another update

I changed the weird sword thing he was carrying for a mace. It just looked bad, broke the composition, and just didn't fit. Same with the rock that I tried to make look like a shield. It was getting lost in the piece and was gonna take too much effort with little payoff. To hell with it, and I also changed the helmet which didn't look like a helmet) to the foreground. Hopefully the whole thing reads better.

Evil Horseman update

Here is an update to the piece. I obviously polished some of the armor a bit, and added the shield and helmet, both of which I am not sure about yet. I wanted the guy on the bottom to look defeated but yet still willing to fight, so I made him wipe the blood from his face with his hand (hopefully it reads that way). It's late so I will retire from this for now and look at it with fresh eyes later.

Spectrum, Maybe?

Long-ass time since I've put anything here. This is a piece that I started as a sketch a whiiile back. Abandoned, I decided to see if I could rekindle my interest in it. I'm having some fun with it, so if I keep going maybe I can submit it in time for spectrum. Hopefully I'll be a good boy and post wips. So far:

New Blog address.

I've ported my Blog to a new address: pieromacgowan.blogspot.com
I was not able to transfer links or followers, so I will find out how to do that hopefully soon.
I have also secured www.pieromacgowan.com which looks just like pieroartist.com.
Cheers,
-P

Wrapit!

Andrew Kincaid's model based on my concept is used as a sample image for the Wrapit plugin for 3dmax!

http://www.matt-clark.co.uk/wrapit/pic.php?o=171

Andrew Kincaid's model from my concept!

So here it is! After some months of working on it on his spare time, my good friend and amazing artist Andrew Kincaid modeled my dungeon master character:

Latest Painting

So this is a piece I have been working on Lately. It was done personally but also served as a an entry into a themed exhibition (or art event, rather - kind of an auction thing) organized by Innovate Baltimore and the Baltimore Love Project. The theme I was to interpret was "Innovate Love". I could explain my idea, but I often find the most interesting thing is to let people make up their own minds about what it means - some of my friends have come up with pretty cool stuff.
The piece is Oil on Canvas, 36" by 24". I did most of it with the palette knife; I wanted a very textural feel. It was a challenge, since I haven't painted in oils in a very long time (years). I started with a digital sketch to get a sense of the general color palette, composition, and concept. I highly recommend this if you want to get a quick preliminary idea. Doing this, though, did remind me that digital painting can teach you a lot about color, but nothing about mixing oil paint. In the end it was a pretty malleable process; I didn't want to stick to the sketch too closely so as to let the painting breathe, but I wanted to keep the general elements of the picture the same. I'll post the digital sketch as soon as I find it.
Cheers.