Trent drew an owl....Surprise Surprise...

It's no secret that I love drawing owls.  I've drawn owls on Skateboards,  I've made Screen Prints.  Some of the first digital art I did was an owl.  So, now that I'm entering a new stage in my art, why not do another owl?  With like...tons of eyes?

Here's looking at you kid

The Voice of the New Electric Sound

You may remember me posting about The New Electric Sound.  We did a poster for them awhile back.  They've been climbing the music ladder in Utah, and they've emerged a pretty awesome band.  So here's a picture I painted of their lead singer Scott Vance.  100% in photoshop, I turned a drawing like this

into this

hello ladies

Happy Easter Dragon

I thought this was the first time I had drawn a dragon, but I did another one earlier that some of you might recall.  I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  I remember drawing dinosaurs as a kid, but I was never one to draw fantasy creatures.  I would spend most my drawing days, drawing Nightcrawler or other X-men characters.  
  By far my favorite thing to draw are creatures.  This probably won't be the last dragon you see

Noble Dragon

This looks very much like a lizard

Sharky Shark Shark

This next painting is pretty Jawsome!  This is the first time I recorded myself painting.  So Sit back and enjoy:

Here's the final two pieces.  I added some touch ups after the video, and decided to get rid of the line drawing in one of the pieces.  Which is better, with, or without the line?

Dangers of the Airbrush tool

I've recently been painting in Photoshop exclusively, and I started using the airbrush.  BAD IDEA!  it makes everything look like plastic or something.  So watch out for it.  It's a danger that lurks around every digital piece.  So here is the example to stay away from.   It's just a practice piece so I didn't have the energy to fix it. 

BEASTMASTER

This was an interesting piece to work on.  It reminded me of when I was young and I would draw monsters on the back of church programs.  I would always show my friend Matt, and that became a routine.  Every Sunday there would be a new monster, and we would talk about it.  Maybe we'll talk about this one...

Here's the new concept peace.  The Beast looks okay, but I still need to mess with the girl a bit.

Sketch drawing, and silhouette

All layers on, you can see that I  had planned on doing three characters, but got distracted with the beast

Final.  I might draw a hawk in there, to go with her glove.

character design

So, I decided to put more effort into concept art.  Possibly the best resource out there is http://www.fengzhudesign.com/.  The tutorials on there are great.  He teaches you some pretty rad stuff, and he teaches how to do it quick.  Here's some wolfy thingy I did in about an hour.