Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas to everyone out there who reads my blog.
Hope your Holidays in what ever form you celebrate, are grand.

If anyone is into praying please pray for my dog Cinnamon, shes been having trouble with her left hind leg, real bad arthritis and her birthday is coming up on Christmas Eve and I want her to be feeling better as soon as possible.

Thanks.

Here are some quickie cards I drew.
One for the naughty, and one for the nice.

Pope Family Portrait

Recent commission to draw this family with a Adams family/Tim burton feel to it.

The Snow King's Passing

Drawn for the Hellboy forum 2009 holiday art exchange.

Then & Now

When I was a kid, I loved the MegaMan games, (still do) and I always was inspired to draw my own robot bosses as if I got to design the newest game, (still want to) I made hundreds of these it feels like..

Recently I pulled out some of my old drawings and thought, what would these guys look like if I drew them now?

And here we have it.
1994 & 2009

Suddenly Solo

I haven't done much in the way of a fully illustrated cover, so this was a nice change for me from the more graphic covers I'd done in the past. This is Dr. Richard Schoor's first published book as well.

Holiday Card

This was a commission for a Holiday card for a veterinarian I recently made.
I don't think I've ever drawn that many animals in one image. Fun tho.

Bereft

These are two promo images for a unique comic book project I was recently commissioned for.

Monday Artday win

I entered my Lycaon for the 'werewolf' contest over on Monday Artday.
And I won, awesome.

Horrors Of Literature show

Have a art show in Seattle tomorrow night, and all my horrors will be up on a wall in all their horribleness.
I made this original to sell with all the prints too.. books, candles and a monstrous skull.

Horror Covers

I had this skull and bones image pop into my head the other night and I was trying to figure out a way to use it for something... and then I thought of the haunting of hill house image, which is a story I've always wanted to make some piece of art for. I figured it might be fun to make some covers for a few of my favorite horror/ghost stories.

I may do more of these if inspiration hits.



(as always, clearer images on my flickr)

International Self Portrait Day

Did you know that's today?

Lovecraft

This was the first time I messed around with using Sumi ink, I made it as a gift for someone whom recently bought a print.

Old Scratch

I had a conversation with a friend on which he remarked that lamas surely must be the devil's horse, which if that's the case, I say poodles must be the devil's dog of choice.

Happy Halloween!

The Time Quintet

Illustrations for Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet novels.
Prints available

A Wrinkle In Time























A Wind In The Door























A Swiftly Tilting Planet























Many Waters























An Acceptable Time

Carol & Max

Prints available

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is probably my favorite author, and I've been wanting to make book covers for his 3 adult books ever since I redesigned his Lemony Snicket series.

This is the first.

Charlie and the Brand New Covers

The Baker Street Irregulars promo material

For some reason red and blacks always show up pixelated when uploaded onto blogger, so you can see these hi-res here and here

Myspace Dark Horse Presents Issue 26

Story by John Arcudi, lettering by Nate Piekos, art by Me.

It's on the main page of "www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents" for September, so besides reading it here, you can go there and see it and a bunch of other free comics!

Horrors Of Literature 4

Prints available

DHP Comic Portraits

The main characters from the Dark Horse Presents comic I worked on with John Arcudi.

Hound Book Cover

Some unused concepts

Flight Of The Conchords

King Katazuma

My entry for a Scooby Doo villians contest on superpunch.blogspot.com

Darkstalkers Tribute

This was chosen to be in UDON Entertainment's Darkstalkers Tribute book.

My tribute to Victor.

You can pre-order the book here!

Disappearances

Some concepts for a book cover design.
The book is on authonomy.com where you can read the first few chapters.

Best of luck to Basil, it is a really great story from what I read.

The Day Of The Triffids

Fantastic novel, you must give it a read.
Prints available

Narnia Redesign

We all have to grow up...

Uppercase Magazine

My Harry Potter series is shown in the first issue of Uppercase Magazine.

In The End

A Commissioned Piece.
Didn't load the clearest here, but you can see a super giant hi-res here.

Deny Everything

Make Something Cool Everyday

I recently joined up on Olly Moss's MSCED group on Flikr. Here's some of what I've been doing...

Simple stuff really, I don't spend more than my lunch hour each day making these.

Enjoy!

Super Color Bros.

His Dark Materials Redesign

Redesigned His Dark Materials trilogy covers to look like classic Penguin Books.

Harry Potter Prints

Today I was contacted by Warner Bros. IP Counsel and was asked that no commercial use of my Harry Potter art is made.
While there is no objection for me to continue to display my work online, I may not sell or distribute it. So unfortunately I will not be providing prints.

During the discussion I brought up my attempt to send these covers to Bloomsbury and Scholastic to see if there is any interest in them being made into real covers.

I was assured by Warner Bros. that my request would be sent to the right people in each company. So fingers crossed that someday something cool could happen with them.

Thanks everyone for your support and overwhelming interest in this project.

Spiderwick Redesign

Redesigned The Spiderwick book covers to look like classic Penguin Books.

Harry Potter Redesign

Redesigned The Harry Potter book covers to look like classic Penguin Books.

Thanks everyone for your overwhelming interest in these!

Time will tell if anything happens with them...

Time

Lemony Snicket Redesign

Redesigned The Series of Unfortunate Events book Redesigned to look like classic Penguin Books.

Pacman Revisioned

This was my entry in a contest to redesign a classic video game cover.
Prints available

ImagineFX Article

My Horrors of Literature series is spoke of in January's Issue of ImagineFX Magazine, Under the ImagineNation News.

The Triumphant Perseus

Drawn for the Hellboy forum 2008 holiday art exchange.

Horrors Of Literature 3

Prints available

Horrors Of Literature 2

Prints available

Animal Cards

Horrors Of Literature

Prints available

Balloon

Opinion

Bible Stories

Prints are available for a few of these on my etsy.