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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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Getting better at art is like a video game
Recently on a Facebook group the my team at Awesome Horse Studios runs someone asked a really good question that I struggled with. I thought I’d share it here so it the information didn’t get buried I know I’m not the only one who had or has these issues. I know more students are out ...
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A Successful Plein Air weekend
I had the opportunity to spend some time in the country to paint and work on some illustration projects. The excursion was a test run for a future project. I was able to spend a few hours of the three days I was in Missouri painting outdoors. The first two days of painting produced a ...
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Fires of the Desert
Fires of the Desert; Cover for the 4th book in the Children of the Desert series by Leona Wisoker. I needed to convey the main character in a way I thought would really tie into the title and capture the spirit of the book. For inspiration I turned to the romantics and orientalists. Frederic Leighton’s Flaming ...
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Faun paintings from my recent workshop
At the Figurative Illustration Workshop the June theme was the “faun” or “satyr”. The costume came together almost without a hitch. There was a last minute dash to track down a UPS truck that had the horns 30 minutes before the workshop was to start – whew! Tim and Brittany brought their dog, Maggie, ...
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Black Swan
The Black Swan was the theme for the latest Figurative Illustration Workshop. I painted a “white” swan earlier for a charity auction. When I was returning a costume for an illustration commission they showed me they had just put the Black Swan into the retal stock and I knew right then we were going ...
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The Toy Hunter – January Schedule
The theme this month is Kisma, Toy Hunter. Those cute, cuddly, soft, and fuzzy creatures are dangerous and need to hunted down. Figurative Illustration Workshop Friday January 20 hosted @ Platform Studios 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm 1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 304 Chicago, IL 60622 $20 cash or credit. If you have any questions ...
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FIW 6 – Spearwoman
At the last Figurative Illustration Workshop we drew and painted the Spearwoman. I was totally inspired by my friend, Felipe Echevarria. He has a book of Spearwomen paintings that I just love. Thankfully our model was just as excited about the project as I was. It wasn’t nearly as involved as the zombie makeup but ...
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Zombies!
At my Figurative Illustration Workshop we drew and painted zombies. I had two great SFX makeup artists come in to work on the model, Scott Mitchell and Justine Losoya. They did a tag team makeup application and made one heck of an awesome zombie with the short time they had to work. A full house ...
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Ceremony
This recent illustration had plenty of challenges. And one of the biggest was perspective. I’ve never had a solid course in perspective so I work on the process when time permits and some on-the-job-training. To speed things up I could easily have used SketchUp to build a basic structure and just add details. But ...