Elder Watson Diggs

I've been working on a 1-color illustration of Elder Watson Diggs for 1469 Gear. Diggs attended Indiana University, the birthplace of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and served as Grand Polemarch for the first six consecutive years of the Fraternity's existence. Fun job, great client - more Kappa work coming!!

The Dreamer (Illustrator)
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Read Before Dating.

I recently had an opportunity to illustrate the front and back covers for a nice little book aimed at 'tween girls. As I was gathering reference at bookstores, I did get quite a few weird stares as I rifled through the 12-16 year-old girl section...uncomfortable...

From a subject matter and style point of view, it was a bit different for me - but had a lot of fun! Coming to a bookstore near you.

Photoshop / Painter / Illustrator

Crazy Eyes.

It's been a long time. Wanted to see where this painting could go without any preliminary sketches...just started painting. This also gave me an excuse to give Painter 11 a whirl. Not seeing much of a difference with the software, really. I think this is a version most can skip...

Painter

I tried to save as many times as possible, in attempts to see where I'm making progress or just noodling. Here are a few lo res process (if you want to call it that) shots:

The good news is that while painting this I came up with an idea for a series...looking forward to that!