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logging into this account for the first time in 2 years to remind any pewdiepie scrubs who show up here that i fucking hate all of you little gamer bastards

Notice: This Blog Has Moved!

Tumblr has a weird thing where it false flags certain key words as NSFW even if an account is 100% benign, and unfortunately “strings” is one of the terms that they’ve chosen to hide, so to get around this weird bug, I’ll be moving from this account to a new one. Click this link to go to my new Tumblr account.

Be sure to refollow on the new one if you want to keep updated on art, commission batches, etc.! Once a decent amount of users have hopped over to the new one I’ll close this current account.

Click the link to open an interactive 360-degree viewer!

I’ll eventually try to offer these Zbrush sculpts as commission items for those who want to get a custom 3D bust of their characters.

Finally got a SketchFab account set up, so now you can view a full 360-degree render of my Genevieve model! This is how I’ll upload 3D sculpts in the future if I open for Zbrush Character Bust commissions.

--W&S

Tried my hand at some 3D modeling this week to explore the possibility of making 3D drawing references for my dragon critters. I’ve never used a 3D program before Tuesday and my first attempt was pretty rough, so here’s my second completed model of Gen, a grumpy goaty gal.

Modeled in Sculptris and then exported to Zbrush for painting directly on the model, no bump maps or textures used because I don’t know how those work yet.

--W&S

“Passersby”

The last piece of this painting batch, a somewhat looser painting style with more vivid colors. A traveler in a ‘55 Ford Fairlane dips under the mainline as the Santa Fe Super Chief storms through the Arizona desert with a steam helper in its final year of service, a fleeting encounter bookended by miles of sagebrush and solitude.

With all scheduled commissions finished, I’ll be taking a brief hiatus to work on portfolio pieces and personal projects; I plan on re-opening for a transportation-themed commission batch at some point in May, open to commissions with a railroad, aviation, automotive, or nautical theme, followed by a couple of standard commission batches in the summer. Stay tuned for updates!

--Wings & Strings

“A Space Pawdyssey” - Commission

Another commission painting from this batch, for twitter.com/spacepawdyssey’s paperback edition of their webcomic. The painting’s a very blatant spoof of posters for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey of course.

Commissions are still closed as of 4/24/2018 but I’ll be re-opening soon, so be sure to check back or follow along for updates and more art!

--Wings & Strings

A special commission from this batch, an event poster for one of FoxTrotClub’s upcoming shindigs in Denver! I returned to my JC Leyendecker-inspired painting style for this set, featuring @seinfeldt‘s tigress character on an old Gibson 3-point mandolin.

Dates are still tentative and may change by a week or two; for the most up-to-date information, please visit https://twitter.com/FoxTrotClub if you’d like to attend.

--Wings & Strings

“A Drink at Dawn” - Commission

One of the commission pieces from this batch, an anachronistic mash-up of prehistoric, turn of the century, and retro-futurist ideas, loosely inspired by James Gurney’s Dinotopia series. A friend had given me his book on color & light for realistic painting, so it was fun to get the chance to paint some dinos soon after.

Commissions are closed as 4/24/18 but I’ll be re-opening soon, so be sure to check back or follow along for more updates and art!

--Wings & Strings

Haven’t posted here in a while, but I’ve been busy since February working on a bunch of paintings and branching out to new social media sites. The Twitter portrait raffle gave a massive boost to my presence on that platform, with over 1,000 people following my work there. A total of six portraits were painted and raffled off for six lucky folks, two of them are posted here but you can see all of them over at twitter.com/tomcoletti along with lots of finished and in-progress paintings from a new commission batch!

More art to follow,

--Wings & Strings