Busy busy busy

Sorry for the absence but the holidays can be a busy time for me. Probably for everyone else too. Christmas was good. I've been eating fish for the past week. It's a tradition that we have lots of fish on Christmas and afterward I'm so sick of it all I just want to eat beef. So I helped my friend move back home a day ago. He's going back to school to pursue something he's passionate about. Something I can definitely relate to. We took a break for lunch and I demanded we get a burger. I just needed that influx of red meat after a week of fish. The new Modern Warfare has kept me from sketching for a few days. I'm back into my daily routine though. There is only so much time I can spend playing video games before I want to spoon my eyes out. Here's four sketches to make up for my absence. They're all magic cards. Look for a future post where I inked and colored Krosan Colossus. Thanks for reading about my brainsplosion.

Vengevine

Bloodbraid Elf

Krosan Colossus

Phyrexian Plaguelord

Christmas Time Rant

Christmas is quickly approaching. I love Christmas but I hate Christmas time. Everything is busy. I go to my local B&N to sketch and read magazines to which I don't subscribe. I usually stop at a Starbucks on the way even though they have a cafe with Starbucks coffee. Their cafe isn't the best. Anyway, it's now ten times harder to find a table and it's so noisy. I have to lock my crappy-ass car if there is even a trace of something I care about. The lines are much longer if I wanna buy something. Not to mention the roads are filled with crazies that never drive. When it starts snowing everything is worse. I'm a humbug. That was my rant. Here's some digital art as I'm gonna rescan this last sketchbook. They all turned out terribly. The first is from Alien obviously. The second is from the internet I think. The last one is a magic card called Time Warp except that I never drew the wizard. I couldn't get him right and decided to omit him. Thanks for reading about my brainsplosion.

Alien

Beast

Time Warp Wave

Nothing To Do Here

Alrighty I'm back. My knee is still killing me and my d-bag brain keeps playing the embarrassing scene of dislocating my knee in front of an entire bar in my head over and over again. I don't have much to say tonight so I'll leave it at that and get to the uploading of the arts. The first is a picture I found online and the rest are from magic cards. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Automaton

Nicol Bolas

Simic Guildmage

Steel Overseer

Volcanic Strength

Original Works Ahead

I was recently informed that December is Pokemon profile picture month on Facebook. Obviously unofficial and completely nerdy. I pledged to draw one each day. This pledge led to a breakthrough in my art. After months and months of drawing copies of pictures I find online or in magazines I finally decided to set out to create an image based on reference photos. I gathered up some pictures of mushrooms and crabs and drew my very own version of Parasect. I'll post it later, maybe all 30 days as a single post. From this moment on I'll be trying to create more of these originals. Now on to the sketches. The first is a bug warrior I found online. I think it was a figurine. The second is a Magic card Orzhov Guildmage. What the hell, here's a digital sketch of a shipwreck that I did based off an online pic.Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Bug Warrior

Orzhov Guildmage

Shipwreck

Did Someone Divide by Zero?

Incredible. My day was incredible. I went to my college campus to see if I could pick up my classes where I left off when I left for health problems and so far it's looking good. Looks like I won't have to retake or repay for them. Then, to top it all off, some incredibly cute girl strikes up a conversation with me and I get her number. I guess life still has some good days to offer me.The first sketch is from Guild Wars 2 concept art. It was in a magazine. The second is the magic card Howl From Beyond. I drew it around Halloween. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Bark Elemental

Howl From Beyond

Long Time No Post

So I fell a little behind on posting. It's been about 5 days since I last posted and, well, I have an excuse. I think its a rather good excuse too. I got my computer fixed and my Wacom hooked up. I've spent the past few days getting used to the Wacom and let me tell you. It's soooo much fun. It's been a while since I've used Photoshop so it's been taking some getting used to. Each time I draw something I learn something. I can't wait to post some of my work. Anyway, here are two more ink drawings from Magic cards.

Troll

Cliffrunner Behemoth

New Scans And Good News

I just scanned in my last sketchbook. I don't mean the last one I'll ever do, I mean the last one I have previously completed. I spent a lot of that sketchbook practicing figures so not really much to upload from it. I'm happy to say that although I am practicing my figures and faces in my new sketchbook I am also breaking it up with some pretty sketches that I can upload. I also have a quick health update for everyone. I have officially been moved from the post surgery transplant clinic to the medicine transplant clinic. Basically, this means I'm doing much better. They've already removed the picc (peripherally inserted central catheter) line from my arm and talked about reducing my medication. Hopefully soon I'll be returning to normal life and get a job and go back to school. Alright, that's it for the health updates. Here are the sketches. The first is a Magic The Gathering card and the second is from a fantasy and scifi drawing game. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Hovermyr

Sushi's Revenge

Gluttony

This past weekend was my grandmother's funeral. Depressing weekend. That side of my family is super Italian. I mean, I have an uncle that grows his own grapes and makes his own wine. So when we get together every meal has to be a feast. I ate so much I think I'll be working it off for the foreseeable future. Anyway, we're coming up on the end of the sketches from past work. This blog is constantly a month or two behind but I've been trying to catch up with my current work by posting more pictures per post. I would estimate that in a couple months I'll be posting current work. Here are my two sketches. I think the first one is from a Magic card and the second I think is from a magazine. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

 Demon King

Scratchy Dragon

Last Three Sketchbooks

The sketches in this post and many to follow are from my latest sketchbooks. They are the last three books that I filled. The first two were my usual Strathmore 400 Series Drawing pads in the 6"x8" size but the last one was 8"x10" which proved to be more fun. I'm currently filling another 8"x10" from the Strathmore's Windpower series as it is greener. Actually, I have a question. Which is greener, the Windpower series or the Strathmore Recycled pads? Anyway, here are the pictures you've all come here to see. These are from the trading card game Magic The Gathering. Besides having awesome artwork, it's a fun game and I highly recommend it. Thank you for reading about my brainsplosion.

Drake Umbra

 Goblin Arsonist

Nighthaze

Naya Hushblade

Wizards

Blackcleave Goblin

Grotag Thrasher

Goblin Tunneler

I'm Back

Sorry all for my recent absence. As most who have read my blog know I'm chronically ill. What most of you don't know is that I'm on several transplant lists. I recently had some complications with my spot on the list in the farther of the two regions I'm listed in as well as some medication substitutions. I had a couple of my meds changed because they have reduced side effects. Just this passed week I went to my second region of listing and had a horrible experience with traveling. My supposed one hour lay over was delayed due to storms until I was in the airport for six hours. Then my plane was in line on the runway for an hour and was eventually forced to take off heading south even though it was supposed to take off heading north west. Anyway, enough of my complaining and excuses. Here's a long overdue post with a bonus sketch to make up for lost time.

Horn Study

Demon

Coral Rock

Biker Cleavage

Blitz Helion

So here goes a quick description of each piece. The first is a horn study that I did in order to make some realistic looking horns on demons and other creatures. This was actually done chronologically after the second piece. I sketched the demon first (source image was from a magazine) and then I did a horn study. Coral Rock is a sketch I did while in Networking class. It was hard to listen to the professor drone on and having a sketchbook handy kept me awake. The source image came from the internet but I drew it without any of the people in it. The next piece was sketched and then inked. It was one off my first ink attempts and certainly one of my first figure attempts. I spent a lot of time on it. The last piece is the picture for the magic card Blitz Helion. I sketched and then used some really cheap colored pencils. With the quality and quantity colored pencils I have now it would come out a lot better. That's it for this post. Thanks for reading about my brainsplosion.