This This is Really Cool

(Picture of the a9 rig from the fundraising site)

A friend of mine showed me this fundraising campaign on indiegogo: Click HERE to check out the fundraiser.  It's an armature rig for artists (or really anyone that needs an armature for any reason).  From the images and video presentations it looks like a really useful tool and I thought it was worth a donation, so I've already pledged to get one of the large armatures.  These look way cooler than the traditional wooden ones art and crafts stores carry - without being ridiculously expensive.  Oh and the other cool thing about this fundraiser - no risk. If Kamal Siegel (the inventor) does not reach his goal everyone gets a refund, if he does reach his goal you get exactly what you pledged for - no "Well I didn't reach my goal so you don't get your pledge and I keep the money" on this fundraiser. Anyways, just wanted to share for anyone who might find this as useful as I do.

Art Educators 2012 Opening!

Opening reception November 29th 4-7, regular exhibition hours M-F 1-4

Come check it out! I put a couple of new pieces in it.

I Draw Some Pretty Weird Stuff

Well it's been a little while since my last post, so I wanted to update with some pages out of my sketchbook.  I just recently finished up some pieces for an art show (more details coming later) and I've been working a lot in my sketchbook; so in lieu of the pieces I created for the art show (because I don't have them at the moment) here are some sketch pages:

(Kind of a reminds me of an angry ditto)

(...oh hai there...)

(Hairless space-gorilla or something...)

(Someday I'll be a beautiful butterfly)

(Want to go on a date?)

Chair Persons

(Digital Media)

Just wanted to get around to posting up this digital painting I worked on. It's a group portrait via still-life. In this type of portrait it is important to convey a sense of the people involved through the use and arrangement of still-life (in this case chairs). After visiting the New Britain Museum of Art a few weeks back and checking out their digital illustration exhibit, I was inspired to try a work done in Corel Painter to give it a painterly feel that Photoshop doesn't do as well. Corel Painter is a pretty cool program, at least from what I can tell from using the "Essentials 4" version - I think it would be cool to see what's available in the professional version. Anywho, that's enough from me. Until next time!

Genesis Coupe Finished!

(Digital Media)

Hey all!  Well sittin here in Connecticut during Hurricane Sandy has given me some time to catch up on a long list of projects. So I made sure to finish this drawing up while I still had power (fingers crossed that I don't lose it as the lights keep flickering around me). Anywho, I'm glad I had a chance to sit down and finally finish this over the course of the past week. Below is a series of work-in-progress shots leading up to the final product you see above, take a look!

24-Hour Comic Book Day work

Hey everybody! So 24-Hour Comic Book Day was awesome! It was really great to sit down for an extended period of time with no goal other than making some art - plus I got to work alongside some other creators and it was a really great time.  Unfortunately I didn't make my goal of 24 completed pages; however I did quite a bit done and mostly finished. I have some edits and small changes I would like to make in addition to adding text to the pages themselves, but otherwise I'm a few pages closer to another comic. I bet you're asking yourself, "What was the most challenging part of the event?" Well, aside from trying to stay awake for 24 hours, it was the actual writing/creating/planning. Usually when I'm going to make some work (or in the case of my last comic) I can spend weeks upon weeks just letting the idea sit and changing it until I come up with a final project. Working on this new story was part planning and part making it up as I went along (since per the rules we weren't allowed to start the event with any ideas or pre-planning). OK, enough talk from me, here's a few pages that I scanned in.  They're mostly finished.

24-Hour Comic Book Day!

Hey everyone, I know it's been a while - but I do have some new stuff to put up soon. Otherwise just a bit of news: I will be participating in 24-Hour Comic Book day tomorrow (or technically today as it's 2:00 in the morning...) at Legends of Superheros in Middlebury, Connecticut.  I'll be there around 10 or 11:00am until 10/11:00am on Sunday.  I'll be working alongside a few other local artists with the goal of each creating a 24-page comic book in just 24 hours... which is CRAZY.

CRAZY-AWESOME that is! Ok time to get some sleep!