Brownstones to Red Dirt- Francis Vallejo

What's up friends! This piece above (4.5 x 5.5 inches, mixed media) was created for the Brownstones to Red Dirt charity auction. The goal is to raise enough funds to build a school for orphans in Sierra Leone and create a library for the youth in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

It's for a great cause, and the line up is stacked! Bidding opens March 6th and closes March 13th. A great chance to snag a piece of original art from terrific artists at a reasonable price. Follow the official blog for more details.

take care,

-francis

Sketch Exploration 6- Edward Kinsella

Sketch Exploration- Peter Wonsowski

Marceline, for a tribute book (and possibly poster) for Cartoon Network's "adventure time"

Sketches 3-Francis Vallejo

Some more warm-up sketches!

I've had a great beginning to 2010! A number of terrific situations have arose. I'll announce them officially soon.

take care,

-francis

Scott Brundage- Sketches 3

Subway sketches and exercises from a sketchbook I just finished out. I keep a variety of pens on me and see what each is capable of, or more accurately, what I'm capable of with them. Hope you enjoy.





-S

Private Commission- Francis Vallejo

This piece was a blast (pun intended...ayo!). It was done for the esteemed Skottie Young. I've followed his career for a while now, and have always really been into his work. So when I was asked to do a pin-up of his character "Bernard the World-Destroyer" for his new art book, I flipped out!!

Basically Bernard has been sent to Earth to study it before he destroys it. He comes to find out Kanye West is a rogue agent from Viltron Nine sent to take control of earth's people. In my picture we find Bernard busting into the studio as Kanye is recording his newest jam...haha.

Hope you digg it Skottie!

take care,

-francis

Star Wars Prelims- Doug Cowan

I recently did three new pieces of art for Topps' Star Wars Galaxy 5 trading card set. This series is set to go on sale later this week, so I'll be posting my final art shortly.

In the meantime, below are some of my preliminary sketches that were submitted to Topps and Lucasfilm.

Being that I was only able to do three of these, it would be fun to finish up some of the discarded ideas down the road.

To see more prelims, check out the personal blog here.

Thanks,
Doug

Baba Yaga Sketches- Scott Brundage

Been shooting around ideas for a Baba Yaga painting. I knew nothing about her or her story aside from being a witch, Russian and living in the forest in a hut on chicken legs. So before doing any research I started going off that to see what happened, then slowly adding more educated images from looking up her folklore.

I figure posting this will get me to actually follow through with the painting in a somewhat timely fashion.

-Scott

Sketch Exploration 2- Andrew R. Wright

Sketch Exploration 5- Edward Kinsella

Over Ale & Alfred Hitchcock Magazine- Andrew R. Wright

Here are some new prints from Mr. Wright. The first of those is a poster for the beer Over Ale brewed by Half Acre (an awesome small Chicago establishment only underway for about 1.5 years).

The second is a way old piece (last November) for Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

The third is a monotype of my hero Vuillard.

-Illostop

Children's Work and Wall St Journal- Scott Brundage

These are some recently finished paintings for a children's story pitch I've been working on. The first two I showed the finished drawings for a while back and forgot to post the finishes. Well, now I'm fixing that problem:

And here are some even more recent images from the same series.

She likes quiltin.

And there is a quickie I did last week for Derick Gonzalez at The Wall Street Journal on blacklisting job applicants.

-Scott

Sketch Exploration 4- Edward Kinsella

To see more sketches, visit Ed's sketchblog.

Military Officer & Virginia Living- Tin Salamunic

Spot Illustration for the latest issue of Virginia Living.

-Tin