Gorgon's Ilk

Believe she's done. I may put in a background digitally, paint something in, but I like the clean look Medusa's great (x500) grandaughter. Only one or so in every generation of family developed the snakes in their hair, the rest more of the quality's of Medusa's sisters. ... I haven't decided if she can turn you to stone, yet. Or on a name yet. Pencil crayons, white acrylic.

John Snow and Ghost

A painting of John Snow and his dire wolf Ghost from A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) that was commissioned to me by my friend Bert!

This took just over a month to do. There were a lot of things I didn't understand how to do when I first approached this piece.  Many of my pieces don't have backgrounds, so I've been trying to do them more with my pieces.  So after a lot of practice, a lot of research, new brush making, experimenting, getting textures, taking photos of new textures, learning how to fade things out and making it look a bit painterly, photo ref... finally finished it to my liking.  

Thanks a lot, Bert!

The Beta 58's

The Beta 58's of Kingston, Ontario recently commissioned me to do their new logo to promote their EP, Big City Ruckus.  They just wanted one tone, and a kind of city/tour theme to it, so.. here we are!

Mistakes

Personal piece. 'Cause sometimes, I'm a big idiot.

Liquorbox Hellride

A commission from the band Liquorbox, old friends of mine here!

They're starting to climb up in the world, singing country, rockabilly and dirty ol' western tunes and Justin (singer) was wicked enough to commission me to do a drawing for them to appear on posters, shirts, etc.

He didn't want anything as detailed as some of my full stuff, so I went easy on it, especially with the colours. A lot of colour can sure cost a lot for printing out t-shirts

If you're curious, go and check them out!

$10-20 Fan-art Original Pieces

heyhey!

I've decided (not my idea) to try and sell these original head shot pieces on coloured paper. They're of various characters from fandoms, be it comics, video games, movies, novels, etc. Pretty much anything.

After this first eight set (3 of which are shown, I'll update more as I go), I'm going to take requests on the rest of the coloured papers, see what people want.

So far (shown here) I've:

Sterling Archer (Archer)
Sage (Xtreme X-Men run)
Bayonetta (video game Bayonetta) <-- SOLD!

Will post the others when I scan them!

Work in progress...

No, I'm fine. But once in a while, you've got to draw it out. And I've been feeling it for months now, so wanted to pull out some frustration. Also! I designed some new character on the back of a receipt and used her here for this picture.

She's no name yet, but her story and everything else will come with the finished product.

I'll probably ink and colour this digitally. Only a portion of this piece sooo far..

artwork and character © Gus Kosmopoulos 2012. Please do not copy or redistribute without permission.

Chuck Schuldiner - Father of Death Metal

Chuck Schuldiner - May 13, 1967 – December 13, 2001

Ol' Chuck here was the creator of death metal (the best kind of metal, BTW). He was the starting force and guitarist for Mantas and Death, and pioneered this wonderful genre for many years.

This was a commission portrait for my friend Ian Steward, ex-Meathook guitarist (and he's way, way fucking good at guitar. Makes me want to give up). Chuck's his favourite guitarist. Portrait from a photo he provided, with a texture thrown over top. grid system on the guitar 'cause it was a dink. Painted side by side with the picture in Photoshop CS5.

Thanks for the music, Chuck.

Current Commission List

I'm writing down this current commission list as a good reminder to myself, and to show some clients what my schedule is like, and what I am working on currently. So!

here we go, in no particular order:

[] - Jim Snow and Ghost Portrait - Bert
[] - Portrait of his two children - James
[] - Chuck Schulinder portrait - Ian
[] - Candy Store web design - Scott
[] - Wedding Tree guest book - Melissa
[] - Niece portrait - Lisa
[] - Album cover - Brian (pending approval)
[] - Alex Grey eye tattoo - Laura
[] - Prints - Anna (sent)
[] - Prints - Jerry
[] - daughter portrait - Dale
[] - Liquorbox comic pinup - Liquorbox

I've also a commission pricing list if you're interested! You can check it out here, it's more organizied:

-->Commission Pricing List

The Silmarillion: Of Fingolfin and Morgoth

A commission my friend Joe asked me to do for him. It's something I've never really done or approached, but this was reaaaaaal fun to do and experiment with.

No under drawing, just straight into Photoshop and painted. And I think if I work anymore on it and continue being nitpicky, I'll go nuts. used a combination of a rock texture with brushes from http://thundercake.deviantart.com for the background. Could of tightened some rocks a bit..

But yeah, if any of you have read the Silmarillion, you'll know this showdown between Fingolfin and Morgoth. I tried to do what I could to represent them well. Hopefully!

Morgoth and Fingolfin are © J.R.R. Tolkien 2012, all rights reserved. I believe that's right.

Artwork by me.

Thanks, Joe!

See? I draw more than a few pinup girls.

Bliss

Title in the works.

8x10 painting I did using acrylics mostly, spray paint (base), marker and india ink.

Not sure if I'm happy with it yet, but hey!

Sereana

A gift portrait for a beautiful girl who for some reason happens to like me. I'm happy she liked it. One of my best portraits so far.

Leigh's Skull

My friend Leigh had commissioned me to do a valentines day picture for his girlfriend. He just had a loose idea, naming 'Strung Out' as an inspirational idea, so I started thinking of ideas and thought, 'why not try some skull illusion art?' I've always wanted to. So I pitched the idea to him and he loved it.

Skull illusion are is by no means my idea, and has been around for a very long time now. However, I have to say I'm directly influenced by this guys stuff:

Monavx <-- amazing artist, and definitely better at it than me. :D

I did this digitally, but next time I think I'll try it traditionally. My hand is way steadier.

Tremont Park Island Tattoo

This was a commission of the an island called Tremont Park Island located within the Thousand Island's here in the St. Lawrence's mouth. His family spent a lot of time at three of the cottages, and I believe this was for a family member to preserve some memories.

I used a brush as an example for the trees and shrubberies, but drew in the graphics for the trees myself/copied pasted etc.

Demon Water

The last of my little 'aquatic' series, or... whatever you might wanna call that.

This one was on a piece of 30x24 piece of craft paper, so it reaaaally sucked trying to figure out how to get this. I tried to take a picture of it as best I could, but the colours are really muted and a bit messed in comparison to real life. :/

Oh well. Demon girl, oddly happy with what she's doing.

Artwork done and © Gus Kosmopoulos, 2012. Please do not copy or redistribute without permission.

Again... more vibrant in person. :P

Mind of My Own

‎'Misery' is a character from my comic (with all the other characters). Tried to include little subtleties in this one.

Her tale has always been a sad one in the comic for years. I've been trying to figure out little stories and everything to mix in with the main plot. And when I make characters, I can't help but come up with a back story.

But this'll be the third and last of the 'Misery' series. She's been sad long enough, taken enough of me (whenever I feel rough, she takes the abuse from me.. and that's just not fair), so you will see her happy in the next picture! and it'll probably be the last you see of Misery.

She'll be turned into Hope.

based off of 'Mind of my Own' by Strung Out.

Artwork done entirely in Photoshop CS5 with a Graphire 4.

Sulpher Brothers

Here's a commission from my roommate T.J.; a portrait of him and his brother Jordan that he wanted to give to various family members as presents. I don't have pictures of this up in a frame, but it looked pretty damn good. :) And everyone in T.J.'s family loved it. As did he. :) Happy with how some of this came out.

hey's...

It's startin' to get to me a bit. Whoever is anonymously leaving messages and being an asshole needs to stop. I'll keep deleting them 'cause frankly, I don't need that here.

So stop, please. At least have the marbles to use your fucking name.

Aie..

EDIT: As blogger.com doesn't show IP addresses (i've searched how to do it multiple times), I've installed that flag counter at the side. I apparently need an outside source to track any visitations to my blog-- so on top of collecting cool little flags, It'll now give me some IP addresses if I go visit the details. if you post again, I'll be able to narrow down who it is, now.

Kathleen's Walk

This was a commission done for my friend Kathleen! She wanted a drawing of her on a walk with her dog Beanie, and her cat Peanut. :) Peanut recently passed away as I was painting this, so I hope to do something a little more proper for Kathleen when I get a chance. Of Peanut, I mean. :)

I think I need to get a handle or incorporate my style somehow into my backgrounds. They don't seem to match with my characters. To me, anyway. But this was fun to do. :)

Jelly Investments

Not even sure what she is. Lawyer? Stock Broker? Bank.. associate?

I may take another picture of this at some point, or try and rescan it. not sure I like how this came out just yet. Had to do some adjustments in photoshop to get it right.

Also may tidy up the background more, but.. if I mess with it anymore right now, I'll kill it.