Category: Illustration

  • Across the Globe

    Across the Globe

    While I am busy settling into my teaching gig for this semester at my local Unversity I wanted to express how important I think it is that we take time to get to know our fans and show appreciation.  I have had a follower for over a year that has…

  • We all need a break

    We all need a break

    Day after day we work at our jobs and push to obtain greater lives… let’s face it that it is exhausting.  It is almost to forget that we are human and we are actually living a life now.  We get so caught up in preparing we forget that and typically…

  • How to Art Part 6 (Final) – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    How to Art Part 6 (Final) – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    We have reached the final post for this webinar and remember if you have any questions, even when it is over, you can either message me or comment here and I will do my best to answer your questions.  So let’s get this last leg done. So selecting layers >…

  • How to Art Part 5 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    How to Art Part 5 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    SO last time we ended with the image looking like this… Today I am going to push it in a specific direction to start wrapping things up.  There are many directions it can be taken from here, but for the sake of certain effects I am going to push it…

  • Instagram for Arts Sake

    Instagram for Arts Sake

    Follow Me on Instagram <PLUG ALERT! Today’s rant on gaining followers: While I am working on the next part to the webinar, which should return tomorrow, I thought I would take a second to ask…. are you on instagram?  Let’s face it, most of our social media platforms are getting to…

  • Will Be Back Soon..

    Will Be Back Soon..

    Sometimes we get overwhelmed and have a little too much on our plate.  It’s life right?  I will try to get the next installment of the webinar up tomorrow.  Till then I thought I would share a blank cover I did as a practice run yesterday to get out of…

  • How to Art Part 4 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    How to Art Part 4 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    Elcome back for the 4th installment of this webinar on making your art Instaglam!  So let’s jump right to it. We last left off with our purple cat sitting on a white branch with background. We still have a lot we can do considering there is a white branch that…

  • How to Art part 3 – behind the scenes of AotA

    How to Art part 3 – behind the scenes of AotA

    So first and foremost welcome to a new year and thank you for the amazing year behind us.  I look forward to bringing you even more this year with more tutorials, events, and ways for fans to interact.  Now to bring us back on track we left on this screen…

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!  So it has been a long time since I have done an homage piece of any kind. When I was trying to come up with a new year’s day image I kept getting stuck reflecting on the great escape of 2016.  If you saw my image last…

  • How to Art part 2 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    How to Art part 2 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    Welcome Back!  Last time we left off with your image cropped and basic curve adjustments bringing your image off the paper and into a bold lined digital image.  The last image is the one we see below. So once you have clicked that checkbook and are back to that main…

  • How to Art Part 1 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    How to Art Part 1 – Behind the Scenes of AotA

    I have received a lot of questions lately about how I was doing these daily images this month and what I was meaning when I said pencil drawings and digital editing. So, today I thought I would take a minute to explain the process of how this… Became this…. So…

  • TBT plus bonus DeadPool

    In lieu of several excuses that most really don’t care I am posting a couple images I did digital editing for todays images but no new sketches for today.   The first is a throw back Thursday image I did for chapter #0 of Meteors n Milk that I figured…

  • Advent Bonus Day 

    Humpty Dumpty for all you Bad Eggs that survived Christmas and need some chearing up or anger venting. 

  • Conclusion (AotA 24)

    The darkness of the Sandman’s power had taken over the drift into a uncontrollable sleep.  The sense of pulling in a deposit dark fluid pit seemed to last for ever.  Something seemed to be there though and yet faint and almost not tangible.  A vibration? A hum? ….. a nudge?………

  • King Arthur ( AotA 18 )

    Once the 3 Musketeers apprehended the monster known as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde we were brought forth to the king.  The king wanted to express gratitude for our assistance in tracking down the terror of the streets.  As the light poured down upon the king in his thrown and…

  • Good Vs. Evil (AotA 16)

    Sherlock deduced there was more to the appearances and sudden disappearances of the monster that witnesses were missing.  Various accounts started to pick up on something piculuar and consistent. The more he chaises down the trail the more we could tell he knew exactly what or even who the monster…

  • AotA Day 15

    Thumbelina explained about the monster she had come into contact with.  We had no idea how  to track down the monster, where it might show up next or much of anything to go off of.  We needed clues….. better yet we needed him… A few hours later he appeared on…

  • AotA Day 14

    Standing before the hunchback we hear a scream of a tiny female voice.  It is clear she is in distress and heading this way!  The rain letting up some we begin to see something scurrying frantically on the cobblestones beneath our feet some twenty feet away.  The rodent runs straight…

  • AotA Day 12

    By the time the citadel was near night fall had snuck up on us.  Puss in Boots was in the middle of discussing whom to trust and the insurance and outs of the citadel when we were interruoted.  “PUSS!!! You ferocious feline… get you furry but over here and come…

  • AotA Day 9

    The Tin Woodsman let us know about the citadel where we can meet all kinds of people and see many wonderous sites.  He arranged for us to to have guides get us there.  The first will drive us the roads end and I can hear the car now.  It is…