Updates, new pictures, and a quick March promotion!

I'm sorry I've been so busy and negligent of this blog and the Twitter and YouTube accounts! There's been a serious dip in my devotion to the online media aspect of CCMS and I'm going to be picking up the slack here in the next few days, just to get everything running again after the crazy months that were December to February!

So, here's a long-winded post to get you up to speed here.

March Promotion:

I'm offering 20% off all portraits and commissions and 30% off package deals. More information on my website, click here to visit the pricing page!

What's new:

I've been working with a few people and companies to build up a portfolio in the graphic design/digital painting/concept artwork in preparation to apply for a position as a concept artist at a local business. As a result, I am planning in the month of March to officially set up a pricing program for digital paintings and offering full-out matte concepts and other things applying to the digital world. I promise I will post more here as more develops.

I have also kept fairly busy with commissions and work outside of the art world, which is exciting enough!

Coming soon:

Well, I already mentioned the digital design portion!

Tutorial on photorealistic graphite drawing, for free, on the website (will post a link here when it is up).

Art resources, links, and references: over the past few months I have been building a long list of helpful resources for the ground artist, and when I have filled it out a bit more I am going to throw the entire list up on my website.

New pictures:

And now for what you all usually visit my art site for, new pictures to showcase some of what I've been doing in my absence.

A two-part painting - the part with the woman did not transfer into the photo well, so unfortunately until I resolve this problem with some digital help, it is cut in half.

A study of David Tennant as the Doctor from the reboot of the sci-fi series Doctor Who.

A digital concept work of an alien in the woods, a practice piece with a monochromatic colour scheme and working with accents in complimentaries. 

A photographed preview of the cover design for local jazz quartet Three Sun Sea's debut album. 

And new, featured for-sale:

I am planning to circulate some originals through here. While they're up, I'm going to offer some crazy discounts on original artwork, as an attempt to downsize my gallery (I'm running out of room here!) 

So, here's featured for-sale #1: Show jumper in oil, 20x24" on canvas. Reg. $350, on sale for $250 until Saturday, March 16. 

Colourized realism portrait.

Just popping in for a quick update. I recently did a realism portrait of a show jumping horse as a part of my show jumping series, and just today I added some quick digital colouring to it and fell in love with the results. I will probably clean it up later, but here it is! 

A month later, another quick update!

Well, December tends to be my busy season due to the holidays. Now that those are over and my promotion is ended, I'm back to working a few series for a couple of people, and revisiting my showjumping series that I started last year.

I am also putting some new techniques that I've been practicing to work. The first work that reflects this is this saddle drawing I finished a few hours ago. I am taking the dive from realism to hyper realism/photorealism. This is still on the ropes and I'm not ready to offer it in my portraits yet, but give it a few months and we'll see where it's at!

Here's the drawing.

Also, I'm working on some tutorials and I've began slowly swapping out all of my gallery pieces and posted pieces with watermarked images. Other than that, just been doing commissioned work!

Some long overdue updates!

So I've been quite busy working on a handful of drawings, some digital work, and a few paintings. Christmas season is really quite packed for me, and I can't keep up with all the drawings, paintings, and videos and continually post them online. So here's a few of the paintings I've been working on, a drawing, and the Photoshop painting I have been spamming you all with! I will give a more thorough update once everything's settled down.

Updates!

Alright! So Here's the update I've been promising you for days while I feed my photoshop bug and work on chalking up some charcoal outlines for paintings that I will be doing in the next week here (three commissioned horse paintings coming up - I'm beginning to think my rep is going to be 90% horses forever! Not that I'm complaining...) but here's what went down a week ago today!

I headed over to the Edmonton Garrison (a place where I spent a lot of my childhood activities visiting my friends, doing rushed Tim's runs in high school, and driving sleighs and wagons for base family events) bright and early Saturday morning with a big, bright green bin full of supplies and gallery books and set up in the indoor arena of the EGSC. What a great facility, too! Gorgeous animals, great people, and the arena was gorgeous (if a little cold).

There were some very interesting clinics that happened throughout the day, and as I was set up right in front of the riding ring I got to watch it all. I might wish that either there was two of me or I had more downtime, because two great things were happening - useful, interesting clinics, and A LOT of interest in my artwork. I couldn't watch and help people at the same time.

I had a dry/sore throat by the end of the day just from talking! I had people continually interested in the process and what exactly I do, lots of people showing me pictures and asking me how I would do them, and then placing commission orders. I didn't sell originals, but with how many orders I placed that doesn't matter so much! I also had a couple of other artists who are looking to jump into professional waters come up and ask me some questions about the business and how it works. I am always more than happy to give aspiring artists a helping hand, and they were awesome to talk to.

The clinics, as I mentioned, were phenomenal. There was a Parelli clinic that I actually didn't mind (some Parelli-based clinics are not very well done, and Parelli fanatics tend to scare me), a good jumping clinic from the pony club, some gaited horse clinic and a clinic about photographing horses which I really wanted to watch (I take a lot of my own reference photos), but I got a rush of customers. I caught the tail-end of it though, so it wasn't that bad!

All in all, a great show. Super friendly, awesome, nice people that I just fell in love with, everyone was so great! And I got to see my good friend Sherry from over at Fern Valley Appaloosas and have a nice chat with her!

Here are a couple of photos from my table, and I'm back off to working on art!

Once again I am failing to mention the sale...

I am just giving 'er on this Photoshop painting and don't want to stop. So here's an update and if I still have a brain when I go to bed I will talk about the Equine Expo.

Digital painting

It's very late at night/early morning, so I'm just going to post this here and take off on everyone. I will eventually post about how extraordinarily well sales went at the Equine Expo and how much fun I had there, but it will have to wait!

Here's an OC design I'm doing for myself. It will eventually be a mid-day forest scene but this is the WIP of the main character of the painting. I'm doing this freehand in Photoshop, and have had quite a few hours on it already.

Full body:

Details of the face: