Forrest Imel

Deathline: Day 114

2012-03-06T23:20:00.002-08:00

Oh my god! It's a study! :o

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Deathline: Day 113

2012-03-05T19:07:00.001-08:00

Here's some Gargoyles fan art. I loved the show so much as a kid and am watching the whole series again while I draw. For all of you low lives who don't know about Gargoyles here's a link to the beautiful thing you were deprived of as a child.

Deathline: Day 112

2012-03-04T22:42:00.000-08:00

Wow, I have not been keeping up with updating everything. Damn this is a hassle, anyway! Updates!

Deathline: Day 102

2012-02-22T23:11:00.000-08:00

Really cutting it close to this deadline, wish me luck peoples :)

Deathline: Day 101

2012-02-21T22:56:00.000-08:00

More Bloodsports work :)

Deathline: Day 100

2012-02-20T23:10:00.000-08:00

Finished commission and some Bloodsports studies

Deathline: Day 96

2012-02-16T22:37:00.001-08:00

A couple studies from the stream tonight for this week's Crimson Daggers Bloodsports challenge.

Deathline: Day 95

2012-02-15T22:49:00.000-08:00

Sorry for lack of updates, I really need to get back to doing studies :/ I'll have some to post tomorrow

For now I just finished this charcoal piece at school, now I'm on to work on my Iron Man vs. Batman piece I've been planning for awhile.

SORRY FOR QUALITY. SHITTY CAMERA PHONE.

Deathline: Day 91

2012-02-11T02:42:00.000-08:00

Studies from today!

Lack of posts -_-

2012-02-10T07:15:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the lack of any updates, I thought I'd be updating this page way more. I'm going to try and do that more. For now I can show off a commission I just got the ok to show.

Deathline: Day 77

2012-01-28T02:20:00.001-08:00

Here's some stuff from today:

Figures and a still life from the stream tonight, need to do more of these.

Bloodsports #4 Done!

2012-01-26T23:09:00.001-08:00

Alright I'm all out of time so I gotta call this done. Here's my Bloodsports submission:

Portfolio Update!

2012-01-26T00:02:00.000-08:00

I updated my portfolio with some new stuff, traditional and some digital. I'd like to hopefully get a good enough camera eventually so could photograph all of my traditional work and show more of it. But anyway, go check it out :)

http://forresti.daportfolio.com/

New Pile of Crap to Show Off

2012-01-22T16:25:00.001-08:00

Just finished my Teen Challenge 150 submission, I'm not too proud of it, but that just means I gotta improve!

Finally I Update This Damn Thing!

2012-01-17T23:05:00.000-08:00

Been working lately on a submission for Crimson Daggers Bloodsports. This challenge requires me to make an illustration for an action figure box and the figure set I chose was called "Legend of Lizards." Therefore I did a ton of reptile studies and one enviro study to help out with the background. Here's what I got:

Battle Mage!

2011-12-11T22:43:00.000-08:00

Latest personal piece that I finished today. Really think I learned a lot about armor design while doing this one, learned some lessons that needed to be learned.

Studies! :O

2011-11-27T21:41:00.000-08:00

Here's a couple studies I did over the last couple days, gotta get more viewers on that damn livestream.

These Will Attack You For Not Watching My Livestream.

2011-11-25T14:49:00.001-08:00

Little personal idea I've had for a long time that I dcided to finally draw, I love how the wings came out, but I still feel like I could've done more with it.

Livestream Channel

2011-11-21T00:32:00.000-08:00

I started a Livestream Channel today and will start to stream as often as I can to maybe help others study or have others help me study, here's a metal study I did on today's livestream. I'll update all my social networking pages when I'm going to stream so stay tuned.

Batman!

2011-11-17T21:57:00.001-08:00

A Batman I did at school done in Ebony Pencils and Prismacolor. The method is basically like going grayscale (ebony pencil) and then adding an overlay layer to color (prismas). And the effect of the two makes it look all incredibly smooth, I'm happy with how this turned out and I think I'm going to do more stuff like this later on.

Sorry for the light glare

Inspiration HOOOOOOOOOOEEEE!

2011-11-09T22:51:00.000-08:00

Never felt so inspired as I do right now in my life to improve my art, here's one of the studies I did today. Just a simple environment study, need to do these more often, at least twice a week.

Some Traditional Shiz

2011-11-06T21:40:00.000-08:00

So I'm sorry for the crappy quality on these pics and some have the camera at an awkward angle so it looks a little out of proportion. Anyway I did quite a few of these over the last couple days to try and sell at a local event. I only sold one but hell I earned more money then I spent making them so whatevah :D

Nupastel

Studies...

2011-10-31T22:53:00.000-07:00

Starting up studies again since I desperately need them. Here's a face study I did today, tomorrow is National Self Portrait Day so be expecting a self portrait tomorrow.

Adventure Time! Finished

2011-10-27T22:45:00.000-07:00

After 4 weeks of working on this I can happily say I am now calling this piece done. Thanks to all of you who gave me critiques so I could better this piece, you helped so much.

Here's a very bad process image of the piece. I didn't mean for there to be a process, but I had a lot of save files and felt like maybe it might help someone.

Some Old Work to Show

2011-10-23T23:12:00.000-07:00

Forgot to show everybody this piece I finished a couple weeks ago, was a commission for an album cover

Adventure Time WIP

2011-10-18T23:16:00.000-07:00

Been workin a bit more then 2 weeks on this piece and am completely determined to finish it. I've already learned so much from working on it. Thanks to everyone who gave me crits :)

New Pieces

2011-08-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

I'm back from California and have a couple new finished pieces to show off. First was for fun, but the second one is for this weeks Teen Challenge on Conceptart.org. The topic for this week is Necromancer.

Vacation

2011-08-09T03:28:00.000-07:00

I'm going on a vacation to see some of my family in California so It'll be awhile before I can do any digitals, but I'm going to sketch like crazy while I'm there. For now I've got a finished wallpaper I did for Psithyroi Online.

Wish Me Luck

2011-08-02T03:02:00.000-07:00

Well I entered in to ImagineFX's contest, the images below are the 5 I picked to show the magazine. Wish me luck!

ImagineFX's Rising Stars

2011-07-26T04:13:00.000-07:00

That's right, ImagineFX magazine's Rising Stars is back and this time I'm going to enter it. It'd be amazing if I was top 10 and published in to the magazine, but having my work being seen by the lead art director of Blizzard and Wizards of the Coast is a good enough prize already. I'm trying to get two very fine tuned pieces done before the deadline though. So, here's my first, I'll brainstorm the second drawing after a good night's rest.

R.I.P. Bruce Lee

2011-07-23T03:23:00.000-07:00

As some of you may or may not know, a few days ago was the anniversary of Bruce Lee's death. When I found out I immediately thought "charcoal portrait!" So I did :D

Teen Titans!

2011-07-20T01:47:00.000-07:00

I've been a little busy lately with random commission work, but I finally found the time to finish Beast Boy from the Teen Titans!

Just a Small Piece

2011-07-06T01:33:00.000-07:00

I did this painting for my cousin, nothin too big for now, but I've got a big personal project planned soon. Hopefully it'll get me more well known so I can get more jobs too.

Cafepress.com Designs

2011-06-30T21:17:00.000-07:00

So I haven't been doing many final pieces lately, but what I did do is start a shop on Cafepress.com. I'll start filling the shop with tons of designs to put on all the products they offer on the website. That's it for now, below is a link to the shop, see ya!

http://www.cafepress.com/BagHeadDesigns

Deadpool!

2011-06-21T14:27:00.000-07:00

Was inspired by Dave Rapoza's recent TMNT portraits to create my own. I felt Deadpool would make a nice portrait. This will definitely be going in to my portfolio.

Working on my Portfolio

2011-06-17T00:49:00.000-07:00

I'm starting to work on a portfolio to show and so lately I've been trying to go deep in to details on my newer pieces to make them look more refined.

Upgraded the blog!

2011-06-15T21:33:00.000-07:00

Made the blog look a lot nicer and added in some links to my sketchbooks and portfolio. Your gonna start seeing me post a lot more finished pieces now that school is out. See ya!

More Finished Stuff!

2011-04-07T21:17:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog!

2011-03-16T17:54:00.000-07:00

Many artists suggested to make one so I finally did so I can show my progress. For now I'll show some of my recent finished pieces. Enjoy!