Tyranosaurus rex formal portrait painting
14/December/2011
Spiceworks is an IT management software company, with
nearly 2 million users, and is based in Austin,
Texas. SpiceRex is their mascot. I was hired in 2010
to create a cartoon illustration of his appearance.
Since then his popularity has grown and he is on all
sorts of swag. Then the Marketing Director decided it
would be fun to go further and have a portrait
painting made of him as if he were a modern
entrepreneur. This 22x28 inch oil painting is for
their boardroom where he will be shown as the "CRO,"
the Chief Rawr! Officer. Funny!
|
Amazon Kindle Cover Illustration
28/October/2011
I started working on this illustration a year ago.
(See: Not from around here, May 2010 below) For
several reasons, it went into hibernation for a
while. The drawing was initially created as one of
several pencil, spot illustrations in a book of short
science fiction stories. The author, Daniel Russ, and
I discussed the project often over the last year and
eventually he decided to publish the stories as
individual short stories on Amazon for 99c each. So
my pencil drawing, had to grow up and become a cover
instead. Hooray.
I inked the drawing (aprox. 11x17) with a Faber-Castell brush pen, then scanned it, placed it in Adobe Illustrator. I then wen to work on it with the tracing tool to clean up the line quality and create a sharp, clean black and white line drawing. Once I had the black and white lines, I opened the illustration in Adobe Photoshop and added background effects, color, shading and light effects. And here it is. The published piece is 600x800 pix, but the finished art is 300 dpi and 12x17, so I have a lot of flexibility if we print it one day. Might make a fun poster. I’ll post a link when it’s up on Amazon.
I inked the drawing (aprox. 11x17) with a Faber-Castell brush pen, then scanned it, placed it in Adobe Illustrator. I then wen to work on it with the tracing tool to clean up the line quality and create a sharp, clean black and white line drawing. Once I had the black and white lines, I opened the illustration in Adobe Photoshop and added background effects, color, shading and light effects. And here it is. The published piece is 600x800 pix, but the finished art is 300 dpi and 12x17, so I have a lot of flexibility if we print it one day. Might make a fun poster. I’ll post a link when it’s up on Amazon.
Not from around here
11/May/2010
This is one of several illustrations I’m working on
for a short-stroy Sci-Fi anthology a friend of mine
has written. You can read the story for this drawing
here. I’m working on the
inked version of the drawing next. I’ll post it
when it’s done.
Animated Steampunk story
16/April/2010
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of
Jasper Morello.
This is a wonderful short film done in a very gothic, victorian, “silhouetted steampunk” by director Anthony Lucas. A well told story and absolutely captivating illustration style. Learn more about the film and it’s creator here: jaspermorello.com/gazette
This is a wonderful short film done in a very gothic, victorian, “silhouetted steampunk” by director Anthony Lucas. A well told story and absolutely captivating illustration style. Learn more about the film and it’s creator here: jaspermorello.com/gazette