It’s been ages since I’ve posted a tutorial—since I’ve posted anything at all, actually; I’ve been busy doing book covers and various other things for e-publishers and authors. And now that I have more than a handful of samples to show, I figure I should do a half-assed tutorial and share one of my favorite covers—Passionate Destiny by Dee S. Knight. Dee is a dream to work with. She provides a lot of book detail and cover ideas in her…
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I haven’t been doing the aliens lately because I’ve been letting loose with a lizard. Meet Loowis. He is just one of the many reasons why I never got around to making an Easter egg stereogram, like I’d planned, or writing up another tutorial, like I’d promised. But how could I resist a lizard with Jack Nicholson-like charm and a perfect ballet second position turnout? Soon, though, I’ll be back to doing cats, then aliens. In art, I mean. Share…
Still a novice at this painting-by-hand thing, I whipped out the watercolors and doodled mindlessly in bed during the commercials while watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on cable television. Yes, I was playing with watercolors in bed, without paper towels no less. Never mind mask-taping the paper to a backboard of any kind; I was far too lazy for even that. I didn’t even sketch drafts first; I just set brush to paper and let the watercolors flow. Clearly I…
I found this today while clearing some space in my hard drive, but I can’t remember when I drew it. I only know that it was sometime last year, after Dave and I had a brainstorm session of pun-making based on a single word. We came up with a long list of great lines that never got used, half of which I can’t even remember, and this image illustrates only one of them. Can you guess what was on that…