Seasons Greetings

Hope everyone has a wonderfull holiday!  Im off to Texas to visit friends and fam.

Cheers!

Star Crossed Lovers

Painting Ive been working on.  Might write up my process for this peace in the near future if I find the time over the holidays. 

Also in the process of painting up my first Seasonal Greeting card.  Its terrifying, so be on the look out for that! 


Till next time

New Finished Painting and LA trip

Personal piece finished in between projects!  Went through many many changes.  The painting started as a nomadic female warrior riding a kangaroo rat reptile thing and ended with rival demon clans waging war in hell!!  I blame it on the fact I painted a percentage of it around the time of Halloween.

It was a tediously frustrating blast to paint and I learned a bunch along the way!

On another note If you would like to see some pics from my recent LA trip sponsored by Ubisoft you can find them on my facebook art page

http://www.facebook.com/ggriffinart

Enjoy!

Thanks for the views



Grant

Photostudy

Been a while so here is a face! 1 hour study in photoshop.  Happy to say I have some new stuff to post. However, I have quite a to do list going on today so im shooting for getting them up tonight but will see how it goes!

Assassins Creed Contest

Just wanted to thank ubisoft for hosting the assassins competition. Also wanted to give a big shout out to everyone who participated as well as took the time to vote, you guys are awesome!!
https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/258061227165622272

Greatly appreciate the support from friends, family, and all you randoms! 

Gollum

My submission and redesign of Gollum for the Hobbit fan art contest an unexpected journey.  Would have liked to get a little stranger with him still feels to movie Gollum for my liking.  One of my favorite characters and so well designed my subconscious had a hard time breaking from the original.      

Assassins Creed 3 fan art contest submission

Recently finished this painting for the Assassins Creed 3 Fan Art contest.  Made it to the top 6, five days of voting until the winner is decided.  So if you want to check out some other cool A3 art be sure to check out the link and dont forget to vote! 

http://o.microsites.ign.com/ubisoft/ac3/fan_art_contest/


Cheers!

Search and you will find...

Deceit

Die young

                                                      
And thou art dead, as young and fair
As aught of mortal birth;
And form so soft, and charms so rare,
Too soon return'd to Earth!

Lord Bryan

Come at me Bro!

Coach Hortense said it best.  "You got to be shitty to get good"  So make a crappy painting every day its good for ya!

Good lookin out

key study

Todays study

Goblin Mariner and lure

Been awhile sense my last post took two weeks off for a road trip back home to Texas.  Just some rough stuff trying to get back into the swings of things.  More work to come, rebuilding the portfolio so might actually have some finished work in the near future so keep checking!


Cheers! 

Armour Study

2am photoslop fun

Apple and Clove best of buds

Skull study

Today's study went a little longer than I attended, ball park time 2 hours and some change.  To many details that I had a hard time saying no to. 

Todays study

ITS A PEAR!

 Quick hour study just working on my chops and trying to figure out this whole value thing people keep talking about!  Forgot how much I enjoyed doing still lives by far the most relaxing thing you can experience, well besides maby spending a week at the lake sketching monsters and such (image below).


Until next time!  

T's

 Becuase I have no new art I can show, heres a link to the new Skatch summer t-shirt line that I did some designs for.  Just a teaser but the shirts go on sale July 6th!
 

Cheers

http://www.facebook.com/skatchclothing

Molepost03

Quick Fathers day inspired sketch

Mastercopy 01

Master copy watercolor.  Lots of fun, been a long while sense I have even touched my traditional paints.  Nice to get my hands dirty again and not have to stare at a screen!

Observational01

Doing my best to make time for more observational sketching.  The bike was done during my lunch break at dire and the animals from a long overdue trip to the zoo.  Working on my line economy so dropped the pencil and went for the copics an a whiteout marker on a toned sketchbook. 

MolePost2

photoslopstudy1

Been a good while sense Ive gotten into photoslop, 3 hour Armour study just tryin to remember how to paint.

MolePost1

Finally broke down and bought a moleskin.  Must admit they are pretty nice.  My goal for this bad boy is to have it filled by the end of summer.  Page 1 inspired by a not so great website I happened to stumble across while on one of my usual Google reference grabs.  May speak to my ignorance but I didn't realize the Knights Party was still active...  To top it off they sell T-shirts...  Awesome! Anyways this realization lead to this sketch set place in a destopian alternate universe in which clans, gangs, and religious cults wage an epic turf war across the galaxy, battling over bombed out asteroid fields and crater filled moons!!!  Or as I call it (molepost1).  More to come!

Pilsburry Dough Stripper

Whatever you do don't poke her stomach.......That costs extra.  Good to post again been without a descent scanner sense schools been closed down.  Now that summer classes started I can sneak back on campus and bum their resources.  Check back for more recurring posts trying to get back in a habit of updating at least a few times a week.


Cheers!

hip hop space marine CRAM

Well good news is I have all my grad stuff done and ready for tomorrow.  Bad news is I haven't had a chance to work on my final for computer 2 so i have one more night to bring this gang sign flashin mc hammer pant waring hip hop space marine to finish along with 2 other versions of this same character.   Game on.

Getting ready for the Grad Show

So if you have no plans this friday and are in the Colorado area you should come check out the grad show on the 13th from 5-8 at the phillip steele gallery lots of talented individuals graduating this semester should be a good time.  Also you can pick up some loot.  Ill be handing out stickers biz cards and mini sketchbooks limited supply of 52 each with an original spot illustration on the cover, some of them or actually ok, so get their early and grab some shit!


Cheers!  

With finals and Grad-show around the corner pretty busy is an understatement, but heres some post that more or less some up what's been going on in my life these days

Starting from the top, thats the guy who totaled my car on I25.  The second drawing is in honor of the new bro in the fam my nephew Conway Dickens.  And finally the drawing at the bottom is a tribute to Jean Giraud who passed away a month ago.  

Hour studies

quick study inbetween projects

Been to long since my last post, pretty busy these days, try and have some more sketch stuff up by the end of the week

archer chick

Key element to a much grander painting that im working on and excited to get started on, but as of now im getting kicked off campus so this it for tonight.

Peace!

Coffe shop Succubi

Been a good while sense I have made a post so here ya go!  So I blame these graphic horrific drawings on a bad combination of too much coffee and far to many sweet old ladies in a cramped environment.  

Hope you enjoy these as much as I do

Cheers!


Oh One last thing, if its not to late start from the bottom and work your way up posted out of order.  My bad...

succubus take 3

This one is anatomically whack, so sorry bout that, and apparently colored pencil is impossible to erase who would have guessed!  However, despite its many flaws I do enjoy the rather phallic head design on this one.

succubus take 2

Again working abstractly.  Not to thrilled about this design but I like the head ornaments, and always been a fan of high healed crow feet appendages!  Tried incorporating some black outine marker work to pop out the silhouette, looks good when done correctly but I feel I deff dropped the ball on this one.  Better luck next year. 

Why I shouldnt draw without something in mind

Stressed from school so I tried a more abstract approach to generating ideas.  Clear your head and start drawing shapes and see what happens, picked up from Carlos Huante who has been a big inspiration for me on this next project which deals with Succubuses or succubi whatever.  Very enjoyable yet disturbing to do but glad i got this one out of my system.  Strong believer in embracing the strange and bizarre in order to keep your sanity!  More to come

Also check out Huante's work here

http://www.carloshuanteart.com/

and here

http://galleryanatom.squarespace.com/

Thanks for the views!

speed paint Head

Hour and three min job.  Warmin up before I start my environment which deals with similar subject matter.

rusty spike quickie

speed paint tank

Not as detailed as I would have liked but I kind of enjoy its graphic quality. I spent a good percentage of the hour on perspective, which could still use some work, a tad on the janky side.  Perspective has always been a weakness of mine from the simple to the complex, so I will most likely be doing a number of these in the future.