Ballad Of A Lonely Man

It seems these days you can't hang unless you have a tattoo. As much as I love most tattoo art, I can't bring myself to get one. A friend of mine relates the new tattoo trend to the *Star belly sneetches*. Soon it will be the trend not to have one.

Z brush, you are my only friend.

Here is a Z-Brush "W.I.P" I did over the weekend. It is based off a head render Adam Ford did some time back. I feel like I am finally starting to get the look I want from Z-Brush. I am trying to avoid the lumpy bumpy monster-alien look, wich is a lot harder than it looks.

Longest day of the year study

Today is technically the longest day of the year. I was told it has something to do with the summer solstice or something like that. So to celebrate I participated in the daily lunch study today at work. We get an hour to paint a in either Photoshop or Painter a copy of a photo or another painting. Todays paint study was Khilkov by Repin.

Mothers Day

I did this painting for my mom for mothers day. I will post another version as soon as I can get a better photo. The photo reference was taken when she was 24 in Virginia City Nevada while panning for gold. I guess this was the type of place my parents would go on dates when they were first married. I haven't done a portrait like this in a long time and it felt good to make mistakes and mix paint again. I made myself mix these color charts for practice.
The first chart is the UGLY pallet (Titanium white, Yellow Ochre, Terra Rosa, Ivory Black).
The next chart is the Primary pallet, or Impressionist pallet (Cadmium Yellow Light, Alizarin Crimson, Thalo Blue).
The last Chart was the Primary Pallet with Iron Oxide Red in place of Alizarin Crimson.
It looks like boring stuff but I really like making these charts and experimenting with color pallets.

Friday acrylic study

Zappa-stache

Some one asked me once why my blog was titled "PowerMustache", when there wasn't any Power or Mustache to it at all. Truth is "Power mustache" is the name of a Vandals song, and I thought it sounded tough. But in order to set things right with the title I am going to post a little more power and a lot more mustache. So for my first in the mustache series is none other than the King of the mustache jungle, Frank "Disco boy" Zappa.

Disco boy! run to toilet and comb your hair.
Disco boy! pucker your lip, and check your shoulders,
cause some dandruff might be hiding there.

Friday morning drawing

This here is a woman dressed in an Arabic style of dancing garb (Belly dancer). It was an interesting study due to the many types of materials in her out fit. Her shirt was black velvet, and to any one who has tried to render velvet, it is like a dog and pony show.

Bust a Grumpy

This is another addition to my Friday paint sketching. I am going to see how long I can keep this up for. Hopefully it turns into something I do more than on the weekend. This was an acrylic on canvas. (2.5hr)

Deep Breaths (oil study)

I missed the Revelations worksop in Seatle. So in retaliation, or just an excuse to ditch everyone, I sat dow and painted for the first time in months. Rusty!! And of course I get a bad photo to go with it.

3hr

Fiddle Stix

Weekend sketch bingo

Some modern day pirates from around my parents house and a few blistered republican pony owners.

Da Boom King

Recently I have come across a show that has to be one of the funniest I have seen sense Ali-G. It's called Flight of the Conchords. Its about a 2 man band from New Zealand and their band manager. Now that already sounds funny, aye!

This is a portrait of the Boom King (Bret).

Summer sketch'n

I did these every Saturday with a buddy of mine this summer. I never thought of posting them until now. Maybe now that it is 4 degrees I am wishing for warmer days.

Pony!!

This is a character I am working on with the help of Sam Nielson’s character design work shop here at work. He has developed a technique for creating and refining appeal when designing characters. By running your design through a series of “filters” you can make better design decisions for appeal. The workshop lasts for 5 weeks and we begin with a character that has to appeal to an audience ages 7-11. It also has to be a muskrat, squirrel or badger.

So here is my results from my original drawing, to week 4.

Another Thursday Figure Study

This is a color study from life I did a few weeks ago in oil. I miss the traditional stuff alot. (1.5 hr)

Leatherface

He never hesitated to throw a hippie on a meat hook.

Dengar the hunter

This was for a series of color workshops I did over the summer with Dave McClellan. I am so impressed with the amount of care the management staff at Avalanche have for the improvement of their artists. This painting had to do with analogous color. Monochrome with a hint of another color. I wanted to post this for the Avalanche Star wars challenge, but felt I wanted to work on it more. So instead I am posting it here months later.

Buffalo Undies

This was another post for the Avalanche challenge. It's not what I had in mind at first but due to sake of time and lack of posts I threw it up there anyway.

Drawing #2

This is a figure study that made it into the Society of Illustrators student scholarship competition. I just got it back from the show and wanted to post it. It isn't my favorite.

3rd grade picture

I figure when Sloth wasn't chained to the walls of his basment, he enjoyed as normal of a life as any other child droped on his head did. Goonies never say die.