Alien Fauna - Common Matapor

Found in nearly all temperate climates, the common matapor feeds on grasses and insect larvae. They travel in herds and are sometimes found to be aggressive especially mothers with young and males competing for females. The horns on their brows are used for defense; males also use them as weapons during mating season.

GIM Podcast Interview

I recently did an interview for my friend Aaron Canaday over at Games Industry Mentor. I say "um" a lot and talk about what it's like to be a concept artist and some other possibly useful stuff for folks who are trying to break into the field. Go check it!

ESB Speedpaint and Party

I thought I'd take a stab at doing one of them speedpaints that all the cool kids do these days. Rather than do something straight out of my head, I decided to just practice with some reference and avoid color picking. So, here's one of my favorite shots from Empire Strikes Back.



Speaking of Empire Strikes Back, my good friend Alicia Traveria threw an awesome Empire Strikes Back themed birthday party recently. She made some posts on her blog detailing the spread and how to make your very own Luke Skywalker pinata (with dismemberment action!). It was so awesome that it got featured on a couple of my favorite sites. Kinda weird seeing my wife show up on the front page of io9 wearing a Darth Vader mask.

Pazow

Sketching at the Austin Zoo

Despite what you may think, the Austin Zoo is pretty awesome. When I first heard about it, I thought it sounded sad and crappy. True, it's not very flashy, but the animals are well taken care of and the way the animal paddocks are set up, you can get extremely close to the animals. I highly recommend hitting up the Austin Zoo if you're looking for exotic animals to draw. Here are some sketches I did this weekend.

Life Drawing and Non Life Drawing

Trying to get back into the swing of drawing in my off-time.

Fragments

I keep posting on here so sporadically. Not a whole lot of time lately for full-on drawing. In an effort to have some regular content, here are some odds and ends from my hard drive. I'll see if I can't dig up more soon.

Magic Fingers MacDoogal: The Sculpture

My buddy Mark How has taken it upon himself to sculpt a character I drew a while back.

Check it!

Is this thing on?

I just migrated my blog from its old address back to here. I'm still kickin' the tires and making sure everything's working. If anything seems busticated lemme know.

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