Animal

Here is the second Photoshop painting in the Muppets line. Of course it is the drummer of the Electric Mayhem, Animal. He is such a great drummer he doesn't need no stinkin' sticks!

Kermit

Ok, I'm trying to throw my hat into the Photoshop ring. I have always been resistant to working on Photoshop, but I sadly realize that it is the way art is mostly being done now. So, I'm trying digital painting. It still doesn't feel right, and I think it doesn't help that I'm working off of an ink drawing. I'm going to try working over pencil sketches and see how that goes. I do have more Muppets paintings coming soon. They are all going to be from ink drawings I have done. And i will be posting the line drawings and the painted versions on my Deviant Art site.

Kiss shirt designs

Here are some shirt designs I did for a contest to create Kiss shirts. The first 2 were colored in Photoshop. While the last one was colored with Prismacolor markers and watercolor. Being a huge Kiss fan I know that most of their merch features photos of the band members. I wanted to try something more graphic for the first design. I took the cover to the Rock & Roll Over album and I tried to update it. I never really cared for the cartoony version of them on the cover so I tried for a more realistic version of them but I tried to keep the feel of the original in the backgrounds. The second design was for a girl's shirt. I figured most designs would be more for guys so I did this one to try and stand out a little. And the last design is of Gene Simmon's Dragon Boot. I did this one because I'm tired of Kiss stuff with just their image on it. So I went for something I thought looked cool and only fans would really get.

But, unfortunately I didn't win. I got mixed up on the due dates and only got the third design in. Well, it was still good practice.