Dynamo wins for me.

Awesome work bud.

Awesome work, man! Really cool. I hope to join the Safehouse one day.

Cya.

This may be my favorite out of your work. I love the colors used and all the attention to textures. The subject matter and world-building have subtle action and life to them that I find unexpected from your normal genre. Great piece!

So AWSOME!!

Thanks guys!

Tina - That's really flattering, I'm glad you dig it!

Haha, I so know this sentiment. When asked to do a certain style/color/etc but personally leaning towards another and now you have the "whatever the other thing is" stuck in your creative conscience. You can't get it out till you squeeze all of the inspiration out through personal exploration. Ugh, wonderfully frustrating :P

This piece is brilliant, btw. Nice use of elements to direct the eye, wonderful "wet" hotspots, and a masterful use of pink! It has found a home as my desktop background!

well done MC

Nice work McLean! I like that Pandora's one especially :)

I just got work through them not too long ago myself :) Beautiful covers!

These are both wonderful! I agree with Erin, the Pandora piece is especially awesome.
Love the colors and the rendering.

Those are amazing. I love the color palette on the second one. Thanks for sharing :) and thank you for the step by step :D

Holy cow! These are a huge step forward! That second one is unbelievable, both in design and execution. The lizard. is really terrific.

These are incredible man!! Thank you for sharing these amazing pieces.

I'll have to take my shot too then. I've been struggling with light and form and often find myself confused. I need a plenty enough to practice. Great post, its a good reminder.

these look fantastic.

Man these came out great.
I can definitely see how doing these studies would help- from what you were describing the other day, these take a really long time each? I guess just starting at light and form for that long is going to dig the value relationships into your head.

I'd like to get a cast myself and set it up at home, I think it would be a great exercise.

It's not about value relationships, that's the thing that's not obvious until you're doing it. You never ever look at comparative value, you think only of the direction of the plane in relation to the light. Comparing values only works when you're working from observation, while learning to use value to indicate form allows you paint the light and form of anything from imagination. It sounds like just syntax but it's a big difference in painting. Cast drawing rocks!

You're McCleaning up! nice man :).

Thanks for clearing that up Nonie- my lack of correct wording shows that I probably didn't grasp the complete reasoning behind doing cast studies.

Doubly the reason to practice.

Wow, I knew you'd posted drawings (followed your link from twitter) but my first impression was... "Ok, nicely rendered/lit 3D models?"

Damn impressive, man!

Dang man, beautiful drawings.

I dig those robots. Sweet stuff!

Looks like stuff out of CTech :)

Awesome! I'm stoked for you, man. I'm excited to see where things go from here, don't hold out on us when posting work once it's available to show ;)

This work is mad deluxe yo.

haha, awesome!

CREEPO!

I don't get it. I thought people were supposed to dress differently on Halloween.

LOVE the colors and contrast!

Awesome!! Great job, as always!

You did it! Awesome!

lovin it man. really fun piece

Great job man, looks really cool!

awesome!

Turned out beautifully! I'm glad you took the time to finish it up- it's obvious a lot of TLC went into this piece.

I always love how you push your foreground/background contrasts. The cool monochromatic foreground works great against all those lively colors.

Looks beautiful, McLean!

Thanks a lot guys!

Anna - Thanks! Yeah with a jumbled scene like this, having really controlled ranges of value and color are super-important. I guess really I think that's important in every scenario, but THIS one especially!

Dang man, detail city. Great stuff.

Nice finish. If you ever throw a parade in real life, count on me crashing it.

Try saying seashell shingles three times fast.

P.S. My word verification was fouck.

Nice finish. If you ever throw a parade in real life, count on me crashing it.

Try saying seashell shingles three times fast.

looks fabulous, like there is a story there...
Great colors too :)

Frickin gorgeous, buddy. That casle rocks.

Love this piece!

Well, I get a kick out of it. Requisite monsters notwithstanding, it's refreshing to see a Cthulhu-themed scene where characters are having a conversation.

I imagine they are heatedly debating how to appropriately dress for the weather.

In related news, this amuses me.

Thanks Greg. Actually, that picture you shared isn't too far from the initiation rites they make you go through before you can work on Cthulhutech. The visions get less frequent, but they never stop...

Great one, I love the way it's stylized.

Really like the bold palette and like Chris said, the stylization is really pleasing.

Great stuff sir!

Thanks a bunch guys! Means a lot coming from you all!

Great idea. Any time I have an idea that I don't have the extra time to express, I write it down in an "idea journal" that I keep but doing a quick sketch to solidify the idea visually is probably the better way to go. These are great!

I agree with Ben, these ARE great.

I too have been feeling that is difficult to tend to your own projects when you have to do work for others. I'll take your advice and start sketching for an hour a day. I tried the "idea journal" but I'm terrible at keeping a journal.

Oh, wow, I LOVE Thiebauld! He was a huge influence on me too, many MANY moons ago...

Heck yeah! That guy was really took advantage of the creamy qualities of paint. Love his color too!

Heck yeah! That guy really took advantage of the creamy qualities of paint. Love his color too!

This is really fun Mclean, thanks for turning me on to the idea. I had to take some time out of yesterday and make one for myself.

:>

-Tamte

Yeah, but what you DO have done here is radical. The floats and the background buildings are mesmerizing.

Jeez thats awesome! Looks lik your are almost done to me McLean! great job man

Thanks friends!

Ray - yeah, I think for a lower resolution I can see how it might be getting closer to done, but I really wanna make this poster-size resolution. We'll see!

Nice piece man!! Love the color pallet. There is one thing, if I may suggest. The girl's right foot is kind of cut off, what if you take away a little of the column and add a little bit of her foot. Its such a suggestion. Love the new work man!

Cheers,

Oliver

Good call Oliver, I think i'll have to push the shapes around a tiny bit to show where the ankle begins to spread into the foot. Thanks man!

Mclean, Looks like you're living the dream over there! It's always inspiring to see the scale on which you're painting.

-Tamte

MCLean THe colors are sex brotha, jeeezz!!! your bringing that man!!! I look forward to the concept stuff later this year!!

Very cool! I can definitely see your influence on those designs =)

Holy Crap! Great work on the designs man. Looks like a cool game too.

Damn dude this looks great! How long was the session? That sounds like an awesome time. May have to do that sometime. I just started going to the Philadelphia Sketch Club for drawing sessions, it's one of the oldest art clubs in the US. It's cool to think that Wyeth, Eakins and Parrish were all members there.

Thanks man! I think the total drawing time might have been around an hour and a half? We sort of stopped keeping track halfway through and ended up just chatting with the model throughout the pose. It made the time pass very quickly for both artists and model. I guess once you've put down your initial block-in and you've committed to it, having the model be stone-still isn't that big of a deal.

That's pretty awesome to get down on the organized sketch club. The apartment-drawing was borne from all the Santa Fe figure drawing groups either being super-exclusive or being an instructed class. It's great that you have something like that available to you!

Everybody get up it's time to slam now / We got a real jam goin' down / Welcome to the Space Jam / Here's your chance, do your dance at the Space Jam

congrats!

We did it! :)