Dethklok drawing WIP updated 12/12
I'm finally back to working on my personal projects. This is the final drawing with the altered horses and various touch-ups, I'll start on the coloring from here and do any other altering during that stage. I did a minimal amount of shading to the figures, since this piece, unlike the gripping beast picture, is less about dense rendering and more about the overall flow.
Another update, about 10% remaining to do to the drawing, most of which is editing the horses to reflect famine, death, pestilence and war imagery of the four horsemen. Click image above for larger version.
I've gotten all the main Dethklok characters drawn, next I'll start working on all the peripheral imagery as well as tweaking the existing line work.
Above is a close up...I just noticed that I forgot Skwisgaar's guitar strap. I also need to print it out to get an idea of the scale and whether any more detail is needed.
This is the first section of finished pencils from the Dethklok sketch, specifically the lower left corner, which is Toki. I plan on doing extra shading later on, once I'm sure that all the parts of the picture are where I want them to be. This part of the drawing will probably be the hardest part bc of the unusual angle on the horse and the guitar...the rest of the drawing is more straight forward though, and I'll hopefully burn through it faster. I'll be adding all future updates, for this drawing, within this post.
See the final art here.
I was planning on coloring one of my older drawings this past weekend, but then an idea came to mind and I started this Dethklok pict. For anyone unaware, 
The above detail was started a while back and is very much unfinished...I open it up from time to time to fiddle, adjust and move it forward. Paolo & Francesca are characters (as well as historical figures) in Dante's Inferno. The couple inhabit a whirlwind of souls condemned for their carnal lust. I don't specifically remember why I started this image, but I imagine I came a cross one of the many painted renditions of the subject during some random net surfing. I may tone down the skeletons, by either simplifying them or stylizing them...or both.
This has been in the works for a while, or rather was started a while back but progress has come to a stand still because of other projects and work. Above is the first page of a very long Graphic Novel I wrote, set in Medieval Northern Europe. I originally planned on doing the GN in my Butterbroda style because it fit the subject matter, and a simple style would speed up the drawing process...although that style is deceptive and takes more work than even I seem to realize sometimes.
This is the final colored gripping beast picture. The full size is 18"x18" at 600DPI, it was a good thing I bought this new machine, my old Mac wouldn't have been cable of handle this large of a file. I'm debating if I need to add some more highlights to the skeletons in the beast's body but I want to see some test prints before I do any more.
I've finally gotten around to the coloring process on the older drawings I did. This is a part of the Gripping Best image. I'm still experimenting some with the color but the overall I've been happy with the painting effect that I've been able to make in PS. The beast itself has the most work left on it. I changed some small parts of the background for better flow to the picture.
Title: "Our Indulgences are Not Without Defense"
This is the final Fox ill. titled, "Kings Who Rule Less Challenged, In Springs are Bright, but Winters May They Fade?" I also started another pict last night, which I was able to get pretty far along with...will post soon.
Here's the finished ill. Now I just need to come up with a title.
With all the Halloween imagery floating around I decided to fiddle with an old bat illustration I did, years ago, that was done in a vintage holiday decoration style. But I decided to apply the bat theme to a new Butterbroda image and the picture above is a result of what I did today. I wasn't planning on having a background, allowing the boys shape to only be defined by the outline of the bat, but I changed my mind. I'm still fiddling with this though, should have it done by the end of the week.
I finally found some time this weekend and was able to finish the gripping beast picture. More background texture will be added during the coloring.
This is a new drawing, as yet unfinished, of a warrior in battle with a gripping beast. The "gripping beast" is part of the "Oseberg style" of art, originating in Scandinavia circa 800 AD.
I've been in the slow process of redoing my old portfolio site, I plan on removing the iframes and keeping everything contained on one page using css sliders and lightbox (or one of the other light___ apps). The image posted above is a piece of the art for the new-main interface that will run along the top of the page. Work has been busy lately so I haven't been able to draw as much as I'd like, but I've started a new drawing that I'll post a WIP of in a few days.
This is another from the group of new drawings I'm working on. I had originally planned on creating a straight forward picture of the cast from 
This is the final drawing to the WIP, with the creature totems finished in the background. The coloring stage will help to separate the foreground from the background and some further editing to the drawing may occur as I color. 
Over the last several years most of my artwork has been focused on sequential storytelling, and I was doing very little stand-alone images. Last year I started creating the red and black colored image series, as an offshoot of a style I had started to use for a graphic novel.