7 - SK monochrome

I have no idea why the last one loaded with red eyes, this is how the eyes are suppose to look. All blue baby, that's how he lulls you into a false sense of security.

6 - Stephen King finishes

Well I got the color on em and delivered the final file to the printer tonight so I can hand in my last Illustration assignment of the year tomorrow afternoon. I still seem to have a weird eye for skin tone, I don't know what that's all about. It made my figures in painting class look wierd to, maybe I'll figure it out next year. So I went with a monochrome version, which I think works a lot better. Now I guess I just need to show it to a couple peole and ask them who it is, that way I can find out how well it works as a caricature.

5 - Stephen King Sketches part 2

Do to influences in class, namely my boy Tony Montano - my fellow super cool illustration student, and Bill Carman - my super cool illustration teacher. Each trip to class led to a new version of the sketch and thankfully a better version, each has progressively looked more like SK to yours trully. Now I need to go get some color in it and finish it.

4 - Stephen King Sketch

A quick sketch that I did of Stephen King for a full caricature that I am doing for my last Illustration assingment of the year. My first sketch wasn't very good, but I got help from my favorite fellow Illustration student, Tony Montano, he got my sketch to not look like the Governator which the first one did. Bill Carman my instructor helped me flesh this out even more and now for all the fun coloring and background work.

3 - old stuff

This drawing is an old one I actually did in highschool, at Nampa High for those interested. It was done looking at a cover that Erik Larsen did for Amazing Spider-Man The Revenge of the Sinister Six. This piece is all pencil, no little digital nudges back when I did this one. It's old, but it might still be the piece I am the most proud of, figured it needs to be on here for anyony that might actually look.

2 - BFA show pieces

Here are the three pieces I turned in for my Sr. Illustration Studio and hung in the Hemingway Gallery at Boise State for the BFA Show for my Professional Practices class. They are my own little twists on some classic and hopefully easily recognizable characters. My main influence for doing these pieces is the comic book Fables, James Jean gives them amazing covers for the great characters created by Bill Willingham. Having been lucky enough to catch onto this great comic over the last year it made me wonder what my version of some of the classic characters of literature would look like.
I am happy with the end result of all three, I got some details in there that I am really happy about. Plus these pieces are the resaon I went out an bought a Mac, a Wacom and Corel Painter X, along with some help from Photoshop I gave myself a very fast learning curve over the course of the semester and got some great results. Now I just have to keep going, learning everyday is the goal, always on the lookout for a happy accident.

1 - start it with a Fett, or a bang I mean...

Might as well try and start this thing off right. Here is my first ever digital sketch, done in Corel X with a Wacom tablet. Two things I just got recently and still need to spend a couple hundred hours practicing with. And hell, everyone likes Boba Fett, I actually did this sketch while looking at a box for a small Boba Fett statue. I think it turned out pretty good for my first go round. And hopefully they will only get better.