The Lost Dungeon Elf.
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.
Thor vs. Loki
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.
Hook Horror final
Here is the finished oil painting for the Hook Horror contest over at the Artorder blog. The original is around 9″ x 27″. I did a lot more glazing on this that I normally do. I was trying to get that prominent lighting effects like Rembrandt would get.
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Orc Suicide Bomber
I love Orcs. Even before Lord of the Rings (the movies) I thought Orcs were an awesome creature. I already see quite a few things on this one I’d like to fix but I don’t have any work that after being away from it for 24 hours I don’t want to tweak something. I’ve heard stores of how even the great Frank Frazetta was banned from his own museum by his wife because he would go rework old paintings. Hopefully, that’s a sign that I’m always getting better and not that I just don’t know how to finish a piece.
