Enlistee's art gallery!

[Scatter]

The only thing I can readily get my hands on is this one:



I did this when I was 17, and it hung in my parent's home as long as I can remember.

If ever a painting SCREAMED for black velvet. this is the one!! 

[markchro]

Charp 13 summed it quite nicely! You were all talented from the start!

I don't think I have any reminders of my early pictures (the family moved home and Mum probably chucked out a load of things, including my FMs and comics!  ) And stuff that I painted to order in the 1980's-90's were all sold. I'm cursing myself that I didn't photograph much of it either! I'll be nicely surprised if any of my artwork appears again.

Here's something I've found in a pile of photos.

Painted in watercolours. Brother and sister but quite a difference in the size of the pair.

[markchro]

New-ish drawing! Ygor impressionistic style!

Marker pens and gouache on paper.

[ChrisW]

Nice dramatic piece. When you say marker pens, do you mean paint markers? Was it done white on black?

[Illoman]

Markchro, I like everything you've done, but really like the impressionistic quality of this one! Great, great job!!

[dlhenderson]

Beautiful, beautiful paintings and drawings all around! 
You kids were all so talented (and still are of course)...I can imagine the pride your families felt when they saw all your artwork. I am so glad you found these treasures to share with us.

"The pride your families felt..." Well, I got into hot water in the 6th grade for drawing increasingly bloody monsters on the notebooks of classmates. The principal actually called my parents to come to the school. Jeez. I didn't really get punished per se, but everyone expressed concern. It made me feel very self conscious and I started toning down the imagery. Oh well...

[Scatter]

"The pride your families felt..." Well, I got into hot water in the 6th grade for drawing increasingly bloody monsters on the notebooks of classmates. The principal actually called my parents to come to the school. Jeez. I didn't really get punished per se, but everyone expressed concern. It made me feel very self conscious and I started toning down the imagery. Oh well...

Well, the nice thing is that it turned out there was nothing to fear at all about your menta........oh,wait. Nevermind.

[markchro]

Many thanks Mike!

Nice dramatic piece. When you say marker pens, do you mean paint markers? Was it done white on black?

Thanks Chris! I use Copic Ciao (the budget version) alcohol-based ink twin nibbed marker pens and flood the paper with tone.  Then I apply the white detail in gouache.

I bought a few markers with their refill inks and a ream of thin, cheap laser/photocopy paper. The "drawing" is all done in gouache (painted, finger-painted) and I tone it with the markers, and then I repeat the process to build up layers of depth. Usually I finish the drawing with pure white highlights.

Yeah...I should use one of those wide tipped pens for the paper coverage, but I'm seriously on a very tight budget to do any artwork. So I cherish all my art materials..pens, brushes, acrylic paints etc! I've made them go far! 

[Scary Terry]

Mike, Mark, Terry - anyone else want to dust off some old school drawings and post them for the world to see?

Most of my school-age stuff is long gone.  My mother probably still has something packed away -- and I do have my high school comic books (actually printed a bunch!) -- but darned if I can find them right now.  A few moves ago, I tossed a lot of early drawings -- including the original art for those high school comics.  I regret that -- but had little choice at the time -- just couldn't continue to store so much stuff -- and something had to go.

[ChrisW]

Most of my school-age stuff is long gone.  My mother probably still has something packed away -- and I do have my high school comic books (actually printed a bunch!) -- but darned if I can find them right now.  A few moves ago, I tossed a lot of early drawings -- including the original art for those high school comics.  I regret that -- but had little choice at the time -- just couldn't continue to store so much stuff -- and something had to go.

Too bad Terry, it's always interesting seeing early pieces of pros. If you find any of the comics from High School, please scan a few pages.
Over the years as I add more and more roughs, color comps and sketches to my stash, I'll  toss out older pieces that don't appeal to me like they once did. By and large, they deserve to be tossed!

[dlhenderson]

As I alluded to before, I'm facing the same problem; shrinking space. As I go though the ephemera, I have my camera at hand to digitize the images. Never let the stuff go w/out at least photographing it.

[ChrisW]

here's another Polar Lights cover sans copy. I REALLY wanted the copy to be superimposed over the lower third like the old Aurora boxes. I made the bottom dark and extended his arm up just to "force" Polar Lights into doing it that way. Unfortunately, they insisted the title be above the art for recognition. Oh well.
My pallette was inspired by the colors on the "Forgotten Prisoner" box art by Mort Künstler.

[Scatter]

here's another Polar Lights cover sans copy. I REALLY wanted the copy to be superimposed over the lower third like the old Aurora boxes. I made the bottom dark and extended his arm up just to "force" Polar Lights into doing it that way. Unfortunately, they insisted the title be above the art for recognition. Oh well.
My pallette was inspired by the colors on the "Forgotten Prisoner" box art by Mort Künstler.

WOW!! Just.............WOW!!

[dlhenderson]

That's a monster kid's dream come true, making the cover art for those kits. That's another great one, Chris. Also enjoyed your tale of the title.

[dlhenderson]

I had a freelance gig w/ The Atlanta Constitution newspaper for awhile, back in the '80s (creating illustrations for the op-ed page).
Here's the first one I did. Often, the articles I was asked to illustrate were incredibly stupid. This one had to do with the author's opinion that okra was unpleasant.
So I gave the center of the composition over to a spoonful of an ultra-slimy gumbo-like substance.