Ds Colors! Wolf

Ive been rereading, or I should say re-listening to the audio books of the George R.R. Martin series A Song of Ice and Fire. The greatest Fantasy series ever in my humble opinion. Anyway there are a bunch of dire wolves in the stories so I decided to paint this the other morning while watching the first half of the Ravens and Titans game. Took me about 1 and 1/2 hours to complete.
Thought it came out looking pretty cool for a DS painting.

Nintendo DS Sketches

Ive been messing around with my Nintendo DS program Colors! Its such a great little program. Its like having Photoshop lite wherever I go. I'm starting to get a hang of the controls and the way the brushes work. Anyway heres a few DS art works.

Dan's yearly snowboard

This is a snowboard design I did for a client/friend of mine. Every year my buddy Dan (Pictured) gets a new custom snowboard. This is the second year Ive done his snowboard design for him and this year the result was pretty cool.
Dan says that everyone who sees it says its the "sickest" snowboard design they have seen. So Im pretty stoked about that.
Dan told me he wanted the see, hear, speak no evil theme. After a few sketches I asked him to let me do something darker than he wanted and he let me run with it. I did a bunch of sketches he picked his favorite three and this was the result.
Im ready to do next years board already... Hopefully I can make it up this year and get into the snow myself.

Ride hard Dan, Ride hard!

Ps- see that picture behind Dano's head? That's some art I did my last year at the academy of art, he liked it so much he had me frame it and bought it from me. If I can find a copy of it I'll post it later.

And the world came crashing down...

Well, its been a crazy last few months. I lost my job, my girlfriend, my cool apartment, got denied unemployment and had to pack all my junk and move it to my friends house to store for a while. After that my dog got hit by my car and... wait... that sounds suspiciously like a country song.
Anyway, long story short I basically moved back to Hawaii for the next few months to work for my Father to keep my bills paid. Now that I got my head on straight again I'll get the updates up for the current stuff I'm working on. Sorry for the long delay.
I don't really have a dog or a car by the way, but the rest of that stuff is true.
Happy holidays and here's to a bright new year.

Starbucks Mermaid

Went to do some sketching with my buddies Nate and Sean on thursday. We went to a starbucks to hang out. We decided to all draw our own take on the Starbucks Mermaid. Why does the starbucks logo have a mermaid? Why does she have two tails in the logo? Do mermaids drink alot of coffee?
I think its some kind of conspiracy!!!

45 min sketch. Aloha

Up the stairs

I spent way too long on this one and in the end I'm not totally happy with the result, but I am happy that I got through it. I changed the area at the top of the stairs about four times until I finally settled for the curtains.
The point is that I finished another piece, and even though I got completely frustrated with this and wanted to scrap it, I decided to push through it. Anyway hope you all like it. Aloha

Snowy pass

Did this one Friday night. Took a little over 4 hours. I had a ton of fun doing this one and really got into a groove, the hours flew by quickly. Composition on it changed numerous times and I finally settled on this one, which I really liked. Anyway Enjoy.