This is a second piece done in the same ‘Girls with Oversized Insects’ theme as the first and a companion piece.  I’ll probably end up doing a third to round out the set.

Same process - Photoshop sketch, printed as blue linework, reworked in pencil, scanned back into Photoshop and colored.  Same color format as well - analogous color scheme with the insect (and eye color) as a small complimentary accent.  The background is a soft pastel brush.

Original pencil:

Final piece is 9.5 x 14.5″.  Click for a larger version:

Here’s a piece I’ve been trying to finish for a few months now.  I knew I wanted an stable triangle composition and to pop out the skin tones as much as possible and hide a central object in shadow… a black bee on a dark dress would usually be considered a contrast issue, but whatever - I liked it anyway, and the wings and fuzz help it pop out just a little.  The dress changed a few times, the ribbon was a hat for a while and the bee went back and forth becoming a house fly a few times before deciding to stay bee-like.

It almost ended up a full digital painting, but I stuck to comic style rendering and limited things to only three tones to keep a comic cell-shaded feel.

Initial sketches and first stab at a color scheme:

Final piece is 9.5 x 14.5″ Click for a larger version.

Yell if anyone is interested in a print.  I may do a small run if a few people are interested.

Here’s a piece I created as the splash page for photographer/engineer/designer Gabriel Lopez over at gabriellopez.net.  He had quite a sites he wanted to showcase - his own business, several photo collections, a WordPress blog and a few other random interests, and wanted to present a unified navigation without a boring laundry-list of text.  I ended up drawing this portrait over a toned grid of activities, and let the visitors pick a section that interests them (click for a larger 203k version).

Something more recent - here’s a few sketches in charcoal, the first two are one minute gestures, the others were 20 minutes.  I took a figure drawing class over the past few months at Harvard Square a few blocks down on the T.

On the illustration end of things, here’s a wallpaper I created for Conduit Labs’ new site Loudcrowd. This background sits behind the site UI and works in a few of the themes the site is working with - music, hot chicks, gaming elements, and a dash ‘o punk rock (click for full version 150k).

I still can’t give away any more details, but Loudcrowd.com is just a few weeks shy of an alpha release to get some close friends beating on the new architecture.