A Fictional Dogfight... Part 1

My friends Bryland and Corey are co-writing a youth fiction novel that I've done some work for previously... Go HERE for the whole story. The short of it is this- at a certain point in the story, there is an aerial dogfight between the Flying Monkeys of Oz, and an opposing group of white-winged moles wearing helmets and goggles (so they can see). This is the scene I am depicting... here's the initial sketch for the finished piece:

My Best Friend's Wedding

So my friends Nate and Evelyn just got married. Something struck me by their stationary and self-made return address stamp. It was a silhouette of two birds perched on a curling vine, facing each other. I loved the imagery so much I wanted to draw it with my own filter. Here's their completed wedding gift:



Blue colored pencil, graphite and white charcoal on Rives BFK mounted on fiberboard.

Black Market Scooter Club

A simple design for the Black Market Scooter Club... an Indianapolis-based group founded by my friends Ben and Michelle. Peep their Facebook Group. Anyway, Ben said he likes good-lookin' girls and scooters, so there ya go...

MetroMix: Dining Issue

Just finished a commission for the Indianapolis Star's weekly magazine Metromix, for their annual Dining issue. A parody of DaVinci's Last Supper, our main character is requesting his last meal from a group of Indy's finest Chefs. Final dimensions are 21.5 x 9.625. Here are photos of the whole process from start to finish:

Reference photos of the local chefs and DaVinci's original used to create the rough sketch in blue pencil:


The rough sketch gets more detailed at full size, blue pencil on gray Rives BFK.


The blue pencil is detailed out with graphite and white charcoal:


After adding another face, the drawing is scanned in to my computer, touched up, and colors shifted for the final:


The added face is changed (3rd from left), then the coloring is done digitally in Photoshop. The background, midground, and foreground layers are manipulated separately to boost the saturation of the food and the center character, making the final image for print... Voila!

New Website...

Hi Everyone! I've got a new website build and it's finally online and operational! Please visit AmoryAbbott.com to see what it's all about. My blogs are linked there, and you can browse my image gallery. Thanks for your support!

-Amory

Tattoo Blog....

Hi everyone, there is currently no online gallery of my tattoo work outside of social networking sites. I've decided not to create one for the time being, simply because I won't be in the country after the end of August. Therefore, until my journey to Scotland for Grad school this fall, I'll be tattooing at Coil 12, a custom studio owned by my good friend Logan Marconi in Noblesville. Please find us on Facebook to see individual galleries.

I've started a new (separate) blog to chronicle my artmaking process with tattoo, and create a catch-all site for current and future clients. I'll have pictures up very soon, and posting new ones often, so keep up with me! Peace to you all, and much love.
Wanna see it? Go to amorytattoos.blogspot.com

"Winged Cloud" - Initial Sketch

Starting the first drawing of a series inspired by elements of my Monkey King series. I think I'll be accompanying the MK series with some more abstracted elemental drawings, smaller size than the big 40x32 MK drawings. So here we have the rainbow clouds from my most recent MK piece, with wing shapes forming in them. This is the sketch I worked up while sitting on the circle downtown on a most beautiful day today! More soon.

Sons of Metal series: Amory Abbott, part 1

Here's the sketch I've worked up for myself. I've gone with a more Polynesian motif, me standing in the core of a volcano, metal claw in pose, holding a giant hammer/mace, screaming my metal falsetto cry that's causing two other volcanoes to erupt. The mohawk was the final touch. I've been having SO much fun drawing these. I've always enjoyed drawing funny little things, humorous, over-the-top stuff, but never to the final detail and execution that I'm putting into these. It's been a fun test to see just how professional I can get with the most ridiculous subject matter. I'll be back with progress pics of the paintings soon. Enjoy!

My close-up,... So metal!!! hahaha

Sons of Metal series: Logan Marconi, part 1

Started sketching yesterday for some fun and epically metal posters to hang in the Coil 12 tattoo studio. I'm calling it the Sons of Metal series. Here's the sketch I've worked up for Logan. He's standing on a snowy mountain cliff formed out of a frozen dragon's head, calling to the sky, some kind of ridiculous falsetto battle cry. Today is the initial sketch phase before I start color. I think I'm going to go epic with paint in Corel Painter for these, give them a nice polished feel, in the style of Frank Frazetta, and Ken Kelly. Back with more color progress, and a design for myself as well!

A close-up: Logan's visage, new hairdo, and authentic tattoos!

ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!

I'm IN!!!!!!! Edinburgh here I come!!!!!

Just got an email this morning from ECA offering me a conditional acceptance into the Illustration Masters Program in Edinburgh, Scotland!