My plan is to crowdsource a plan.

My painting workspace, in the afternoon!

Current watercolor work-in-progress!

I got a new easel and am finally doing some watercolor practice! (Taken with instagram)

Work-in-progress of a fire-mage character. It’s a contest entry/concept art for a game I play (Heroes of Newerth.) Still got a lot to work on…!

Yesterday I made a bet with a friend of mine, an amateur film critic who wanted to get more writing done this year. So he’s agreed to write 100 reviews/articles by the end of the year, if I do a 100 film-related illustrations. If one of us flakes out, we owe the other $500. Then again, if we both succeed, nobody owes anything. ;P

After a lot of thinking about how I could refine the project, I decided to do 100 movie poster illustrations. I know poster redesigns are all the rage now, but I don’t mean any redesign or the popular minimalistic interpretation - I mean really involved paintings and illustrations that capture the “essence” of a film, something you don’t normally see in commercial movie posters anymore. Hoping that this project will challenge me artistically this year, and if I succeed I’ll have a really nice collection to add to my portfolio. Plus, it’s fun.

I’ll be posting all completed work along with process shots here, as always. This is a WIP of the first film I chose to do, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s all painted from scratch so it still needs quite a bit of refinement, and the text and titles are of course, not at all finalized and are just there for placement. I’m still undecided as to whether to do text at all. Opinions?

I would love to hear your thoughts and I’m totally willing to take suggestions for films. :)

DEERSTALKER SHERLOCK

It’s a work-in-progress…! After I watched A Scandal in Belgravia and also saw that Benedict photo floating around I JUST HAD TO. When I finish this I’ll make another post and will definitely have prints available at my shop, if ya’ll are interested. Haven’t decided whether I’ll color it or not.

Something I started painting last night, hopefully I’ll finish it up this weekend. Enchanted is actually like the best movie!!

Portrait of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, really looking forward to Fincher’s remake.

Rough painting, inspired by Spirited Away.

Work-in-progress from last night, hopefully I’ll finish up tonight; this a painting for a certain Rachel-obsessed friend… ;)

Work in progress that I want to abandon, I’VE HAD IT WITH THIS

A work-in-progress piece, collaboration with my friend Lucas de Alcântara. We’re thinking of making it a t-shirt design eventually, although I gotta finish it up…! Gonna call it The Magnificent Flying Flea Circus or something.

Hi everyone! My friend Alex and I have been working on this Harry Potter tee design, which I’ve shown a WIP of before - as you can see, we obviously couldn’t finish in time for the DH2 premiere (mostly my fault,) but at least have progressed much further from the first sketch!

ANY FEEDBACK, COMMENTS, CRITIQUE IS GREATLY APPRECIATED. We absolutely want to know what you guys think. Is the concept understandable? Does it look cool enough? Would you wear it on a shirt? Any general suggestions?

EDIT: GUYS THIS DESIGN ISN’T FINISHED, IT’S JUST A DRAFT. That’s why certain parts look sketchy or blurry.

So many people ask me for tutorials and stuff but since I’m bad at writing those, I’m uploading some process shots of my latest painting which hopefully some people will find helpful or interesting. All my digital work is drawn in Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

You can view the finished painting here: [ The Better Man ]

Ergh it’s either a WIP or a doodle depending on if I feel like finishing it later. My imagining of Dany Targaryen, no ref.