The Warmage

Started this at the Edmonton con and then took my sweet time getting around to finishing it. For those who may not recognize this character, he's the Warmage from Robot Entertainment's Orcs Must Die!2. I'm tempted to spend some time coloring the image, but I doubt I'll get around to it with the original. Maybe as a digital warm up some day...

Silver Surfer

I posted a copy of this a while ago, thinking it was done, but it's been nagging at me the last few weeks and so I finally snatched a bit of time to go back into it. I'm been trying to juggle my time between developing new prints for the coming year, building a small collection of originals, and of course bettering myself in general so it took a while until I was able to fit it in. 

Red Cape Kid part 2

Another piece that I've had stashed away for many months now. If I recall correctly I jammed this out in an afternoon, and was pretty happy with the progress I made. Of course it's far from done, but this was a vital step in my growth over this last year, and it's something I'll be coming back to ASAP. I plan to submit the finished piece for the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo art book this year, and the due date is the end of Feb, so I expect it will pop up a couple times between now and then as I work my way through it.

Batman

I've been trying to vary things a bit lately, focusing on design/composition first and color second instead of my usual, dynamic figures and linework. I'm really enjoying putting together these quick color comps, and I feel like it's giving me a chance to stretch and grow as an artist. I'll always love dynamic figures, but they can become distracting to the point of overshadowing the rest of a piece if you're not careful to control them. With these most recent pieces I've been allowing myself to experiment a bit with different brushes, and since I'm just playing around I don't mind if things come out a bit messy. Soon I'll have to break down and start rendering things, but for now I'm going to revel in the opportunity to just churn out ideas. I'm pretty sure future me won't mind handling things later on...

WW

Really enjoying the fact that I'm allowing myself to post totally unfinished work up here, so here's some more. Came up with the composition for this piece many months ago (I'm starting to realize how many pieces I have sitting on my desktop from 2012, and I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't get more of them done) and had a terrible color rough done from about the same time. Hated the rough though, and so I went back in with some black lines and worked my way up to a state where I was happy moving back into color. Now that I've spent a bit of time with it, I'm willing to go so far as to say it looks damn cool. Wonder Woman's shoulder looks like it belongs on Arnold Schwarzenegger, but other than that I think it's coming along just fine.

Oh, and have no fear, I won't leave her looking like an Austrian body builder...