Sam's Tasty Art

I decided to work on improving my use of color, so I've started bringing my laptop to the live drawing session on Fridays. Doing a caric...

I'm taking Don Seegmiller's digital painting class, in the hopes that I might be able to break out of my characteristic way of paint...

Another one for the "Bad Fantasy Art" challenge on the Avalanche Blog. I wanted to make a design that poked fun at the stupidity (...

I stuck with the pug merely to keep a tradition. It's not that I have an obsession with pugs---I don't plan to even own a dog, ever....

I'm not sure which is sadder: that a few years ago I would have drawn a character like this in all seriousness, or that his sword really...

One of these times I'm going to draw more than the head and shoulders, you just wait and see.

A couple quick pictures I did for the latest Avalanche blog topic. I realize now that it should be Lucky Lucy . Duh.

I made this for a presentation I did on character design. The presentation was about an appoach to character design I've been developing...

After seeing Adam Ford's, Ryan Wood's, and Dave Malan's version of this guy, I got to thinking how many different ways you could...

I did this for the Avalanche topic as well as for a workshop series by Dave McClellan . This one combined value with saturation, so we coul...

This girl was funny, always stretching her lips out and adjusting her face, like she was afraid still that her mouth would get stuck in one ...

Avalanche has a figure drawing session every Friday, but I'm not an accomplished figure drawer, so I don't often spend much time in ...

I did this simultaneously for the Avalanche Blog topic and a workshop on value by Dave McClellan . I like killing two birds with one stone...

I realized I hadn't posted in a little while, so here's a quick fish to provide the illusion of productivity:

For the Avalanche blog , but I'm posting here also so it looks like I'm keeping this blog up to date.

I've been out of town. Here's an Avalanche blog post. I think I keep painting things too dark though, because they always look wrong...

I wanted to spend a lot more time on this, but it's been a while since I posted last, so I got impatient. Nothing is more evil than a ma...

Fun, fun, fun.

I did some very early concept art for the game, none of which was used. It was fun to kick out some wild ideas of how things should be, thou...

Trying to be like Mike Mignola, but not trying very hard.

Been busy this week, so sorry for the lame post. The first one is, in fact, a lady. She's the bus driver in the morning. I don't fe...

Did this for the Avalanche Blog . He's scary.

I want to start drawing from life more. It's fun, and feeds my brain with new ideas. Here's a couple doodles of people from the bus,...