Disintegration Self-Portrait

I'm going to be working on a 7" cover for Born Anchors and they want me to paint the band in the same style as my "Lipstick" painting. Naturally, I need to pull their likeness' out of it, which is an interesting challenge. I did this test yesterday since I'm waiting for some reference shots from them.

Ripped off again

Dang. I wish they had just commissioned me to do their tour poster, but I guess that they knew what they wanted.

CHOW#116

This was for Character of the Week on Conceptart.org. I'm trying to improve my character skills by doing this exercise. I'd like to do them every week, but I probably won't have time for the rest of the month. The character concept was "The Host" which as it was described is a Celtic folklore character who takes the souls of the dead. Part of the submission requirements were to make a sketch of an alternate version of the character.

What is the deal?

Maybe somebody can shed some light on this situation. Every so often I get a request to do something, and I'm into it, so I say yes. I never hear from them again. I follow up to see what's going on with the project, and nothing. What is with that? It feels like I said a racial slur on national television and they want to distance themselves from me all together. I understand that some projects get killed, if that's it. Weird. I need to know people!

True Eye Publication

http://www.true-eye.net/volume7/te_volume7.html

It has my paintings. I guess there's a physical version that they send out for AD's as well. I'm happy with the way it looks.

SF Magazine and Juxtapoz

Hey kids. Big news is that my profile in Juxtapoz Magazine is finally out. I consider it a milestone in my career, and an honor. The painting reproduced well, so that's great after my disappointing reproduction in Spectrum last year (by the way, I didn't submit this year, which was probably a mistake). So I've been waiting for weeks to show this painting for SF Magazine. This was my best assignment to date. The article is about dark films in SF (which is perfect for me. right?), the due date was 2 weeks, and I was well paid. It's just the best imaginable job for me, and it fell into my lap through an email out of the blue. So I rocked it. I'm stoked of the piece I did, the AD was stoked; everything was awesome. I worked closely with the AD, Alejandro Chavetta on this, and he was just fantastic. He didn't tell me what to do, he just gave me a general idea about the direction he needed, and helped me flush out my ideas. Really, the whole thing was just great. I finished well ahead of the due date. This is a combination of painting and digital, that I feel came out showing the best traits of both. The only thing that bothers me about this painting, is that actual parks at night are way more spooky than this painting. I'll do another post with more about my process at a later date.

Mctarty.com

This was a commission for mctarty.com on the theme of "Scottish African". In spite on this being for an art director/writer creative team, all I was asked to do was "Scottish African". Pat Mckay is of Scottish decent, Feh Tarty is Liberian.Some projects are like that. I wanted to keep this one light, and since it was intended to be put on a white website, I made it a vignette. It feels very different from my normal work. I feel like I'm always changing things up, but this one's especially unusual for me. It's so unusual that I don't even know what to think about it yet. They were happy with it though. I'm not sure if it fits in my portfolio, so I don't think I'm going to put it on my site.

Oh yeah, so the tartans are Pat McKay's family's, Thistle is the nation flower of Scotland, and red deer are apparently common there. On the other side the leopard is part of Feh's tribe's folklore, the pattern is either Liberian or at least West African, I don't remember, and the flowers are pepper flowers, official flower of Liberia.