Mechanized Fluff-ball of Terror

Despite the prolonged radio silence, I am still around and continuing to draw and create. As proof, here is the MecHamster carving a swath of destruction through some hapless city:

terrifying, yet adorable

In other news, after a prolonged stint as a goblin rookery, the Studio is finally almost organized. Just need to clear out the last nest of the buggers.

I'm trying to get them to move into the attic or the basement.

Grisaille

Muse helping me experiment with an idea to reproduce some techniques that I have done with the Copic gray-scale markers (warm, cool and neutral).

It's been a while since I've drawn some of my old characters (Muse, Rayne, Obadiah, as well as some from several of my first sketchbooks) so plan to see them here in the next couple of posts.

Linum usitatissimum

Here's one of the paintings that I was talking about last post. I'll have to set up a better rig at some point for better pictures.

"Helianthus annuus"

oil on canvas panel
-Work In Progress-

Technologic Trefoil

Shadow Throne

Judgement

Art Suplies

I swung by Jerry's Artist Outlet in West Orange, just to check out what they had in stock. Ended up picking up a bunch of supplies for almost dirt cheep.

Canvas panels: 12 6x8 for $0.72 each, 12 8x10 for $0.88 per, 12 9x12 for $1.01 each. All told I paid $31.32, which at list price it would have cost me $69.00. How could I not buy em?

Oil Paint: 38mL tube of Alizarin crimson for $2.99, list price $6.25

I am definately going to keep an eye on this place and keep and the other open for sales and discounts.

DragonCon Preperations, vol. 2

Ok, teasers are done, getting clothing pulled together and packed.

Excited to be heading off to Dragon*Con, first big convention since 2006 when I went to Otakon and MomoCon in Atlanta '08 (good thing about MomoCon was that it was free. Bad news, it was free).

Got a Flickr stream going, going to be uploading pictures from Dragon*Con there.

Will see what I can do about keeping you guys up-to date while I'm at the con. At the very least I'll have a post after the con. that's all for now.

Bloody Blue Screens and Bad-Ass Blogs

Well, crap.

When trying to scan the pics from Dr Sketchy's on Thursday, my work rig blue-screen'd on me. I've had it happen every once in a while so this doesn't bode particularly well.

Good news is that a friend of a friend is brilliant with building computers. Plan on talking to him when upgrading my systems so that I can customize it to what I'm going to need; High processor speed, lots of ram, high end graphics card are what I'm thinking. Going to talk to some people to get suggestions.

So, since there's no dawing from Dr Sketchy's for the moment, here's cool stuff from the wilds of the Internet.

• Gurney Journey, the blog of Dinotopia creator James Gurney. Fantastic for picking through the mind of a fantastic "Imaginative Realist".
• Newman's Art Blog, "naughty art, filthy fairytales and other perverted nonsense" by Ben Newman. NSFW at times, so be warned.
  
• Indistinguishable From Magic, by Aaron Diaz; the artist and author of Dresden Codak, which is an amazing comic which if you haven't heard of, for shame. If you haven't read it you should go do so, now. No seriously, go read it.