Adventure Visuals

Mad Jedi Okado

2008-04-21T16:02:00.000-07:00

Perhaps I shouldn't call him a Jedi ... maybe he's just a crazy space gremlin. I always thought it would be cool to have an evil brother for Yoda. I call him 'Okado' ... I don't know why, it just sounds cool. This was one of my first digital paintings (done using a mouse, back in 2001) I have since re-worked it a bit ... not all that much actually.

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Retro Rocket Hero Poster

2008-04-21T15:42:00.000-07:00

Here's the first promo poster for Retro Rocket Hero. The first comic sampler was released last fall, hopefully issue two will get underway this spring. The photo of RRH has been digitally over-painted, and the large moon is also digital (photoshop). The lunar landscape was ... ummm ..."borrowed" from the great special effects painter Chesley Bonestell.

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Indiana Jones Artifact Poster

2008-04-21T15:27:00.000-07:00

This started as a practice sketch/speed painting from a photo of Harrison Ford in the new movie. About 20 hours later, this is how it looks. It's still not quite finished. The surrounding artifacts are from various photos, which have been tweaked in photoshop. The figure of Indy is completely digitally painted ... I had to paint in his legs as they were hidden in the original photo image I painted from.

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Ramones

2008-04-21T15:05:00.000-07:00

I did this WAY back in 1994 ... it's traditional acrylic/airbrush on 20"x30" illustration board. I managed to get the painting to a Ramones show, met the band, AND had it autographed.

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Vintage Dinosaur 1

2008-04-21T14:59:00.000-07:00

I love the old fashioned dinosaur illustrators like Charles Knight and Zdenek Burian. This was coloured in photoshop ... it has a nice watercolour feel to it, I think. I'll be including it in my dinosaur sketchbook if I ever get the money to have it published.

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Bettie's Bomb

2008-04-21T14:54:00.000-07:00

The ultimate Hot Rod and the ultimate Pin up girl! This piece took about 8 hrs, done in Photoshop from start to finish.

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Vader vs. Raider

2008-04-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a 6-8 page Star Wars comic story ( doing the writing and artwork) for a sample submission. This is the first and last page. My buddy Eduardo pointed out that there probably wouldn't be big, fluffy,
water-filled clouds on a desert planet. He's exactly right, but damn, I like painting fluffy clouds!

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Eye of Cthulu

2008-04-21T14:26:00.000-07:00

This started as a quick little sketch from several years back. I scanned it , coloured in Photoshop in a few hours. Please do not use this image without permission.

Stegosaurs

2007-11-18T09:48:00.001-08:00

Almost finished this painting ... it's for a dinosaur book I'm presently working on. It started as a photograph of a clay sculpture I made several years ago.

The Great Grisset

2007-11-18T09:22:00.001-08:00

Here's a recently completed painting of mine. The creature was originally drawn by Bobby Chiu of Imaginism Studios who was my digital painting instructor last year. I added the element of size to the character, and completed the painting in photoshop CS2. It may be difficult to see, but there are tiny houses, barns, trees and roads at his feet.

"Outside of town there sits a Great Grissit, I don't know how you could possibly miss it. "

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Nov18 2007

2007-11-18T09:12:00.000-08:00

This is my first post on blogger, which I am completely unfamiliar with. Please bear with me as I struggle thru learning how to use this somewhat cryptic blogger/post thing. I'll try to post my artwork fairly regularly once I get use to this.