After spending a couple days poking away at this concept for the angel of shadows, I stopped. This is an illustration I want to make, but it's not an angel portrait the way that the rest of the Angelarium pieces are.
I'm really considering starting to diversify the sorts of illustrations I make for this series, with an eye...
2016-04-23 22:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
After deeply exploring a different composition and color palette last night, I ended up peeling a good chunk of it back and branching off in a new direction. This is something that has happened several times throughout this series, especially when I'm working under stiff time constraints or in an unfamiliar environment. Last nig...
2016-03-31 21:59:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The logical color palette for this would be to shades of blue and green. Something that felt like a storm at sea. But it's always more fun to just explore and find something that feels both good and unexpected.
2016-03-30 21:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm getting cracking on this hot on the heals of Turiel because my art schedule revolves around the end of the calendar month. A peculiar motivator that has ruled this entire campaign since I started it.
Regardless of extreme time constrains, I'm starting the same way I always do. I've wrapped up a couple days of research ...
2016-03-30 00:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Here I remain,
under a mountain made of many hands,
all reaching and all taking.
I press my body closer to that which I must keep.
It is mine and I will shield it from the misery of other hands.
I can feel their gaze fall on it like an avalanche.
They diminish it with the weight of their ind...
2016-03-28 17:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew, long painting day. If I were to do this every day, my hand would seize up after a week. There are some real physical limitations to painting that need to be respected and I intend to respect them so I can paint for my whole life.
2016-03-12 04:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Anyone who has been supporting me for a while has seen that updates come in bursts. That's not because I am waiting for inspiration to hit. As a professional, I need to be able to perform on queue.
The reason these updates come in bursts has to do with the other things I do as a business owner. I typically work 7 days a we...
2016-03-11 22:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The Angel of the Mountain was a concept that I thought really hard about. It produced more abandoned drawings than just about any piece in the series. As I get close to the end of this set of 20, I want to make every one of them deeply unique.
The themes behind this one tie to back to greed and the isolation it creates. It...
2016-03-11 20:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post
While I work on a better solution for accessing the archive of posts, I wanted to dig up all the wallpapers created so far and add them into download. They are attached via a zip file.
Enjoy!
I awaken and the sensation is much like drowning. My body, buoyant and pulsing in the low light, is tethered to the fallow earth. I reach out as if the sky were made of rungs, but the air resists me in all the ways possible without touch. My wings are damp with sweat and sculpted in repose, but both are lies as I’ve earned nei...
2016-02-29 19:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm spending way more time than usual with this piece's values. Normally, you see me jump into a rough color pass before my value study gets this refined, but this piece is so reliant on subtle value shifts, that I'm just keeping in grayscale. So much so, that I'm seriously considering keeping it black and white all the way to t...
2016-02-25 21:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Doing a foggy scene means eliminating local color and value. That's where things start to get weird.
This piece sort of works as a grayscale image, but I am going to keep this version in my back pocket as well. We'll see what wins out as I get more detail in there.
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My body wanes and is distorted.
Smoke moves all around me (troublesome clouds),
and it's as if I cease to exist.
I blink in and out of time and wonder if I can still be seen,
when the light-of-seeing is denied even to me.
Do you still whisper at dusk, or cry out for me at midn...
2016-02-03 23:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
I'm really getting into this one. Sariel might be one of my favorites to work on recently. I'm drawing back on my results from Af, Angel of Anger to get a really surreal color palette. It's something I've always loved doing but I've had a hard time executing on regularly. Being able to get back to that and play i...
2016-01-31 00:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm finally getting some traction on this piece.Last night, I was going back and forth between color and value. Pushing large areas of light and dark around trying to get the color to splash across it in a way that was interesting and nothing was sticking. Between moments of clarity, there are these horrible troughs of existenti...
2016-01-30 19:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of seven archangels.
2016-01-27 17:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first piece that I've worked on from outside my home office since I started the project over a year ago. That's part of the reason why it's running behind. It's the little things that pile up. Different OS, tablet, stylus nibs, brush sets, monitors. It sound fiddly but it causes just enough friction to slow things do...
2016-01-24 21:58:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This special alternate art for Asbeel was done by the amazing Matt Mrowka. It's the first in a series of alternate art pieces I'm have made for The Book of Watchers.
This post is free and public! So you aren't being billed for it as a Patreon subscriber.
I'm making a short run of Limited Edition prints for this pie...
2016-01-13 00:04:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Sending out random packs of collectible cards is something that was a really cool experiment for us and it's coming to a close. This is the last month we'll be shipping out cards as part of this campaign.
The process of ordering, packing and mailing them weighed really heavily on the campaign as ...
2016-01-04 00:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
