Bandana

A watercolor sketch, a portait of a woman in a bandana. Ban..dan..a.... funney word. Hehe.
Its very opaque watercolor work, I tend to like it thick and going back with white watercolor for the highlights I never seem to be able to preserve. Watercolor purists everywhere shudder at the thought of this Im sure.
-Meatmonkey

Scan: Darkhound

Here is a quick sketch of a dog like creature I am planning on modeling in the near future. I have other models and paintings I need to get done first though. But this guy has a future and wanted to include an early draft of him to save to compare to later.

-Meatmonkey

Spawning of a Scorpion

This little guy is growing up so fast. Here I show various stages of his development, and hopefully he grows up to be big, healthy, and possibly quite poisonous. Lets hope he does not become a rebellious teenager.

-Meatmonkey

Scan: Mermaid

Been busy with 3d stuff that I cannot post, but here is a sketch I squeezed out recently. I was considering painting it traditionally, but I am still behind on many other projects. Just trying to keep somewhat up to date here, hopefully I get more time to dedicate to traditional stuff.
-Meatmonkey

Bettie Page

I actually finished this piece a couple weeks ago for a Bettie Page tribute show, but Im going to put it up since I have been working on some projects for job applications and havent had much to show you all. Its Bettie Page, one of the first pin up models to entice the minds of many young men, and maybe even a few women. She recently passed away and a gallery did a tribute show for her which I entered. I did it pretty fast actually, since I found out about the show little over a week before the show. I kinda want to do another one now and spend more time on it, Im thinking of attempting a full pin up painting in a 50's style.
-Meatmonkey

Bullywug

I do a bit of 3d modeling as well, just finished this particular guy. He is a model designed with video game intentions so hes relatively low poly count and with Normal maps. Yes, its a foreign language to many of you. All you really need to know its model with limitations which makes it a little more challenging.
-Meatmonkey

Scan: Cloudwalker

A sketch done for a painting I am working on, I thought it would be nice for you all to see progress work on it and eventually the final piece. Basically its horizontal image of a woman floating in the clouds with really long hair being done in acrylic and airbrush. Might add some birds flying around her as well, other than that I am kinda figuring it out as I go.

-Meatmonkey

Scythian Beheader

I have been working on furthering my digital painting skills, and I have taken upon myself a project with a friend to create a CCG(Collectible Card Game). Its basically a game similar to Magic, but has to do with bugs and I will leave it at that. This particular piece I am calling done as of today, but knowing me I will probably look at it again in a month and change it.
It still is a little stiff, but I dont want to mess with it anymore. I have learned its better to mark something off as done and move on. Its better for the learning process to do more pieces than to sit there and spend your life trying to fix a lost battle. Its respectable at this time, move on.
-Meatmonkey

Project Meatmonkey

Well, I have made this blog to be something like an art record of my work and its progression. Not so much to be a gallery of finished pieces, though there will be plenty of those as well. I intend to post excerpts of whatever I am working on weekly, the bad along side the good to demonstrate my process and hopefully to show improvement. Not to mention there will be others I know who can give me feedback on such work, and who knows.... it could very well lead to other avenues of artwork down the line.

Well lets see how this turns out shall we?

-Meatmonkey