Time lapse - For Whom The Bell Gnolls

This hideous beast is finally as finished as it's going to get.

Free to good home, needs shots.

First Orc Twitch Paint - Speed x 900%

This is a much shorter version of my first Twitch stream, and is easier to watch and listen to.  Edited down with Lightworks, which is a great free movie editor. Thanks for watching!

Dwarf

2 hour dorf

Friday's Orc

Just tried George Bluth's Cornballer for the first time...

Only had about an hour to practice today so I couldn't do much more detail on this dude. Have a great weekend!

Thursday's Orc

"Er, ma'am...may I take your longsword?"

Process Shot

Wednesday's Orc

More bemused than savage...

Tuesday's Orc

"Hey, I told you guys; NO surprise parties!"

Monday's Orc

Nice pauldrons...

I used one brush to fill in solid colors and one brush for the rest of any kind of blending, etc. I've found some terrific brushes online, but while I'm trying to get better with technique I'm trying to limit what I use. I started with a pretty loose sketch with a pencil-style brush and went from there.

Thanks to Sycra for the great paper texture, and to Richard Robinson at Live Painting Lessons for the incredible gamut masking tool. It helped this noob limit and hone my palette for this sketch.

Happy 4/20!

Eight months away, new and improved rig...Photoshop runs like a dream now.

Winning No Beauty Contests

Thursday Hour Sketch

Mr. Smooth-Face

Another orc. Limited myself to an hour for this sketch since I've got some kind of plague.

Quick Wednesday Sketch

Another Orc...

Warm Up Sketch

Orcs 1

Sketchbook Page 2

One of my DC Comics / World of Warcraft mash-ups.

This gnome rogue Joker has been nagging at me for many months. I have sketched him several times in my book trying to get him right, so I scanned in the best version and applied some color last night. A week or so ago I started an Illustrator project with him but I can't get behind the laborious process of that program these days.

The pencil sketch seems more menacing to me. Ah well.

Frost Mage Sketch

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A quick sketch from today.

Level 19 (Wish For Heirlooms)

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If you've ever played World of Warcraft you know that your first character is a little undergeared...

*YAWN* Sketch

Here's a quick sketch of an orc that I did in Photoshop.

I was trying to keep a real loose brush-style without doing a lot of blending.  Some of the smaller brush strokes remind me of Martin Emond's (R.I.P.) work.

For The Horde...

For those of you who aren't familiar with it, World of Warcraft is a highly immersive and addictive massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG.)

Its lore is based on high-fantasy such as Dungeons and Dragons and the Lord of The Rings saga, and the story focuses on two player groups, The Alliance (comprised of playable races Humans, Night Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, Draenei, and Worgen,) and The Horde (Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, Forsaken, Blood Elves, and Goblins.) I quit playing to focus on artwork and other more productive endeavors, but I still love the lore and design of the WoW universe.

While getting back into the swing of creating art again, I started off with fan art exercises where I did mash-ups of the Justice League with members of the Horde races.  The process of creating them with Illustrator was a laborious task, especially considering that I'm new to using the program for anything more complex than cartoon spot illos.

I've been slowly posting my initial eight illustrations on my deviantArt site, so please visit my gallery to take a look at them all as they become available.