More Stains!!!

Get it? "More Stains!!!"?? Ya know, "More Brains!!!"... Ah, never mind.
This is more work in the stain series I am working on.
The stain pattern itself was used before but I completely reworked the image to make it more "real". This version of it definitely pulls off a better sense of realism.
The original can be found HERE.

This next stain pattern is relatively new. I drew it a little while back and never used it because I was not all together fond of it. But it grew on me so when I started really experimenting with the digital aspects of these pieces I threw it back into the mix.

WANTED!

This was fun - I had the little drawing of the Hulk in one of my sketch books and thought it would make a cool wanted poster.

The drawing (pencils and inks) only took about 2 hours in total. The digital finishes took quite a bit longer. There was some experimentation to get the look right so that took up some time.

In all I probably spent about 5 and a half hour on the digital part of this one.

Testament - After PusHead

The above is a band poster I was working on for the heavy metal band Testament for their album The Formation of Damnation (unofficially, of course). I'm a big fan of theirs and wanted to up this little homage.
The skull in palm bit is an homage to the artist PusHead. He's know for his rather grim images. This particular design of his recently appeared on the cover of Juxtapoz magazine. PusHead curated their October Halloween issue.
I thought it was really cool and wanted to do up a little somethin-somethin to throw a little fan-boy love his way.
This piece took FOREVER. the rendering on the skull alone took over a week of fairly regular work on it. Admittedly there was a lot of time experimenting to get the right look but all in all I probably spent over a week on the skull portion alone.

The detail of the skull is below.

Space Cruiser and Planet

More space art. Though this time I went with a more comic book style trying to avoid the photo manipulations and any sense of realism.
The planet was drawn (in a sense) digitally. Aside from that it was all done by hand. The space cruiser in this was pretty fun to draw.

With the obvious exception of the colors that is.
I like this one but I'm not wowed by my colors.
Maybe too saturated...
I can't quite put my finger on it at the moment.

Gas Giant and Moon on the Edge of a Nebula

More photo manipulation/digital space art. The gas giant is all digital while the glowing nebula edge and small moon are both photo manipulations. The star field is a Hubble space telescope shot of Messier 67.

I'm not sure I have a lot to say about this one. It was fun (as they all seem to be) and I really enjoy the colors. They are very soothing and inviting which is ironic if one considers the amount of radiation that would be pouring off this gas giant and out of this nebula would make this a quite inhospitable place to be.

Blue gas (from the "nebula") is commonly associated with hydrogen (a fundamental building block of stars) and the blue gas giant implies a bit of a failed star. Rather an accumulation of hydrogen that did not have the requisite mass to undergo nuclear fusion and ignite into a star.
In reality there would be a lot of other gases mixed in and the gas giant wouldn't really appear to be so blue. A perfect example of this is the planet Jupiter. A gas giant and the largest planet in our solar system, it is widely believed by astronomers and physicists that it is a failed star. Despite the fact that EVERY other planet in the solar system could fit inside the space Jupiter displaces it lacked the required mass (and thus internal gravitational pressure) to ignite into a star.

I guess I did have a lot to say about this after all...