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[Feb. 10th, 2012|03:45 pm] |
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The 12 Days of Christmas book is for sale on the @FlyingBooksApp iPad app! Get your late Xmas nonsense. With more than just the hens from the last post. Today I Poked a little more at the digital painting. I now feel like I want to keep painting, which is a big step for me. Any time I was using a tablet before, I felt like I was trying to shape antithetical butter. You know, not soft at all. Contrary, even. This isn't even Cintiq-centric. I did most of the second stint of painting on the Intuos.
Learning stuff. Huh.
I think it's a goblin.
On a side note, if you like hedgehogs or newsletters, there's gonna be an interview/article thing about me & my hedgie adventurer paintings in the March/April e-newsletter from the Hedgehog Welfare Society. |
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| 12 Revolutions of Midwinter |
[Dec. 13th, 2011|10:13 am] |
Some of those ever-present French hens that you see promenading along the quay this time of year.
Peek in at the book I'm engaged in right now. Elvises (not elves) will be appearing at the end, like any good rockstar.
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| Nixies of Spa Creek |
[Aug. 24th, 2011|12:58 pm] |
A quick doodle done the other day in my big moleskin, while waiting on the IT folks to install Snow Leopard on my work box.
I love the creepy, duckweed-trailing river faeries of myth vastly more than the singing, sunbathing merfolk of most people's imaginations. Jenny Greenteeth for the win.
Based the setting on the grass-choked estuary near our house. There are nutria there, we discovered.
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| Broken Time Blues Anthology |
[Jul. 8th, 2011|10:27 pm] |
So Broken Time Blues is officially slated to release at Worldcon (Renovation) in August! Awesome publishing of art and stories. The stories, they rock. As an illustrator thereof, I can safely say that. Also, I can safely say that the artwork is sub-par, rife with allusion of the roughest sort, and probably a mortal sin.
I heard tell it releases for sale August 1st, but if Worldcon is the release party of the year for EDGE Publishing & Absolute XPress... well, get it online before, or buy it there in person if you're so lucky as to be attending.
For listening to me ramble excitedly, here's a cookie quick peek:
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| Roaring 20s SF Anthology |
[May. 30th, 2011|08:50 pm] |
Spent the day melting in our lack of AC here at home. Waiting for the repair techs to get here. Fixed now, as of 8 PM. One thing I won't miss about Maryland is the atrocious summers.
The '20Spec Broken Time Blues anthology, a collection of SF stories set among Prohibition, the Great Depression, and between the Wars, had me illustrating six of their many tales for the past few months. These are some really great stories, set in the US and abroad, and hopefully they'll only read better with some black and white artwork to accompany.
Here are two of the first pictures I did for the book. You should all buy the book when it comes out and see which tales they're for. The book will be published by EDGE Publications sometime later this year. More info to come as I have it!
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| Katablépō! |
[Mar. 7th, 2011|12:28 pm] |
Catoblepas for The Alphabeastiary. I'll probably keep posting these mythological critters pretty often. I've started using the biweekly challenges to do color/style experiments that I normally wouldn't be allowed to do in client work. Art Directors generally expect to get what they see from your portfolio (except when you're really lucky with a crazy AD). Not, yanno, some wacked-out, lurid neon digital painting over a pencil sketch from your moleskine that could send children into 70's discotech hallucinations.
So, enjoy your trip over the course of the alphabet.
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One of creatures of myth I learned about earliest, when I must've been 6 or so. Had this awesome book that introduced me to a whole slew of fantastic animals from legends around the world (though to be fair, it was 80% Pliny's Histories source material). The Catoblepas always seems to be pictured as some sort of shaggy, depressed cow..
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| Emergence Art Show: Baltimore March - May |
[Mar. 6th, 2011|12:23 pm] |
Opens March 12th! 2 PM to 7 PM.
Including work by Lisa and myself. Initially, it was the Talespinning paintings, but now it's a hedgehog. Lisa's is monsters.
If you can make it to Baltimore between the opening and closing, go take a gander. And when you're in B'more, eat brunch, lunch, or dinner at Woodberry Kitchen in Hampden. It's hands down the best food I've ever eaten. And I've done my share of diner chow to haute cuisine. This is comfort food, farm-to-table. And mind bogglingly awesome. |
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| Hellhound |
[Mar. 6th, 2011|12:19 pm] |
Working this large moleskine sketch up for The Alphabeastiary Challenge's newest topic - H. Gonna color it tomorrow.
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The Alphabeastiary has posted the digital coloring of the Hellhound image I did the other day for their Letter H! Glad to finally have contributed to that most awesome of blog challenges. It's a hoot, and they have some supremely talented folks doodling away at it every couple weeks.
I started on an image for the Catoblepas back on Letter C, but never did get around to finishing the watercolors in the meantime. But I will! Soon!
For now, this entry is brought to you by the Letter H, the Numbers 42, 12, and 86^5, and the Color Chartreuse.
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| Comprehensive Set of Mutants |
[Mar. 6th, 2011|12:09 pm] |
This is some big news: I'm finally able to sell prints of the Evolutionary Diversion paintings I did for 826DC's Museum of Unnatural History! So if you've been wanting a Warty Koala of your very own, or maybe you know someone special who'd enjoy the company of the Andean Rotor Penguin, then now it's possible. See the Etsy Store for prints. Further works from the 826DC Catalog of Evolutionary Diversions by Lisa Grabenstetter, Katie Schuler, and Oliver Uberti.
Spooky Hare
Andean Rotor Penguin
Insatiable Squid
Speigal's Hooved Marmoset
Warty, or Snaggle-tooth Koala
I think everyone needs nature's mutants.
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| New Work Upload |
[Feb. 11th, 2011|08:40 am] |
The final (pending minor tweaks... whendoIstopworkingonit?) Elephants General. Definitely the longest span of time I've left between starting and finishing a piece. Six months of downtime when I didn't touch it at all, though it was hanging in a show for two months back in June.
I feel like I needed the interwoven practice I got between when I set this aside and a week ago when I finished the watercolor part, in order to really do it properly. The scan didn't turn out fantastically, so when I have some money, I'm going to get it properly done by a fine art imaging studio. And because of that, it was 6 hours of digital work on top of the painting to bring the vibrancy and colors somewhat back to life. It seems to be my usual way of working, though I keep fighting the intermarriage of watercolor with digital overlay... despite being a huge fan of Justin Gerard's work in that very mode.
The model for our green-skinned potentate is the superb Natalie Paquette. The elephants belong only to themselves and nature photographers everywhere. The hands are mine, my mate's, and probably someone else's, too. ...So. Many. Hands.
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