Wave Racer

This piece was my submission for the Degenerates show at Hodge Podge here in Atlanta; a collaboration of the artists who work at Floyd County Productions on the TV show Archer. My inspiration was this song by Wave Racer right here: https://soundcloud.com/wave-racer/rock-u-tonite.

I'd love to do more pieces like this one, focusing on pausing a moment with a lot of action, and um, interdimensional faces.

Sagaann

This is the first of a series of scientist portraits I'm working on. There's more to come, so check in to see if I like your favorite scientist too!

A few more Sea Squirt sketches

This is Sea Squirt

He fights maritime crime. I wanted to bust out a little more character design stuff, so I'm gonna be creating a batch of super heroes. I'll post a character sheet for him with a few more drawings tomorrow, but stick around for the other heroes! I can get some story lines going for the gang once I get the other characters nailed down, but that depends on how much interest is shown for that sort of thing.

I've been waiting all week to sketch this out

One of my best friends asked for a tattoo design recently, and I've been really itching to get something down on it. Work's been busy though, but tonight I went for it anyway. All of his tattoos already have sort of a western theme going, so he said to see what I could come up with that would fit in with the others. This was so much fun to draw, totally worth it. I think I could draw jackalopes all day and not get bored. It's still a WIP, and who knows, I might do something completely different, but I got carried away with the first idea and wanted to share.

Swanson / Grumpy Cat Mashup

Trying to crank out some artwork for Heroes Con this week. We'll see how much I can do! This one started as sketch of grumpy cat in my sketchbook, but then I decided to throw on the signature mustache and combed over hair of Ron Swanson. Ron is a pretty much a grumpy cat himself, so I feel like it wasn't too far of a leap. Hope you like it!

Face Study

I made a new self portrait for my website's about page. I'm going to be selling artwork at Heroes Con next weekend in Charlotte, so I've been trying to get everything put together. Should be a lot of fun though!

Stranded in Bespin

What!? Ewok's don't belong in Bepsin. Explain yourself! I drew this for an After Effects animation exercise in college a few years back. The assignment was just to take some drawing elements and make them move. I liked the drawing so I decided to go back and soup it up some.  I'll post the animation sometime soon too. Prints are available on my Etsy shop for this little guy, and to anyone who bought one of these at the Art B Que, contact me and I'll send you an updated version of the drawing for free. Hang on to the original, though!

Etsy shop is up!

Not much to buy quite yet, but I'll have many more pieces very soon! The shop

Atlanta Glorious Atlanta

Hey, so I've been living in Atlanta for a few years now, and lately I've been wanting to make a poster that really captures the essence of this great city. After some thought I decided on using traffic as a theme. Ask anyone, the traffic sucks. Personally, I just travel by dog powered chariot and save the hassle. Here are some of my favorite runner up ideas for the poster: Atlanta is for grown ups, Atlanta honks for hotties, Atlanta picks and flicks, We've got big buildings and big butts, Our racist mountain has a great light show.

A Deer for a Baby

EY! So one of my coworkers is having a baby soon and everyone at work pitched in to surprise her with some original artwork for the baby's room. The theme of the bedroom is going to be enchanted forest so I decided to make her this drawing of John Rambo with a rocket launcher. And no that was not a typo.

DJ Vader!

Moar Star Wars!!! This was another one I did just for fun. I was looking to quick on this one and focus down to the essentials. And its been a minute since I incorporated type in a piece. I'm pretty happy with it though. Whacha think? 

Merry Christmas!!!

Hope Santa Darunia brings you lots of rocks!

NdGT

Heres a sneak peak at my next bigger project. Neil deGrasse Tyson... What a dude. He's the first in a series of portraits I'm working on of people who don't suck. You'll probably catch my drift a little better once I get the others up, but I wanted to share this first one now that I've gotten the initial drawing pretty much done. Different elements of the frames will be animated in each piece, so I'm still experimenting with that, and then I also plan on adding a few more elements while I'm in the animation stage. Anywho, stay tuned for updates. These should be fun!

Soopa Monk

Normally, I try to work from the bigger picture down into details. So I would start with a small sketch of the whole composition then blow that up and narrow things down from there. That wasn't this case with this piece, though. I started with just a sketch of this beefy monk dude and started adding things on. I had a general idea of where it was going, but its hard to tell if the composition as a whole will work out when you do things that way. I'm pretty happy with it though.
Also, just for fun I put a little animation on it there at the bottom. Nothing too fancy, I'm just toying with the idea of putting animation loops in as a final touch to my work. Oh, and don't forget, you can click these suckers for a closer look!

Awshucks Robot Redux

So, every once in a while, I like to go back and redo old pieces. It seems like cheating to some to do things that way. Maybe because people like to know that a piece was the product of a certain time, place and possibly even skill level for the artist. But, the way I see it, every piece of art I have is a work in progress. Even if the artwork itself isn't worth pushing further, the ideas or shapes or characters or symbols present, might be worth the second look. No one gets everything completely right the first go round, and I find that bringing a piece up to date can help me learn what mistakes I made in the past so that I don't make them again. Also, in some cases I feel like I don't need to completely reinvent the wheel for a new piece. Granted, I wouldn't just rework any piece, but if doing 10-20% more on it would take it way further, then why not?

This was originally meant to go on the side of a bus and wrap around to the back. It makes for a weird format, so I decided to move some things around and shorten the composition. I added more waves behind the robot, and I made the space ship more 3/4 to bring in a little more depth. I wanted the piece to have a light, kids booky feel to it when I first made it. But it got a little too light, value-wise, so I added some more variety in lights and darks, and I got the colors to harmonize better overall. Welp, anyway thats all for now. Stay tuned for more!

Vader Deer

Because, why not.

Meatball Dulcimer Wonder

As promised. All you hammer dulcimer players out there, don't fret. Chris Westgate didn't forget about you. I figured the best guy to be playing Stevie Wonder's greatest hits, would be the man himself. Its not like subway goers would pay any more attention if it was the real deal. Although I'm not actually sure if Stevie could play dulcimer. I mean, he's pretty much a musical genius though, so who knows? Anyway, just a quick sketch so no color this time. Whaddya think?

New Remy Dragon Comp

So I promised I'd post a new Remy Dragon comp and here it is. I feel like the Remy Dragon is a mysterious kind of character so I wanted to bring him into an environment that enhances that. I was thinking more of a temple setting in the first two comps I did, but then I realized that those settings just weren't very relatable. Everyone has seen something weird in the subway though. I feel like it attracts weird stuff even. The funny thing is, everyone just ignores the weird stuff going on. There could be a dude playing Stevie Wonder's greatest hits on hammer dulcimer while dressed as a meatball sub and no one would even bat an eye. So yeah, I felt like it was a mysterious enough setting for the Rem Dragon. 

You can see I've started getting into tighter details in the dragon already. The dragon should look less like Master Splinter in the end, and the smoke will be less hairy. I have an idea for it that I think will turn out really cool. You'll have to keep checking up to see how it turns out!

Also, look out for next post: Guy playing Stevie Wonder's greatest hits on hammer dulcimer in a meatball sub costume.

The Los Rises...

And he's spinning! Its been a long time coming, but my buddy Evan Hart and I have finally gotten a rough draft turnaround of Carlos, put together in Flash. I just figured I would take the opportunity to go ahead and start hyping "The Los" up. This is just a small step in the direction of a full Carlos animation, but its an important milestone nonetheless. I'll be giving updates along the way, as we move on with development, so stay tuned!