Hello everyone, I know i've been off the art grid for a while but i just relocated to Dallas, Texas and it is stupid hot down here but i would take the heat in texas over the snow in ohio any day. This is my self portrait and its 99.9% finished at least that's how i feel about it.

Animal Study

These are some animal studies that did at the Columbus zoo, I would highly recommend it because you can only get so much from looking at photos.

Self portrait sketch

I was driving home one day and thought to myself, "Man i don't have a good and recent self portrait". So i sat down and made a quick sketch and hopefully this will blossom into a full color portfolio piece.

Here it is, I finally finished the Johnny Appleseed piece. I wanted the apple to be the focal point of the piece so I also thought it would be interesting to remove the saturation from one image and only leave color in the apples. I would like to know your opinion about which one looks better.

Johnny Appleseed

The piece below (David & Goliath) was inspired by Frank Frazetta a famous fantasy artist. I bought a book of his with prints of his artwork. I'm not really  a fantasy art guy but I have a lot of respect for it so I thought that it would be interesting to attempt to do a painting in that style.

David & Goliath