Holy Crap

I guess crap can be holy? - anyway damn its been ages since I posted some art. I need to get cracking - stay tuned... maybe I should change the blog name to NB451?

Searching for Freedom

Here is a cover concept for a book cover I recently did for a story about a guy who comes to america in search of freedom convinced that this "freedom" will change his life for the better. After climbing this proverbial mountain of obstacles to get here he still sees that freedom (represented by the flag as a river in the valley below) might be more illusive (fluid, constantly moving changing) than he thought. The author went with another treatment but I liked this piece so here it is. Done in PainterX   -E

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

Well it does doesn't it? I 'm sure that anyone I know has never done this: had a few drinks and decided to call an old boyfriend or girlfriend oh at lets say 2 or 3 am and thought it was just the best idea- yeah right

TGIF! for that matter TGI any day!

Here's a little sketch done with an online app called the scribbler. Give it a try its pretty cool plus you can keep your drawing. The site its on zefrank.com is also pretty wacky but a lot of cool stuff there. The guy who started it is pretty kooky but pretty smart too. Check it out Later -E 

Marriage

Here's an image created for the topic of Marriage. When I was in college at UM I worked at a local pizza place as a waiter. At the end of the night we had to "marry" all the ketchups. So here they are getting married with all their condiment friends in attendance. I guess the kids would be those little packets of ketchups you get at fast food places
Later!

Those Pesky Pills

A different painterly style - Corel Painter X

Here is the next artwork for the week. 2 different renditions for same drawing both digital but 2 different looks. Any preference?

Here is an image I submitted to CA's Illustration competition. Illustrator gradient mesh

Ok I keep telling my buddy Todd he needs to do a blog and here I am not doing mine. The last entry was in September! I guess some stuff has happened since then. My buddy Ron died unexpectedly which really freaked me out. It was only a couple of weeks ago. All I can say is be a good person and enjoy life - it might be gone tomorrow. Or someone you care about might be gone. And if you have unresolved issues with that person and they move on, well that has a way of F-ing you up. I didnt have any issues with my friend - we were just starting to hang out. Oh yeah and get that will going. If you don't the ol state will come along and do it which we definitely don't want. Can you tell I'm middle aged? Ok so I think what I will try and show what I am working on and then hopefully people will want to come to the blog and see what's up. Ok more later
-E