Current project

I was asked to do a dark faerie for a friend in the style of Nightmare Before Christmas but, I had a hard time getting that particular style right unless I was drawing actual characters from the movie. That is my luck most usually. I decided to try revamping the faerie character a little and just using a random style.

These are comparisons of the different stages so far.

The background isn't exactly permanent as the perspective is a bit off and I'm not sure I like the snake anyway.

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This is just an "I'm still alive" post. I haven't fallen off the face of the planet even if some of you want me to. :-P

All fun aside.

I joined a new art site this week which is still in beta testing and things there are going really well. The other users are pretty nice. I don't get to talk to everyone but, the ones that do decide to chat with everyone else have been nice. Most of my recent artwork has been uploaded to the new site and some of it will most likely find its way here. Like below.


This started as some random lines using the Marker tool in Sai.

Finished Commission

I finished this commission the other day and just now got around to getting it uploaded here. I asked if any of my friends on Facebook had any requests and of all my friends only one had a request. She had a sketch that either her brother had done for her or it was a friend that made it but, either way somewhere over the years she managed to lose it. So, I decided that this would be the first of her two requests that I get done.

Unfortunately with all the art thieving that has been going on lately I decided to make a watermark for my stuff and decided to use smaller resolutions to make them a little harder to trace and what not. Not having lines in a colored piece helps deter tracing too since there aren't any real hard edges to follow, tracing a photo would be easier especially on a dark piece like this one and NO that ISN'T an invite to try. I'm not so full of myself that I think anyone would want to steal my stuff but, now days you never know.

Freddy and Nightmare on Elm Street are the property of Wes Craven and Some studio I can't remember which one. I prefer to credit the original creator of the character as to the studio anyway. I only take credit for the work done on this piece.

Commissions and requests

I set up a new page with my contact information and some basic commission types that I feel comfortable with at the moment. I will admit, I do still have some limitations, like drawing hands and feet still give me a hard time. As I get better and start getting more commissions I will set a base average price to make things go smoother, for now I am willing to negotiate something that is fair and affordable for everyone which will eventually help me set my base prices. I am out to make money but, I'm not out to break anyone's bank to do it.

Steam Punk Rogue: Colored

Here are the colors to the new lineart piece I posted.

Off to find more adventures. I might actually end up doing physical labor this weekend so, possibly no new artwork until Monday or Tuesday.

New Line art

I woke up with a plan today, I wanted to draw and I had an idea what I wanted to draw. Normally before you jump into doing a complex piece, you would do a few practice pieces for warm-up. The thought of doing warm-ups never even crossed my mind until after I was done with the pencil sketch. I got my inspiration for this piece from a pic of a cosplayer over at marvel.com, I will link to the pic.

The inspirational reference pic is here