Frozen Confections For All!

Ice Cream Socialist 

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My hand hurts...

Sakura Micron 01, Aquabee Super Deluxe

Been forever...

Hey, the "A Blog for Arena.Net Aritsts" header is gone. I can post here again! Some quick stuff, and hour or two on each. Just for fun, I did these to wind down from other projects. Been messing with a new painting style that lets me move quick. Fun to do.

ImagineFX

Here's my tutorial piece for ImagineFX.

Check out my site for a step-by-step gif. 

2DArtist Tutorial

A tutorial piece for an upcoming 2DArtist magazine issue. Also added a bunch of sketches to my blog.

Light bulbs become magic dream computers

I wish all electronics looked like this.

Materials: Faber-Castell Pitt pen S, Pentel Pocket Brush laying down J. Herbin Gris Nuage FP ink on a 4"x6" Pentalic hardbound sketchbook (super cheap, plays nice with everything, and it lies flat, perfect!)
Materials: Faber-Castell Pitt pens S and XS, Aquabee Super Deluxe sketchbook

Squiships and Island Towns

Here's something I thought up this morning: near-magical spaceships with flexible, deformable membranes as their outer shells. As the note indicates, I'm thinking something along the lines of graphene membranes with embedded networks of high-temperature superconducting loops to change shape and become rigid where needed, forming such handy items as landing feet or airlock tubes.
Materials: Pilot Penmanship EF with Noodler's Bulletproof Black ink, Kaweco Sport EF with Kaweco royal blue ink cartridge, Pentel Pocket Brush pen with J. Herbin Gris Nuage ink, and a touch of Waterman South Sea Blue out of a Lamy Safari EF, on Strathmore 400-series medium-tooth drawing paper.

About mid-way through drawing these I decided they're out in the middle of broad, ephemeral inland seas that dry up for years at a time.

Since I'm such a materials nerd, it only makes sense to start listing faithfully the involved parties. I'm having a blast with a light-blue Pentel R.S.V.P. ballpoint, a grey Zebra Mildliner highlighter, and a black 0.5 mm Uni-ball Jetstream ballpoint, on a blank Rhodia 80g sketchpad.

Doodle Yo

Updated my blog with a couple New Year's weekend doodles.

I am excited to share with you guys, that I'm a featured artist in an upcoming gallery show called The Darkroom Series. 3 of my Instagram pieces will be displayed alongside 9 other artists. If you can make it, please come for the opening reception this Thursday evening. The show will be up for the month of January.

http://web.stagram.com/n/dankhole

January 5, 2012 - Opening Reception with DJ @spinja - Gallery thru February 1, 2012 - Zeitgeist Coffee - 2nd & Jackson - Seattle, WA

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"Incomplete"

Painting it in Photoshop from the setting I made several days ago.

mostly made-up animal skrobbles

Sea Toitles

Salvage

Haven't posted here for a while, something new I just posted at: The Art of Levi Hopkins

Happy Halloween sketchWITCH!

kraken studios

sketchbook doo-doos

In my fantasy future, as in my personal life, touch interfaces are reviled as abominations.

When ASUS EEE Note meets Auguste Rodin

This was done with Asus EEE Note EA800 which has 8 inch gray scale LCD, Linux based system , and Wacom Pen with pressure sensitivity.

Sadly, ASUS didn't continue to advance this product which I though has a lot of potential, and it only costs 230 US Dollars. Current version the hardware was great, but the software support is weak.

I did these drawings from last weekend when I visited Legion of Honor. They have some really good collections in the museum, and I found out Rodin has some of the best composition pieces in this museum.

Tastes of the ocean...

Based off some cool MC Barrett Drawings

Some sketchbook pages...

Washing fountain pen inks with a waterbrush full of dilute walnut ink, Aquabee Super Deluxe sketchbook is super nice for this.