...and, finally, I'm back!

Hey, it's been a looong time since my last post. A lot of things have changed. First, I have two amazing sons now! And being a dad is so, incredibly awesome. Second, I haven't been able to do much in the way of caricatures or comic art (insert sad face here). However, I have been (a little at a time) building up my painting portfolio. If you would like to check it out, here's a link:

burnt8bit.com

Finally, I'm working on a video game in my "spare time." Which basically means, at night when my wife and kids fall asleep before me and I don't have day-job work to do. My brother-in-law is working on it with me. We will post a site with more info about the project at some point. For now, all I can say is that the game will have pixel art, which is extremely fun to make! I will post samples when we are further along in production.

Until then,
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Been A While

Here's something I worked on recently, off and on for over the span of a week. I painted this entirely in Photoshop with my own custom brushes. Enjoy!

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CFH No.1

Hey, everybody! How about a creepy floating head? Well, here ya go!

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YEAH!!!

Hey, I've got some great news. Ashley and I found out last weekend that we're going to have a baby!

So here's a drawing I did to get some of that excited energy out so I'm not squirming in my seat all day at work. I used, solely, one of my custom brushes at a really small size to get this look. He almost looks as excited as I feel. Keep us in your prayers and thoughts and enjoy the drawing!

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PS - I can almost hear a Stan Bush song playing in the background. Maybe something from the animated Transformers movie. Like this dude's singing "The Touch" as loud as he can and screaming "YEAH!" really high-pitched. I can hear the synthesizers now...

More sketches

Here are a couple of sketches I thought I'd share. The black and white one is an early digital thing that I did with the Photoshop pencil tool several months ago.

The other is a recent page from my sketchbook where I wanted to try out this wood stain marker that I bought a little while back. I also threw on a little black with my brush pen, some extra color with Copics, and then I tested out some Sharpie oil-based white paint pens on top of that.

Enjoy,

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Sketches to Paint

Here are a couple of sketches that I plan on painting in the future. They're Conan O'Brien (requested on fb) and Rainn Wilson (as Dwight Schrute from the Office). Let me know what you think so far.

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Catching up

Michael Cera

Winona Ryder

Zooey Deschanel

It's been a little while since I posted. I'm really busy at work right now, but I'm still doing caricatures when I can. Here are three that I did lately.

Let me know what you think.

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