Flowers

I eventually want to do a whole expansive series of these flower paintings (orchids and nature are neat) but some super exciting freelance work has come my way. This project will have to wait!

Max Gentlemen in action

Find it on youtube!

Max Gentlemen: A Drinking Game

This is just some of the art I did for the Indie Arcade Game Jam. The Men Who Wear Many Hats and I only had one month to put together an arcade style game based around a bar or drinking theme. Here is a link to a downloadable version of the game.  You can also check out the game in the Indie City arcade cabinet at Emporium Arcade in Chicago. It's free to play and chock full of other fun beer fueled games by other Chicago Indie game studios.

Just use the L-R arrow keys to move your player to grab glasses of beer. Watch out for flying beer bottles, use the up-down arrows to move the grey hat so that you jump your hats with the spacebar. As you get beers (or elegance and manners) you will get extra hats and the screen will zoom out. 

Since the screen zooms out, it was important to have nice little extra surprises in the background. Like an elegant man with many hats or a saucy lady.

 These are some of the character concepts that I did for the game. The point was for the character to be handsome and dapper, but when he flexes his gentlemanly manners, he gets very muscular and extreme!

Newspeople

Hand Turkey!

It kills me that sometimes my job has me drawing hand turkeys.

Spooky!

I love Halloween!

Fancy Cafe

Another fun article illo for V1. I love it when I'm allowed to make whatever image would solve the basic prompt. This is about if niche restaurants are actually great additions to small communities.

Tossing This Out There

 

I really enjoyed working on this illo for an awesome writer for a super fun magazine. It's always very refreshing to get carte blanche around a topic and to work very quickly.

Working

It's crazy how hectic things have gotten. I need to regroup and charge at this again. Stay tuned. Things to follow.

Tumbled

I joined this.

More imagey things will be coming soon.

Society 6

I recently have created a page on Society 6. I'll be adding more items to it so keep checking my page to see if your favorite art thing is up. Drop me a line if you want a specific image uploaded for purchase.

Or just drop me a line to say "hi". That would also be lovely.

A link to my page will be on the right hand side of my blog. For always. So, there's that.

On another note, beyond commerce developments, I've had some other great things to keep my busy. Personal work done in my free moments will be put up soon.

Volume One

Late posting, but here are the illustrations that I did for Volume One's Best Of issue. I had a great time working with them on this project and I really enjoyed making these images. The article can be found here. {Volume One}

I made this.

Now its in my thinking corner with my awesome feline friend.

Good Morning

Being up until dawn is not always the worst thing. Here is a quick painting that I did of one particular morning.

In progress

Because of an exciting illustration project, this little darling will stay on the easel for a bit longer. But I'm glad to be getting back into my oil painting and tightening up my technique. I took a tiny break so I could reassess my direction. Now things are going wonderfully.

Also, batten down your hatches: a First Names Only store is a-brewin'. More on that later.