Painting For My Muse: April 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

Nehvahn Vasco D'lavar at Night

This illustration was done for the character I played in the AD&D campaign setting, Ravenloft.

Medium: Graphite on sketch paper
Dated: 1993
Original size: 12"x 9"

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Lost Boy

This image was commissioned by Shadowfire Press as an interior illustration for the 1996 edition of the magazine (Im)mortal.

Medium: graphite on bristol paper
Dated: 1996
Original size: 14"x 11"

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

This illustration captures a beautiful female vampire bathing in the desires of her bloodlust! This illustration was the third to be done for my gothic vampire series, Red Death, drawn exclusively in black and white with a touch of red.

This image was used as an interior for the 1997 edition of An Ancient Death is the Most Beautiful, a vampire chapbook.

Medium: Graphite, Ink and Prismacolor on sketch paper
Dated: 1995
Original size: 14"x 11"

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Coffee Mug

Still life drawings are done slowly and the purpose is to capture not only the correct proportions of an object but to capture as much volume and shadow detail as possible in order to give the impression of what the object looks like in real life.

This painting was my first still life done using acrylic.

Monday, April 2, 2018

Eric Northman's Most Treasured Possessions

In the Fall of 2011 I discovered HBO tv series True Blood and The Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. I fell in love with the relationship between Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse in the books and decided to create an illustration about them. At this time I was also taking a Drawing I class and this became my final assignment.

Here is the original sketch:

Here is the current progress shot: