f l a p t r a p s a r t b l o g . . .

2012-01-26T13:08:00.000-08:00

Here is a cover i did for Tor books, by a very talented writer, Alyx Dellamonica, It was really nice to work on and really is a great short story! I really love the type they picked for this, gives a classic look or something, thanks Irene!

2011-12-26T08:46:00.000-08:00

if my high school had a flight team ....go j-hawks!

2011-12-01T07:48:00.001-08:00

guildwars 2 art work done with the wonderful kekai kotaki, and the idea is from Daniel Dociu. These were done for the trade shows to show 5 of the iconic characters, some drawings and then more of kekai's work also blended in. they wanted a very stylized, but very clear depiction of the characters:) super fun to do!! check the links here.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/
http://kekai.weebly.com/index.html
http://tinfoilgames.com/

2011-11-26T14:32:00.001-08:00

So since Skyrim is now out, here is a set of commercial pitch work i did for Psyop tv, it was back in may when i did these, 2 days of work. Super fun to work on since i love their games! and all the work Psyop does is pretty amazing. not in any real order but some what of an order:)

2011-10-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

Book Cover i did a while back that was released by Orbit books and written by John R. Fultz, and hopefully i'll be doing all three book covers for the series, it was super fun, and im looking forward to the get the book myself sounds awesome!

2011-09-18T09:56:00.000-07:00

drawing from today and some older Guildwars stuff that has been released:) thought i would throw something up here since it's been forever, I have more art coming but it's just been hard with new job and move and everything.
thanks a ton for all the feedback much much appreciated! cheers

2011-05-22T15:33:00.001-07:00

Played with some new methods and process stuff. space base also re using paintings blah blah. Try to post more things soon however in a big moving point at the moment. the beginning of June i'll be moving to London to work at MPC, really exciting, and i hope to keep a sketchbook of my move on my sketchbook blog, so, wish me luck and thanks again for all the positive feedback! cheers

2011-04-28T18:10:00.000-07:00

Who's excited about the new book for Song of Ice and Fire!! im super pumped!

2011-04-24T15:43:00.000-07:00

some new illustrations done for Tor.com, twisted throne in post apocalyptic Iceland, and native american mercenaries in Ireland around 1000 a.d. really fun to do:)

2011-04-07T11:45:00.000-07:00

did a norn wall paper for guildwars 2, you can download it here:)

Norn wallpaper guildwars 2-link

2011-04-06T15:20:00.001-07:00

A little style check i did for D&D, super fun:)

2011-04-04T12:23:00.001-07:00

did i promotional piece for guildwars 2 april fools, a commando class wallpaper:)

2011-03-25T13:19:00.000-07:00

some work done for Random House, unreleased project, a version with-out the map and they wanted me to add a map with it torn to reveal the character.

2011-03-25T11:49:00.001-07:00

I know it has been awhile, i have new work but have been extremely busy with side things such is life.
However i was very lucky this year to win gold in Spectrum this year with this piece.
last year i didnt get anything in the book and this year gold...
Felt pretty good:)

Spectrum Winners.

2010-12-07T18:29:00.000-08:00

thank you all for all the positive feedback! paint from today

2010-12-03T15:21:00.001-08:00

2010-11-26T18:54:00.000-08:00

2010-10-26T19:41:00.001-07:00

sword and the stone paint tonight.

2010-10-20T18:58:00.000-07:00

speed paint. thanks for all the feed back guys!

2010-10-03T21:35:00.001-07:00

speed painter sketch thingy

2010-09-26T18:46:00.000-07:00

play paint.

2010-09-13T15:46:00.001-07:00

little competition with my friend ryan demita, were doing a space gangster are thing:)

2010-08-25T17:54:00.000-07:00

2010-08-23T16:28:00.000-07:00

heres a link to a "making of GuildWars 2 Cinematics" some idea of what were doing, and what i've been working on, and a couple of illustrations from the cinematic you'll see. I split up the fly through to show the different shots i had in mind, it was pretty intense one, working with like 250 layers or something kinda lost my mind:) hope you enjoy! cheers!

Guildwars 2 Making of cinematics

2010-08-16T15:00:00.001-07:00

2010-07-30T14:19:00.000-07:00

painting from last night, working on controlling my values more:)

2010-07-27T14:21:00.000-07:00

2010-07-22T16:00:00.001-07:00

headed to comic con!! boo ya

2010-07-20T11:40:00.000-07:00

2010-07-17T15:18:00.001-07:00

Me and Kekai Kotaki will be at comic con next week signing GW 2 art books on Friday and saturday at 1:45 to 2:30, and also i'll be at the booth signing the Ghost of Ascalon cover from 1:00 to 1:45. Please stop by whom ever is going to be there and get a book! cheers!

2010-07-17T14:49:00.000-07:00

some GW art of mine made the cover of PC gameplay magazine in germany! thought that was pretty cool :)

2010-07-12T15:06:00.000-07:00

2010-06-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

2010-06-17T22:18:00.000-07:00

little sketches after work.

2010-06-14T20:19:00.000-07:00

2010-06-06T17:42:00.001-07:00

Little drawing i did for tenbills.com

2010-05-29T00:19:00.001-07:00

2010-05-28T15:39:00.000-07:00

thanks a bunch for all the comments! got some more stuff to show.

Also i started a new sketch blog for just my sketch book stuff, i felt like i wanted to have one with just paintings and such and didnt want to dirty it up with crappy sketchbook stuff :) so for people interested in sketchbook stuff heres the link:

http://flapssketchbook.blogspot.com/

I'll be updating it a lot more, since it's a sketchbook i wont worry about the good and the bad:)
hope u like and let me know what ya think!

cheers

rich

2010-05-06T21:42:00.000-07:00

something that i've had for a bit, thought i would throw it up.

2010-05-05T15:35:00.000-07:00

Playing with process, and found some awesome pictures on flickr of old samurai stuff, so felt compelled to try one:)
thanks for all the comments too!

2010-04-18T23:13:00.000-07:00

went to the park today. thanks very much for all the positive feedback!

2010-04-03T20:32:00.000-07:00

2010-03-10T22:33:00.000-08:00

drawing from last night. I like playing with the textures and design, the arm is totally not working and i went to far to bring it back so it's stuck but thats why it's sketching, better luck next time:)
thank you all very much for the comments on the last one!

2010-03-09T22:13:00.000-08:00

thank you all for the comments! and all the responses to the tutorial! All of it's really great feed back, and i'll make sure to cover it all. thanks again

space crash.

2010-03-04T23:43:00.001-08:00

some girls:)

2010-03-03T15:32:00.000-08:00

hey my friend and co worker matt barret just came out with a sketchbook that is amazing! if you guys havent see his stuff theres a link to his blog and this is where you can buy his book! super super motivating and fun to look at, i just bought mine and i hope you guys get a chance to check it out!

to order the book HERE!

Matts Blog: http://mattpostsarthere.blogspot.com/

2010-03-02T12:44:00.001-08:00

I had the honor of doing the cover for a GuildWars Novel, should be out in July this year. Heres the test print, but im excited to see what it looks like and actually read the book.

Brushes download

2010-02-24T10:11:00.000-08:00

2010-02-17T12:12:00.000-08:00

2010-01-31T21:54:00.000-08:00

night drawing, and thanks Luca! ryan give me a call foo.

2010-01-27T15:52:00.001-08:00

girl drawing from lunch hours.

2010-01-21T16:01:00.000-08:00

some life drawing stuff:) and thanks again and again for the comments and hopefully i'll be getting some of the work in progress up. !

2009-12-30T13:15:00.000-08:00

Pikes place starbucks drawings.

2009-12-28T21:30:00.000-08:00

Will be doing a workshop in seattle next month! It should be awesome, great teachers and im proud to work with them. we will be doing paintings and sharing are ideas and processes. All the info you need you can find by following the link i've added and thats also where you can buy tickets.
hope to meet whoever can make it there! cheers and see you in january!

http://www.futurepoly.com/

2009-12-23T20:07:00.000-08:00

some quick cards that i did for friends and family,
Merry Christmas! and happy holidays!

2009-12-23T19:58:00.003-08:00

more sketchbook stuff!

2009-12-16T16:57:00.000-08:00

downloaded artrage, never used it before but it's super cool, and for all the people that want some cheap good art tool it works great! check it out, just google art rage drawing or something and download a free trial! and thank you all very much for the feed back! its good to hear, and i'll be doing a tutorial over the christmas break and hopefully put up a work in progress soon. cheers!

2009-12-15T02:27:00.000-08:00

sketch paint for the night:) and thank you all for comments, much appreciated!

2009-12-13T00:07:00.000-08:00

some playing around, i really think i changed this image like at least 5 times, sometimes you need to just know when to move on, i feel like i should have done that a long time ago:) Cheers!

2009-12-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

band o bros.:) thanks for all the feedback too, means a lot! cheers.

2009-12-02T09:14:00.000-08:00

a little more sketchbook.

2009-12-02T00:19:00.000-08:00

did a piece close to home:) love me some jeremiah johnson, first sheriff of the county i grew up in, carbon county montana. If you havent seen the movie...rent it! its awesome. thanks again for all the positive feedback!!

2009-11-24T17:00:00.000-08:00

little drawing before heading home for turkey day! have a good thanksgiving!

2009-10-16T01:21:00.000-07:00

2009-10-16T01:16:00.000-07:00

new sketchbook stuff, I got a couple of brush pens that i've fallen in love with, not sure of the name because it's all in Japanese:) but they are super fun. and a drawings from home. thanks alot for all the comments!!

2009-09-27T22:00:00.001-07:00

more sketchbook stuff, sold my car so get alot of sketch time on the bus:) thanks alot for all the positive feedback as well! i really appreciate it! cheers.

2009-09-07T21:00:00.000-07:00

o heres the new art book for guildwars 2 and a link on how to get it. it's seriously pretty amazing, features work from daniel dociu, jamie jones, matt berrit, kekai kotaki, and alot of other awesome artist.

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/art/

2009-09-07T19:43:00.000-07:00

book stuff:) thought i would show, and thanks to all who came to PAX! hopefully u all got an art book!

2009-08-10T09:34:00.000-07:00

Space Suit! and thank you very much for all the positive feed back! and also if anyone knows of some extra freelance out there i'd be happy to get ahold of some:) just to throw that out there. cheers.

2009-06-25T13:46:00.001-07:00

sketchbook stuff from france.

2009-06-17T17:32:00.001-07:00

2009-03-24T23:34:00.000-07:00

o and i did a shirt for a company called ten bills, this is the image on the shirt. you can order one if you want, or you can just see it here:

http://www.tenbills.com/

2009-03-24T23:24:00.000-07:00

a berkey influence. if you guys haven't seen something of his here's a link to some of his work:
http://members.fortunecity.com/lioncourt77/berkey.html

2009-03-23T12:58:00.001-07:00

some pages from my sketchbook.

2009-03-23T11:01:00.000-07:00

some drawlings from this weekend and stuff. trying to stay busy, plus it's been raining for like a month and it's driving me crazy. top one is from a photo.

2009-03-20T17:33:00.001-07:00

some sketches. and thanks alot for the comments on the last one!!! i appreciate it alot!!

2009-03-11T20:27:00.000-07:00

some more recent stuff, im meaning to scan in some sketchbook stuff soon but always get side tracked.

2008-09-03T00:52:00.000-07:00

a little iron man.

2008-06-24T11:03:00.000-07:00

hey thanks for all the positive feedback! here's my round three piece, i wish i had more time to fix some stuff on it, buuuutttttt spent the last day at the skate park:) priorities i guess ha

2008-06-07T15:41:00.001-07:00

round 2 entry for last man standing comp. the subject was outbreak ooooooooo.

2008-03-26T17:58:00.000-07:00

dumb little drawling.

2008-03-26T09:27:00.000-07:00

Hey it's been awhile since i've updated, i've been super busy lately working on my new website which you can check out here:

www.flaptrapsart.com

let me know of any bugs you find or whatever.

2008-01-03T12:17:00.001-08:00

been awhile since i posted something up sorry bout that, but here is my last man standing piece, for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a compitition held on conceptart.org and how it works is basically like a tourney bracket with different rounds and subject matter for each round, so like for instance the first round it's me versus four other dudes or ladies, and the subject was underneath it all, oooooooo:)

2007-11-15T11:11:00.000-08:00

snowboards for hayes bro park series:) handcrafted goodness.

2007-11-15T10:48:00.001-08:00

only one got made but thought i would show em all.

2007-11-06T11:59:00.000-08:00

o i wanted to put up a few things i did for guildwars as well, these are random sketches for t-shirt ideas and other concepts.

2007-11-06T09:53:00.000-08:00

couldn't think of anything to paint last night so i just did another screen shot study of a movie that i forgot the name of, it should be coming out soon, but ya the movie looked kinda stupid but the shot was cool

2007-11-05T10:40:00.001-08:00

fun stuff.

2007-10-26T15:12:00.000-07:00

sinus infection day, painted a tank from a photo

2007-10-16T21:01:00.000-07:00

did some study's of jarhead screen shots and hitman.

sketchbook from sick days

2007-10-11T12:24:00.001-07:00

hey i was sick for a couple of days and did some drawlings.

sketches 4 show-sale:)

2007-10-11T12:07:00.000-07:00

hey got some of my sketchbook pages together, some of my favs. framed em up and hoping to put on a show somewhere. they'll be for sale, prices haven't been figured yet but. the skateboards below as well will be part of the show, and shortly i'll have more prints up that will be part of it as well.

2007-10-03T22:10:00.001-07:00

o and some boards i had printed up:)

new blog

2007-10-03T19:06:00.001-07:00

first time starting a blog, hopefully will get connected to other artist through it. i'll be posting up stuff basically right after i get them done so keep checking and there should be new stuff:)
some astros!