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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 10:44AM
Here is a short narrated video of me sketching in oil on canvas. The painting is about 9 x 12 inches and was painted in about 2 hours. The oils were thinned wth a medium of 1 part stand oil to 5 parts turpentine, and occasionally thinned with just turpentine.
Enjoy~
Craig
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 9:55PM Another recent World of Warcraft trading card game painting from the icecrown citaldel raid pack is of Lady Sylvanas. I actually don't know if it is possible to fire 3 arrows at once, but I tried to make it look convincing. She does have red eyes and blue skin, and that is not entirely real either...
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Lady Sylvanas
My sketches for this painting were a little more developed than I usually do, and I like some of the other ideas enough to paint them as well some day. The focus of this painting centers around the action of shooting arrows, so most of them attempt to emphasize this. I think I enjoy action more than I realized before I had done this painting, and hopefully will do more in future!
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Monday, May 23, 2011 at 9:33PM I have been doing a series of paintings for Blizzard's World of Warcraft trading card game. A new set called "Icecrown Citadel" has just been released so I can show the images of the cards! The first painting is of "Blood Queen Lana-thel" She is a giant vampire queen in the game- they also have used my painting as the main image for her on the online wiki- lucky me!
http://www.wowpedia.org/Blood-Queen_Lana'thel
Prints of the painting will also be available at Comicon this year!
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Blood Queen Lana'thel
Below are the sketches for possible compositions (left image). After Blizzard chose a sketch, more detailed sketches of the chosen figure for the painting were done. I try to work out the anatomy and face of the figure in enough detail before hand so I am not slowed down with trying to work out the details when I am painting.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 8:18PM John Fleskes of Flesk Publications came to visit me last weekend and has posted a little treatment of some of our recent adventures at the Gallery Nucleus show and elsewhere. Check out the post and his wonderful art books!
JOHN FLESKES BLOG
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 4:24PM ;)
Here is the final painting that will be in the Gallery Nucleus "Poster Peepshow" group exhibition. Come by Feb 5th at 7pm and see this and all the other work, and pick up some free cheesecake or do some life drawing with the Sucide Girls!
See you there!