Brilliant Anyway

I expect the "Book of Drawings" to arrive soon then straight out the door. Tell you what it has been a process to say the least, ...

A book of my drawings is out an available for purchase on Kickstarter. Check it out here:  DaveMalan.com/store

Hi blogger friends. Like the neighborhood I grew up in. Still makes me nostalgic to come back to where it all began, a simpler time of posti...

30 minutes squeezed into 145 seconds. This is my process, I always work general to specific start with the biggest broadest shapes and jus...

I really like this one, just the right style and polish for me. From a picture by the talented and lovely Natalie Malan.

From the sketchbook.

@jeffersonhayman is my favorite photographer on instagram. Stunning portrait work. This is his beautiful daughter @harperthenoodle I wa...

Did this one recently for the Weekly Standard. I love how it turned out( especially with about a day and a half to get it done).

Any of my friends in the northern Utah area keep an eye out for this #ArtDropDay piece I plan on leaving somewhere tomorrow afternoon. So...

The latest illustration has a little different style. I've been pushing to let my line work stand out more. I had a feeling the fully...

I really enjoy drawing in my toned paper sketchbook. Just to have the ability to go in 2 value directions with the pencil gives you a lot...

Thanks very much to the kind comments from the stalwarts still sticking it out in the Blogger world.  I wanted to work on getting my...

Here's my latest illustration. Hope there's still some viewers out there, I still think Blogger is the best of the social media o...

Came across this beautiful little image at instagram.com/courtneyadamo .

I love my little boy.

My try at the world of fantasy. I thought I might need a pointy hat to sell him as a wizard. Does feel a bit biblical without but I prefe...

While my older son is out at sea, the younger is in the deep jungle. Sure it’s dangerous but he’s 2 years old and knows how to handle him...

My boy, out hunting giant squid.

Here's a new one. I focus down on faces and characters so much I wanted to concentrate and develop a fuller environment. Kind of a te...

Here's the finished painting. I'm trying to develop my style to something polished but still retaining some of the loose crossha...

Got the kids to model for a recent cover for the Friend magazine.

I was looking at some beautiful digital paintings and got a hankering to really see how far I could push the rendering. This is the res...

Just finished this painting. I'm very pleased with it, probably heavily because of the subject. My favorite kids. This is nice and bi...

Saw a Ben Folds concert recently. He puts on a great show. I thought I would do a digital painting of him. A little different techniqu...

So you've probably seen the pictures where the artist has kids do a drawing then he renders then out. After I finished this one up ...

I've got plans to post a video of the color process I used for this.