To Slate the Lust of Jason Rumpff

Here is a sneak peak at my next painting. I'll post some sketches and draw offs when i muster the energy to scan them but right now i am far too overladen with cookies and laziness to care about that right now. This WIP started out as being intended for my new header banner but i think i've gone a bit too far already and it's only the first figure so we'll see how the readability is up there once it is all said and done. In the meantime enjoy this angry lil bugger.

Shrub Wizard

Spot Illustration for Carroll Landscaping. Landscaping Wizard but I think Shrub is catchier. Landscaping doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Too many syllables and what not. Go ahead; clap your hands to the syllables like in grade school I know you are gonna do it anyway. One, two, three thereeeee ya go. Anyway I'm still trying to get the hang of digital. I think a new banner is in order for this blog seeing as how that old one does nothing for me in the way of relevance to what I'm doing these days. Adios.

RELEASE THE HOUNDS!

A Hound of Tindalos from the Lovecraft Mythos. It's an angry time traveling dog with a tongue that sucks ya blood. I want one.

sketch dumpin on your face

some sketchin from days gone by. eventually some finished stuff but only time will tell when that will be. back to the batcave.

LOG MONSTA

he's a monster with a log

HookHorror

a bit better now

WIP

I wish i had a fish spider bot to ride around in

A few draw-offs i've neglected to put up for a while.

Festering Scientist

Seductive Alien Puppet

Biotic Transport

DWARVES!

It's more extreme if you use an exclamation point.

Some Thumbnails

Some thumbnails for the recent Art Order "Gotta Have A Hook" Assignment.

Draw off Dump

Holy crap i'm updating. This is probably a sign of the apocalypse. Some draw offs that have been loafing around in my sketchbook. I might be unlazy and update on a semi-regular basis. Then again probably not.


Calculating Ent

Psychotic Vampire Midget

Masked Iron Hunter

Masked Canary Tea Raider

three down one to go

IT'S THE FINAAAALLLL COUNTDOWNNNNN *boodoodooo doooo...DOO DOO DOOT DOOT DOOOOO*

Thesis-splosion

I never want to hear the word thesis after I am done all of these paintings. Here are the first 2 of 4 and they are taking forever because I want them to look awesome. They were a little bit wet so there is a bit of glare on the scans but I tried to reduce it to as little as possible. Hopefully the other two turn out well. Right now I am on the library picture and it is like running a decathlon with a brush because I never paint this big. Incidentally I've never run a decathlon either.

Filler

so thesis work is bogging me down and nothing is finished yet so here is a filler piece from an elective class i am taking this year called Alternative Illustration Techniques. I took the class because we get to sculpt but our first project was collage'. I don't do collage' because cut paper is evil so i did a digital version and all it had to be was of a portrait of someone recognizable. You may have seen this guy before from a little known franchise. My first collage since freshman year and the ones i did then were atrocious so this could be assumed as more of my first semi-serious attempt. Made entirely out of pieces from the movies. (the only thing to make a lightsaber out of...is more lightsabers. Plus i snuck a wookie into his neck.)

sketches for upcoming paintings

so classes are swamping with upcoming paintings, i have a long overdue mentorship painting to complete, and i gotta worry about getting all that junk framed and ready for the senior show. At least shutter island was amazing. here are some sketches for my thesis paintings.

back in business...sort of

long time for not posting but here are a few doodads until i upload sketches from a bunch of class stuff etc. the first one is from last year for one of the children's theater projects. that one was for the grinch but they didn't have the rights for the image of the iconic chuck jones animated grinch so it was interesting trying to say grinch without showing the grinch. then they found out they had no rights to it whatsoever and it fell through because they couldn't do the show.

The second is a piece for the train station here in Lancaster that has some remodeling going on so they needed art to be blown up to 6' by 8' to cover 12 concrete barriers of the same size while they work on the train station. the 3/4 circle on the left and 1/4 circle on the right of the composition were adjoining elements that each piece had to have so that there was a common strand linking the pieces together like some weird mural. Obviously it had to have trains in it but the rest was open to whatever so i did a period piece on the civil war. It's the biggest painting i've ever done at 1' by 2' but the more i look at it the more i see everything that is wrong with it and never want to see it again. It was a good learning experience though.

The third was for my children's book illustration elective last year. I won't say the story i was writing for fear of prying eyes even though i doubt i will do anything with it for quite some time if at all but here is one of the paintings i thought didn't turn out so bad from it.