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About two years ago while sitting in the middle of a sand storm in Kuwait, I had this really crazy image (like those don’t come often) run across my mind. So like all writers and artist, we play with it. We add tons of ‘what if’ and multiples of closed possibilities. I played with this idea during a mortar attack in the eastern Rahshid district of Baghdad and during an RPG attack on Market

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Here is SGT Stripes sporting the Advanced Combat Uniform, which has a digital camouflage pattern. The only problem; is trying to find a digital tree to blend in with.

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Always, Always, remember to kick that monkey off your back. Out here, we got these spider monkeys, but also the sleep monkeys, hungry monkeys, dirt monkeys, crazy monkeys, stupid monkeys and they're always causing problems. They get into everything, they make you tired, do dumb things. They dress in our uniforms and you wouldn't even know they are around until one of them is on your back. The

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This illustration has been keeping me on my toes. I’ve been trying new methods of inking, and coloring techniques. Just a little bit from what I would normally do. Here’s what I’ve got so far:Fine ink work of course; these little touch and go’s get complicated the finer the line gets-This one was some work I did up top just to get some foundation and three-d effects-After I got some really close

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Ok so a quick update on the Untitled design. There is something about pre-layout. The whole designing process is what gets me excited when working with my illustrations. A clean white sheet of paper, and let the mind do the rest. Early works left me stumped and unclear where to head. This was the first stopping point. After about a day of listening to the inner “tormented whatever” squabble

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Well after about a week, I finally had the time to sit down and begin some new work. Now I’m still working with the Manipulator and the Paper Wasp Queen, but it’s still in the mail in route to me and I can’t just sit by waiting to get creative. So here is some beginning work ups for post illustration. Not to sure where this is going just yet, it popped up and the pen did the rest. But I will keep

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It’s not everyday you can say that you are working and living in a dual concrete room on a Forward Operating Base in south Baghdad. Not only working but doing what I love the most…my artwork and writing. It took a good two weeks when I got here to get to an internet café (which MWR does a great job providing) but when I left Kuwait and made my move to the area where I work out of, they offered

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This will be my last update for a little while. As some of you know already, my unit was called up last October to Support Operation Iraqi Freedom. And that time was pushed forward due to the sudden surge of troops needed for Baghdad. So next week, I will be part of that big push. Of course where I'm going; I can't say, and when; again, can't really say. But I will continue to work on my art work

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So today I decided to work on the lower two legs, background and some inking on the upper body.I started by picking a lighter color (Spanish Orange) and doing the flat color work on the bottom two. While I was at it, I also did the upper one to get all the flats completed. I then went to the darker of the flats (Yellow Weed Orange) to work on in the shadows. Latter this will give the reference

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Like most of my art work, everything starts out as a drawing. A couple of weeks ago I started on some new illustrations for my book. Most of which is for the up-coming chapters (which I will not disclose) but what I do enjoy is giving a little so it gets those that want to read it drooling over the eye candy which will be out soon. I started with the drawing, and then did an India ink job around

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When you dream, it moves in slow motion. Sometimes you don’t even know that you have slipped into the realm; past the dreamscape and into the parts of your mind that lie dormant. I’ve been gone from the realm of realism for so long; I almost couldn’t tell where I had fallen. The queen spoke of this, a place filled with my deepest contentment. Joy sets; and the sound of voices; whispers of

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So two, three days into it and I’m half way there. Last night (after staying up until 3am-again-god bless NOS) I finished the final lay out. It got a little tight in some places, and you can see from the drawing, there seems to be a lot going on here. You have a worker placing an egg on the top right of the hive, and then in the lower left a warrior awaits for the birth of the first fertile queen

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Time for a break so I thought I would drop a post. Okay, the past couple of days I’ve been really bogged down with all the work I’ve laid on me. Yeah.... don’t you hate when you create your own work and have no one to blame for being busy but you? Okay so I’m at the shoppette on post Friday and I just dropped Maria off at work, I’m already done and was told to come back on Monday for regular PT (

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As a writer an artist, you have to expand yourself to different avenues; it helps you to grow and create a certain style. Each writer and artist has their own personal style, or voice so to speak. Their words entangle you into a realm which pulls you into a world created by their imagination. Now I have to admit, as a beginner, I latched onto one writer and stuck with him for a while, the master

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So another year is upon us; what will it hold? I guess it’s as good as time as any to post an outlook of the future. I’m sure like many others, we waited and count down as the ball fell to conclude the passing of one year and welcome a new. I’m even closer to saying that I’m sure that everyone made a resolution which will stick for a month or two until it becomes inconvenient to carry on. Whether

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The Phoenix is a supernatural creature, living for 1000 years. Once that time is over, it builds its own funeral pyre, and throws itself into the flames. As it dies, it is reborn anew, and rises from the ashes to live another 1000 years. Alternatively, it lays an egg in the burning coals of the fire which hatches into a new Phoenix, and the life cycle repeats.This is the great sign in which our

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Your results:You are Venom 90%Apocalypse 70%Dr. Doom 66%Lex Luthor 63%The Joker 56%Juggernaut 56%Dark Phoenix 56%Green Goblin 56%Two-Face 56%Magneto 46%Mr. Freeze 46%Riddler 46%Kingpin 39%Mystique 32%Catwoman 23%Poison Ivy 15%Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz

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You are The HulkYou are a wanderer withamazing strength. 100%The Flash 95%Green Lantern 95%Superman 90%Iron Man 70%Spider-Man 65%Batman 60%Supergirl 55%Robin 45%Catwoman 40%Wonder WomanClick here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

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Twisted, dark, tormented souls like bleak in waiting. Behind all of us hides a mask in which we wear. No matter how horrible or ominous, beneath all its hate...it smiles.Brow clinched, teeth grinding, holding all its aversion to destroy what is left of our worthless composure. We attempt to hold the beast back. Sometimes it is kept silent...other times unleashed beyond our control.If you close

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Imagine for one moment, that you have the wait of the world on top of your shoulders. Behold, The Mighty AtlasDuring the war of the TITANS, ATLAS stormed Olympus and threatened the Gods. And as punishment for this war crime, ZEUS sentenced him to hold up the heavens and bear their weight on his shoulders forever. Title: AtlasSize: 18 X 24Medium: Water Color, Corel Paint

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Okay, well training went a lot better than I had expected. At least it is done and I can return to the normal works of the real world. I did miss Halloween this year and it is my favorite holiday, but I understand that I can't be in two places at once. I did make it back for Thanksgiving and as of right now there is nothing that stands in the way of Christmas. So hopefully I can make it back down

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Okay, so this will be the last post for a little while. As I had mentioned earlier this week, I have some out of town business that will keep me occupied & busy, you know like a month. Unlike last time, I won't wait 8 months to make another post, hey I'm curious about who will win the Black & Orange on Illustration Friday. I'm completely addicted now. I will not keep anyone on the edge of their

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Darkness engulfs over her soul as she moves into the unknown. Wondering about, lost, and afraid of the uncertain she digs deep into herself to maintain what is left of her humanity. She has come to pass and understands that she is forlorn in this world. Not for what she is...but what she has become. Her transformation is quick, filled with suffering and unbearable pain. And even though she stands

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Okay, so after almost 8 months I finally have an up-date (see) http://surrealiststudio.blogspot.com/2006/02/manipulated-by-manipulator.html to this slow work in progress. Now you got to go easy, first of all, due to the move from Georgia to Kansas, working on the illustrated novel, attending schools and whatever else seems to fall into my plate there is not a whole lot done. But taken the fact

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Painting the coverIt's Tuesday and time is running short for me. Between work, projects and the book; I have been pretty busy. I have some out of town training that will take me from the studio for right around 27 to 28 days. Which I don't really mind because it will give my creative side a time to settle and relax. The thing is I have until Thursday to get a few more hours on the drawing board

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I have spoke of the voices before. Each one of the tormented souls talks differently. Their words are foreign and sometimes sound like a distant murmur...almost to faint to hear their flesh ripping screech. But as soon as I clicked on my email this morning there it was...Illustration Friday- the subject, Ghost...and boy did they start talking.I have used this face in "Kathryn's Temptation" and in

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Long after the Creed...way before the Song...there was the Temptation.So who would like to hear the story behind the dark portal of this Tormented Soul?Title: Kathryn's TemptationMedium: Gauche Water Color, Pen & Ink, Prisma Color Pencil & Photo ShopSize: 18 X 24Recent submission in Illustration Friday "Black & Orange"

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She crys, and doesn't know why. Her song is that of a lonely one. She can't explain why and has gain no closer knowledge to where it will take her. The melody dark, almost eerie. Miserable strings play from melting violins as the composer moves his wand of misery to vocals of her echoing cry from behind bleeding curtains of pain. Figures with no faces line the pews of unreasonable doubt as the

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Final LayoutTitle: My LegacyMedium: .35mm Zig Memory System Millennium Pen Faber Castell 6 Pitt Artist Pen Shades of Grey (Brush Pens)Category: Still Life PortraitSize 18 X 24

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I'm like on a roll this week. This project here has been a long time in the making. And when I say long, that's just what it has been. For those who have done portraits know that there has to be a lot of time to go into it, to make it just what you see. A lot of love and time, that's what it takes. And since I've came home in November I have been working on this so that would make it 4 months.

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Back to the drawing board so to speak. I hate it sometimes when the voices start talking all at once. Then it becomes organized chaos in my head. Mixed in with the kiddies asking for something and the dark portals opening and closing it becomes a regular get together in my head. The problem with this is...I'm not invited. I just have to sit back and wait until the meeting is done and then I'm

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Time moves by to fast. It seems as I close one project another one opens. Not on my own free will, but the demands of bad Daymares, lost voices and crappy coffee. I've been strapped for time as well. My move to Fort Riley is closing in on me and I'm trying to close a few loops before I become entangled in the in-process of a new base. I'm pretty excited about that, Katie emailed today and said

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Past the walls of hate, in the halls of anguish, deep in the padded room of sorrow; one must find a way to let it all go. To ignore the cuts in her throat, the fact that she had been rape numerous times, to know that every ounce of her blood spilt onto the ground and soaked deep into the roots of the beautiful flower. Not to say that he didn't try; Luis Davantae did what he could to push aside

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He waits in the cold dark night. He breathes in the life that was once his true love. He listened to the soft violin play its eerie cords of misery. The song tells the story of his soul, torn from his body, stolen by the fashioned hands of man. Murders that could not take her heart, but instead took her life. The music climax brings a tear to his eye as memories of the past flood from his mind.

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She doesn't mean to do the things she does. She runs on instinct, she was breed that way. The horror she shows, the pain she causes, the sleepless nights. The nightmares follow on to daymares, laughing in the background of my thoughts, talking against my will. You can suppress her with pills, drown her with over rated caffeine and smoother her in the smoke of my favorite cancer. But she is

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Have you ever just been trapped? Felt that no matter what you do or where you go; it all seems cumbersome. That up is down, left is really right, and right just seems wrong. You move on a one way street backwards, you stopped when it said go, and you stood up when the sign said low bridge.Title: TRAPPEDMedium: Pen & InkCategory: Abstract

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I have for some reason always liked this picture. Again like most of many I have, started out as just a rough on a sketch pad. Almost 65% of my work has turned out like this. Simple lines, deadly curves, all seem to flop and form objects that can't be explain. I posted this picture on my Yahoo 360 and got a huge response back from everyone that viewed it. Deviant Art (my viewers) had asked me, "

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This weeks topic on illustration Friday was Glamour. Now this picture was one of the first that got Surrealist Studio on the way. I consider it the pillar that holds it up and my inspiration to keep it going. This picture started out as a rough drawing of an eye, but with a little love and a lot of dedication, it became more than that. Just the same with my studio. It took nearly 2 years to get

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