Wargrider

Another painting for my independent study. I liked the idea of a warg using an old shield from a defeated enemy as armor.

Sting

This is the first of several more in depth paintings I plan to do in my independent study during this semester at school.

LEGO Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

I've recently discovered that I am an AFOL (google it) and I have got to say it's good to be back. so here I have merged 2 of my favorite things. It was a lot of fun. 

Thanks to MINGLES http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/6809

something like this might actually happen, which would be awesome.

War In Heaven

Here is the first of hopefully quite a few personal projects I have planned for the summer. It all started with a watercolor study I did of a sculpture depicting Michael the archangel defeating Satan. That spawned another piece I did for my watercolor final that was in my curvilinear style. (I plan to recreate it digitally and upload it later). But I had so much fun with the concept and the classic characters that I decided to be a little more ambitious and really do my best to depict the epic battle scene that comes to mind when I read through Revelation 12: 7-9.

And just for kicks and giggles here is an animated step by step of how I arrived at the final above.

And finally a special thanks goes to Justin Gerard for making awesome work that makes me want to make awesome work of my own, and also for taking the time out of his busy schedule to give me critiques.

The Hobbit 75th Anniversary Edition

This was just a book cover assignment for school, but for me it meant a lot more.

This new curvalinear style you've seen me doing was originally inspired by several things, most importantly this painting by J.R.R. Tolkien. http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/wp-content/uploads/Bilbo-on-barrels2.jpg

The Hobbit is probably my favorite story of all time. and has been extremely inspiring and influential to my work.

So here is what I think would be an awesome cover to celebrate the 75th anniversary of this epic tale.

Hopefully I don't have to explain it, but my intent was to make the title an ambigram and make the 4 corner words (spelling out the less well known full title of the book) rotate encouraging the viewer to actually rotate the book and literally go "there and back again"

The Triumphant

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton.

Messenger of Destruction

This is the character from my logo. I'm about ready to order a new set of business cards so I decided to render him out for the image side.