Omar Rodriguez Lopez

I just finished a portrait of musician Omar Rodriquez Lopez from The Mars Volta.
I had a lot of fun playing around with the lighting on this. I ended up spending way too much time on this piece so I'm happy that it's finally finished.
Graphite/Digital

Also, I was featured over at Hi-Fructose this week! Thanks to Zach for the write-up.

Coheed & Cambria

So I had the HUGE privilege of being able to do a cover for Coheed & Cambria's: The Amory Wars comic.

My art will be an alternative cover to issue 9.
It'll only be limited to 300 copies and sold at the Evil Ink booth at this year's C2E2 in Chicago in March. So if you're in town, you should definitely drop by and pick one up!

And a special thank you goes out to Claudio and Chondra Sanchez for being the coolest people I know and making this nothing less than a dream job.

More info here: http://theamorywars.com/news/c2e2-updates/

Selling.

So a couple things.

I was featured the other day on Illustration Mundo to my surprise, which made me very, very happy.

AND, I have a brand new, original piece for sale over at Gallery Nucleus!
I'm lucky enough to be a part of their Power in Numbers project, and part of the proceeds of the purchase will go to charity.

One of my three illustrations was released yesterday.
Each 5" x 7"
Each $100

I did my pieces based on Yokai myths.
This one entitled 'Kasha,' is a giant cat-spirit that steals bodies from funerals.
If you are interested in purchasing it, go HERE.

------SOLD-------

Well overdue....

Major apologies for the lack of posting the past 3 weeks. Life's been crazy and I havent had any time on my plate (not that I even have time now, but it made me sad that my blog had been dead for so long). This won't be a trend! I've just moved into my new apartment and getting things settled. I'm taking my last class at SCAD and trying to ease myself into some freelance work, which so far, has been nothing but positive. I'm currently working on a HUGE project that I'll be able to announce later in the next week or so.

In other news I just recently finished a tattoo of some birds for a friend and figured I'd post the finish. Along with that, I'm posting a picture of my new drawing table, which I built with some nails and glue, and so far it's been working like a dream. I have to admit, I'm pretty proud of myself :]

And lastly, I received word this week that NINE of my pieces were accepted into Society of Illustrators LA, which made me pretty excited. The show is this month at Gallery Nucleus, so if you're in the LA area, you should drop by! I shipped off 2 of my originals for the event (one of which is pictured at the bottom). These will also be for sale at Gallery Nucleus. At the moment, I'm also working on 3 smaller pieces for Nucleus as well which will be posted for sale for to help out charity on their website in the next 3-4 weeks.
Hope everyone has been having an awesome 2011 so far.