Boxer

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).

Cosmonaut

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 rendered style I have been using had a really overworked feeling to it. I think the lines keep it more fresh and overall it is faster. Below you can see a lineup showing the steps to get there. First a rough with pencil and paper, then i move to digital making that really light and tracing over it while adding a rough digital drawing fleshing out much of the detail. Then a second pass again tracing the last but with clean finish lines, then the color work.

Wizard

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 prefer the composition without so I gave him a sword an pipe to compensate.

Younger boy and the jungle

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 himself.

Young boy and the sea

My boy, out hunting giant squid.

Edge of the woods

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 test to see if I could. Surprisingly, I think it turned out pretty well. There was a time when I couldn't do trees and those types of things because I would try to approach it too literally. The key is painting the idea of the foliage not specific leaves etc.

Dr. Funke

Here's the finished painting. I'm trying to develop my style to something polished but still retaining some of the loose crosshatching of my drawings. This worked out here, if you look close you can see a lot of sketching lines.

Cover

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

Listening in

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 result. I had to include a closeup on the face because I spent so long working in up it would be sad to not be seen.

All tied up

 My latest and greatest cover for The Weekly Standard. I am really happy with how this turned out and with a mere 24 hours turnaround time. I took a little time to get inspired while I waited for the final concept and it really paid off I felt. Went really smooth.

waiting

A piece for The Weekly Standard. I had a little more time then the usual one day turn around on this, typically I get one real shot at the drawing but this time it wasn't quite there so I was happy to give it another try which turned out better.

Scientist

Got to do this for The Weekly Standard this a couple days ago. Imagine it a little more green but Blogger seems to have trouble with the colors so I had to dumb it down a lot.

Sherlock and/or Khan

Pick your preference.

Jungle Book

A submission to the Avalanche blog in hopes of rescuing it from it's death throes. Always loved those classic Disney boy movies like Jungle Book.

Cut

A digital painting I did for an illustration recently. I liked the idea a lot and was reasonably pleased with how the painting turned out but in the end it didn't end up being published. Oh well, next time.

TV

I did this for the Weekly Standard last week. I am pretty pleased with it. I was trying hard to keep some of the drawing in there and keep it loose. One of the things I've been trying to push against is overworking some of these digital works because they start to bleed into the "slick" category which I don't like. I am also pretty happy about the likeness.

Convicted

I was really excited to do a cover for the Weekly Standard last week. It was again a really quick turnaround but it was about 2 days instead of the 1 that I usually get but the art director is awesome so that helps a lot.

North Korean tea

A weekend illustration for the Weekly Standard.

Mitt in Co

Last weekends painting for the Weekly Standard. Mitt flying high.

dissapointed

A very quick turnaround for The Weekly Standard and their great art director.