Misty cliffs

Quicky digital painting.

It Roams The Moors

Quickie digital painting!

Halloween in July

So this is totally not seasonal, but I finished the drawing ages ago and don't really feel like waiting until October to post it. Happy very very early Halloween!

Sketch backlog

Here's some highlights out of my main sketchbook (I have three that I actively use at the moment, plus the one that's watercolor paper) from the past several months. 

Surf's up

Here's a painting I've been picking at for a while. It started as a technical exercise more than anything else--I wanted to see if I could manage the different textures of the surf and wood--but, well. It seemed a bit too, technical exercise to keep my attention.

See if you can spot the thing that wasn't in my reference photo.

Watercolors by the river

Heeeey so I finally got around to scanning a pile of my backlog from the past, er, several months. These watercolors are from a couple of weeks ago when I had the chance to go paint outside a bit, and are from the same vantage point, just looking in different directions.

Not shown is the blue heron that kept flying majestically up and down the river.

Rooftop Reading

Here's a digital painting I've been working on for the past couple of weekends. It's been a while since I've done anything with this detailed a setting for fun, and it was nice to see that at some point I've gotten a lot faster. A couple of years ago this would've taken me a week's solid work, instead of maybe eight or nine hours total.

This was all done using Corel Painter (and am I the only one who always wants to know the exact media/technology used to make something? So many artists don't say), partially based on a photo I took last year, partially out of my head.

Details!

Progress screenshots can be seen here