Advertising work

Today I am able to post up a few samples of the recent work that I have been doing for Warshaw Blumenthal and their clients.

First is a series of portraits of Jennifer Aniston for Smartwater and Second is a portrait of ESPN's Jay Bilas. This one was used for an awards campaign.

Cheers!

Adventures in Time. Retro NES box art

Today I am posting up my submission to this years art book and auction for the Calgary comic and entertainment expo. 

I know it is a bit of overkill for an art book piece but I was inspired and had a lot of fun making this image. NES game art was very influential on me as a kid growing up playing these games and I used to study the art and judge a game based solely on the cover art. Sadly that did not always work out and I ended up buying Predator. One of the biggest let down wast of money piece of trash games that I ever laid my eyes on. But I digress.... ;)

Anyways, I came across some really neat faux box art images in my internet ramblings and I was inspired to do one for myself based off of the Konami model. When the theme for this years con was released, I found myself an excuse to finally make a NES box and "Adventures in Time" was born.

Below, I am posting some process images and the finished box layout. I have actually made the box and I'll save that for a later blog post.

 Finished Cover Art with Watermark. Babes, Dinosaurs, Valkyries, Spitfires, Phone Booths, Nuclear explosions can you pick out any more 80's pop culture references?

 Pencil under drawing.

 Painting the background in order to establish the color temperature of this image.

 Basic Monochromatic values.

 Fleshing ( pfft! snicker) out the details.

 Adding in the dinosaurs and background elements.

 Here I was playing with the game logo and the various relevant packaging logo's and the over all layout.

And finally we have the finished box layout, complete with game description! Now can you tell m that your 11 year old self would not think that this game looked promising? Nintendo power gives it 5 stars! Wicked Graphics, amazing controls, makes the Adventures of Link look like pong in comparison.

Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Michonne from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

The Walking Dead Season 5 Poster

Hey all, I finally finished my "The Walking Dead" Season 5 Poster. Just in time for the second half to kick in.

Carol From The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Carol played by Melissa McBride.

Abraham from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Here is another time lapse video of me painting the character of
Abraham on the TV show "The Walking Dead" portrayed by Michael Culditz.



Who will I post up next?

Glenn from The Walking Dead by Mike Perry

Medieval Warfare Magazine: The Lombards Vs. The Byzantines.

Hi All,

Today I am sharing my latest illustration that I have done for Medieval Warfare Magazine which depicts an epic battle between the Lombards and the Byzantines "when Constans' army, marching from Benevento to Naples, was ambushed at the river Calore's ford by the forces of Mitolas, the Lombard count of Capua."

You can find out more about the issue Here  and don't forget to let them know that you love the new centerfold ;)

Circle of Hands!

Today, I am posting up a cover illustration that I did for Adept Press's new game product "A circle of Hands". This piece was a lot of fun to do and a nice change of pace from so called " High fantasy" and more along the lines of the nitty gritty reality that was the dark ages.  Lots' of fun and I even got to build myself a chained weapon to use as reference for the hero.

You can find out more about the game and the author at Adept Press.com.

Susan Coffey Study.

Here is a study that I did based off of a photo of the model Susan Coffey.

Medieval Warefare: King Richard

Hey all,

Today I get to post up my illustrations that I recently completed for Medieval Warfare Magazine's latest issue on King Richard the 1st, otherwise know as "The Lion heart". In this issue I contributed two illustrations. One depicting Richards siege at Acre and a double page spread of his glorious cavalry charge at Arsuf.

 In this image I am depicting Richard, to sick to fight yet he still insisted on going to the front and picking off Saracens with his crossbow.

 This image is of the cavalry charge that Richard and his knights made at the battle of Arsuf.

A closer look at the King in action.

For more information about this publication you can go Here and for a synopsis of the particular issue go Here.