Tree Tattoos

The original concept behind this was a tree's getting tattoos. above is the the finished piece and here are some of my other sketches that help me refine this idea

From the beginning I envisioned the tree as a couple getting tats together.

But I also wanted to see if I could come up with a separate concept on the same idea. this is of a more independent tree lady having her tats done by the local wood peckers.

I liked both my ideas for this one so I made two color studies but decided to go with the upper one because it had more going for it compositionally. hmmm it only needs a bit more refining so you might see this one again soon. 

mystery revealed!

I was working on a editorial for one of my absolute favorite  books Life Of Pi. which is about a boy trapped on a life boat with a tiger, zebra orangutan and a hyena. 

These are my original concepts. 

This one I'm definitely saving to do for latter (be sure to look out for it) because I've never seen anyone illustrate the part of the book where he get's stranded on a seaweed island were it turns to acid at night and the plants have the teeth of digested travelers in them. So metal! 

Color study

   

the finished product in digital media 

Lich King poster

Mystery Project!

you all get a sneak peek at the prelims for my next project. can guess what it's about based on the animals?

New project Lich King

Doing some poster work for the band Lich King. Check it!

these first two were mainly to play around with type and go through some character designs.

  

This one was more for fun to see what an opposite gendered lich would look like

mo character design

This is the one I'm set on for character design. these are in inks and in my final sketch I'm gonna desaturate my a bit. like that cloak... i did it on the plane with my brush pens... apparently altitude effects them because my red came just gushing out. I looked like I was bleeding all over the place... which was awkward to explain to the flight attendant 

Here are my comps. I'm really felling the fist one up there so I'm going for it. He's gonna be busting out of a bunch of swampy water with his magical ax and inextinguishable torch