Alexis
monday, 19 december 2011
Portrait for my good friend. Sorry it took so long. :)

Steve Jobs
thursday, 6 october 2011

Redhead Redux Commission
friday, 2 september 2011
A very recent commission to revisit the older redhead sketch. With more detail, and of course, more limbs. Seems the client had inhereted a small plane and is in the middle of a project to rebuild it, complete with the addition of some good old-fashioned nose art. Well, not SO old-fashioned, really, but a fairly classic take on a pinup nevertheless. She'll be about twenty-two inches tall on the engine cowling when printed and mounted. All of the additional details – type of shoes, stockings, bows, etc – are to the clients specifications.

Succubus redux
friday, 23 october 2009
Couple more versions of her hotness.

Maybe not every artist does this, but I love exploring variations on my own work. I'm not convinced any particular version is the most perfect final one. Maybe it's a trait I picked up from graphic design and production where context - how a thing is used and where it is - often determines changes to the thing itself. A logo or some piece of key art, for example, might change color or arrangement depending on the space it has to fill or other factors.

Maybe I just like noodling and second-guessing myself :)

Succubus
tuesday, 12 october 2009
Posting more than once in a month? Me? Hell, I'm on a roll. Blame a thread over at the Drawing Board (and Bentan, specifically, for setting the bar) for kicking my butt to get some themed artwork done (and BEFORE the event has come and gone, no less). Just the line work for now (Adobe Illustrator, Wacom tablet) but color may come. I'd like to do a couple more for the thread, so keep your fingers crossed that my schedule holds out.

This one is noteworthy because I don't often get this racy. The trick is finding the right line (no pun intended) between creating a character and outright sex. For me, the best, brightest pinup art starts with character and pushes up to the point where the sexiness contributes to, but doesn't detract from, that character. I'm not always as successful as I'd like in finding that balance.

So, I practice, practice, practice.

Brewfest Babes
friday, 2 october 2009
More World of Warcraft related art, this time a handful of hotties partaking of some of the Brewfest offerings, complete with their own set of Tankards o' Terror. Posted here are the inks (which is actually Adobe Illustrator) and a shot at coloring (all Photoshop) because I really need to practice that more.

Yes, it's based on that classic forum photo of the three Oktoberfest babes and is an unreserved homage to it.