Zombie prom date

That's not really the title for this book, but that was the only thing I could think of as I was painting it. For a collection of zombie YA stories. In preparing for this, I learned about the massive popularity of Bieber hair with boys in middle and high school



oil on illustration board

Another from the vault

Here's another old piece that's been under wraps. This was commissioned for Warhammer 40k about 2 years ago (or more?) and never saw print



oil on illustration board

Hope Summers

So I've been moving all the past week into a new house which also means a sweet new studio. Right now it's a pile of boxes, but in time... more on that later though. The reason I'm posting is because, in the process of sorting and properly storing some old paintings, I came across this little piece. Though I can't remember exactly when it was done, I want to say about a year or so ago. It wasn't for any specific project, just that I had some me time and felt like doing some simple X-Men portraits and decided to kick it off with a relatively newer character: Hope Summers. I seem to remember having started a Wolverine as a follow-up before a wave of new deadlines and convention season hit me with the one-two and, in the end, this was the only one I actually finished. Why I didn't show it at the time I don't really know other that I probably meant to and just forgot. Which reminds me, I have some other pieces waiting to go online. Maybe once I get my SDCC prep finished.

Anyhow, it's pretty simple and straight forward, but I like it. Maybe once things calm down a bit I can get back into these. I've always wanted to do a proper Nightcrawler...



11x17, oil on illustration board

dancing girl prelim sketch

I don't post WIP and sketches when working with commercial clients (which is to say I rarely post them at all), but here's a sketch from a private commission that I'm starting on. I think it'll be fun getting into the paint :)

Priestess of Torment

This is for a group show at the OhNo!Doom gallery in Chicago that opens next weekend. I think I'll let it speak for itself



15x21, oil on illustration board

Microvisions

Though the piece was completed in April and the show hanging at the Society of Illustrators a few weeks now, I was waiting until the auctions went live to share my contribution to the Microvisions scholarship. If you're not familiar with the event, each year a dozen or so sf/f illustrators are invited to create a piece measuring 5x7 inches which is then sold through a fundraising auction held by Society of Illustrators. The money raised goes to students selected through their annual jurried student competition. To check out the other pieces and maybe take one home, here are the Ebay links. Bidding closes on the 25th I believe.


oil on illustration board, 5x7 inches

Infidel

A recent cover, sequel to God's War. I started work on this right around when I got the news about Spectrum (see one post down), so there was a little extra incentive (which is to say, pressure) in not only advancing the cover narrative, but upping the ante visually. This is also very very slightly different from what the printed version will look like (a few additional details were revised, though I prefer this version). I only mention it because I'm uptight about things like that :P



18x27, oil on illustration board