painting I titled "Cecilia". 5"x7" Acrylic on gessoboard.

Reborn

This image is more of a sketch of an idea, but I worked it up properly nonetheless. All elements here are intentional (white BG, expression, hair color and design, etc.). I am severely disappointed in the ear - why didn't I just use a friggin' reference. D'oh! Anyhow - it's not all that bad. I am excited to get cracking on some more traditional paintings. Hopefully they're ears are better executed than this one...

Chloe - Final Line Art

This is the final line art for my girl Chloe. It took me an agonizingly long time to get the hands to look right.I wanted them to be fairly expressive. Hands and faces carry so much weight in terms of the emotional expression of the work, so I wanted to make sure they were conveying energy and life. I wanted her to be lost in the music she's hearing - eyes closed and moving to the rhythm - her left arm swung back and her right hand imitating a guitar riff. Granted - I know that the left hand frets the notes on the guitar, but in this image (and in reality) things aren't always proper and correct. I am excited to work on the colors and BG in this image now. Whew... the tough part is over!

Chloe - WIP 2.0

Most of the drawing is completed at this juncture. I am just about done with her arms and hands (they're still in pencil) and anticipate they'll be done in a matter of a half hour or so from the time of this post. Sorry for the yellow pic - took the image with my camera as opposed to scanning it. I was feeling lazy today.

Chloe - WIP

Chloe is the main supporting character of my upcoming web-comic "Surreality." Chloe is a DJ and this image depicts her dancing away in some imaginary environment. This particular sketch is a scan from my sketchbook. I have since taken it to a printer and had an 11"x17" print out of it done for me. I have already used my light table and transferred it to the final piece of Bristol board and am tightening up the pencils and finishing off some details like the hands and accessories.

Watercolor Life Drawings - 12.17.10

Visited the Palette and Chisel again and got some more little life drawings done. I was not attempting to get a likeness by any means, as the poses are far too quick to do so, but these are more studies in light, tone and shadow. It's always good to work from a model.

Life Drawing at the Palette and Chisel - 12.10.10

These are a few of the recent life drawings I have done at the Palette and Chisel in Chicago during their open life drawing sessions. I have been wanting to do some more watercolor and pencil work like this since my sophomore year in college where my wonderful instructor Mat Barber-Kennedy exposed me for the first time to this technique and way of working with the figure. I hope I can get up there more often and really improve this.