Sasquatch Parasite

Hey all!
This post was designed as a gift for my dear friend Emma. I tried to get other people involved, but with very little success. Anyhow, Merry Christmas, Emma. Hope you're having fun in New York, and hope you enjoy my terrible Christmas tree art. Also, isn't it wonderful to image some kind of jolly parasite feasting on the vital merriment of some giant festive creature, forcing jollyvibes into its corroded brain, forcing it to devour cookies and milk until it falls into an insulin coma?
For everyone else, it's a long story. Merry Christmas.

Merry Friggin' Christmas

Hey all! Who says I ain't got holiday cheer? More work to come.

Devil Dancer

Hey all!
I had an idea for this image after reading a section in China Mieville's Iron Council. The section was about demons of movement that lived in empty deserts and fed on rhythm. The idea was fascinating enough to me to devote an hour or so's work towards. Seriously, though, this would be a challenging painting to do, so I think I'm almost obliged to do it. Now I just need to get me a model who can dance :P If I can get the models, this one WILL be painted, rest assured. I feel like this one deserves to have actual humans involved.
I had so much fun with the concept of this piece as I was working on it. A human girl, allowed into the company of demons because she possesses a skill none of them can learn; the ability to contact the less physical elements of the spirit world. Demons of air and whispers, of dreams and breath. Her dance conjures these ethereal beings and makes them her slaves as they gorge on the hunger for a body they can never touch. This ancient rite began as a ritual, but to the modern demon it is little more than a diversion, but one that enslaves them just as much as their bodiless cousins. But then, what can be said of this young girl, using her body and her grace in the way a whore entices men; to command the world for her own benefit, demanding any price of her ghastly patrons, knowing that no price is too high for her unique services. Which one is the true devil; she who enslaves fleshless spirits with her lithe body, or those who pay her to do so for their own pleasure?
More to come :)

Antibody (Dreams of a Stone Head)

Hey all! This is just a little doodle I did in a coffee shop the other day, punched up with some photoshopping. I've been reading China Mieville's Iron Council so I've been in kind of a weird mood, so this felt very appropriate. It's a very interesting book, if you haven't checked it out. I can't say it's good, exactly, but it is interesting. The man's got a great sense of world-building, but his plots are getting less and less engaging. I highly recommend his first novel, Perdido Street Station. It's one of the weirdest, most wonderful books I've ever read, and really got my imagination working, which is, sadly, more than I can say for more writers these days.
This tangent is because I don't have much to say about this picture. I might refine the sketch a little and could paint it some day. I need to change the little dude, though. I just made him an alien thing because I've been reading The Invisibles from Grant Morrison and I've been thinking of aliens as the universe's antibodies. Damn good series, if you haven't seen it. I reread it every year or so to make sure I've gotten all of it. It's awesome if you're into a) magic b) spies c) Lovecraft d) intelligent action comics. And again, I'm recommending books, but this one I don't know if I can recommend highly enough. If you can wrap your head around it, it's just all around good.
Anyhow, more to follow shortly. Also, Montreal in winter is terribly pretty, but very inconvenient if you prefer to walk everywhere.

Beast of The Apocalypse

Hey all!
As many of you know, I'm one of the founders and organizers of the official Montreal Drink & Draw Night. We've been meeting weekly at Hurley's Irish Pub to draw, chat and down a couple of pints. Last week's get together was an utter disaster. No one showed up at all. It was just me and my fish and chips. Just the same, I got some work done, as we see here.
I did the graphite sketch on the night of the event, and the photoshop tones tonight to punch it up a little and make it closer to a tonal comp. The sketch needs some work, but I think this could be an image one day.
Also, for anyone who isn't reading it, I highly recommend the blog Muddy Colors to any and all artists. It's one of the best I've seen for artists. It's really worth reading. Hell, it's worth memorizing.
More to come.