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I mean who doesn’t like pirate. They’re cool and while they may rape and kill and pillage I think most have good heart and will try to help your average helpless cabin boy when he’s being unfairly picked on by the rest of the crew. That’s just the way pirates are. Good to the animals, just don’t come between on and his treasure.

Here is the latest addition to my page of character designs I’m working on. I’ve very happy with it as I’ve had a ongoing struggle with wanting a loose more choppy style when still retaining a level of realism. This is getting closer to the style of pictures in my head. It’s also the first time I used painter (on top of photoshop) and it not turn out like a polished turd.

I’ve been seeing trailers for the new Wolverine movie all over the web so I thought my next oil painting should involve my favorite mutant with a healing factor which in partial thanks to the Weapons X program everybody is getting these days.

Here is a couple of pages from my sketchbook where I filter though my ideas to figure out what I might want to paint. I ended up with Wolverine jumping off a cliff on to the heads of a military group of mutant hunters. It probably very hard to make out in the thumbnails. Seems I’m the only one who can read my own handwriting.

Than I drew a hungry Wolverine and a bunny.

I took a small break from the oil painting I’m doing to put some pencil back to paper. Character designs are always fun. I always have this secret fear that if I don’t actually draw for a week I’ll forget how.

I try when I can to take some time between the oil paintings I’m working on to do whatever comes to mind in my sketchbook. Here’s what dribbling out lately.

Beginnings of my next paintings.