A lady

I can't really show much of anything that I'm working on these days, but I am showing a small portion of an image that we aren't using at the moment.  It doesn't really show anything... it's part of a concept drawing for one of the games I'm working on.
All the personal work I'm doing these days I'm sharing on my FB art page, Instagram, etc., so I don't want to clutter the TAG blog with that stuff.  I'll be able to share more about our games in a few months.

Sword-PNG format check

Now I'll check it on Tumblr

Better

The musical notes were black. 

This will probably be better for other internet bkgd settings.

Next WIP

Pencils. Now to color. I've told the guy that I'll do the usual but will follow up with a painterly look.

tone start

Color in my "Oh well" series.

Blended more toward 'painting'

The two blended together. By request.

Done- No more collaboration while I do the ghost stories

I was getting Neal Adams for the last two pages. So I made a style decision to make it as simple and silhouette as I could make myself work.

I like it. Goes along with a recent experiment in high contrast backgrounds I've been doing with Google street view. May be a style I use for a Brubaker - Philips type of tale.

New font. And improved read.

This woulda been my "Monsters & Dames" submission

...but I (1) didn't finish it in time and (2) cancelled my table at ECCC this year.

(SAD FACE)

I was inspired by a book of art by this guy:

Georges Barbier,  a French homme from the early 20th Century.

What I love best about his stuff is it's sexy.

My piece is deliberately NOT sexy (I'm such a Puritan); I wanted the girl to seem very young and non-sexualized (but I failed to get that real youthful look--she's still too old!).

I wanted to do the piece not only to celebrate his style (or "ape his style," if you prefer),  but as a challenge to myself 'cuz he is doing all the things I am NOT good at...and hacking away at this for the last two weeks made me realize just how deficient I am! I'm very un-graphic, esp'ly when dealing with the figure. He's got this very effective simplified way of doing people that is really beyond my ability. And his colors are very schematic--again, something I'm not good at at all. I can't resist trying to "model" things.

Humbling!

On the other hand: SATAN!
p.s. Rick, Tom, I have no idea what romance book provided the source for that Xmas image that I re-purposed--but it worked great! Thank you, Tumblr!

The Rick is Back!

Hey folks... sorry I haven't been on in a while... after my first month in Germany I moved to a guest house that doesn't have any internet.  I'll be in this place until Sue and Tommy get here at the end of the school year (they were just here over the Christmas break and we had a blast!).  I have avoided logging onto the TAG blog at work because I use a different Google address to log in for work stuff and it was a bit of a mess to go back and forth.  I think I have a solution now... we'll see how it goes.

In the meantime, I thought I'd share a bit of Christmas loot with you... The Orion Omnibus!  It's mostly written and drawn by Walt Simonson and is pretty awesome!  If you liked his run on Thor, then I'm pretty sure you'll like this.  It's pretty sweeping and uses just about every New God there is.

Enworld - Did this while I watched Cumberpatch Sherlock.

Had some bookkeeping challenges over my last few pieces. This art cleans off the over payment that occurred a couple of months ago.

Now they can go back to paying me again.

The color will make it apparent the figure with glowing eyes has puppet strings.

Grayscale for the heack of it. Since that is the way I do color. Color the gray value.
Edit- Less strings requested

 

Just adding something I found on Tumblr for Tom

Marty look alike- from space

Man of the Future, right?
(future world)

Below is "Thread of the Recent Past"

I think it's just a concept piece for a never was character.

Tom Sez: "Fly Girl debuted in The Fly #14 1961. Turan, emissary of the Fly People gave actress Kim Brand a Fly Ring just like the one The Fly had, granting her all the same Fly Powers."

MARTY SEZ: I think that top image is definitely a gank from the "On The Waterfront" poster, no?

Which if you add it all up, basically means I AM BRANDO.

The other two. The guy on top looks a lot like someone I've seen in TV and movies.

I Guess The Holidays Are Over....

This new class on illustration...I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to teach--and how. Composition is good, right? (movie frames ganked (from stills) include Logan's Run, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly and something with Olivia DeHaviland as a twin?)

Just getting back to the routine after a long time away from the keyboard (went on vacation and didn't take my laptop). Saw this on Tumblr today and had to customize it. Wish I'd had it in time to make it our Xmas card. Next year!