Better be a Fast Learner!

This is a fun commission that I did for AJ earlier this year. The young warrior is getting instructions from a war hardened veteran. I love to draw quirky looking characters once in a while and I think that the 'trainer' came out nicely (well, as nice as this individual can be).

Cheetah Taur Go

Here's a fun commission that I took at Anthrocon this year. I've done cheetahs before, but I think this one shows more motion than any previous cheetah illustration I've done. Many thanks to Whitefang Graytail for commissioning this piece. The image is posted small to prevent cropping; click on it to see it full size.

Character Story

This piece, a commission for Gordon N, has a nice sense of story to it. Gordon gave me a detailed character background to go with this one, and I think I was able to depict both the personality and the history of his character in an elegant fashion.

Henry the Cat, Painted

Not long ago, I posted the sketch for this piece. Today, I'm not just posing the finished piece, but two WIP shots showing early stages of the painting. The first shows the roughly painted cartoon, the second shows the refinements and details about half finished and the last is the completed work. It was done in acrylic on multimedia art board. Many thanks to Azreal, who commissioned this painting.

Back From Anthrocon and Origins

Hi people! I'm home, rested up from doing Athrocon and Origins on the same weekend and ready to post. Here is a piece I delivered at Athrocon; it's a digitally colored commission of Kale's dragon character. The print of his piece was 16"x20" and the colors came out beautifully. Thanks again, Kale, for this delightful commission.

To avoid cropping, I've posted this image in a small form. To see a larger image, click on the picture.

Henry the Cat

Happy Monday, folks. Here's a sketch for a painting I just finished. Henry the cat is being painted for a patron. He is planning to give the painting to his mother; Henry is aging, and he wants her to have a memento of him. I like how the sketch came out. It really captures the personality I saw in the reference photo of Henry. After I deliver this to my patron, I'll post the final painting here.

IPad Painting Evolution

As anyone who has been following my blog knows, I have been taking commissions and painting card art on my IPad. Today, I am showing a glimpse of how I've been using the IPad and my favorite art program, Brushes, to create art on this device. The sequence below takes this piece from rough sketch to finished drawing. I did a lot of layering to achieve these results, especially when painting highlights on the elementalist and the Earth Golem. Because there are multiple images here, I've posted everything small to speed up load time of this page. To see any image larger, click on it.