Quick comic based on a photo of a friend

Saw cool pic of a friend on facebook and made this one shot comic page.

some sketches

These above are studies of Phil Hale paintings

This is a montage of 10 minute value studies done at our art lunch thing at work.

New beast for Project X

This is the first concept for a new monster that Team 3D Strikeforce 5000 is going to incorporate into the forthcoming awesomeness.

weak-day

My 4 month old laptop died yesterday and took with it all of my art from that time. Al I have is the images I've posted online various places.

I want to get it replaced under warranty but that prevents me from opening the case to get at the hard drive to download the files.. Conundrum.

p.s. Iron Man 2 at the Castro theater = very good. Best theater in SF.

show stuff

The show was interesting. Lots of people came through and there was a ton of good feedback. I had to figure out on the fly how to price stuff and sortof failed because I wasn't ready to sell work for the first few hours. Not really my goal to sell anything but it's great to have someone appreciate something you made.

6 months 'til the next event - time enough to cull the crap from my herd of artwork and have a really strong set.

Starting soon - after taking some time to chill out and do some no-deadline work.

Open Gallery this weekend in San Francisco

This Friday opening. 

Through this weekend.

Free wine and snacks! Tons of art, tons of people.

I'll have some horrors up on the walls and a bunch of sketches inside my gallery. Come say hello!

-Luke

My uncles

Drew this picture of my uncles at the most recent family gathering. No one could see them but me. I love my uncles.

Some concept art

Warrior angel concepts. Personally I'm tempted to make any known traditional figures into inhuman monsters (who knew they were actually hideous?!) but for these guys I kept them humanoid but with a bit of malevolvence.

Not peaceful and mild but more ancient and dangerous.

Goth dragon - for sketchaholic challenge

Done on an Ipod with Sketchbook Mobile. It can do a lot but the brush size switching is pretty slow. hard to use it without all the shortcuts I have set in Photoshop.

Thoughts with no art

I'd love to be the guy who updates his blog every day but the only stuff that I'm proud of is under NDA so I have no idea when I can show any of it. 2011?

My portoflio looks like I made it in 1998 and my blog is a ghost town! My resolution for the year is to get this frankenstein rolling and update more instead of having to make excuses for this archive of doodles from my months of unemployment.

The challenge this year will be to do my best work on the TBA game AND develop my personal project in time for Comi-Con.

I also really want to do some concept work for a film. "Design a badass crate" would be cool as long as my concept gets on screen. For that, I need a living portfolio.. Waiting for lightning so I can shock this corpse into a villager-eating monster.

side face

Revised this one a bit once I got better reference.

Brenda in profile

big face

Carrion jiggler and a vinegar bottle

Auncient One

At work we did a "giant monster" themed sketch session.

A day of thanks

Thanks for the fingers, Santa. Without which I could not tickle the harpstrings.

Zomb

A quick zombie gunslinger offering meat

The birth and death of Supershitty Comics

At a cafe today I decided to write a comic. No planning. No "good" art. Just get that shit done!

I drew three square cells and then put some super simple characters in random poses then added dialogue without knowing what they were going to say next.

The first and last 3 issues of GEIST, here for you now.

Taking the tank out for a spin

Guy in the shadows

A skin tone sketch.

Ronald

Baby summoner

kid head - octopus body

a new face. Trying to get some skin tones down. Angry boarding schooler.

Pope Innocent x master study - portrait

she knows how to use 'em

new stuff

Character concept

Somewhat deformed character concept (minus some text and titling)

Little Hawk

cafe doodle

a naked old man

Neptune with a shark bite.

magician poster

I was looking for something to do yesterday and saw a post on craigslist from a dude who needed a business card. He was a magician with a crappy website so I emailed him and made this (had to be b/w due to the card stock he was using.) Basically worked pro bono.

I tried to capture some of the old style classic magic posters and practice a little graphic design which I usually avoid. Came out pretty cool and he was happy.

The final size is business card but this is 1/4 work size. The text is all his request (he really wanted to show how "green" his Magic biz was)

Parambulator

I felt the need to do something with more than 2 legs so here it is. Still trying to keep it in control during the transition from scanned pencil sketch to painted. There are so many unintentional marks and textures that gradually get painted over even if they are cool. Hmm. I think ultimately the way to go is with a simpler sketch then paint in the base through details so there isn't the remorse of painting over something that could stand alone but that doesn't work in the final piece.
On to storyboards..

some new stuff I posted on my portfolio

YAK!

Keith Thompson has a cool look, sortof like Wayne Barlowe but not as good. Here is me trying to do a quadruped in that style

a soldier and a beast of burden

done!

my first device

I guess it is just a flashlight but it looke much more complicated

an angry turk?

Some parts of this guy came out as intended but there are some glaring bad perspective parts that really bother me. Values and contrast are 80% of what I wanted, on to the next I guess.

the original sketch

pencil drawings on Sunday

square brush quick concept