The Friend Magazine - March 2013

This is an Illustration that I did for the cover of the Friend Magazine. I went through tons of revisions creating it, sometimes scrapping hours of work to rework it again. I was given full reign to do whatever I wanted and so I wanted it to be great. For me, that's usually a recipe for disaster. Looking at it again there are plenty of things I wish that I could fix on it, and maybe I will, but I am happy with what got printed.

This + This

I found a great Getty Images pic (the girl) and combined it with the beautiful lighting from "La Luna" by Pixar.

Here's a little digital study that I did in about 45 min. I did it as warm up sketch. At the original size you can really see how loose it is, but scaled down it looks a lot tighter.

Here's an old digital painting portrait that I did as a demo for my students at SLCC. Thanks to Rita for posing for it.

'Pisces' This is a work in progress and I'll post updates to it as it gets finished. It's for the monthly challenge at work on the topic of 'Zodiac'.

Another freelance project. This is a cover to Chico News & Review's '2008 Year in Review' issue which comes out this week.

Here's another Digital 'N.C. Wyeth' study. I was amazed at all of the color variation in his piece of which I tried to capture here. The other thing I learned in recreating this is how the purplely color in the clouds is really the same hue as the yellow/orange color only desaturated.

Here's a little cover illustration for an article on "bigotry and resentment towards illegal immigrants" for Chico News and Review which is a local weekly paper in Chico California.