When you go about updating a website, there are a few things to go over. Usually one is prone to forget a few things. I’ve found a few images I forgot to add to the gallery here.  Some of them are fairly recent,  like the one to the left, here in this post (click on it for full version with butt cheeks).  Another pulpy piece, inspired by one of the most prolific illustrators of the last fifty years, Robert McGinnis (under a site redesign; a better, yet small collection of his work can be found here. Or maybe better yet, just do the Google).  Pulp and illustration has been a huge influence for me.  I have a lot of admiration for those men and women who worked tirelessly to paint for book and magazine covers, vastly underpaid, and often without credit.  Check out a couple other links in the column to the right, under “inspiration” – Maguire and Saunders.  I’ll be adding more soon.

This was a fun image to work on, with all the jungly things going on.  Like much of my other work, the figure started as a 3d (Poser) model and the rest of the scene was painted in Photoshop and Painter, as were the cheeks changes in the figure.  

I do get insprired by much more than just pulp.  The other day, I was browsing Emusic, looking  for some Middle Eastern beats with a modern sound…. a little bit of Delerium, a dash of Niyaz, a grain of trance, but hold the Enigma.  As things happen when surfing, one thing led to another and I found myself on Youtube watching tribal fusion belly dancing (hey, it’s not that far a stretch).  Amazing stuff. So inspiring that my first intinct is to want to paint three hundred images of writhing dancers and spinning veils. I’ll settle for far less, but have a few ideas already in the sketch phase.  If you haven’t seen anything like it yet, go to the ‘tube and search “tribal fusion dance” or Zoe Jakes, for the name of one dancer in particular who I would swear had frikkin’ snakes for arms. 

In other news, there are more images added in the digital gallery, link in the right column, top. —–>    Thanks for the visit.