hazards of love

For anyone who hasn't heard of the Decemberists, it's time to crawl out from under that rock where you've been living.  They are one of the best bands in existence.  They have narrative lyrics that inspire you to draw them out.  The Hazards of Love is a rock opera they wrote that shares a story about a girl who falls in love with a man who by day is a fawn.  Adventure follows.  Go out and by the album.  Here's a drawing of the queen:

Queen drawing from hazards of love

Square chicken

How many chicken nuggets does a chicken make?  I guess it depends on how much of it is chicken or not.  I'm sure there's a lot of filler and junk.  Here it my favorite response to that question from yahoo answers

Who's asking that chicken the question?

A square chicken would be cool.  It would probably do mime and pretend it's in a box.  Square chickens would be fierce and they would hate circle chickens.  I wonder how many times I can throw in the word Square chickens.  If someone googled square chickens would this post come up?  I'll shut up and show you some square chickens.  ...Here's some square chickens:

square chicken doodles

square chicken final drawing

square chicken inked

square chicken with color

poster stuff

 If you enjoy fat people (or fat boxers) as much as I do, stare at this poster for a few hours. 

Also the band 'When the Fight Started'  is pretty rad.  You should check them out:  here

fat, bald, and he still has captured my heart

My very own art show

If you happen to be near Pleasant Grove Utah on July 13, you should come enjoy my art show.  It's at Sammy's (25 West Center Street, Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062).  You can buy prints and hamburgers at the same time!  Here's a preview:

Don't even pretend you haven't dreamed of this

Me riding naked on a narwhal is only 1 of the 12 pieces that will be there.  
Come....or I'll come for you...

Donkey Kong

Finishing first place again is DK.  The Secret? The banana peel.  It always screws you over right before the finishing line.  This was a fun one.  I'm finally starting to get the hang of corel painter.


Here's my process:

I started off with a drawing, after thumbnails and comps this is what I came up with.  I thought it was great, but once I got some sleep I realized that it was anything but.  I was going for a big head little body effect at first, but instead took a different route.  

you can see how i cut him apart and put him back together.  i decided to increase his mass and decrease the kart.

still increasing mass i also increased limb size, and put in general shadow shapes and colors.  i started focusing on the face to give him an expression rather then a blank stare.

more underlay colors

increased general mass, he was still looking too small

 

 

 

 

ta da!

Tiger album

A Tiger? An album?  Why not combine the two?  This is for a band called The Star Fighters, which to my knowledge doesn't exist. . . googled.  They do exist.  Lets listen to them here.  Anyway, tiger army's a cool band right?

here's a quicky

Here are some quick 8-10 minute landscape studies of Luc Desmarchelier and Thomas Moran.  check them out here and here