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May 2013 First Friday – Big Mike Walton Thumbnail

May 2013 First Friday – Big Mike Walton

My jumping off point was Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.  Clearly, I covered a lot of subsequent distance. I’ve dubbed the piece, Birth of the New Queen.  I started out making a number of doodles of eldritch abominations and Cthulhu sketches before landing on the final concept.  It’s

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April 2013 First Friday – Jeremy D. Mohler Thumbnail

April 2013 First Friday – Jeremy D. Mohler

You might notice something familiar about this piece - it was based off a sketch that I did for a previous challenge. My wife liked the piece really well and I'd been wanting to make a special piece just for her. So, I went ahead and took that original parents/children challenge and figure

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March 2013 First Friday – Jeremy Aaron Moore Thumbnail

March 2013 First Friday – Jeremy Aaron Moore

"Sisters of Aroostook" Inspired by Curtis Gray's manuscript, Sorrow Sublime.    

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February 2013 First Friday – Daniel Govar Thumbnail

February 2013 First Friday – Daniel Govar

For my First Friday image I knew I wanted to do a Dragon piece. It had been a while and I've been working on a story for a while now that has some of the winged creatures, but that I haven't had the opportunity to share. As is often the case, I tend to start pieces listening to music, and in this ca

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January 2013 First Friday – Nicolas Giacondino Thumbnail

January 2013 First Friday – Nicolas Giacondino

Hello once again to all, As you all might imagine, doing the First Friday piece of January 2013 was quite daunting. Not only am I under the scrutiny of extremely talented colleagues, but I also have a certain debt to all the people who are kind enough to like my work to deliver something akin to

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December 2012 First Friday – Jeremy D. Mohler Thumbnail

December 2012 First Friday – Jeremy D. Mohler

This piece began life as a book cover for a client. The client was pretty open to suggestions and pretty much let me run with whatever (excepting a few details regarding the character). And as this has never been premiered elsewhere, I thought it would be a good piece to show. What I fo

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July 2012 First Friday – Steve Firchow Thumbnail

July 2012 First Friday – Steve Firchow

Its been 5 years since I painted with oil and I will be the first to admit this image has a bunch of problems. Still, it was fun to work with real paint again. OG="17 by 35" Avalon is a town on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California. My wife and I had our honeymoon there and a

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June 2012 First Friday – Gael Bertrand Thumbnail

June 2012 First Friday – Gael Bertrand

Hey guys, Here's my First Friday piece, which is also related to this month new theme: Myth and Legends. Too big a topic for just one drawing :) Hope you like.      

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April 2012 First Friday – Mike Faille Thumbnail

April 2012 First Friday – Mike Faille

First Friday challenge. I tried for a Hellboy style color-palette. Not quite there. I'll have to go back in and render it a bit at some point, but here it is.

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