monarch.

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heyo, made some time tonight to do a bit of art. This started out as a drawing of a girl but ended up here. go fig :) mixed in a bit of butterfly pics here and there...mostly illustration though.

ahem.

No point making excuses. but life overtook. I've let a lot of emails slide too. You ever have that garage that needs cleaning, and you keep thinking about it, but as everyday passes you feel like its getting messier and messier so then one day you just stop looking? This blog became that garage to me.

its a new year though, and i need to do some house cleaning. and i will finally get to the garage.

*gasp*

coming up for air. oh my busy.

We're in the middle of our quarterly deadlines at work...things should be dying down in the next couple weeks though and I'll have time to do some art again at home. There's a bunch of new things I want to try and am looking forward to having some free time.

fling.

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A quick sketch I worked on recently. It started out as just squiggly lines till i saw some hair and i went with it. I also seem to be on an upward facing camera kick with this and "untitled". This was in Photoshop CS2, I was also messing around with the brush settings to try to get the individual bristles look.

sup

** crickets **

Been super busy with some deadlines at work lately. I just wanted to chime in and say that I'll be posting some things in the upcoming days. Its tough I guess knowing how often to update. I started this as a post whenever deal but things got off to a really good start and I felt like I had to keep posting to maintain the experience for repeat visitors but at some point that starts feeling forced and I think the quality of the work will dip. I also have a ton of email I have fallen behind on, so if you wrote me please forgive the delay in replying.

untitled

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I had done this last week and wasn't sure if I should post it or not but I guess thats the point of this blog so here it is. I couldn't decide on a title because anything I thought of was adding a lot more meaning to the image and it wasn't speaking for itself. So here it is unfiltered.

Nico Bellic

Niko Bellic of Grand Theft Auto IV

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Here is an image I did for Official Playstation Magazine UK which is in their latest issue. I had a hard time getting it to look exactly like the game model because I started out with an illustration that I realized later was a bit different than the game. So after the fact, I started messing with it to try to get him closer to the game model.

This image involved a lot more illustration on my part than the other ones too since I was changing the lighting compared to my source image.

Anyway, enjoy!

* UPDATE * ugh,.... you'd think after all this time I would have spelled Niko right. thanks Brian.