Pin-up Mermaids

Hey guys, hope your new year is going as good as mine!! Here are three mermaids I did. Each is available as separate prints! They come in 5x7, 8x10, 11x14. Contact me for pricing and get one quick! (wavecruser@comcast.net)

CHEERS!!!

Overkill

Man, it's been far too long since I posted some artwork. Busy, busy past few months. The new job at Ultra Creative is going great, freelance projects are done, and the holidays are over. Everyone at MPS Industries central is doing fine. I hope to have a lot of new artwork to share in 2009.

Something for the rock devotees!

Nordvik the Goat Boy

A small sketch utilizing some new, painted textures.

MEGAMAN

Ghosts of Autumn

A very small sketch, but I need to do more small things.

This drawing is for Jeff Andrews' blog, Sugar Frosted Goodness, which allows over 300 illustrators to share in a weekly topic. Its a great site and Jeff is tireless in his efforts to support the illustration community. To see my process for creating this illustration, please visit my Behance portfolio.

Zombies V Cowboys!!!

Hi all, here's a thing I just finished. Zombies vs Cowboys! This is a piece I did for my good friend William Harms. His book will be published late this year or early 2009. You may see another variant cover emerge in October...:) I included a version with temp lettering just to give an indication of layout. I won't be handling that stuff in the end. Anyway thanks or looking -Ray

Also here's a time lapse video of my chaotic process of painting if you're interested:)

That rhymed. How amusing.

You can't run away from your own head

Finished this up a little while ago, but I've been too busy to post much. Started a new job two weeks ago, and I'm having a blast.

Preview of the Paper Pushers show

Illustration Master Class assignment

It's been a while but I've been busy:) Here's the final barring any tweaks...

The illustration is from a design brief for a book called Green by Jay Lake that is due to be published soon by Tor books. Dan Dos Santos has the honor of illustrating the real cover and it's a beauty. I'm fortunate enough to have had some great input from Dan, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Donato, Boris and Julie, and the rest of the IMC alumni of 2008. Thanks all! I could not have progressed as far as I did without your help and encouragement!

Medium: Digital and Oil on Panel

ICONS

"Icons: Interpretations in Comic & Gaming Pop Culture"
Show Opens August 2nd (reception 7pm-9pm). Free food and drinks!
If your in Jacksonville, FL come on by!
1722 3rd Street North
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250

Composition and Color Study

Got a chance to play with some shapes yesterday and built this weird little flower. Amanda and I have a small amount of flowers around our townhome, some planted by the association and some that are ours in pots. We've been spending a lot of time tending them recently, removing dead blooms, weeding and pruning the herbs. The biggest surprise this year has been how well our herbs have done. I really should have had more uses for thai basil in mind before I planted it, the thing is monstrous.

Earlier in the week I went to the Farmer's Market by the University and picked up a bouquet of wildflowers for Amanda and delivered them to her during my lunch hour. (Because I'm smooth like that.) I've had flowers on my brain this week, so it's really no surprise I drew this.

Heya wise-guys, my apologizes for being incognito for a while now. If any of you are in the SF area, I'd love to see you at the show!

"...and we'll settle up underneath the old hanging tree."

I'm not sure which one I trust least.

something personal

had a bit of free time...so here is the result!

Don't I?

Trying to get back into the swing of things. My goal in the next few months is to establish a coherent, beneficial relationship between my digital and organic, hand-drawn work. Recently, I have begun to feel that one style will suffer over another, and as a result I end up unable to concentrate and produce meaningful output. By regaining a sense of play and experimentation I hope to make strides into increasing my ideas for editoral illustrations and comics.

Plus draw more wicked cool robots.

Caption This

Award-winning horror writer Mike Arnzen is having a caption contest over at his blog. The best captions for my illustration above can net you autographed horror novels, comics, and Respect from the Internet.

Illustrophile.com

Im a featured artist over at Illustrophile.com. Go check it out!!