ALIENS! My favorite movie 1986.

To continue with the favorite movie theme, this time I wrapped up an image based off one of my top 10 movies ever ALIENS. Pure 1986 GOLD!

I started off thinking that I would end up doing another "Full Struzan" movie poster similar to what I did on my Predator piece but instead I went for a more intimate take on the movie. Really, so much of the movie is about motherhood and Ripley being a surrogate mother to Newt and the Queen and her "children". Both fight to protect their offspring and in the end it comes down to a battle of the "B*@!h's".

Take a look and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers!

My favorite Movie 1987 " The Predator"

Oh Man how I love this flick. I don't think it is possible to get sick of this movie and I could not resist creating this faux movie poster. The premise was for me to go " full struzan" and do a Study using his technique. Well, as per usual, I went "whole hog" and created my version of the movie poster for this classic. I managed to squeeze the whole cast in except for the general. Even Hopper made it !;)
Anyways, here is the image and some process shots.

Final Image

Final Illustration

Line Under Drawing

Initial color lay in with the Air brush

Final Pencils w/o adjustments

Blaine Detail

    

Asag, Son of Anu. Utukku Demon

Hey Gang,

Sorry I missed posting in February but on the bright side, I've been swamped with work and as a freelancer, that is not necessarily a bad thing;) So for today I am posting a personal piece that I finished up and submitted to the art book for the upcoming Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.

This piece is a depiction of a Sumerian Demon called an Utukku.  I recently had an opportunity to illustrate one for an unreleased project and this image is based on one of my unused concepts. The final design that I ended up doing for my client ended up quite different than this version. I had an unused concept sitting around that I really liked so I asked for and received permission from my client to polish up that concept and that is what you are seeing here today.

Enjoy!

Numenera Bestiary

Hey Gang,

Time to announce some more recent work. Today I am sharing some of the images that I completed for Monte Cooks newest product, the Numenera Bestiary. My work is featured in both the Bestiary game supplement text as well as the associated Deck of Cards.

Enjoy!

Game Cover Pt 2

Today I am sharing the recent piece I completed for RnR Game's new product "Strike a Pose". I've been working on this image infrequently over the past 6 months and it is nice to finally be able to share it.  It's always fun and challenging to illustrate happy people.

Cheers!

January Studies

It's been a while since I posted up some of the studies and sketches that I do in my spare time etc. Today we have a small selection of sketches and a few more quick portraits similar to the African Man a did a few weeks ago.

Laboratory of the Forsaken...

Happy New Years!

2013 has come and gone and with the new year, I am able to share a few more pieces of work. I think I wrapped this one up last spring for Crafty Games and it was just released in time for Christmas. I did 2 pieces for them and I expect the next one to be released soon as well. You can find more about the product here and you can order it here.