6thplanet

Hey, many thanks, I appreciate you checking the stuff out.

Simply fucking amazing! Just WOW man.

Thistle, oil on canvas, finished today. Cover illustration for a death metal band called Xaoc, for their upcoming album "Proxime Mortis".

"Want", 2021, oil on canvas

 
I've finally gotten to spend a couple weeks on my own work in between other projects. One of the less cool aspects of illustration work is that I can't share it until the band is ready. Sometimes it takes years. It feels good to make and share something on my own terms for a change. Just finished this today. Hope to get to more of these soon.

This is pretty cool - the cover painting I did for Marrowfields got picked up by Heavy Music Artwork to be featured alongside a bunch of great cover art in their Best Of 2020 hardcover. I'm stoked to see this in print.

 
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This week also finds me reworking that piece I did for Vacant Eyes. I always wanted the figure to have a face, and there were some other things I wasn't quite happy with, and etc etc. This is a rabbit hole, as always. Here's a not-great cellphone photo of it in progress.

 
 

I finished the sidewalk painting over the past few days. Here are a few shots. My son is a goofball.




 

 

I just stumbled across this drawing from a little over twenty years ago - right before I went to college. Colored pencil and India ink on wood.

 
There was this girl I liked whose parents were regular customers at the restaurant I worked at, and they bought this from me as a gift for her during my "leaving for art school" sale. She was a hell of a piano player.
Nine and a half years after that, she and I got married, and now we can finally hang this up in the new place. I kinda wonder if having the painting and the girl means I owe my in-laws their money back.

Here are a couple of fun "process animations" from my website showing paintings from initial stages to completion:
Traveler:

 
Victory:

 
And here are some side by side photos showing the same process. Sometimes the first couple layers are loose and the image comes into focus slowly, which is how I prefer to paint, but if I need something to be laid out really accurately (like the illustration above), I'll start with a drawing.

 

 

I can finally share this piece I did last summer for the upcoming Afterbirth album, "Four-Dimensional Flesh":
 

And here's some of my personal (non-illustration) work from the last several years.
Episteme:

 
Absence:

 
Mother:

 
The Farmer:

 
Gabriel:

 
Mary:

The inside cover of Black Harvest's "Abject":

 
Here's one I did a couple years ago for a New England-based doom band called Marrowfields:

 
The cover for Pseudo/Sentai's "Enter The Sentai" - weird prog stuff, from NYC but since relocated:

Considering that the majority of my art-making these days is for illustrations, I figured I should start a promo thread to share my paintings and other work. If you've stumbled across this while looking for someone to do album artwork, you're welcome to contact me, but my schedule is pretty full for the time being.
Here are a couple of recent illustrations to start off. I'm finally able to share a good image of this piece from earlier in the year - "Justice", a cover for Bethledeign's upcoming album "Iconography Of Suffering":

 
Here's a montage of paintings I created as background for the interior layout of the album:

 
 
Here (again) is the cover image for In Human Form's upcoming album "III":

 
And here are some older ones that I may have shared elsewhere - two variants of a cover for the Autumn Tears EP "The Origin Of Sleep":

I’m already halfway there 😎 I have a guitar 🤪 so I might have a look into lessons 🤘I love a good Riff so i’ll habe to start learning

Yes, get a guitar/bass and get to it! Lessons are a great way to see if it's for you. Most are by the month, so meet with an instructor and get a feel for what it might do for you. I was self taught, started when I was probably 16 and was lucky to have a few friends that were just starting out too. Made it easy to learn riffs by ear or from friends picking things up and showing each other. Spent many hours trying to figure out what Tony Iommi was doing! Then I realized what I wanted to play was the bass thanks to Steve Harris. 
Your never to old to try something new like playing music. 

Hi mate!! Looking very cool in that pic, wish I learned to play guitar, nearly 25 now, any tips on getting started?

That's killer mate. Utmost respect for everyone who plays metal. Welcome!

So a forum for fellow metalheads sounds great! I was lucky enough to have a dad that listened to Sabbath, Grand Funk, Zeppelin, and all kinda Rock n Roll. Picked up a guitar around 16years old, switched to mainly bass a year later. I have Steve Harris to thank for that🤘, and yes, Iron Maiden is tops!! Still play/write on guitar. By 18 was doing the band thing and the rest is history. I'm mainly older heavy metal, Maiden, Megadeth, Helmet, COC, Slayer, and such. Added a picture from way back, definitely a rocker! Lol, anyway glad to be aboard! 

Wow, intense! Cool frickin video👍🏻