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IF: Hatch

MrDavidPoe — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:58:15 +0000

This is in-progress. Updates coming soon. – 12.12.09
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Update 01 – 12.13.09

The alligator is hatching from it’s floating egg, while the Sheep Woman reads a tarot card.
-D

IF: Fast

MrDavidPoe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:30:36 +0000

The cold weather came on REALLY fast, this year.
Usually in Texas it gets gradually colder… this year it was hot, rain, cold, warmish, cold.
It’s nice.
-D

IF: Cracked

MrDavidPoe — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:58:23 +0000

Finally got around to sketching something up.

I was doing some life drawing in Sketchbook Pro, this is my laptop charger with cracked wire-housing. I had to cover it with electrical tape.

I was finally thinking about the idea of ‘cracked’ and began sketching toward it. I have been thinking ‘comics’ lately, working on a project.
This just sort of flowed out.

-D

IF: clandestine

MrDavidPoe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:02:29 +0000

I started this this morning with the intent on doing something “cute”.
It got a little complicated to finish in a day but it is looking nice.

Please to enjoy.

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The ‘Clandestine’ part; This is taking place at night, in the rain. The rabbit is sneaking out of its hut to find help in the dead-of-night, possibly never to be heard from again.

-D

Picto-Browser

MrDavidPoe — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:08:43 +0000

New thing, trying it out.
Enjoy!!

Sketches Today

MrDavidPoe — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:30:15 +0000

A few sketches I did today on a handout for a project launch.

Illustration Friday: Primitive

Thanks.

IF: Heavy

MrDavidPoe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:10:38 +0000

Heavy Reading

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This is just a late night sketch that will never be completed.
He is reading Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, heavy reading for such a young child. The shoulder things are part of his clothing.
Thanks.

-David

Dirt Rag Mountain Bike Magazine

MrDavidPoe — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:12:43 +0000

Corn Oil: The Ethanol Solution

This illustration will be published in the upcoming issue of Dirt Rag Magazine.

Enjoy.

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IF: Theory

MrDavidPoe — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:18:26 +0000

I love LOST.
I love talking about LOST.
I love talking about our theories and ideas about LOST.

Room23

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Thanks.
-David

IF: Plain

MrDavidPoe — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:41:24 +0000

—EDIT: Also being used for Illustration Friday 01.18.07 IF: Plain—
These are a little generic, plain but interesting.
…more specifically Thursday evening and Friday:

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These were comps used witha client for ‘mood boards’.
Thanks.-David

IF: Open

MrDavidPoe — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:59:15 +0000

The Goliath Opens

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This was done way back in college, for my graduation Thesis. I did a whole book of storyboards and selected a few to colorize. The technique is not as nice as what I use now; it was all pen and ink, then I scanned it to color it. It’s about a year and-a-half old.

OPEN: The illustrated scene depicts the moments when SAFFRON (the main character of the story, a Gorgon daughter) was able to bring down the Goliath, a giant machine protecting the Waiting room and House of Athena. Upon defeating it, SAFFRON opens the belly of the machine to find the ‘Conductor’.

Thanks.
-David

IF: Visitors

MrDavidPoe — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:17:51 +0000

Who visits who?

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This is based off of a dream that I had a few nights ago. It is in another post, but its smaller and had the ‘daily illustration’ images.

Visitors: Am I the visitor to their world, or are they the visitors to mine?

Enjoy.
-David

IF: Captain

MrDavidPoe — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:03:07 +0000

Captain of Emergency Recovery Station #07301983

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This is not cleaned up, or line-weighted entirely. This means every once in a while I will update the file.
Enjoy.
-David

IF: Missing

MrDavidPoe — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:24:57 +0000

…I miss you.

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This one is an old one but good one!
I did this pop up greeting card back in college, it was based off of a fountain found in the courtyard of an apartment building in Milwaukee. I had only seen the fountain the one time before I did the project. I went back weeks after I was finished to see how my memory was. It wasn’t so good. At least this was!
Enjoy.

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This is the front before it’s opened.

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This is the back…
*Edit* Anyone who would like one, they are not for sale at stores but you can order them through me. They are $10 each because I have to cut them out and glue them by hand.
Thank you.
-David

IF: La Llorona

MrDavidPoe — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:32:11 +0000

EDIT: Illustration Friday week of 01.25.08

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“close up on a woman standing by a horse. The fog swirls around her.Horse feet clomp against the dirt. Pan up the horse to the woman’s foot, then leg – all the way up to her face; her black hair hanging down so that we cannot see her face.Portrait shot of her, on the horse. There is a strange glow coming from above her. We have pulled back, she sits on the horse, above her (floating) is herself in white, glowing. The black ground and dark purple sky presses against the fog.CUT TO BLACK.
[end.]“From a script I am writing for a short.La Llorona is sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is a figure in North American folklore, the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children that she drowned. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death and frequently are claimed to occur near bodies of water, particularly streams and rivers. There is much variation in tales of La Llorona, which are popular in Mexico and the United States (especially in Mexican American communities), and to an extent the rest of the Americas
-David

IF: Poem

MrDavidPoe — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:43:17 +0000

When I was a child, I read a poem my father had written. To this day I have only read it that one time; this image is all that I remember from it. I do not know the words or what the scene really was- I remember the red sails.-David

IF: Discovery

MrDavidPoe — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:35:21 +0000

“Discovery of The Malnikanic”

[This is part of a concept that I am working on..]

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The Malnikanic (māl-nĭ-kān’ĭk) is an artifact, discovered on a remote, desolate planet in the galaxy Arp 220 (Aprox: 20,000 light years away).
The artifact is a materials-generator. It uses minerals taken from its location and combines them with synthesized minerals (created and stored within the machine) in an effort to quickly (within ten days) create an atmosphere on a planet. The machine terra-forms a planet almost instantaneously; allowing a civilization the ability to inhabit local planets without the hundreds of years of waiting.Sadly; the machine’s synthetic materials are unstable, causing a complete (literally instantaneous) collapse in the atmosphere almost thirty years later. This, in effect, causes the near annihilation of humanity; we spread our selves too far too quickly- allowing for one last great Human Empire before the subsequent collapse of the atmospheres. All that remains is the barren wasteland Earth and the few starving survivors.This scene is where Christian has discovered the flaw of the machine from a hologram of the original creators on a planet over a hundred years from Earth.

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The alien

-David

College vs Professional

MrDavidPoe — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:12:12 +0000

This is the first of the four illustrations I am re-working. I know they are not professional portfolio concepts, but they are works that always felt like they ‘could have been better’. This re-working stems from this week’s Illustration Friday topic ‘Geeky’. I have done several Star Wars based drawings and illustrations in the past… this started senior year of college, a little over a year ago. I illustrated four friends as Star Wars characters (most are not large fans of the movies).

This is Kelsea as Boussh the bounty hunter seen in Return of the Jedi.

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On the left is college; on the right is now.
Thanks.
-David

IF: Geeky

MrDavidPoe — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:51:25 +0000

This Illustration Friday post is more of a How-to, but just the beginning part. See, a friend and I LOVE Star Wars. What human doesn’t? So we came up with a little Fan-Fic and illustrated our main character. I did the preliminary portion, the look and feel. Justin Black did the painting. This documents my part of the experience.

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In this instance of Illustration Friday I (and Justin) are the geeks.It’s also a little fitting, because last night I was trying to explain to Tina about Doctor Who.

The following is the story that Justin wrote for the character:
“I had been toying around the with the concept of a Star Wars based fan-fic about two brothers who grew up worshiping Jedi warriors they had heard about in stories. Over the years the boys become expert swordsmen, imitating the ways of the Jedi, but lack all abilities of the force. As they grow into young men they see the Empire come to power, and one of the brothers develops an obsessive hate towards Anakin Skywalker, now Dark Vader, and a jealousy towards anyone who can control the force. Upon an accidental meeting with a rouge Jedi, the two slay him despite his powers, and become caught in a chase by the Empire. Pushing their luck, they work their way up to stronger opponents. When the two stumble upon a way to assassinate Vader in his meditation chamber; one brother realizes that he is in over his head, and goes into hiding while the other, Legris, goes on with his assassination attempt only to get mangled by Vader’s blade and his powers of the force. Vader has Legris’ body, nearly dead, nursed back to health and rebuilt by the Empire. With his hopes crushed; body and mind beaten, Legris becomes one of Vader’s henchmen, following every command Vader bestows upon him.”

A MUCH larger version can be found here at DigitalArt.org
Thank you.
-david

IF: Twist

MrDavidPoe — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:41:35 +0000

This was the first painting I did in Painter IX back in February. You can see the progress and original post here.
Thank you.
-David Poe