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 star...
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'...
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...
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 f...
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...
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.
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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 ar...
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 muc...
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 ...
2016-02-25 00:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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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 deni...
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 h...
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 sti...
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...
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 subsc...
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 ...
2016-01-04 00:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
