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So I took today off from working mainly because my wrist has been bothering me slightly. So I spent most of the day on the web finding inspiration in various places.
I some how ended up designing a fan FFFFound poster.
Now I know I said I wasn't supposed to be working but... design is rather therapeutic for me.
I found the images used on the top of the poster in ffffound and thought they represented the site in a well rounded way (especially Voyage, ha)
I did the hand type with a Japanese Pentel color brush (awesome!)

just thought I'd share

Wolverine, just for fun

You know when you can't sleep and just start messing around on the computer trying to get ideas.... well that's what is was. About 3 hours of nothing and this came out.
Inspired by an artist named Jeff Depner http://jeffdepner.com/ I actually ended up making a painting of this for a Superhero show but give it to a friend before I could scan in the painting.
Well anyway, here is the digital version of it.

More...

Air Candy

OK, FINALLY A NEW IMAGE!!!
I cant wait to post all the new stuff I'm doing but I cant till they are published, so stay tuned.
In the mean time here is a piece I did for the Tata Gala!!
I did it the night before the Sarasota show. I actually hung the show then rushed to my dad's house and cranked this out in the living room. It was actually really challenging to do, not being in my studio. I had nothing!! I had to go to a local art store and buy all my supplies....for one piece, ridiculous.
Fortunately, it turned out rather nice.
It's done with a watercolor base, colored pencils and acrylics.
Its 24"x36" on Rives bfk toned paper (great stuff)

I also included the drawing process, dont on 11"x17" bond paper with prismacolor Col-Erase pencils

I actually just finished the poster for the NYC Tata Gala so look for that in the next day or two. I used this piece for it. That show starts February 5th at Sacred Gallery in Manhattan. More on that soon.

Give-Up the Ghost

Finally got around to finishing this piece. Super happy with the way it turned out.
I'm gonna keep at this new thing I'm doing. So look for a lot more of this to come!

GFT HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2010 # 2 B

Halloween cover I did for Zenescope.
I never show my drawings for some reason?! Well here is the drawing without the moon and bats. I'll try to remember to show my drawings more.
Hope you guys like it, and thanks Lilith for modeling for me!

Paranoram

This is a piece I did for a zombie show back in October. if you buy the print it comes in the actual size of the piece, 3 pieces.
This is a limited print, only 100 available. Ill be putting it on my site in like 8 hours so buy the shit out of it

The original is done with watercolor, prismacolor pencil, acrylics and copic markers
I did it as one piece but didn't like it as one piece......
so I chopped the fuck out of it, and then it made sense to me.
I hope you like it to, but if you don't go fuck yourself

P.S. thier hair makes a skull

ImagineFX

Here is a view of my ImagineFX interview I did. I also made the back cover.
Pretty cool stuff, I'm really happy to be apart of that magazine, Ive been digging it for bit now, ever sense my buddy Sean Chapman did a few freelance jobs for them. SO you can imagine my surprise when they contacted me out of the blue to have me in the magazine!
Anyway, go check it out, it should be in the states at any time now (if it already isn't)

So here ya go, my 3rd Hack / Slash cover. I really like doing these because Tim just lets me go crazy and I feel like good things come from crazy people.... Im not sure what I mean by that, haha
The ideabehind this cover was Structured Chaos.
To put this beautiful girl and a chaotic setting. Its pretty much the essence of the book, this sexy bad ass girl killing killers.
I also wanted to do something different, something your not use to seeing when you walk into a comic store. I wanted you to be able to take the final piece and hang it on the wall.

Everything is traditional except the type.
the mediums are in this order
Rives BFK paper 18"x24"
Watercolor
Prismacolor pencil
Acrylic
Artist tape
Prismacolor Nupastel
and water based oils

ok, is a drawing on 18x24 Rives bfk paper, great stuff, takes dry mediums and wet mediums.
The purple is my watercolor base
The model is my friend Mirisa, she poses for all the hack/slash stuff I do.


After the watercolor base is dry I lay white prismacolor pencil down to create a wax build up on the paper surface. This makes the pencils blend much better.
As you go down you can see that I just keep developing the drawing, laying down color and blending it.
I blend with paper towels and a blending stump, google it if you don't know what that is.
The picture on the right is a picture I found in a magazine and I wanted to use that as a reference for the skin color. I like the browns and greens in it. I use photography a lot for inspiratio


Now I have the figure pretty much done, so I begin the background. I wanted this cover to look crazy chaotic but still be very appealing and easy to look at (I've been in this ridiculous fine art mode recently).
The paint is acrylic Behr house paint. I used that medal thing (black plastic thing next to the paint) to get all the straight lines and I painted artist tape to give it even more texture.
The last process is smoothing out the skin with water based oils. sorry i forgot to take of pic of that :(

COMING SOON

It feels so good to be using pencils again, I feel like its been forever sense I worked traditionally
Anyway, This piece is kicking off a serise of fine art paintings.
They are going to be similar to the shapes painting I did not to long ago, but I'm going to make these extremely realistic, but still the same concept. I really cant wait to finish this but its 3 in the morning and I'm fighting a cold. Hopefully if my body allows me Ill have this finished by the morning, otherwise keep an eye out for it, it's gonna be a good one!!
(I hope)

The Sound of Glass Falling

Hello to all!!
This is a cover for a brand spanking new novel called
The Sound Of Glass Falling, so new it isn't even out yet.
You can go to the site and read an excerpt from the book though.
A few of my friends are actually making a trailer for the site based on the likeness of my illustration, should be really cool when it's done.
you can check out the site here www.TrinityScalari.com
I'll post again when the trailer is done
The author, Trinity Scalari, plans on making this into a series and having me do all the covers. So keep your eye out for the new ones and go read the book....when it comes out :)

Also check out my new site. If you like this piece you can get this and others here: www.theirison.com

SheKills is here!!!

OH MY GOD!!! It's here!!!!
She Kills for everyone (and you thought you'd never get one)
My new site is up too http://theirison.com/

Just click the SheKills button when you're on the new site and you're there!!

NOTE:

the unisex shirt (white shirt) does actually fit dudes, I wear it in an XL
(I wear a Medium or Large in "normal" shirts)
It's a shorter waist and shorter on the sleeves
Ladies: you might have to do some modifications to the shirt if you like it super tight, otherwise, buy the shit out of it!!!

the shirts are limited so get-em while the gitten's good!
Happy Hunting

Pups

So I bought this crappy Crayola sketchbook at CVS today, because I refuse to buy another moleskin Sketchbook. I hate those freakn things, there is to much pressure to do something great, and your constantly bombarded by people wanting to look through it.... awwwhhh. I feel so much safer with a little piece of crap.
You know when you get a new sketchbook and you just have to draw something in it right away??? Well I for some reason wanted to draw dogs. I don't think I've ever drawn a dog in my life but let me tell you, they are really fun to sketch out.
try it some time
OH.. and make them look sad, way more fun when they are sad.....I don't know why .
Sketched out with a pencil then slapped into the computer for tint and color

Little Red Face

here is fun little piece I did for a show at an awesome gallery called Bear and Bird.
http://www.tatescomics.com/bearandbird/
it's a little piece at about 8"x11" + frame size
It's acrylic and copic marker done on rives bfk paper.

Hack/Slash bay

yesss!!!!
this was such a fun cover
It's the second Hack/Slash cover Ive done and I cant wait to see it printed!!!
I think I spent more time on trying to make it look old then I actually spent on the illustration (figure)
I'm really happy with the way it turned out
hope you guys like it

Top 100 covers of the decade

One of the covers I did for The Unknown series made it to the top 100 covers of the decade. Some really cool covers here, take a look

http://io9.com/5436373/100-amazing-comic-covers-from-the-last-ten-years

they are in alphabetical order
Happy browsing!!

Her Shadows Make Light

So I woke up pretty early this morning to start a cover for a novel that was commissioned a few days ago. (cant say what it is, don't ask)
Before I start a big project I usually loosen up by sketching random stuff (mostly woman).
Well I started sketching this face, then did a little more...and a little more. 4 hours later I'm scanning in ink blotches and black chalk dust.
I HAVE ART A.D.D!!!!!
This was pretty fun because it's traditional mediums scanned in then collaged together using photoshop. I cut around some of the color and line to make it look slightly more sharp edged and manipulated the pinks and yellows to be a but more bright and did most of the value changes digitally too. Oh yeah, and the pink hair lines are digital.... So I guess it's actually Digital...kinda, yeah I guess so.
Anyway, this was just for fun and therapy for the soul
Love it! that's me telling you :)

Tattoo Commission

Tattoo design for a 3/4's sleeve
Now I'm not super into doing tattoo designs,
1: because I know tattoo artists like handling their own work. and
2: Because I don't expect the buy to pay much for a preliminary design.
But this was an exception. I was approached by a fellow artist who wanted me to combine Mucha with my own style. Having a full Mucha sleeve myself I thought this would be fun. So I took it on! I referenced the Flowers and the 3 girls from multiple Mucha books and added the rest.
It was really fun, the drawing is huge, 18"x24". It took me forever. I'm not used to drawing so much stuff in one composition, If you know my work you know what I mean.
It was fun to go back to one of my favorite artist and rediscover how f*ckn awesome he was!!!
I added some cool stuff like splatters and paint streaks just for fun, It wont be apart of the final tattoo, I'm just so used to "print" that I had to add stuff to it.

Nola cover 3

This is the 3rd cover to Nola
The whole serious was really fun to do.
I love creating these still, powerful images, I think they work really well for this character too.
Thanks to BOOM Studios! for letting me do these.

New White Wolf cover

Had some fun with this piece
it's just colored pencils and a but of oil on Rives toned BFK paper
Had to do some digital work on it, had to make the top larger for the logo, so a lot of cut and pasting
I do dig the background though kinda spontaneous.

It's the cover for a gamer convention book (RPG) that's happening this weekend in Atlanta....That's about all I know, ha

hope youall like it!

Vampirella cover

This is a piece I did for the cover to issue#3 (JONES EDITION) of Vampirella.
I was pretty excited to do a piece for such an awesome character, I look forward to doing more!!

I've been in this weird border phase recently, probably due to a mix of James Jean's fable covers and my obsession with Alphonse Mucha

If I do another one, I want to make it super Lowbrow and retro...

Serpents Among Us

This is going to be the Image I use for the Tata Gala poster this year.
I wanted to show you guys it with out any text on it first.
I'll be posting the final poster here soon!

the original was done in this order and with these mediums:

Prismacolor pencils : flesh
Copic Marker : hair
Watercolor : background
water based oils : flesh
oil based gold marker: scales
on Rives BFK toned paper 22"x30"

Nola #2

I dig this cover, the fire was a lot of fun to do.
I think that's all I have to say.
hope you like it!

Nola issue 1

This is issue 1 (cover a) for a new comic called Nola published by BOOM! Studios.
I should be doing a bunch of these so keep your eyes open

Shapes

Ok, so here we go:
started it with watercolor and prismacolor pencil on Rives bfk paper (toned)
then mounted it on to masonite and covered it with a matte gel medium and did oil rubs on top of the dried gel medium.

SHE KILLS is on its way

Yup!!
Getting the site up soon also: www.shekills.com
Gonna start with 3 designs and go from there.
Ill keep everyone posted

Shapes, process

this pieces is coming along, i think i have about 5 more hours or less until im finished (but im going to bed, so you"ll have to wait bit longer to see the final)
so far its watercolor and colored pencil
the last steps are marker then oils
should be fun...

I could really botch this piece though, so if that's the case, this is all you get, haha

The Unknown #5

this is the issues #1 for the second part of the series.
This was a lot of fun to do, Boom studios just let me run free with the concept.
It's been a lot of fun doing covers for them, I can't wait to post the next 2 covers I recently finished.

Doll

June show at Redletter in Ybor

This should be a really good show, even if you hate me you should go because this dude Aaron Nagel is pretty rad. Go see his stuff here http://www.aaronnagel.com/
its going to be all about the the ladies (no shit Erik) and new work baby

so mark this show date down on your crappy iPhone or your awesome blackberry, hahahahahahaha, sorry Cady

Sis

another piece i did for those October shows I did

colored pencil
acrylic
water based oils
copic marker
paper mounted on board