illustration
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…
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How a cover goes from thumb to sketch to finished painting. Here is a walkthrough of my painting for the ORCS! trade cover.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreAbout a year ago, I contributed to an art book on kickstarter called Then & Now. The editors picked a number of illustrators and asked us to find old drawings from childhood to redraw now that we are professionals.
As with last year, I went to my high school sketch book (I was approximately 15 or 16 when I had this one) and plucked out two random character pages.
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