New stuff. Yup.

This is my favorite werewolf movie. Actually Neil Marshall, the writer/director of this one, has another movie in my top favorite horror movies: The Descent. Which, coincidentally, will be my next illustration in the horror series!

This is one of the first horror movies that got to me, kinda stuck in my head for days. I remember The Chatterer cenobite creeping me out really bad. And The Butterball cenobite… well I’m pretty sure I knew him in gradeschool, He tried to sell me porno mags he stole from his parents.

This was my first time using Sumi ink, the traditional stick form that you have to grind. I gotta say: I think I’m in love. It’s got much better flow than india ink, and the washes come out a slightly warm neutral gray. Awesome stuff.

Friday the 13th these movies hold a place in my heart…. for some odd reason. They’re terrible, but Jason Vorhees is inexplicably my favorite slasher villain. So here’s a tribute!

I know I said I’d post one a day… ugh. I started a werewolf piece, after watching Dog Soldiers. The drawing got out of control, and became a painting. So I decided I’d watch a whole bunch of werewolf movies, and capture the gist of them in one piece. I feel like I should wait for a full moon to unveil it, but being in Seattle, God only knows when I’ll see the moon again.

I watched Return of the Living Dead last night, and found myself pleasantly surprised. Cheezy as hell of course, being a low budget zombie comedy from the 80′s, but it had some surprisingly good characters, and some great zombie designs. Here’s Tar-man, designed by William Stout

I’ll get one horror themed drawing posted daily, until Halloween is upon us!

Blarg. Here’s a sketch of Michael, the main character from Wasteland, published by Oni Press. It’s good stuff. That’s all my tired brain can muster at this point.

I had the creature design bug tonight, so I sketched out this guy. I enjoy doing conceptual art for the hell of it, the ideas about who and what each character or creature is just start flowing as the pencil carves out shapes. I usually have only a very vague idea of what I’ll be drawing when I start.

Here’s a sketch loosely based on a fellow passenger on the B.A.R.T. in Oakland this past week. Myself and a group of friends drove out to Yosemite and hiked up Half-Dome, an 18 mile round trip. Half-dome itself is a super steep tower of granite, and the only way up (minus climbing gear), is a set of cables that shoot straight up the side, with wooden boards across the cables every 15 feet or so. But the view up there, with a 4000 foot drop on either side… amazing.

The next morning we woke up to gushing rain, a flooded cabin, and snow on top of Half-Dome. It’s pretty cool to know that we were the last one’s up there for the rest of the year!

Hi there everybody. I’ve pretty much gotten the kinks ironed out of this new WordPress website I’ve been messing with the past couple weeks. Tweaking all this code actually makes me glad I pursued programming as a possible career option for a while, because I’d otherwise be lost in a sea of brackets at this point.

But I digress from the art. Yes, I do art. I art like a crazy-person, sometimes arting until I swoon, with a genuine case of The Vapors. Here’s a portrait of my brother, John, who looks this goofy in real life, only more so. Nah I kid, he’s a handsome man. He’s gotta be, we share some of the same handsome genetics.

This was an experiment in watercolor with white gouache to create opaque lighter colors. It’s a lot harder than it sounds, as you have to compensate for the fact that Titanium Dioxide (the pigment found in most white paints nowdays, and also sunscreen) is inherently ever so slightly blue. So it not only knocks back the chroma of any color mixed with it, it has the added effect of cooling the hell out of warm colors when mixed. So anyway. I’ll let you know when I’ve finally got that doozy figured out.

So! Here’s the new website. I’m trying to get wordpress up and running with all the kinks ironed out, making it easier for me to update my porfolio and blog simultaneously. And I gotta admit, I kinda hate myself for using “blog,” as a verb.