Art of Andrew Sides

This was originally a failed watercolor painting from about a year ago, but I found it after cleaning out my flat file and decided to give it another shot and see if I could salvage it.

Graphite study in my crescent rendr sketchbook. The main goal was to develop a smooth rendering and edgework in the figure.

The Gardener and her crop, 18x24 mixed media on illustration board “No one is really sure who The Gardener is or where she came from. Some believe that she’s an ancient forest sprite, others think she was a warrior who lost her way and found madness. Whatever her reason might be, should you find yourself deep within the Shadowed Garden you might find yourself part of her growing crop. Tread carefully, traveler.”

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Back at posting for the new year, I’ve got a couple bits from the backlog to post.  Here’s a life drawing session from last night, conte on craft paper. Hadn’t worked much with craft paper before, but I like how it handles and being able to model light and dark is pretty great. For any new, immediate updates, follow me on IG @asidesart

Life drawing from this Monday. When in doubt put laser eyes in.

Hellboy - did this short (1.5 hour) study over the weekend for prep for a larger illustration idea I have for him.  Dude can be hard to draw because his head is so weird.

If you ever wanted to own one of my sketchbooks/pins/original art, well good news! I have a holiday sale that lasts till the end of the year!  You can use “HOLIDAY17″ to get 20% off any order, but if you sign up for my newsletter you get a SECRET PROMO CODE that gives you 35% off instead!  On top of that you get to see sneak previews of artwork before I release them online and a first chance at any artwork I put up for sale.

Been experimenting with some technique stuff lately, this was the culmination of some of those recent explorations. Hope you enjoy!

Playing some Tumblr catch up! The mobile app can be buggy at times so I’ve been slacking lately posting here, so here’s a mix of Inktober stuff, pencil studies, and a color comp for an upcoming illustration!

Day 12 of Inktober - some kinda landscape?

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Day 10 of Inktober - Gigantic.

Inktober later today, but first - a brief flip through of my sketchbook which will be ON SALE TOMORROW. From 10/11-10/22 the price will be $20 USD, after that it’s $25 so if you want to knock some bucks off of this the next 11 days are where it’s at. You’ll be able to find it in on my website, asidesart.com

Day 9 of Inktober - Screech. Nothing worse than being imminently curbstomped by a bat monster.