Aaron Smith

www.aaronsmithart.com

Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line

Face Heads

Petra Gallerie

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Long Beach Comic Con

Hey all wanted to let you know that I will be at the Long Beach Comic Con this coming weekend.
I'll be at the Dig Deep Production's booth #110....which be somewhere in the front..I think? :P
If any of you happen to be in the Los Angeles area...drive down to Long Beach and spent a nice day walking around the convention.
I'll even be doing sketches starting at $20 a pop...so feel free to ask for a doodle. At the booth Dig Deep Prod will be selling a very limited "Agent 88" prints that I illustrated. If you pick one up I'll gladly do a doodle for you. Feel free to just stop by to say,"hey"that would be totally cool. :)

I attached here in the bottom...the final image for the gallery show at Petra this coming Saturday. The final image has a border and text...just wanted to show just the straight final piece....hope you all dig it?

Well, I'll catch you all later.

Cheers,
Axel

Hello all!

Wanted to let you all know that this coming Saturday on the 24th of September in Los Angeles...(south of the city of Beverly Hills) at the great Petra gallerie, "Snakebite does HEAVY METAL!"

This event should be pretty wild....hope you all can make it. There will be a great line up of artists ad creators and great crowd plus awesome food and drinks provided.

I should be there hanging out as well. Feel free to hit me up if you like. I'll catch you all later.

For more info go to the Petra site.

Late,
Axel

HHHart the Root Monster

Here's a doodle of HHHart one of my creatures. I wanted to show you all my process from pencils to inks to colors in doing a design like this.
1. start off with rough pencils.
2. ink the piece traditionally like HHHart but I also ink digitally.
3. use Photoshop for colors. From time to time I'll use Painter, Sketchbook Pro to color my pieces. That said...Photoshop is the main software that I use.

Well, catch you all later.

-Axel

Character Paintings

Hello all, here's some acrylic paintings that I did on black boards. As you can see they're images of funky monsters. Under a black light these pieces actually glow in the dark. These were done for a Haunted House for PS3(Public School 3) a school in the West Village (NYC). I got a very good response from the parents and kiddies from the school. These pieces might get auctioned off to help raise funds for the PS3. We gotta help the kiddies! Well, I'll catch you all later.

Cheers,
Axel

Blogs to check out...

Hey all, here's two blogs for you all to check! One is Eric Canete the other is Jojo Aguilar, both wonderful artists and designers that do work in the entertainment industry.

Eric's blog http://kahnehteh.blogspot.com/

Jojo's blog http://jojoaguilar.blogspot.com/

I feel one can learn from just looking at their amazing work. Both have worked and do work in the animation, comic book and video game industry. Well, let me know what you all think of Eric and Jojo's work?

Also today is the last day of my character design for the term. I'm looking forward in seeing what the kids will be presenting today. :)

Catch you all later.
axel

Kid Sketches

Some rough sketches of a random kid character for a demo I did for my character class. I used pencils for the line work and watered down gouache for the color for the two on the left. The ones on tone paper I just highlighted with a white Prismacolor pencil. Catch you all later.

-axel

Sketch using Art Rage 2

Hey all,
Here's a alien head color sketch I did using Art Rage 2.5. It's a really cool art software that I've been using from time to time. Even though this program is very simple...it does a great in looking like real dry and wet traditional media. You guys should give a try...there's more to life than just using photoshop. I'll catch you all later.

-Axel