So I bought this crappy Crayola sketchbook at CVS today, because I refuse to buy another moleskin Sketchbook. I hate those freakn things, there is to much pressure to do something great, and your constantly bombarded by people wanting to look through it…. awwwhhh. I feel so much safer with a little piece of crap.
You when you get a new sketchbook and you just have to draw something in it right away??? Well I for some reason wanted to draw dogs. I don’t think I’ve ever drawn a dog in my life but let me tell you, they are really fun to sketch out.
try it some time
OH.. and make them look sad, way more fun when they are sad…..I don’t know why .
Sketched out with a pencil then slapped into the computer for tint and color

here is fun little piece I did for a show at an awesome gallery called Bear and Bird.
http://www.tatescomics.com/bearandbird/
it’s a little piece at about 8″x11″ + frame size
It’s acrylic and copic marker done on rives bfk paper.

THIS IS A PHOTO!! not a painting
well, it’s a photo illustration.
So I just completed a photo shoot with the lovely Abbi Ptak
I was going through the photos and decided to start working on an illustration idea.
Well, normally I throw a photo into photoshop and start working out loose ideas to paint from, but the more I played with it the more I liked it. So I just kept going and going. I’s to the point where I really don’t feel like painting it would do it justice, I feel like it’s great the way it is…so what’s the point???
I don’t know, I might end up painting it but it just seems like a waist of time.
either way, I really like the image I wanted to share it with you all

yesss!!!!
this was such a fun cover
It’s the second Hack/Slash cover Ive done and I cant wait to see it printed!!!
I think I spent more time on trying to make it look old then I actually spent on the illustration (figure)
I’m really happy with the way it turned out
hope you guys like it

One of the covers I did for The Unknown series made it to the top 100 covers of the decade. Some really cool covers here, take a look

http://io9.com/5436373/100-amazing-comic-covers-from-the-last-ten-years

they are in alphabetical order
Happy browsing!!

So I woke up pretty early this morning to start a cover for a novel that was commissioned a few days ago. (cant say what it is, don’t ask)
Before I start a big project I usually loosen up by sketching random stuff (mostly woman).
Well I started sketching this face, then did a little more…and a little more. 4 hours later I’m scanning in ink blotches and black chalk dust.
I HAVE ART A.D.D!!!!!
This was pretty fun because it’s traditional mediums scanned in then collaged together using photoshop. I cut around some of the color and line to make it look slightly more sharp edged and manipulated the pinks and yellows to be a but more bright and did most of the value changes digitally too. Oh yeah, and the pink hair lines are digital…. So I guess it’s actually Digital…kinda, yeah I guess so.
Anyway, this was just for fun and therapy for the soul
Love it! that’s me telling you :)

Tattoo design for a 3/4’s sleeve
Now I’m not super into doing tattoo designs,
1: because I know tattoo artists like handling their own work. and
2: Because I don’t expect the buy to pay much for a preliminary design.
But this was an exception. I was approached by a fellow artist who wanted me to combine Mucha with my own style. Having a full Mucha sleeve myself I thought this would be fun. So I took it on! I referenced the Flowers and the 3 girls from multiple Mucha books and added the rest.
It was really fun, the drawing is huge, 18″x24″. It took me forever. I’m not used to drawing so much stuff in one composition, If you know my work you know what I mean.
It was fun to go back to one of my favorite artist and rediscover how f*ckn awesome he was!!!
I added some cool stuff like splatters and paint streaks just for fun, It wont be apart of the final tattoo, I’m just so used to “print” that I had to add stuff to it.

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This is the 3rd cover to Nola
The whole serious was really fun to do.
I love creating these still, powerful images, I think they work really well for this character too.
Thanks to BOOM Studios! for letting me do these.

Had some fun with this piece
it’s just colored pencils and a but of oil on Rives toned BFK paper
Had to do some digital work on it, had to make the top larger for the logo, so a lot of cut and pasting
I do dig the background though kinda spontaneous.

It’s the cover for a gamer convention book (RPG) that’s happening this weekend in Atlanta….That’s about all I know, ha

hope youall like it!