Alex's Sketchbook

Faceless Demon

2012-01-10T20:55:00.000-08:00

Did this as an exercise in acrylics. About 3-4 hours, which is very fast for me. Because I am a slowpoke.
5"x7" acrylics on Ampersand aquabord. Limited my colors to burnt umber, ultramarine blue, black, and white.

Meet Santa!!!

2011-12-22T04:05:00.000-08:00

Happy holidays and stuff.

Blue Bomber!!!...not Megaman.

2011-09-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

A robot I did for the Anonymous Challenge on ArtOrder. The full line-up of pieces can be found here. I decided to do this piece digitally for a change of pace.

I also decided to put together my process for this one, just because I can!

1. Some embarrasingly fast and small "thumbnail" on a piece of scrap paper or something. This was probably no more than 2 inches on either side.

2. Using multiply layers and various levels of grey, I turned my initial embarrasing thumbnail into a less embarrasing thumbnail. Mostly just trying to make sure the values work in this stage.

3. Trying out colors using color layers over the black and white thumbnail. Color layers will change hue and saturation without messing with your values. I probably threw in an overlay or multiply layer here and there.

4. Lowered the opacity of the black and white thumbnail way down and did a tighter line drawing on a separate layer above. Once the line drawing was finished I got rid of the thumbnail layer completely.

5. Set the line drawing layer to multiply and started laying in the background colors underneath that layer by color picking from my color thumbnail.

6. Still underneath the line layer, I started putting in some of the colors on the robot. I also did this by choosing colors from my thumbnail, but I saved the brightest colors for later.

7. Started painting opaquely on separate layers above the lines layer to get the highlights and rim light. I think I threw in some overlay layers also to get the warm light hitting the robot from below.

8. Rendered everything to completely get rid of the lines.

9. Tweaked the whole piece. Mostly added soft glows around the fuses and changed the levels and saturation a bit to gain slightly more contrast. All done!

Science Fiction!?

2011-09-12T13:50:00.000-07:00

A recent painting I did as my entry for the Story Extraction Challenge on ArtOrder. The full line-up of pieces can be found here.

Oil on gessoed board.

...aaaand some process shots.

Thumbnail

Detailed drawing

Color study

Treasure Hoarding Dragon!

2011-08-05T13:27:00.000-07:00

I've had this one sitting around for a while now. Finally bothered to get it scanned.
Oil on illustration board.

Captain Mexico

2011-07-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

Birthday gift for a friend. Luchador/vigilante crimefighter, Captain Mexico!

Acrylic, 8"x10"

Various things.

2011-06-05T12:57:00.000-07:00

Shame on me for lack of posts recently. For now, here's a Pokemon and some assorted sketches.

Dragonstuff.

2011-03-30T10:38:00.000-07:00

Color study for the dragon a few posts back.

Spirit of the Wood

2011-03-19T16:41:00.000-07:00

Finished with this one.
Oil on board.

Forest beast stuff.

2011-03-10T16:36:00.000-08:00

Color studies I made for the forest guy. I went with the first. The final painting is almost done now.

There be dragons.

2011-02-24T18:00:00.000-08:00

Some things I'm working on.

I am the night.

2011-01-22T16:17:00.000-08:00

Meow.
Oil on board.

Pink unicorn.

2010-12-31T14:02:00.000-08:00

Spent an afternoon painting this one as a gift for my cousin.
She is 3.

Evil snowman!!!

2010-12-23T09:28:00.000-08:00

He's such a jerk. What's his problem, anyway?

Delving into a dungeon near you.

2010-12-20T16:31:00.000-08:00

My entry for the Dungeon Delve challenge on ArtOrder. I'm not sure that I'm entirely happy with it. I feel like the background got way too dark and it lost alot of detail that was present in the drawing, so I may revisit this and take another swing at it.

The whole line-up can be found here. Lots of great images. Very much worth taking a look at.

Snowman!

2010-11-28T13:57:00.000-08:00

Spreading his own special brand of holiday cheer.

The Morrigan

2010-09-16T16:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a pair of paintings based on the Morrigan from Celtic mythology that were done with the guidance of artist Chris Hopkins. I'm pretty satisfied with how they came out.

Hammertime.

2010-08-12T09:47:00.000-07:00

My entry for the "Gotta Have A Hook Challenge" on Artorder that just wrapped up, plus a bunch of process shots. There were a lot of really good entries, which you can see in the line-up here.

It's a little late, but in honor of Shark Week(last week), I present you with this:

Ely, Minnesota: Where Cutlasses come to die.

2010-08-02T10:43:00.000-07:00

I went to Ely, Minnesota for a few days (visiting grandma!) and decided my time would be well spent if I did some painting. The results of my endeavors are as follows.

Ye olde chicken coop.

Ye olde power lines.

Ye olde barn.

I also managed to find this old Cutlass abandoned at the top of a grassy hill, which I found interesting. It looked like it had been there for a long time.

Coming to an internets near you!

2010-06-25T18:03:00.000-07:00

www.alexstoneart.com!

Not very fancy, but I think it gets the job done.

Being sketchy.

2010-05-28T13:07:00.000-07:00

These are all of the drawings of people that I've done on the subway since I started doing this a few months ago. I think they're getting better.

Mythology!

2010-05-07T14:54:00.000-07:00

Some projects I'm working on currently. The first one is the Morrigan from Celtic mythology, the second is Odin sitting atop his throne that overlooks the universe.

Goodness Gracious.

2010-04-09T15:50:00.000-07:00

What a suprise.
Acrylic on Board.

More batcat.

2010-03-13T13:49:00.000-08:00

Color studies for batcat. I'm leaning towards the green one.

Batcat!

2010-03-07T09:49:00.000-08:00

Some projects I'm working on.

Brains!

2010-01-18T15:27:00.000-08:00

I think I would make a pretty good zombie.
Oil on board. Took me forever, but I think it came out alright.

Stealing is bad, kids.

2010-01-12T07:49:00.000-08:00

This is what happens.
Painting done with the help of my mentor, Ron Spears. I included a few pictures of the process, since there were many.

"What's a burrahobbit!?"

2009-12-09T18:09:00.000-08:00

The unholy combination of a happy magical forest, combined with the nastiness of trolls!
Specifically, these are the trolls from The Hobbit who have been turned to stone by the sunlight. I'm not sure how I feel about the colors, I may play with them in Photoshop or something.

More stuffs.

2009-11-22T12:28:00.000-08:00

Drawings for a couple projects.

Some Stuffs.

2009-11-07T18:17:00.000-08:00

Oil painting! Smaug!

Sketch for my mentor-project.

Quick sketch of the above monster.

After Steve Gardner spoke to our class I actually got pumped enough to draw a little on the train. HOO-HA!

Figure drawings!

2009-10-31T17:44:00.000-07:00

Kinda old. I reeeeeally need to work on making sure I get the legs/feet in.

I'm in your post-apocalyptic future, eatin' your brains.

2009-09-28T17:14:00.000-07:00

Drawing for an oil painting.

Sketchtacular! Now with more ninjas.

2009-08-27T19:23:00.000-07:00

Some sketches in various stages of being unfinished. What else is new.

This began as a standard picture of a troll. But then I decided that this illustration would greatly benefit from some cheese on a stick. I think I was right.

You'd be pissed too if you had chainsaws for hands.

Aaaaand some paintings from the school year that I never uploaded.

Being productive!?

2009-08-23T15:25:00.000-07:00

Sort of.

Aaaaaand, a color comp.

Nananananananana Iron Maaaaaan!

2009-08-12T19:26:00.000-07:00

A study, because it was shiny.
On a side note, I like being an artist because I can make pictures of super heroes and call it studying. Awesome.

Alex's radically gnarly ninth post!?

2009-07-26T16:30:00.000-07:00

Something for the funzies. Maybe I will finish it. Maybe not.

Finish him!

2009-07-19T11:55:00.000-07:00

Gladiators gladiating.

ARTS!?!?!?!?!?!?

2009-07-03T08:04:00.000-07:00

From Italy.

Yeeaa Boiiiiiiii!

2009-05-24T11:43:00.000-07:00

Rick Astley and Flavor Flav. Nothing can stand in the way of their combined power. Oil on gessoboard.
Also, this.

I are blogging.

2009-05-21T10:42:00.000-07:00

Some older stuff.
Scratchboard illustration of Dracula for Illustrators Heritage.
Some paintings for Fantasy and Science Fiction Illustration. The quality is kind of bad on these because I used my camera instead of a scanner.
Also, moon-sheriff.

I updated your mom.

2009-05-05T19:49:00.000-07:00

More book illustration.

More updates, MORE POWER!!!

2009-04-26T09:18:00.000-07:00

A couple more pages for book illustration.

Alexander's backflippingly sweet second post

2009-04-21T17:30:00.000-07:00

A few pages for book illustration. I'm doing The Wizard of Oz.

Alex's super-rad first post

2009-03-05T17:26:00.000-08:00

Copy of a Frazetta painting done in Photoshop for my digital painting class. The picture on top is the original.