Return of the monster!

Just when you thought the monster was dead, he comes crawling back through the cobwebs and bone fragments scattered along the crypt floors! My sincere apologies to anyone that has stopped by my blog in the last while- I have been terrible about updating, but once again I am hoping to correct that and start adding more of my morbid creations here. I finally updated the look of this blog which was also WAY overdue!

Things finally seem to have settled down with my employment situation, as I am approaching my 1 year anniversary as a Graphic Designer for the Deseret News, a newspaper based in Salt Lake City, Utah. I have also been very busy working on a BIG horror related project that I really can't talk much about at the moment, but with a little luck and a little more time I should be able to start revealing more about it soon.

In the meantime, I will try to post some of the limited artwork I have done recently, and I am really making an effort to get back into the swing of doing more artwork, including more bottle cap monsters! To get things started, here's a look at a sketch book page I filled a few months ago- I am almost finished with the following page in the same sketchbook, and will be posting it here soon as well. As usual, this was all drawn with various Pigma Micron felt tip markers in my moleskine sketchbook.

Looking forward to hearing from my Mordacious friends soon, so as usual STAY SCARY and I will be seeing you here soon!

Some Unfinished Business

When I am busy checking out other people's artwork, one of my favorite things is to see some of their works in progress or sketches. Hopefully, the same applies to the fine folks that take time to visit my blog because I sure post a lot of unfinished pieces here. The main problem I have at the moment in my artistic career is that I am not working full time as an artist. I have just a few minutes every day to sneak in a little sketch time at work, unless I happen to be stuck in a meeting which happens quite a bit, providing me with a good chance to draw and sketch without getting in trouble. Usually I end up with a lot of quick sketches and rough unfinished pieces, but often I find that there are some great things lurking in those sketches, and I can often revisit them later to finish them or use them as a basis for a detailed digital painting. This particular drawing was done with Pigma Micron felt tip markers, and I am sure I intended to have a lot more crazy monsters coming out of this mess, but never got around to finishing it up. I do like a lot of this though, and thought it was worthy of a post here on my blog. Let me know what you think!

Long Boring Meeting Sketches

Just a couple of quick sketches from a dull meeting at work. Pentel felt tip markers.

More freaks from the asylum in my head

Just put this together for my Deviantart page. I had another pile of recent sketches (with the exception of the DBT zombie- the guy with the inverted baseball cap...he's a bit older than the rest of these)that I wanted to get posted. I dig being able to scan in my sketches and compile them all together like this. I came up with the weird retro green background and added the odd shapes to put the sketches in. Many of these are "blob sketches" which is a great way to get the creativity flowing, and others are just a result of sitting down with the sketch book and some Micron pens. Lately I have been drawing much more than usual, and I am enjoying it immensely. Nothing like a good drawing session to make everything better!!

Mordacious Sketches Series

While I am at work, there are many opportunities for me to sneak in some sketch time. After several months, these random sketches end up scattered across lots of note books, meeting note pages and on the back of printer pages. The other night I gathered up a bunch of these sketches and scanned them all, took em into Photoshop and started making some pages filled with these sketches. This is the result. I don't take these too seriously, some of them I really like, others are pretty fast and lame, but thats the point of sketches isn't it? If not I guess we would call them "Portfolio Books" rather than sketch books. I find it enjoyable to see some of these sketches again, as after a month or two I forget that I even drew them, so it is fun to see them and wonder what on earth I was thinking about when I drew them. Some of these may have been posted on this blog in the past, but I wanted to compile all of them together, so there should be plenty of new stuff as well. Hope you like them! Lots more to come!!