#mpfitzpatrick

It's been a while since I posted new art here, so I thought I’d send out a few pieces before the end of the year. Here are a couple of the more recent ones, experimenting with a few different styles.

Sorry, guys. The end of the year was really busy for me, so I didn’t have a chance to do the card I had in mind. Instead I finished up last year’s sketch.

Kappa Digital Painting - Photoshop Kappa are a creature from Japanese folklore, and I've wanted to paint one for ages. I pushed this one a lot, did some things artistically that were a little out of my comfort zone; I deliberately dropped out some detail in favor of contrast and drama, I tried extreme perspective and size exaggeration with the outreached hand, I made my highlights much sharper than I usually do, and made the beams of moonlight very pronounced. I think it came out nice and creepy.

Resurrecting this one in a mad dash for a project. I’ll be doing what I can on it before we head out to FenCon (this project is NOT for FenCon)

Fairy Bomb.  I finished this tonight so I can have it ready for FenCon next weekend. The cherries read “No Boom today. Boom tomorrow.” in Hobbit script. So, yeah, I really have no excuses for this.

I’ve been playing with this one off and on,and now I’m happy with the direction it’s going.