She's a Killer: finale

"Killer Queen"

It's been a while since I've posted anything so I thought that I should at least show the end result of the Killer Queen piece that I started. I'll be posting some more of the posters that I've been working on shortly.

She's a Killer: Part 2

Stage 2 & 3

So this is stage two and three of the Queen poster. Years ago when the digital craze had just begun I found myself to be very frustrated that I couldn't execute paintings in the same fashion as a traditional painting. Part of this was that the technology was not advanced as it is now but the other part (and more importantly) I didn't have the same sensibility as an artist at that time. Now that both I and technology have made great advancements I feel far more comfortable working on pieces like this one.

She's a Killer: Part 1

Anyone that knows me (and I mean really knows me) knows that I'm often inspired by music. I rarely listen to anything contemporary so my playlist usually consists of anything from country to classic rock and even some soul. Whether I'm working on an illustration or a landscape, music usually plays a part in one form or another.

So this is stage one of my Queen poster do over. I painted one several years ago that I was happy with. Then I took a look at some old sketches about a week ago and saw some pretty good sketches and ideas that just fell short during the execution. there's no guarantee that I'll be any more successful than the first attempt but here we go.... to be continued

Locked & Loaded

Many, many moons ago when I was a student, one of my professors gave me a project that nearly killed the class. He gave us dimensions and a due date but then told us that we could create whatever we wanted. We had become so accustomed to taking orders and solving other peoples problems that most of us (including myself) didn't have a voice of our own. I had to quickly discover what kind of things interested me. While I'm a big fan of comics, music plays a much bigger role in my life.


The piece above is from Aerosmith's "Janey's Got a Gun." I'm not completely finished with it but I wanted to lay it out in Illustrator before taking it into Photoshop. I strayed away from the sketch and now it seems to have lost some of the impact that the sketch has but it's still the same basic composition. You'll also see that I corrected the spelling of the song from the thumbnail sketch. Now I'll just make notes on what to correct and get back to it.