Hellboy gives back to the church.

On December 2nd Maverix Studios will hosting yet another fund raiser for a good cause. This time it's for Glide Memorial Church. The proceeds from the charity art auction will go directly to their Children's Creative Arts Media Center. Here's a link to Maverix's blog for updates- http://maverixstudios.blogspot.com/

I'll be donating this piece entitled- "Hellboy n' Shit".

When I found out about the auction I didn't have a clue as to what my piece would look like. So I just whipped out a piece of matte board and started slappin' down some acrylic paint, India ink, acrylic gloss medium and torn newspaper pieces . I then took a photo of of the acrylic/ink chaos, cut the photo in to pieces and glued it back on to the matte board. Next I took a blurry photo of Venetian mask my wife and I have in our art studio and glued that to the matte board. At this point I still had no idea where the fuck I was going with this. I then drew a face on the blurry mask photo, threw in some stars, started slappin' some paint around, added a cig, and what not, then scanned it. After futzing around in Photoshop for a while, this guy kept saying to me "dude, I'm Hellboy, hey, it's me, Hellboy", so I finally agreed with this red feller, "yeah, he is Hellboy." So I Hellboyed him up a bit, printed it out on a big ass piece of paper, and that's where I'm at now. Next up, I'm going to mount it to a piece of Masonite and finish it off with some acrylic paint and various media. I'll post that when it's done.

I AM BEOWULF!!!

Here's some examples of the concept work I did for Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf. I spent about two years working on this film and I learned quite a lot during the process. If you want to see more concept art for Beowulf check out The Art of Beowulf. There's a lot of great work in it from my friends at Iceblink Studios who did all of the concept art for the film.

Beowulf: Final Portrait

Geats

Key Frames

Wulfgar: portrait, Hrothgar: final portrait

Wiglaf Portraits, young and old.

Wiglaf, Unferth: final portraits

Unferth portraits, young and old.

Unferth: costutume design, portrait

Ursula, Grendel's Mom, Yrsa: final portraits

Grendel's Mom: foot design, character design, portrait

Grendel's Mom (mermaid form): character design

Grendel's Mom: portraits

Grendel's Mom: keyframe

Wealthow/Grendel's Mom: transformation

Jester: character / costume designs

Jester: paint treatments

Grendel / Hrothgar's decapitated head

Beowulf's Son Dragon transformation a and b

Dragon c

Hondshew tattoo studies

Breka: final design

Sketchbook Post 47-50

It's been sometime since my last post (swamped with freelance). But I have been able to squeeze in a some time in my sketchbook during lunch, my commute, etc......