screamin skulls

Drow vs Mindflayer

my entry into the artorder cover design challenge Drow vs Mindflayer, barely made it in under the deadline (thank gods for Pacific Standard Time)

the cover wrap, and a detail:

the Heironymous Meat Tree

a creature sketch . . . further explanation escapes me

twitter

gods help me, I'm on twitter

follow me if you dare

Kwai Chang Caine is dead

David Carradine, best known to me as Kwai Chang Caine died today in Bangkok at the age of 72. Suicide is the suspected cause.
The '70s series Kung Fu was huge part of my youth, my oldest brother and I watched the show religiously, and considered it something of a family ritual. I'm very sad to see him go, R.I.P. grasshopper.

ImagineFX Image of the Day

just when I thought there was nothing to post, an image of mine has been selected as Image of the Day by the fantasy & sci-fi digital art magazine/website ImagineFX

The follow-up is a small feature in the dvd of the next issue (July, I think) . . . definitely made my day!

update, speedpaint

a bit quiet here while I work on some freelance, but just to keep things moving I stole half an hour the other night for a zombie speedpaint . . . based on the movie poster for Dark Remains (photoshop)

I won the New Yorker caption contest . . . sort of

I submitted the caption "Gesundheit" for the cartoon below, and it was the first place winner! Unfortunately, someone else got the credit, probably for submitting the same idea earlier than me . . . ah, the injustice

what matters

as I struggle to improve and push my work forward I find that I get more negative criticism than ever before, it's a strange parallel. I wonder if other artists go through the same thing.

but screw all that, here's what really matters:

MASON THOMAS THORNBERRY
born 4/12/09 (Easter Sunday) at 5:39pm, 7lbs 4oz. WELCOME.

Deva

a new race from the D&D style guide

the dead Doctor

and the Dragonborn final

Tiefling final

and an Undead Dr.Who

the current ChoW challenge at conceptart, design the final Dr Who . . . I thought, why not a zombie?

Tiefling

another piece done following the D&D style guides at ArtOrder, the Tiefling race