Still Learning | PAFA CE Editorial: Assignment 1

February 24, 2023 in illustration, play, process

After finishing ORCS! The Curse, I promised myself I would take some classes. I’ve been feeling the itch to change things up, and the desire to move my work into n even more analog space than it already occupies. So, I decided to take a Continuing Education Editorial Illustration Class…

Painting the ORCS! Trade Cover

July 26, 2021 in illustration, comics, process

How a cover goes from thumb to sketch to finished painting. Here is a walkthrough of my painting for the ORCS! trade cover.

From the Drawing Board: ORCS! Issue 4 Cover

January 11, 2021 in process, illustration

I had no time for this. That happens a lot when it comes to comic covers. They are often the last thing I am thinking about when I have interiors to tackle. I did have two ideas I really liked for the cover of 4. One was an image of the elves (Daniel and Leonard) with Mother Spider. The other was the Wise Woman and her magic in the Astral Plane. The former would have been a lovely, moody piece, but the latter – with only one figure and the worst of my worries being a great glob of glowing goo – seemed the piece I could turn around the fastest.