not updating the blog anymore

you can still see my work at www.andrewryanillustration.com or at http://dunechampion.deviantart.com

Digital Practice made fun with LOTR subjects, Melian and Dol Guldur

A couple of recent pieces

A couple more pencil renderings I did with my summer free time. I'm getting better but still working out the kinks of subtle rendering that masters such as L.A. Williams are able to achieve.

Eowyn and the Nazgul Art Order Entry

I've gotta figure out the whole color thing... eventually

Thesis Drawings

These are my final thesis drawings for the junior year gallery show. I was informed yesterday that I recieved the Gilbert Stone Scholarship towards my senior year at SVA so I pretty much get to go to school for free next year :D Hopeully this is a sign that I'm finally doing something right.

waterfall power plant

Thesis piece #4

This is from the Brothers Grimm tale The Singing Soaring Lark,the story is way too convoluted to detail here but this is the scene I found most exciting to depict.

The Six Swans

Seven Ravens Work in Progress

bla

santiago concept line art

A gift for my german cousin Ramona

Thesis paintings progress shots.

Been slacking on these but they, along with the four others will get done somehow.

six swans final digital

Class Study

Oil on Board

swan lake

for printing purposes

The Six Swans

Thesis sketches

These are based around different fairy tales and the theme of metamorphasis into different creatures that is found in many of the Brother Grimm versions.