New Explorations

Digital Painting, 13.25 x 8.25

Hello Everyone. It's good to be back on the mainland. I enjoyed my year long odyssey in Hawaii, but its nice to be back on the continent, were I don't have to take out a bank loan to by a gallon of gas.  I'm now here in Silverdale Washington nestled near the waters of the Puget Sound.  Hopefully we won't be moving anytime soon.

Anyway, I thought I'd let you all see one of my recent works. This is a cover I did for one of the publishers I work with.  It's about European explorations in the New World. I think the image pretty much speaks for itself.  I really liked how the colors in the ocean turned out on this one.

Here's one of the raw initial sketches 

I have a back log of works that I haven't shown on the blog. I might show you all some of them in the future, or I might not. We'll see how my mood is. Anyway, now that I'm settled here in Washington and the move is over hopefully we can get back to our regularly scheduled programming of doodles and sketches from my deranged mind.  

Digital sketch

Just something I threw together this evening after work.  It didn't take me too long, but then again it really isn't a finished work, just a little something for fun.

And Rome Burned

I had a recent freelance job, I thought I'd show you all and take a break from my usual fare. I haven't had a full color illustration up for a while, so I decided it was about time.  Any way, I'm sure everyone is familiar with the phrase "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" Well that's the image I made here.   Here's my initial sketch which I did on toned paper. I then scanned it in and worked on it digitally. 

So here's the final smokey  product, a demented Nero strumming away while his ash ridden city goes up in flames.  I even tried to make him look a little sooty. I've been around a few massive fires in Florida when I was growing up, I can only imagine what it was like in a dense population center. It probably wasn't good for people with allergies.

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: Z is for Zombie

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

So my long journey of the zombie coloring book draws to a close.  I still have a few more things to work out as I get the book ready. I know I said I'd have it finished by today, but I still have some things to iron out, so I can turn out a product with a certain modicum of quality. I think I've decided on a name though. I'm calling it:

THE UNDEAD ALPHABET

A Fun and Educational Coloring Book for All Ages

I think that title rolls off the tongue a bit better than The ABC zombie coloring book. It's less clunky and utilitarian. Anyway, I think  the book is going to be available in two formats. I'm going to make it into pdf that you can download and printout, and I'm making an actual physical book that you can order directly here on the blog.  I'll have more on that quite soon. So stay tuned for more developments.     

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: Y is for Yell

This is one of the more fun pieces I've done in this series. I like the composition and the characters in it.

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: V is for Virus

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: U is for Undead

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: T is for Trauma

Take me out to the ball game. 

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: N is for Necrotic

Eww, the undead are gross.  

ABC Zombie Coloring Book: M is for Medic

And you thought that it was hard to get to a reliable doctor now, well in the zombie apocalypse, things will get a bit more interesting.