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Here is the 2nd illustration for the world of “Dawn Rising”  by Michael John Grist.    For more information you can check out his website at http://www.michaeljohngrist.com.  For some crazy reason I thought it’d be a good idea to paint this one in oils and REALLY big.  Big for me anyway.  The original around 24″ x 39″.

I’m in the process of working on a number of illustrations for “Dawn Rising”  by Michael John Grist.    For more information you can check out his website at http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/12/dawn-in-the-gravery/.  Here is the first of many images from the world of Jabbler’s Mons.

I did this oil painting for a contest on Artorder blog.

I think I’ve finally started to pull together a lot of elements in putting together an illustration.  The prelim sketches, layouts, color roughs, reference.  For this piece I also made the costume and sculpted the rocks.  In future posts I go into more detail on some of those elements.

During the Heroes comic book convention last year I did this painting of Thor getting ready to lay the hammer down on Loki.  I started it the day before the convention but finished it on the live art auction stage.  These things are always a time crunch and I never got to put the amount of polish on it that I wanted.  So, of course, I had to put it in Photoshop and finish it off.  This is the first time I’ve gone to so far traditionally and finished digitally.  This piece is probably 75-80% acrylic paint and 20-25% digital.