While I am busy getting the new studio's interior and exterior spaces ready for paint slinging, I am posting the final for a graphic I produced some time ago, and never posted the final for you all. Initial sketch was done in pencil, overlayed ink drawing from that, finalized in Adobe Illustrator. Final application images soon and more from the studio! Thanks for stopping in.
Fishing on Friday sounds great, however I am painting in the studio, so I will post one of my favorite little fishing holes located in Nederland. This piece was completed 90% in plein air, and 10% in the studio. Wish i was shoreside throwing a line.....but maybe next weekend. 
For a drawing exercise I typed Luchador into Google and began sketching. Luchador's are fun subject matter to get the juices flowing, and to think about your superhero name seriously. First four are pencil in the sketchbook, final one is ink, probably three hours total working time, maybe less I was watching a movie and listening to rap music the entire time, so bear with me.
New concept sketches of an interpretation of Aegir, norse god of the Sea. Some things are brewing for personal work with these. More later. Pencil on paper is probably the most satisfying meditation in the world.
This image is from a series of posters completed in 2009 for the Psycle Analysis Cd release party. The posters were created in homage to Ichiban, who is a musician, poet, emcee, karate master, and all together amazing guy. I am posting this because I have been working on experimental line work with different mediums, many of which I feel are completely unorthodox in regards to creating representational artwork, even if culturally influenced as we see above. 
This post is a break from art and work, and well even from the norm of an artist blog, this is about the Super Bowl? Actually no its not, but it is however about a city very near to Arlington, Dallas. This photo is from an undisclosed location on my travels some time ago but is on the grounds of a TV film set. What show you might ask, well the TV show Prison Break has been known to regularly use this location for filming different dark and mysterious scenes. I personally never watched the show but there are screen shots available on the web.
Here are the final line drawings of the vikings and longship for the Indy Ink graphic I have been working on for some time now. There is a great deal to talk about with this piece and I will save it for a later post, so many great things to share with you all. I am excited for the opening with new graphics from the likes of Kris Fry, Evan Lorenzen, Ray Young Chu, Andres Guzman and many more. There will only be 30 of each garment printed so get to Indy and get your hands on some nice gear. 
In earlier posts I had shown a small teaser of the process drawings for the Viking Longship that I have been working on. Here are the majority of the final pencil sketches, and some head studies that I did of Jean Leon Gerome's "Head of the Rebel Beys at the Mosque" for inspiration and guidance in some of the elements I planned for the main character of the longship. I will post the final line drawings next and the final graphic ready for print.
What happens with zero visibility, negative temperatures, and the sun deciding to shine through and battle with old man winter? You get this type of amazing high key play on light and color. This painting is a study for a larger work in the making. 
