Georgian Gothic -- Squidbillies

Squidbillies, 2010. 18" x 24". acrylic on canvas.

This was done for my sister, who asked that I paint one of our favorite shows for her apartment. The north Georgia family's portrayal is dead on and anyone that has lived in the state can attest to the zany ignorant behavior that is all too real. The actual studio where the voice actors record their lines for the cartoon is only a stone's throw from my apartment. Unknown Hinson has a bit of cult following outside of the show and is quite a personality, I recommend watching him as well as the Squidbillies show. This is only some fan art and I don't own or claim any rights to Squidbillies or the properties therein. Please don't sue me, I am of the unemployed persuasion.

Olympic Torches

Olympic Torches, 2010. Sketch and Photoshop.

Inspired by the Vancouver Winter Olympics I thought a cool project for a design class would be to design the torch and medals for an Olympic games. I have always enjoyed watching them even if I am not otherwise interested in a certain sport. After mulling over some of those in my head I decided to see if I could put any down on paper. After about an hour I had filled the page. Some of the first designs stem from the Greek tradition of the games: urns, columns, apollo's winged ankles. Some more nationally themed ideas came up as well such as bull horns for Spain and a cannon barrel for France and Napoleon. For the up-coming summer games in London 2012 I rather selfishly styled one from a longbow. Given my surname is Boman I couldn't resist. The New York Times put together a great synopsis of past designs and can be seen -here-.

Flowers in Vase

Flowers in Vase, 2010. oil pastel on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Flowers

Flowers, 2010. oil pastel, pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Reclining Nude

Reclining Nude, 2010. oil pastel on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Flower Detail

Flower Detail, 2010. oil pastel, ink, and pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Flower Sketch

Flower Sketch, 2010. pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Teeth and Creatures

Teeth and Creatures, 2010. pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Blue Bomb

Blue Bomb, 2010. oil pastel, pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Umbrella

Umbrella, 2010. oil pastel, pencil on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Edwardian Magus

Edwardian Magus, 2010. Corel Painter XI, Photoshop and hand sketch.

This was entered into a little weekly challenge called 'Character of the Week' from a great website called Conceptart.org. Here is they write up they did for it:

London, England 1907. Cyril Grey is the leader of the ‘Order of Shining Starres’, an occult organisation that aims to become the most dominant in Britain. Grey has access to some of the darkest forces of the astral realm, and demands complete devotion from his acolytes. He is a man obsessed and committed to the promulgation of his black bible, the Book of Regulation, or Liber Ordinatio said to have been dictated to him by a messenger from the gods that provided to him his magical motto, Sit Vis Vobiscum. He has inherited wealth, independence, and apparent youth; appearing little over 35. But there is talk that he is older and uses a ‘glamour’ to fool his followers. There is also talk of the wealth running out, and debts beginning to mount up; of pretenders to his position, and of... murder. Dark murder, as prominent figures in the occult underworld start to... go missing...

Design Grey in his ceremonial robes of office. Consider the historical period (Edwardian) and setting. Also consider his apparent age and powerful persona, and try to present that in your design.

The character was designed around a drawing I found from a sporty edwardian advertisement. After reading the prompt I couldn't help but to think about the Warhammer Universe and their designs for the magus type. They use bird/ eye motifs for their design; so I picked a theme around bull/ stars. Since the character is supposed to be older than his youthful appearance suggests, I made his exposed hand look wizened.

Celtic Warrior

Celtic Warrior, 2010. Corel Painter XI and hand sketch.

This was entered into a little weekly challenge called 'Character of the Week' from a great website called Conceptart.org. Here is they write up they did for it:

"The Celt remembers very little of his homeland any more. Though he was fifteen when he was captured and sold into slavery, his memories of his time before Rome are so few and so fleeting that he wonders sometimes if he merely dreamed them.

His home, for the last ten years, has been the largest ludi - or gladiator school - in all of rome. And he, their prize pupil.
Though maybe once he railed upon his captors, it has been a long time since he has thought of any other way of life than the sword, the bow, and the chariot.
For the last three years, he has been an Essedari - a war chariot fighter. His chariot is his prize possession - even if technically he doesn't own it. He has spilt so much blood onto it that it is closer relation to him than any living person on the entire planet, and he loves it enough to prove it.
Though he often fights on foot, especially for the one-on-one battles, he and his chariot are now so famous that Rome would be devastated if he did not at least use it as a backdrop for every battle.
Today, outfitted in all the splendor his keeper could manage, he fights for the emperor himself.
Note:
This does not have to be a historically accurate chow, especially since there are no pictoral references for the Essedari. So keep to the spirit, but you don't have to keep to the letter!"

So I based the character off of a photo I found of Roy Keane that looked like he was kissing something in his hand. It reminded me of when soccer players score a goal they'll sometime kiss their ring, a tribute to their wife. Since the prompt mentioned he missed his homeland, I thought he might be tributing his victory to his homeland by kissing a necklace medallion.

Fears

Fears, 2010. oil pastel/ india ink on canvas paper.

I try to do something related with art daily to keep my self occupied, these are the result.

Celtic Warrior -- Work In Progress

Work in progress for a celtic warrior I have based off of everyone's fav brutal footballer Roy Keane.