SleepyOni: DIY Painted Skull Mug! - Experimental Edition

SleepyOni: Illustration! - Holiday 2016 Edition

Coffee-time doodle

Alrighty then.  Personal awfulness and chaotic stress and panic just built-in to this year. (yay!).  Today: car rear-ended, phone broken, friend's son in the hospital, 2 friends in-process for awful divorces, game night cut short(I'm being a crybaby about that one, I know).

GODDAMMIT.


I, and several people I know, could really use a fucking win.  I am full of complaint; my apologies.

Crap

As some things continue to be awful, at least I can paint awkward fake-retro illustrations!  HUZZAH!

skull

SleepyOni: Books! - Painted Skull

practice

Yup, more practice.

Fallout: Australis concept work

My art style has never really qualified as "fast" and/or "loose", but that's what I was trying to channel here.  Maybe 3 or 4 hours total, working as fast I was able.  Plenty that's awful or ineffective, but there are bits of this I quite like.
Fallout: Australis is still a thing in the back of my head...bolstered by Mad Max, it keeps reappearing.  Mad Max, but with ghouls and an invading Imperial Robot Army.   And plasma rifles.

SleepyOni: Illustration! Oil Paint and a Skull

  Ha ha ha. I don't know how to use oil paint AT ALL. Never tried it before, so a fact-finding mission was undertaken. Mixed results, but certainly not all bad.

SleepyOni: Illustration! Cthulhu Edition

Fake FF Movie Poster!

A new video up, and some stuff updated in my Etsy shop.

SleepyOni: Illustration!

Youtube: Lon Chaney Illo

Watch a timelapse of me producing an illustration.

https://youtu.be/S4EbQvZU0WE

Or not.  I'm not the boss of you.

Paperback cover & book. For fun.

Made a little paperback and cover in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style.  100 pages, filled up with scans of a bunch of stuff from my sketchbooks as well as more recent digital work.  Printed out masters of the interior pages at home, then copied those double-sided pages at the local copy place, with decidedly mixed results.  Oh well.  Original cover painting & layout, printed onto cardstock and the whole thing perfect-bound and trimmed.  4.25 x 6.75", roughly.
...and a build video on youtube on the SleepyOni channel.

 https://youtu.be/ykJu1HKP_K0

Happy Halloween

Quick(-ish) piece done this evening.  After spending the last month working on game maps, really needed to get back to something more figure-oriented.

I turned Pro (I guess?)

First two pieces I did for Fantasy Flight Games were published a couple months ago, in the Force and Destiny Beginner Game.  Both are on the backside of the fold-out map included in the set, the taller piece is twice the size of the other(3 panels of a 4-panel folded poster).  I've done a handful of maps for the Star Wars RPG line in the last year or so, with a hilariously rough learning curve.  It's all stuff that's outside of my painting experience, and is therefore fantastic stuff for me to be working on.
Also, it's PRO WORK.  That PAYS MONEY.  I do like that part quite a bit.
...and a thank you to Matt Zeilinger, my buddy who got me the lead-in to literally all of my paying freelance work to date.  Thanks, man!  Incidentally, it's his art on the front side of the foldout map, as well as the single other back panel.

Goofin' off

So I made this one doodle, then I decided to paint it up quick, then I decided to give it some additional elements, then an x-wing helmet, and then it's days later and I've done 20+ variations.  Why is my brain wired for oddball serial projects?!

This is all in a single file; each element is on its own layer so they can be mix'n matched.  3 or 4 of the images above are just weird combinations of elements from different characters.

I know.  My brain is weird.

Practice

Just completed another rpg-map gig which means it's time to draw something other than terrain, if only to remind myself that I can.

more practice

I just upgraded to the new version of Sketchbook Pro and have been checking out the new features.  Biggest shift so far is the addition of a copic marker palette; older version had a single chisel-tip brush, this one has 4 brush tips, a copic blender, and full numbered range of colors.
I've never had the $$ to put towards copics, so this is a new learning curve for me.  Thus far I dig it.

Wampas & Paying Work

Super-zoomed detail of a wampa skeleton.  Two paying gigs done for the year, currently looking for more.  Bring it, 2015.

Fan art ahoy