New project

An 11 page comic for an anthology - This story was written by my buddy John Dadlez

Envy

Steampunk: The Beginning - The Book

The show that I curated is now in book form. It's being printed as we speak. Pre-order it here.

Uh oh!

Ethan and Jared

Ethan takes on a Cyclops

Jared defeats the Kraken

Demo 11-28-12

Sorry I haven't posted in a while - Demo 11-18-12

Alien Invasion

This my illustration that accompanies one of the featured articles in Columbia University Magazine. They wanted a campy 50's style Sci Fi illustration.

Silhouette Exercise 9-12-12

Silhouette Demo #1 9-12-12 This is a quick silhouette demo that I give the students - about 3 to 4 minutes. This exercise emphasis general shapes before going to detail (light side vs dark side). Digital ink.

Menagerie Creative Mast Head

Illustration for Menagerie Creative.

Demo 7-26-12

Iron Man

"Axe Cop: President of The World" book 3

Today is the first day of Comic Con, so with that... I painted the cover for Axe Cop - President of the World book 3 for my friend Ethan Nicolle Make sure you stop by Ethan's booth at Comic Con and pick up lots of Axe Cop stuff. Pencils by Ethan.

xe Cop

All In The Family cover art.

I had the opportunity to work with my good friends at Menagerie Creative again on a project for The Shout Factory.

The final box design for Shout Factory's release of All in the Family - The Complete Series! Due out October 30th From 2002 to 2007, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the first through sixth seasons, and then in 2010 and 2011 Shout! Factory finished the show's run on DVD with the seventh, eighth and ninth season sets. All nine of these packages contained three discs each, for a total of 27 DVDs

Menagerie Creative had me do a full painting so they could play with vignettes and cropping for the final design for Shout Factory.

Detail of Carrol O'Connor - Archie

Detail of Sally Struthers - Gloria

Chestertonians Part 2

Purgatory: The last watering hole

A shape tool doodle.

Monster Doodle

Baby monster didn't listen to his parents when they said, "Don't stick your finger in the light socket".

After Forever - The Chase

Steampunk: The Beginning video

After Forever - Goose

Steampunk: The Beginning Pics

Authors Tim Powers, James Blaylock with Begovich Galery Director Mike mcGee and myself

Add Assistant Gallery Director Jacqueline Bunge to the group.

Many more pics here

Steampunk: The Beginning April 7th FB event page

Check out the Facebook Event page HERE.

Come out and join us - I have several illustrations in the show.

The term "Steampunk" was coined by Jeter to describe the writing genre of the three Cal State Fullerton alumni/authors. This show is a collection of work from CSUF illustrators depicting three seminal scifi works from authors Tim Powers, James Blaylock, KW Jeter.

Poster Design by Wendy Peng

Steampunk: The Beginning April 7th

Steampunk: The Beginning
Titan Illustrators celebrating Titan Authors

California State University Fullerton - Begovich Gallery

Opening Reception April 7 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Authors talks at 4:30
Don't miss this show

Titan Authors - Tim Powers, James Blaylock, KW Jeter

Titans Illustrators - Quentin Bauer - Katy Betz - Marvin Chow - Cliff Cramp - Phil Dimitiadis - Asa Enochs - Tricia Gardner - Wendy Grieb - Maria Im - Garrett Kaida - Richard Kamimura - Jacob Lecuyer - Scott Lee - Barbara Malley - Michael Matsumoto - Ben Matsuya - Eddie Mendoza - Rodolfo Montalvo - Dzu Nguyen - Ron Pagenkopp - Maggie Parr - Cathy Pavia - Eric Reimer - Cheryl Savala - Patrick Scullin - Rosie Serrato - Doug Sirois - Cuyler Smith - Brandon Starr - Brandon Steele - Greg Swearingen - Hala Swearingen - Doug TenNapel - Tobias White

After Forever - San Francisco

After Forever Cover

Mick Stensil - The Reaper

Topps Star Wars Galaxy Card

After Forever - Crime Scene

Diner scene for After Forever

Tree House Demo

Value study - The quick study is useful to set the composition and create atmospheric perspective (depth). This part of the painting only takes a few minutes. If it doesn't work, I haven't wasted a lot of time.

The color pass and some detail - During this stage I paint with a lot of texture. I also develop temperature of light, reenforcing warm sides and cool sides. This could use about another hour of detail if I was to take it to finish.

Quick Sketch

This was a very simple demo for my students to consider depth, value and atmospheric perspective. They were limited to 5 values to create a simple environment. Then they were encouraged to take it farther with the steps below.

Thinking about shape and value to create depth.

Considering the light side and dark side

Glazing color - temperature of light and shadow - warm side and cool side

Time for detail.

I didn't take this one any farther because it was just an exercise.

After Forever - opening scene

John Wayne Cover

Unfortunately this cover illustration was not chosen. I did this painting for Menagerie Creative for the Fox DVD boxed set. Fox went with something else. I'm kind of bummed that this one wasn't chosen because I really liked what Menagerie did with it.