New Art: Brujeria

It's only taken a year to complete, but here is my most recent personal work, featuring Cherrie Mae. Yes, drawing up the skeleton was absolutely painful. And yes, painting the tattoos almost as painful.

Prints and merch are available on my Zazzle store, just in time for Halloween.

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New Art: Little Briar Rose

I've finally finished my late ArtOrder challenge entry, an illustration of the prince entering the thorns that surround the princess' castle, which part and turn to blossoms as the curse fades away.

Littlebriarrose_jasonjuta

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New Art: Eowyn and the Nazgul

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A short while ago, the mighty Jon Schindehette set a Tolkien challenge on The ArtOrder, inspired by a post on Muddy Colors. Both blogs are required reading by amateur and professional illustrators alike. The original challenge to illustrate the scene of Eowyn facing the Witch King can be found here. The line-up of 160 submissions can be found here. And the judging, here. :)

The judges were stars in the industry and the pressure to bring awesomeness to the table was on - it was also a hard lesson in how real life can interfere, as in the week I'd set aside to cram in my entry, I was incredibly ill and my wife was also studying after hours. Nevertheless, I managed to enter at the last minute with a few misgivings about the figure of Eowyn specifically and still received a few wonderful comments which I'm extremely grateful for.

Here is the revised picture, taking into account the judge's critiques (comments came from Matt Stewart, Arnie Fenner, Donato Giancola and Dan Dos Santos). I'm proud of it and a little dizzy at having the names Dulac and Targete mentioned in the comments.

 

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