Are You Sleeping, Am I Awake?

Happy New Year everybody! Things are still going to be hush for the next couple weeks, but here's a personal piece that I slipped between some jobs (little here, little there) and I've been meaning to post it for a while now. Starting the new year off with one from the heart :)

Oil on board, 12x18

Life drawings

So I finally got myself back to doing some life drawing last week. Unfortunately the sessions end this week for winter break so I'll be looking for alternatives until February (Dr. Sketchy's is on my list though, and I ought to finally get to investigating the Alumni Association life drawing sessions at PAFA, plus I hear they have a student group that I might be able to sneak in to). Anyhow, a few drawings from the two sessions I managed to catch. I'll be back soon with some paintings, right now everything is either in progress or top secret...

Buckaroo Banzai

Things have been a little slow, blogwise. My current projects are NDA and I don't think they'll be released for about a year, but I'm getting on some new cover work soon so that's coming up. In the meantime, here's a comic cover that I did a couple months back for a Buckaroo Banzai miniseries. Oils, 12x18

3rd piece for Small Works

So here's the third and final piece I'm putting into the Small Works show next week. I'd have liked to do one more but I just don't have the time for it. Besides, the clock is ticking on LMS3 and I've barely even begun my piece! Time to get cracking! Oil on illustration board, 6x15:

Forty Miles of Bad Road

Happy Thanksgiving! Here are some Autumn colors for you :) Another of the pieces for the Small Works show (yikes, in less than two weeks!) at Artists House. Oil on board, 9.5x13

Doc Savage - the Eye of Terror

Here's a brand new piece just finished for a private commission of Doc Savage. I had alot of fun with this one, I hope that it shows :)

Oil on board, 16x24

New cover for Nightshade Books, new drawing

I just got home from the World Fantsy Convention in Saratoga, NY today and it was probably the most relaxing convention that I've ever been to. The whole thing had a very sleepy atmosphere. Moebius was the guest of honor and I was able to meet him (nicest guy you could imagine) and get a little sketch in my moleskine which was crazy exciting for me!

We spent most of Saturday just hanging out in the art show room and drawing. It was nice to just chill like that and fool about with the other artists (my folks, my brother Tony, Charles Vess, Donato, John Picacio, and some others). I ended up doing some physical pen and ink (as oppose to digi) for the first time in maybe a year or two:

Asside from that it was mostly the typical activities, being lots of hanging out, drinking at the bar, catching up with non-local friends, and meeting awesome people. Not a bad way to spend the weekend at all :)

Also, I just turned in this piece to Night Shade books for an upcomming Harry Turtledove novel which (I think) is called After the Downfall. It was probably the most fun I've had on a painting since this past spring. I mean, how often do you get the chance to paint a Nazi riding on a unicorn?:

Oil on board, 16x24, after Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps