Shadow Cat and Colossus
Since I’ve been showing pretty steady updates of the Shadow Cat and Colossus piece I thought it’d be fun to put it all in an animated gif. From thumbnail to final, you can watch the piece come together one step…
Shadow Cat and Colossus: Part V
After staring at it all day, I really only found a few small (but critical) moves to make to bring this piece to a satisfactory finish. Of course the more I look at it the more I’ll find that I…
Shadow Cat and Colossus: Part IV
I think this piece may be done, but I’m going to sleep on it. Chances are I’ll find a few things here and there to fiddle with to make the piece stronger — I usually do. (Well, I usually fiddle…
Shadow Cat and Colossus: Part III
After a little more time things are looking pretty solid. If I had to guess, I’d say I’m about halfway done at this point. But sadly it’s the back half that — as I slow down to make better choices…
Shadow Cat and Colossus: Part II
Here’s the first in progress shot as I was plugging away at this piece. Most of the hard work with these is figuring out the value strings — once that’s done it’s just a matter of rendering, which, really, is…
Shadow Cat and Colossus: Part I
I’m going to try something new over the next couple of days; I feel as if I’ve been posting a lot of sketch work recently, and not a whole lot of finishes. So, I’m going to post some progress shots…
Slow and Steady
The days are slipping away towards Rose City Comic Con a lot faster than I’m getting things done; there are just never enough hours in the day. I don’t think I’m going to be able to get all the work done…
A Different Way of Thinking.
I forgot to post this last night — and of course by “forgot” I mean I was up too late and I got too tired to do anything except crawl into bed. I have a tendency to think of things…
Good bye, Sanity!
There are thirty-seven days left until the Rose City Comic Con, and last week I was concerned that I wasn’t going to have enough to show. My original plan was to spend the last two weeks in July drawing and…
Con Preview
It’s getting harder and harder to share things without spoiling the surprise for Rose City Comic Con, but I just finished this drawing and I’m too excited not to share it! I’m in for quite the challenge finishing this piece…
the whimsical illustrations of Valentine Barker