San Francisco Giants Cheer Card

This was an illustration job I did for NBC Sports in SF and it was an 11x17 inch baseball card poster like deal. I was given the player Jonathan Sánchez as my subject and I created this piece in Adobe Illustrator after creating some roughs in Photoshop. In addition I got tickets to the game that was on was the anniversary of his no hitter against the San Diego Padres. July 10, 2018 was the game and I even appeared briefly on the NBC sports show talking about what I created. They handed these cheers cards out to fans for free and I signed a few. All in all a fun assignment and a fun night! Here are pictures below of the art, final print and also my TV appearance. I just dig the Jack In A Box character in the background!  

Odds and Ends

Hello everyone I seem to create faster than I post here at times and looking over the last few years I am posting less and less. Anyways I felt like posting a few things today I have created in the last few years. The first image is a freelance commercial job that was for a job recruiter and it is a sequence of frames giving an overview of what she does. These frames were created in Illustrator. 

The second image is a HEAVY METAL cover and no I did not do one for the magazine (although it would be a fun job to do.) it was for a Threadless/Heavy Metal contest. I did not win the contest, but I did had a blast creating it, which I did in Photoshop. There were many entries so coming up with a winner must of been quite a challenge in itself! 

The third image here is just a recent sketchbook page of mine I cleaned up a bit and colored in Photoshop to make it a print. There are times I do create more finished images in my sketchbook.

 

Digital And Traditional Material From Late 2015

I got so busy the last few months of 2015 I did not have time to post here so I thought I would present a few things I worked on in the last part of 2015. There are a variety of science fiction, fantasy, Santa, robots, dinosaurs all the fun stuff I really like to draw. The first three images are digital and were created in Photoshop. The very first image is a tribute to the late performer David Bowie. The traditional drawings were ink drawings and colored with watercolor paint.

 

 

Recent Digital Paintings

 Time goes by too fast and here it is the end of June and I have not gotten to my many posts. Anyways posted here are some digital paintings I created in Photoshop over the past few months.The last image of the octopus creature was a scene taken from an intense dream I had recently. 

Book Covers

Here are three book cover illustrations I have created over the last few years. All three were digitally created in Photoshop and Illustrator. Of the three covers presented here two were for actual printed books and the most recent cover titled NICK NOMAD AND THE HAMMER OF LEMURIA was for an e-book only. Here is the link to it.. http://www.amazon.com/Nick-Nomad-Hammer-Lemuria-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00WLAWHPS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429915344&sr=8-1&keywords=nick+nomad

Joker At 75

The Clown Prince of Crime or The Joker if you will has been messing around in the Batman universe 75 years now and he shows no signs of slowing down! Anyways I tend to like to create my takes on the Joker once and awhile so here are a few posted below. They were created in traditional and digital media. So keep the funny times coming Joker!

Jack Kirby Birthday

Jack Kirby was born August 28, 1917 so I took a pencil image I did a year ago and finished it up in Illustrator. I was lucky enough to me Mr. Kirby a few times and once even at his home thanks to my old friend Britt Wisenbaker. Anyways I had a blast creating this and happy birthday Mr. Kirby in the great beyond!!!

 

Fugitive 45-RWX

Hello all this is my first 2013 digital illustration created in Photoshop and finished in Illustrator. The scene is a robot on the run is it on the right or wrong side of the law? I will let the viewer's imagination finish up the story. Cheers. 

The Dark Knight Arrives!

I was a big fan of Frank Miller's twisted Batman tale THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and remember eagerly buying all four issues! With me being a big Batman fan it was one of those great comic book moments! It is not the ultimate Batman story to me, but I thought it was really an engaging one. Something about a bitter older Batman trying to work through some of his issues while dealing with a battered Gotham city of the future appealed to me at that time. Yes this Batman tale may seem a bit dated now with some of it's story elements and a bit over the top with other elements, yet I still like the Two-Face/Joker stories and how they wrapped up mixed in with the satire. As for the Batman/Superman conflict it was fun to see those two characters differences played out!  

Flash forward to the present an animated adaption of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS has been produced and the first part was released this week. This image below I had started to create for a contest connected to the release of the DVD. I got side tracked with work and did not make the deadline, but decided to finish it up anyways. The image was created by drawing over a pencil rough in Illustrator. I looked at many pages of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS comics to get inspired when creating this and decided to create my own take on the scene from the junkyard where Batman and Robin take on some mutant gang members. So that is it in a long winded nutshell and I have heard rumors there was a sequel to THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. I hope it is a rumor as I think the TDKR story ends just right, but that is just my opinion.

May Sketch Tuesday Drawings

I participated in the May Sketch Tuesday last night and had fun. I produced 10 drawings and sold one of them. I am posting the images of the drawings here. Like all my original art it is for sale so if you are interested in it just contact me. These drawings are ink/water color on card stock 6.08 x 7 inches and all run for $15.00 each. I sort of went with a theme of sorts with these drawings. Although I did create two robots and the depressed Marvin one with the word balloon was a commission I sold. I took a picture of it with my phone so it is not as sharp as the other images.

Zombie City

I have been really getting into digital painting in Photoshop of late and this is a zombie image I painted a year back and finished up recently. Tonight is the second season finale of THE WALKING DEAD so I thought I would in honor of that post this image.

The Find

I was in the mood to create a space scene recently so this is something I came up with. I thought it would be fun to have a more modern star ship coming across a 1950's type rocket ship that is floating near a planet. All this was created in Illustrator.

Something On The Rocks

Another Halloween/Horror inspired image I rendered in pencil and ink. Just a vision I had that popped into my mind one morning. Chills.

The Cudulla

Here is a flashback creation from 2007. A creature heavily inspired by the stories and visions of H.P. Lovecraft. This started out as an ink drawing and then I took it into Photoshop where I cleaned it up and colored it. Pleasant scares from other dimensions!