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Antique Fair Finds part 4
A quick post with works from a few more galleries at the recent 2013 Merchandise Mart International Antique Fair. Let’s start with this Andrew Loomis painting I found at R. Ege Antiques. Here’s a few from the Post Road Gallery. Note the Vedder fireback! These last few are from the Richard ...
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Shogun Rising KickStarter
Hi friends and family, I’m part of a group of artists and writers putting together an awesome graphic novel, Shogun Rising. We’re crowd funding it through KickStarter. I could really use your support for this project. It’s been a lot of fun to work on so far and I can’t wait to add more to ...
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Antique Fair Finds part 3
Continuing with some of the amazing art at the recent 2013 Merchandise Mart International Antique Fair. One of the dimensional antique dealers, Best of France Antiques, had some samurai armor, some rusty european armor, and giant puppets. But the best items they had were a family of painters manequins, or lay figures. These were the manequins artists would ...
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Antique Fair Finds part 2
Continuing with more art from the 2013 Merchandise Mart International Antique Fair. I found some amazing pieces from the Rehs Galleries. The painting that drew me in was the Stobart. I had never seen an original of his before. More in the series: Antique Fair Finds part 1 Antique Fair Finds part 3 Antique ...
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Antique Fair Finds part 1
The 2013 Merchandise Mart International Antique Fair was this past weekend. And the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) was also going on. I knew I was going to have to split up my weekend checking out both events. The trip to the Antique Fair was well worth the trip. Think of them as pop-up ...
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Nick Fury workshop
The theme of my latest workshop was The Avengers’ Nick Fury. Our model had the full costume and lots of fun props. I opted for no jacket during the long pose. The outfit underneath had a lot of character to it. I was hoping the eye patch was enough to place the character. I’m sure ...
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Painting at the Zoo
Recently the Plein Air Painters of Chicago met up at the Lincoln Park Zoo on a beautiful Saturday morning in April. I regularly run along the lake front and the zoo is always my favorite detour from the running path. We have a regular route through the zoo to see as many animals as ...
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5 Great (and free!) Illustration Portfolio themes
There are thousands of free WordPress themes out there. The themes that are simple and clean that work well for an illustration portfolio bring that number down quite a bit. These five are but a few of some quality themes out there that would work for a portfolio. I’ve picked these in particular though because ...
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Improve your Illustration Portfolio Website
Recently on Awesome Horse Studios Livestream show we did portfolio reviews. We covered many different aspects of the portfolios and one big section went to the actual portfolio site itself. Once the show is available online I’ll replace some text here with a link. So, that’s my nifty way to get you back to ...
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Information for the Aspiring Illustrator
I wanted to create an area I could direct aspiring illustrators and students needing to fullfil an interview assignment. In this article you will find links to other interviews I have done as well as questions I’ve answered in the past that as sure to be relevant. I have no doubt that over ...
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Elves love steampunk too!
Alarla Nruneree illustration for Dragon Magazine #420. One of the many things I learned from the amazing illustration instructors at the Illustration Master Class was that it is OK to change an art order to your liking. It’s not as simple as it seems though. The art order is the comfortable box we can live ...
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Like a Boss – Flaming Skeletons for Immortalis Moblie Game
I had the opportunity to work on a few bosses for this mobile card game, Immortalis. At least I think they are only bosses. I’ve only found them in the game as bosses so far. They didn’t require backgrounds so I assumed they were going on a layer that was being used for multiple sources. ...