Keira Knightly- well sort of.....

I did a portrait of Keira Knightly as practice for digital painting, I was attempting to apply a technique called 'Flemish-style painting' in this. But this really just ended up being something completely my own once I got into the nitty gritty.

I don't think it look like her 100% but like the way it came out in the end. Anyways here she is :)

Weekly Comic

It's been awhile since I updated my weekly comic and Stitches is 'ithcin to make another appearance. So here's a comic to dedicated to the up and down weather here in Chicago.

Being in the middle of April and still seeing frost and rain, mixed with sunshine here and there, I couldn't help but make something to show just how crazy the weather can be here.

Well here it is and hope you like.

Cheers,

E

p.s. I might color it, but not sure so keep checkin' in

MJ drawing practice

I have been meaning to do full illustrations of famous people, my reason being it gives me another skill I can have to offer to those interested in buying my work.

That being said, I thought "Let me do a pic of a famous athlete (preferably from chi-town :)" And who better than His Airness-Michael Jordan. Funny thing was it was kinda hard to find a good picture of him in all his competitiveness, most were photos of his face or him dunking. But the pictures were either low-res or just didn't catch my eye....until I came across this one.

Finally I could start.
Here's the result...
And here's the same thing, adjusted in photoshop to see it a little better. Looking at it now the proportions are a bit off but the rendering came along nicely after some getting used to. All in all I'm pretty happy with it, hope you like it!

Tater Dog

So this post is definitely something different from the teddy bears and cool-looking characters that I usually post on my blog.

This time I revisited an old drawing from my college days, and here's a quick story....

I had an interesting chat with a couple of friends of mine once while visiting the school library. One of us said the word "tater dog", we all looked at each and started laughing. We didn't know what the hell a "tater dog" was, so we all took turns making jokes on what a tater dog would be (sorry but my old brain cant remember those jokes)

Anyways later that night I had an idea to make a sketch of what I thought a tater dog was, and I was thinking some sort of ugly creature that roams the country killing animals, much like what a chupacabra is to Mexicans.

So I did a drawing of a man and his boy (both with thick country accents) discovering a Tater Dog....and here's the result.....

Pretty crazy huh? I know. Well I came across it recently and couldn't help myself but scan it in and do an updated version....and here it is! Hope you like it....

Fenrir

So this is an old portfolio piece I did way back in 09', it was a bad attempt to try to do a Frazetta-esque werewolf illustration. The idea was to have a composition centered around a majestic werewolf with his minions surrounding him. In other words a bad-ass fantasy piece. I liked the concept but execution was so and so. I to take another crack at it.

This is the second attempt....and worse unfortunately. I tried to do rework the whole thing to make it more appealing but it ended blowing up in my face, thats what happens when you try to detail too early without finishing the sketch....so this time I decided to do everything in photoshop.
I feel this one is better than the rest, although its no Frazetta...its an improvement :) Hope you like it!

Aztec Warrior Revisited

So I continued working on the character from my last post. I detailed him more and liked for the most part how he came out, his costume could use more detail and pattern but I think the focus should be on his head, which is what I detailed the most. Well that's it for now, I plan on inking him again and maybe do some colors to see how he comes out :)

Weekly Doodle

Didn't post anything last week so I have 2 sketches in mind to post here....Here's my first one (a brief background, boring I know, but I'll be quick) back in school I did a character for a class called "Drawing and Characterization".

We had to make a character and work on it for a the whole quarter, making character sheets, backgrounds, a sculpture etc. Anyways I used him throughout my time in school, eventually using him in various classes.

I don't have images of the original but decided to bring the fella back, this time .....a little different. So after thinking about it I decided to do a stylized Aztec warrior for his redo. I found some awesome images for reference like these...


....and hence created this guy, still a wip (thats work-in-progress, if you illiterate like me). But planning on fleshing him out soon enough, hope you like. Crits and comments are welcome :)