I'm going to s.p.a.c.e.

March 19th and 20th I'll be showing artwork and taking sketch commissions at S.P.A.C.E. the Small Press Alternative Comics Expo. It will be full of independent comics artists and publishers, so hopefully I can give out some business cards and meet some new faces. I'll have my table next to Mike Eshelman who'll be selling his awesome bead sculptures of 8-bit video game characters again. In the meantime I just sent off my entries in the 18th annual Spectrum competition, I feel I've made some much better stuff since the last time I entered, so here's hoping I make the finals.

Also, as I've failed to explain in detail, I am now living in Columbus taking classes at CCAD, a very nice art school. This week I start my second semester, so I thought I'd share one of my projects from last semester's art history class.



We were assigned to create our own work of art inspired by one of the works of art from an ancient culture we studied. I chose the giant stone statue of the Aztec goddess Coatlicue, and decided to draw what she might have looked like in real life to inspire such a statue from the Aztecs. (A tad gruesome, but the Aztec deities weren't very cuddly themselves, and I stayed pretty close to the original sculpture)

Here's looking forward to a great new semester, and more fun art assignments.

E.T.

Contest pieces

Here's a couple pieces I made for the Gnomon Workshop's annual online contests. The first one's theme was the phrase "the descent" so I drew up an image of a fallen angel plummeting through the atmosphere. (I didn't get a place in the contest, but it was a lot of fun drawing and coloring this piece.)



Here's the piece for this month's contest, wherein our theme is the phrase "the road". Mine depicts a scene where a prison inmate, assigned to roadside cleanup, finds some unusual roadkill. I always thought the side of the road would be an unexpected place to find a supernatural creature.



I also recently joined Sketch Theater (a division of Gnomon). This piece was created for their monthly contest, the theme was combat android. Hadn't drawn a robot in long time, so this was a nice exercise.



In other news, I have finally caved in and joined facebook (though many of you already know that). Though some of my art is also on my facebook page, I have a new blog that will function as my real online portfolio. Check it! http://ectart.blogspot.com

E.T.

Esgaroth Under Siege

This month's theme for Gnomon Workshop's 2-D contest is Esgaroth, the Lake-Town from The Hobbit.



E.T.

Family Photo

I Recently discovered the Gnomon Workshop site, a great place that sells instructional DVDs from the best artists in the biz. They are holding their monthly theme based art contest, and I couldn't pass up an opportunity to show some art and maybe score some of those DVDs! The theme for this month's contest was Norse Mythology, so I drew up the three mean children of Loki: Fenris, Hel, and Jormungandr.


Loki's Children: (graphite on paper/color by corel painter)

Hopefully I can make it to The Gnomon Workshop Live event this summer and meet some of the artists I've admired ever since I was a kid. With demonstrations, Q&A, and industry professionals and companies looking for talent, it's bound to be a blast.


E.T.

IT BEGINS!!!

This is the first post of my new Art blog. Now I finally have a place to showcase my artwork, get feedback from the masses, and maybe, just maybe, have a little fun while I'm at it.

As for the topic of my first post ever, I was a little stumped. But I decided I'll show the pieces I entered into the Spectrum Fantastic Art Competition's unpublished category. I'll be judged alongside artists from all over the world, so here's hoping at least one of these gets in the book.






Yes, that Charlie Daniels plays a mean fiddle.

So anyways, there be the first post of my art blog: Monstrous and Free. Maybe if I'm lucky, someone will read it!
As for the Spectrum competition, I'll have to wait until April to find out if I'm in the book, so wish me luck!

E.T.