Another Digital Illustration project. This was put together in Photoshop CS5 using photos I took at a shopping center in Lynwood, California. Once the large pieces were in place, various layer blending modes and brushes were used to create the atmosphere. This was one of my favorite projects!

I am loving Game of Thrones on HBO! Daenerys is one of my favorite characters, so here's the start of a digital painting I'm doing from one of the still shots I found online. The second season just started and it's already pretty cool. More dire wolves!

The first project in Digital Illustration was to create a portrait of an assigned superhero or villain. I got Scarecrow, and I decided to go with the Batman Arkham Asylum version. The portrait began as a sketch that was scanned into Adobe Illustrator, and the pen tool and scatter brushes were used to complete the piece. Lots and lots of shapes in this one.

These are from a day of cafe sketching with some artist friends at Downtown Disney. I started out a bit rusty, which means I have to go out and sketch from life more often.

This is some Metalocalypse fan art that is nowhere near complete or how I want it to look. I figure this is one way they might recruit new Gears into the Klok! Based off the Uncle Sam recruitment poster. Done in Illustrator. Metalocalypse © Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha.

Some of my work in Animal/Wildlife Drawing at CSUF. These are from live trips to the L.A. Zoo and studies from the L.A. County Natural History Museum.

So, long story. I love Regretsy.com and visit pretty much everyday. Last year, the artists in the community collaborated to create a tarot deck featuring their original art. The project was funded on Kickstarter.com, and proceeds were given to charity. Cool, right? Anyway, Towel Mike was a favorite meme of the site. It started with a guy named Mike, and a towel, drunk picture texting, and so on and so forth. Regretsy held a contest for people to create the Towel Mike tarot card, and the winner would have their art featured in the deck! This was my entry. I referenced some really awesome traditional tarot card art, and this is a reinvisioned King of Wands.

Recently, I had them printed as postcards to be included in the goody bags given out to people at a Regretsy meet-up event, and people seemed to like them. This was done in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS5.

Today was the first day of the spring semester. And it was raining. As I was leaving this morning for work to be followed by school later on, I'm pretty sure this is what the cat was thinking while cuddled up on my bedspread. Lucky bastard.

Some other pose exercises. It really does become easier with practice.

I've been drawing from Stephen Silver's Posebook app for Android, and these are a couple of the results. It's been really helpful so far! They were drawn in Sketchbook Pro.