Wonder Woman - Final

It's never easy to figure out if I'm truly done with a painting or not. I'm constantly tempted to go back in and tweak it here and there. But for now, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

Wonder Woman - Work in Progress

 

Trying something a little different here. I'm using a new set of Photoshop brushes, as well as trying a few other new techniques. I still have quite a ways to go, but I'm liking my progress thus far.

Indiana Jones

I painted Indiana Jones, just for the fun of it. This is about five hours in Photoshop.

Harry Reid

There's a new tell-all book out called Game Change that spills all sorts of behind the scenes gossip surrounding the campaign trail for the 2008 election. One of the more controversial stories that came out of the book surrounded some racially insensitive comments Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly said regarding then candidate Barack Obama. This is Photoshop, over a pencil sketch. I think it demonstrates the influence the great Mort Drucker has had on my work.

Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker has been one of my favorite writers ever since I was a kid. I've read nearly every book he's written (and that's a lot of books). For those who don't know, his most famous creation is the fictional detective Spenser, but throughout his life he wrote many, many other novels as well, mostly in the mystery genre, but also westerns, historical fiction, love stories and even kid lit. He died today.  He  reportedly died at his desk while he was working on his latest novel. In honor, here's a speed painting I did of the man. About 90 minutes in Photoshop.

Barack Revised

I made some subtle revisions to this image to correct the overall symmetry. In reality, faces are not symmetrical, but ever still, there were areas on this portrait that needed tweaking in order to improve the overall likeness. One thing you can, and should, do as a digital painter is to periodically flip your entire image horizontally every so often. This will invariably show you parts of your image that don't look right. I did so here, and realized I needed to move one of the ears up and nudge the mouth over a bit to bring it more in line with the horizontal and vertical axes. I also went in and smoothed out the suit texture and added a bit of subtle texture to the skin to give it a punch of reality.

Barack Obama

There comes a time in every caricaturist's life when they decide to paint the President in office. Here's Barack Obama in glorious black and white. This took about four hours in Photoshop. I'll probably go back some time soon and add color, which is considerably easier to do once I have the black and white tones established, as you can see here.