A couple more works-in-progress on the easel....

The first image is another "stream of conciousness" piece, along the lines of "What's Mine is Mine", and the second one is an old pencil drawing I started a long time ago, and started working on again... I WILL finish it!

Temple of the Great Fish

OK, this is a new piece I am working on. This is based off of an old sketch from my sketchbook that you may have seen before.

I am going to print out this drawing very lightly on watercolor paper, then paint it with watercolors and pen&ink. I also have several other drawings in the works, but all at various states. My friend Marc Taro tells me I should post a photo of them on the blog anyways, just to show how big they are and to give everyone an idea of what is to come. I will do that soon.

I can't decide with this one whether or not I like the additional buildings/temples in the background, or if it should just be a desolate mountain-scape, making this particular temple seem very remote. What do you think?

The Mirror Maiden - Finished!

Done with this one at long last (it has been sitting on my "easel" for a few months).

Anyways, let me know what you think. Many exciting (hopefully) things to come soon. Stay tuned!

Spectrum 17 - I made it!

According to the Spectrum website, I have made it into the juried competition again! Yay! I don't know which piece they chose, but I will let you know as soon as I get the letter in the mail.

Congrats also to friends: Paul Harding, Mclean Kendree, Sam Bosma, Eric Deschamps and Kali Ciesemier!

List of Spectrum 17 Winners

Jury Duty sketch

Something I sketched up during downtime in my week long adventure with jury duty. Fun!

I have an Etsy shop now!

I have finally set up an online shop to buy prints of my work. Check it out: http://www.etsy.com/shop/seanandrewmurray

Let me know what you think, or if you have any favorites that you would like me to make available as prints.

Mirror Maid - Work in Progress

So, though my freetime lately has been scant (you know, work, baby, freelance), I have been slowly working on this personal piece that I call "The Mirror Maid". The great and wise McLean Kendree gave me some pointers on this one, which I plan on incorporating. Let me know what YOU think!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Sketchbook

Small offering this time.

My 4-page sketchbook article in ImagineFX

I forgot to post this a while back, but in case you missed it, here is the 4-page sketchbook article I had in December's (U.S.) issue of ImagineFX Magazine... I think technically it is the November issue.

Sketchasaurus

Transmissions from the sketchbook

Sorry about being MIA for a while.... the usual excuses: Work, Freelancing, The Holidays.... A BABY!!! Anyways, here's some more transmissions from Planet Sketcho.

Privateer Press illustrations

Several illustrations I was commisioned to do for "No Quarter" magazine. All of these are for the "Iron Kingdoms" world which is a lot of fun to work on. The last image is the first in a series of pieces I will be doing for them throughout the year depicting various important cities in the Iron Kingdoms world. I will post those when they are published!

My first Sketchcrawl!!!

So, today I participated (nay, organized) my first sketchcrawl here in Baltimore. Check out www.sketchcrawl.com for more info, but basically it's a world-wide event where people gather together in their respective cities and draw urban scenes then upload them to the sketchcrawl site. We had about 7 people, which was cool. Still trying to get the thread opened up on the official site so that everyone can upload their images, but below you will find the two sketches I did (fingers were getting numb from the cold after 2 hours, so next time we will have to work with more direct sunlight if it occurs during the winter months).

Below those are some pages from the old sketchbook.

Publicity!

Got some work appearing in a couple of publications currently on the shelves: 3 full-page pieces in "The Future of Fantasy Art" published by Harper Collins, and "Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" published by Underwood Books. (That is actually the back cover of Spectrum, but for some reason it's the one they are showing on Amzaon...)

My ULTIMATE CREATION! MUHUHUHAHAHAHA!

On Monday, November the 2nd, at 11:58 AM, my beautiful wife gave birth to the most amazing little boy: Connor Vincent Murray. Life has greater meaning and purpose, and an amazing new adventure awaits me! Be on the lookout for his sketchblog within the coming months.... he seems to be a quick learner.

The Birdmonks

New piece. New style... I am calling this my "fast" style, something I think I will be practicing more now that the baby will soon be around, haha! Let me know what you think.

Sketchitor!

Just two for now. Second one is a dude from a pirate band I saw at RennFest.

Vote for me.... if you want.

Hey everyone, the public poll for the "Newborn" contest over on Conceptart.org is finally up. If you liked my piece entitled "Oops", and are a member of conceptart.org, or want to become one, please follow this link and vote for my piece (I am called Muttonhead on the forum).

You can vote for other people's pieces too, it is a multivote system.... there are 8 heats currently, and the winners from those heats will go on to a final poll. Anyways, thanks in advance!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=169734

Sketchyums!

Som'mor sketches. I don't know why I wrote Doomsday Sorority on that one page, I just thought it sounded like a cool idea for a movie or comic book.

Sketchwich

"Oops!" Finished

Here is the final image for "Oops". Wish me luck in the contest!

A couple of doodles from Dr. Sketchy

Dr. Sketchy was at The Windup Space tonight for the first time, and guess what? That happens to be where VS. is too! So, all the attendees of tonight's Dr. Sketchy got to see VS. Awesome.

Well, anyways, here are my two favs from the session tonight.

Oh, and be sure to check out this month's "ImagineFX Magazine", which features 3 pieces by yours truly on page 13!

"Oops" Continued

Decided to change the name of this piece to "Oops", and wanted to post some of the progress I am making. It's a bit slow going because of other projects and work and whatnot, btu I think I will be able to finish it for the end-of-the-month deadline.

Let me know how it looks on your monitor!

Sketch for "Newborn"

This is my pencil sketch for the Conceptart.org contest "Newborn". Tell me whatcha think!